Urine Therapy

What is Urine Therapy?
   Urine therapy refers to the use of urine to prevent or cure  sickness, to enhance beauty or to cleanse one's bowels. Most believers drink the midstream of their morning urine. . Some wash themselves in their own urine to improve their skin quality. Many modern Japanese women are said to engage in urine bathing. Drinking urine has been practiced for thousands of years by holy men in India.. The drink is also the preferred by a  growing number of naturopaths and other advocates of alternative medicine.  The main attractions of the therapeutic uses of urine are its cost, availability and portability.  The origin of this unusual practice seems to be in certain religious rites among Hindus, where it is called amaroli in tantric religious traditions. It is also possible that this practice is related to superstitions based on sympathetic magic. The belief that the use of urine  has scientific bases is highly questionable!
 
 What does it treat?
     Urine is claimed to treat or cure AIDS, aging, allergy, scrum, induced allergy, ameba dysentery, antibacteria, antivirus,antiprotozoa, animal and snake bites, twist, hypertension, burn, cancer, chemical intoxication,chicken pox, enteritis, constipation, pneumonia due to CMV or bacteria infection, dysentery, edema, eczema, eye irritation, fatigue, fever, flagellate anterozoa, gonorrhea, gout, bloody urine,small pox, immunological disorder, infection, baldness, insomnia, jaundice, hepatitis, arthrodynia, leprosy, lymphatic disorder, ulcer of lymph node, urticaria, morning sickness (vomiting, pregnancy, alcohol intoxication), obesity, papilloma virus, parasitoses, gastric ulcer,myelitis, pregnancy intoxication, rheumatism, tinca, birth mark, bloody dysentery, dermopathy, stroke, congestion,typhus, gastritis, depression, cold sore, tuberculosis, pretties, tetanus, asthma, tacky cardia, Parkinson's disease, athletic foot, diabetes and other endocrine related diseases.

What are the advocates saying??
 

• Many advocates claim that urine is a pharmaceutical miracle, with numerous benefits. There is practically nothing it won't cure.
•  Advocates argue in the defence of urine therapy claiming that the greed of medical doctors has led them to conspire against alternative therapies.
• They claim that their therapeutic miracles are scientifically sound

 
Why are we skeptical??
 

• Despite the claims by authors of books on urine therapy, the scientific  evidence which would recommend that we all start drinking our own urine is piss poor (pardon the pun).
• Furthermore, while it is true that some of the constituents of urine are being used and tested for their potential or actual therapeutic value, itdoes not follow that drinking one's urine is therapeutic.
• Another rather unscientific notion which seems to be accepted by urinophiles is that urine is really blood
• Probably the most common reason for the "effectiveness" of alternative therapies is the placebo effect.

 
 How credible/scientific is this therapy?  You decide!!

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