"For almost the entire course of the 20th century, unknown to the public, doctor s and medical researchers have been proving in both laboratory and clinical test ing that our own urine is an enormous source of vital nutrients, vitamins, hormo nes, enzymes and critical antibodies that cannot be duplicated or derived from a ny other source. They use urine for healing cancer, heart disease, allergies, au to-immune diseases, diabetes, asthma, infertility, infections, wounds and on and on -- yet we're taught that urine is a toxic waste product. This discrepancy be tween the medical truth and the public information regarding urine is ludicrous and, as the news releases you've just read demonstrate, can mean the difference between life and death to you and to your loved ones." Martha Christy In India, urine therapy is called "shivambu": "Had our shivambu rishi (sage), gr eat devotee, propagator and mighty supporter of shivambu movement, centenarian f ormer Prime Minister of India, respected (late) Morarji Desai not boldly and emp hatically declared before the world that lie drank his own urine regularly and t hat was the secret of his longevity and exuberant health, the most valuable and beneficial information that is being given to you through this booklet, which ca n prove to be a boon to our poor country and which is capable of curing a host o f diseases ranging from common cold to cancer and arthritis to AIDS, would have remained hidden in some unknown quarters and the entire mankind would have been deprived of shivambu. Really speaking, late Shri Morarjlbhai by his frank and ho nest declaration has accorded world recognition, glory and greatness to this fre e yet priceless therapy otherwise considered to be nauseating. The whole world s hall ever remain indebted to him for rendering this great humanitarian service. " G.K.Thakkar more on shivambu Self Therapy methods Excerpt from Nexus Magazine Healing with Urine Therapy Urine is not a dirty and toxic substance rejected by the body. Urine is a by-pro duct of blood filtration, not waste filtration. Medically it is referred to as " plasma ultrafiltrate". It is a purified derivative of the blood itself, made by the kidneys--whose principal function is not excretion but regulation of all the elements and their concentrations in the blood. Urine can be compared to leftov ers from a meal, and this metaphor may help us understand why our bodies excrete elements that are valuable to our health and well-being. Nutrient-filled blood passes through the liver where toxins are removed to be ex creted as solid waste. Eventually, this purified "clean" blood undergoes a filte ring process in the kidneys, where excess water, salts, vitamins, minerals, enzy mes, antibodies, urea, uric acid and other elements not usable at that time by t he body are collected in the form of a purified, sterile, watery solution that i s urine. The function of the kidneys is to keep the various elements in the bloo d balanced. The important elements in the blood are not filtered out because the y are toxic and harmful to the body, but simply because the body does not need a particular concentration of an element at that specific point in time. It is th is very regulating process of the kidneys that allows us to eat and drink more t han our bodies need at any one time. Urine is considered to be an invaluable source of nourishment and healing that p erhaps has been too controversial or not financially rewarding enough for it to be talked about and encouraged as a potent medicine. One's own urine, a living f ood, contains elements that are specific to one's body alone. The body is consta ntly producing a huge variety of antibodies, hormones, enzymes and other natural chemicals to regulate and control its functions and combat imbalances that one may not be aware of. --

Clinical studies have proved that the thousands of critical body chemicals and n utrients that end up in urine reflect the individual body's functions. When re-u tilised, these chemicals and nutrients act as natural vaccines, antibacterial, a ntiviral and anticarcinogenic agents as well as hormone balancers and allergy re lievers. The information that urine contains therefore cannot be duplicated or d erived from any other source. Just as nature produces no two people who are exac tly the same, there are no two urine samples in the world that contain exactly t he same components.more "Don't take this therapy lightly. Multiple sclerosis, colitis, lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, cancer, hepatitis, hyperactivity, pancreatic insufficiency, psoriasi s, eczema, diabetes, herpes, mononucleosis, adrenal failure, allergies and so ma ny other ailments have been relieved through use of this therapy. After you over come your initial gag response (I know I had one), you will realize that somethi ng big is going on, and if you are searching for health, this is an area to inve stigate. There are numerous reports and double blind studies which go back to th e turn of the century supporting the efficacy of using urine for health." Biome d Urine therapy can be a very effective healing modality. Sometimes when all else fails, urine therapy will turn a person around. Excerpt from Biomedx.com Ms. Christy was sick. Very sick. For a very long time. Pelvic inflammatory disea se, ulcerative colitis, Chron's disease, chronic fatigue syndrome, Hashimoto's d isease, mononucleosis. She had severe kidney infections, two miscarriages, chron ic cystitis, severe candida, endometriosis, adrenal insufficiency, serious chron ic ear and sinus infections, food and chemical allergies. And that wasn't the ha lf of it. She had every conceivable medical test, her share of surgery, and drug s - plenty of them. Then she tried all forms of alternative therapy. Homeopathy, herbs, mega-vitamins and liv-cell treatments in Mexico. After traditional medic ine failed to work, she and her husband spent over $100,000 trying to get her we ll with alternative approaches. Nothing worked. And then one day, her husband brought home a little book that told of how indivi duals had been cured of even the worst diseases with a seemingly strange and lit tle-known natural therapy. Soon afterwards, she began the therapy herself. From the first day she began, she received almost instantaneous relief from her incur able constipation and fluid retention. Within a week, her severe abdominal and p elvic pain was gone. The chronic cystitis and yeast infections (internal and ext ernal) soon disappeared and her food allergies, exhaustion, and digestive proble ms all began to heal. After a few more months, her colds, flu, sore throats and on again off again viral symptoms disappeared. Her hair which had fallen out by the handfuls after her fifth surgery became thick and lustrous. Her weight norma lized, and her energy and strength came back. After nearly 30 years of non-stop illness, Martha Christy was whole again. What was this therapy that she had discovered? What was this therapy that has he lped seriously ill patients gain complete remissions from their afflictions? Wha t was it that she actually did? Well, here it is. She orally and medicinally reconsumed her own urine.read the rest: Urine Therapy: Your Own Perfect Medicine b y Martha Christy UROTHERAPY FOR PATIENTS WITH CANCER Joseph Eldor, MD Cancer cells release various antigens, some of which appear in the urine. Oral a uto-urotherapy is suggested as a new treatment modality for cancer patients. It will provide the intestinal lymphatic system the many tumor antigens against whi ch antibodies may be produced. These antibodies may be transpierced through the blood stream and attack the tumor and its cells. Learn more about tumor antigens

in urine What is urine therapy? How does it work? "Urine therapy has been practised for thousands of years and has merely fallen a bit into obscurity in the last century. However, urine therapy may seem to be u northodox and perhaps revolutionary, it does not introduce anything new or origi nal. It has been known throughout the centuries both in the West and in the East . Dr. Evagelos Danopouolos of Greece reported that urea found in urine has anticancerous properties. The urea seems to disrupt the ability of cancer cells to g roup together and kills them by upsetting some of their normal metabolic activit ies. Urine therapy has been used to treat cancers of the skin, cervix, lungs, ey es, breast, and liver. The first question that probably comes to mind is whether urine is not a toxic substance and how a toxic waste product could ever be of a ny benefit for your health. Well, urine is NOT a toxic waste product and this ha s been scientifically proven. 95% of urine is water, 2.5% consists of urea and t he remaining 2.5% is a mixture of minerals, salt, hormones and enzymes. Toxic su bstances are being removed from the body through the liver and intestines, throu gh the skin and through the outbreath. Excerpt from the Medical Alternative Netw ork "No matter how hard it may be for you to stomach, the fact is that knowing the t ruth about this incredible natural substance(urine) will be one of the most cruc ial health facts you'll ever learn. And one of the most remarkable things about this incomparable natural therapy is that the medical community has already been aware of its astounding efficacy for decades, and yet none of us has ever been told about it. Why? Maybe they think it's too controversial. Or maybe, more accu rately, there wasn't any monetary reward for telling people what scientists know about one of the most extraordinary natural healing elements in the world. " Ma rtha Christy Urine Therapy An Amazing Untold Story by Martha Christy There is an extraordinary natural healing substance, produced by our own bodies, that modern medical science has proven to be one of the most powerful natural m edicines known to man.The extensive medical research findings on this natural me dicine have never been compiled and released to the general public before now, b ut those who have been fortunate enough to hear about this medicine and use it h ave found that it can produce often astounding healing even when all other thera pies have failed. more UROPATHY The Most Powerful Holistic Therapy by Martin Lara Urine therapy (Uropathy) is one approach to health that is 100% safe to use, it is extremely effective, has never harmed anyone and it is absolutely free of cha rge. It cannot be controlled and you truly benefit from using it. Thousands of u rine therapy advocates certify that this is a healing modality that activates de lymphatic system which detoxifies the body and starts the true process of heali ng and regenerating the body. Once you become familiar with UROPATHY and start u sing your urine, you will be able to fight individual diseases, prevent and reve rse the conditions that make you susceptible to all types of health problems inc luding: childhood diseases, allergies, common cold, flu, hepatitis, arthritis, h ypertension, all types of infections and fevers, cancer and the opportunistic in fections associated with AIDS. Learn to perpare a strong and powerful formula against most diseases. This simpl e formula has been used against all allergies, for all types of fevers especiall y for babies and infants. It is effective against the flu, common cold, dry skin , eczema, psoriasis and all other skin problems. Learn more about urine's healin

g properties for: Hypertension, Hepatitis, Gall Stones, Lyme Disease, Dysentery , Arthritis, and Cholera The Miracles of Urine Therapy by Dr. Beatrice Bartnett & Margie Adelman The Therapy outlined in this book is an entirely drugless system of healing; the only ingredient is a substance manufactured by the body, rich in minerals, salt , hormones, and other vital substances, namely human urine. This book includes c ase studies of patients successfully treated with urine therapy. It also provide s scientific proof of the efficacy of urine as well as an in-depth look at the h istory and metaphysical roots supporting Urine-Therapy. UROTHERAPY FOR PATIENTS WITH CANCER Joseph Eldor, MD Cancer cells release various antigens, some of which appear in the urine. Oral a uto-urotherapy is suggested as a new treatment modality for cancer patients. It will provide the intestinal lymphatic system the many tumor antigens against whi ch antibodies may be produced. These antibodies may be transpierced through the blood stream and attack the tumor and its cells. "Every one of us has a right to know that our bodies produce an invaluable sourc e of nourishment and healing that we can utilize to heal ourselves and to mainta in our lives and our health in both everyday circumstances and in emergencies an d life-threatening situations." Your Own Perfect Medicine" by Martha Christy In this extraordinary how-to book, Martha Christy examines research findings and testimonials relating to urine therapy, and includes step-by-step instructions to using urine therapy at home. In its examination of this ancient therapy which has been around for over 5,000 years, Your Own Perfect Medicine makes use of in formation from urologists, neurologists, immunologists, pediatricians, dermatolo gists and university researchers to state its case for urine therapy. Ms. Christ y also answers the important question, "why haven't the thousands of findings on urine therapy been publicized?" This book is a valuable tool for the growing nu mbers of consumers who are determined to take control of their own health. From the Back Cover: It's the most astounding proven natural cure that medical s cience has ever discovered-and yet none of the incredible research findings on t his incomparable natural medicine have ever been revealed to the public! Now, fo r the first time ever, learn to use this simple method and read about the startl ing and amazing medical cures that prestigious researchers and doctors themselve s have witnessed in clinical use of this inexpensive, incredibly effective yet v irtually unknown natural medicine. You owe it to yourself to permanently change your health for the better with the most proven, simplest natural cure in existe nce-Your Own Perfect Medicine! read an excerpt of Your Own Perfect Medicine SELF-THERAPY METHODS Excerpt from Nexus Magazine Healing with Urine Therapy The middle stream of fresh, warm, morning urine is the most potent, and drinking it mixed with freshly squeezed orange juice is probably the fastest way to acco mplish this task, although it is best not to mix urine with other foods or drink

s or to take it within an hour before or after eating. Oral drops of fresh urine can be placed directly under the tongue. Urine therapi sts suggest their patients start with 5 drops of fresh morning urine on the firs t day, increase to 5 or 10 drops on the second day, and take 10 drops on the mor ning of the third day and the same amount that evening before going to bed. Once patients feel comfortable with this therapy, they can gradually increase the am ount as they see fit to obtain the results required for their body's condition. Over time, they can learn to adjust the amount that is needed by observing their reactions to the therapy; their dosage may become as much as one full cup at a time! Self-urine may be used as eye drops and ear drops, in foot baths and even as eff ective enemas. Nose drops can help loosen mucus and clear up blocked nasal passa ges. Gargling with it is helpful for a sore throat, and inhaling it relieves sin us and respiratory congestion. Taken internally, it has a laxative and diuretic effect, as it cleanses the digestive tract. Dr John Armstrong (author of The Water of Life) emphasises the need to massage w ith urine. He insists that cures work faster and more effectively in those who a re bathed, massaged, rubbed and soaked in their own urine. He highly recommends it for more serious illnesses, since urine is absorbed through the skin and the hormonal and protein-based contents are slowly reabsorbed into the system, bypas sing digestive juices that otherwise may have neutralised their potency. In this way, it also works as an excellent cosmetic for moisturising and healing skin b lemishes, burns and scar tissue. However, for this usage, it is preferable to us e urine that is 4 - 8 days old. The smell of ammonia in the old urine is not tox ic but actually beneficial if used topically only, and not taken internally.

Free ebook online: Shivambu-Gita by Dr. G. K. Thakkar PDF format: Free ebook: Shivambu-Gita by Dr. G. K. Thakkar (you need Adobe Rea der on your computer to read the ebook) HTML format - Free ebook: Shivambu-Gita by Dr. G. K. Thakkar If you don't have adobe reader or if you use WEBTV click on the HTML format - it is a large file, a bit slow to download. Uropathy for Animals We are firm believers in urine therapy as we have seen amazing results in all ar eas...for example, our greyhound dogs each had different kind of wounds suffered from falling, barb wire at the dog park, etc. They have very thin skin and any tumble can give them an abrasion that is significant. I believe that we were giv en all different kinds of experiences with our animals and with people around us to prove the great healing of urotherapy. Read the testimonial Puppy is urinating on the laptop!!! From the Biomed x website: Very briefly, here are two ways to do urine therapy. This is in no way a complet e discussion of how to use the therapy, but simply an introduction. 1) Use your own urine in a homeopathic fashion. First, collect midstream urine in a clean cup or container. This should be a cle

an catch, meaning the genital area (important for women in particular) has been cleaned beforehand. To 1/6 ounce of distilled water in a sterile bottle, add one drop of fresh urine. Cap and shake 50 times. Take one drop of this mix and add to another 1/6 ounce of distilled water and shake 50 times. Take one drop of thi s mix and add to 1/6 oz. of 80 to 90 proof vodka which acts as a preservative. Place three drops under the tongue hourly until there is obvious improvement or temporary exacerbation of symptoms. As improvement progresses, lengthen the inte rval between treatments. After 3 days, suspend treatment to avoid pushing the im mune system. Treatment is resumed if progress remains static or relapse occurs. 2) Begin with oral drops then increase dosage as needed. Use fresh urine drops direct. For some cases, sub-lingual drops work well. (Should always use fresh urine immediately upon collection. You should not boil or dilute the urine in any way. You must use it in its natural form) Start by taking 1-5 drops of morning urine on the first day. On the second day, take 5-10 drops in the morning. On the third day, take 5-10 drops in the morning , and the same amount in the evening before you go to bed. Once you feel accustomed to the therapy, gradually increase the amount as needed for obtaining results for your condition. As you use the therapy, you will lear n to adjust the amount you need by observing your reactions to the therapy. It m ay be that you'll work up to actually drinking an ounce or two at a time. The Fountain of Youth by Bob Silverstein, N.U.T. (Naturopathic Urine Therapist) This strange behavior, called "urine therapy," or "auto-immune therapy," or "int rinsic medicine," or simply "UT," and also known in India as "amaroli" (the prac tise itself) and "Shivambu" (urine, the "water of Shiva"), has a well-documented , proven record of its power to heal an amazing variety of ills, with no negativ e or harmful effects. Urine is a divine nectar, with supernatural qualities. Aft er all, as the Bible says, "the life (or life-force) of the flesh is in the bloo d," and as urine comes from the blood, it contains that "life-force." Imbibed fr esh and warm, it is a living food, and a nourishing drink, that is also cleansin g, as well as medicinal. Urine is anti-bacterial, anti-fungal, and anti-viral. I t is used in cases of AIDS (only AIDS anti-bodies in urine); cancer; fatigue; an emia; all sorts of urinary diseases, for weight-loss, colds and flu, candida, di abetes, digestive problems, jaundice, etc. It is medically-proven against polio, rabies, and tuberculosis. The list of diseases for which it is effective is ver y long, and around 175 known diseases are said to respond to this kind of therap y. (See longer, partial list at end of this report). Urine therapy is truly a "p anacea" (i.e., a "cure-all" or "universal remedy") Golden Fountain : The Complete Guide to Urine Therapy Golden Fountain : The Complete Guide to Urine TherapyTHE GOLDEN FOUNTAIN by Coen van der Kroon "Briefly, if urine is ingested and/or rubbed into the skin, it purifies blood an d tissues, provides useful nutrients and sends the body a signal about what is i n or out of balance. This last effect is called (oral) auto-immunization. This b rings us at a last important feature of urine. Urine itself is, as said, not a t oxic waste product. It does contain however minute particles connected with poss ible disease processes in the body. These minute particles are mainly antibodies , which upon re-ingesting can help the body to react on specific pathological si

tuations. Urine therapy has proven helpful in a great number of various diseases , ranging from a simple cold and a throatache, to tuberculosis and asthma, from minor skin problems such as itching, to more serious skin diseases such as eczem a, psoriasis and even skin cancer." he Golden Fountain, the most complete book to date on urine therapy, is the resu lt of those investigations. It includes detailed case histories and a user-frien dly guide to its application in the treatment of specific ailments, including ca ncer, tuberculosis, skin complaints, eye infections, wounds, burns and scars. Co en van der Kroon discovered that the use of urine as medicine in one form or ano ther can be found in many medical traditions of people or tribes who are in clos e contact with nature. Native North Americans, gypsies and Eskimos are among tho se cited in his book. Coen van der Kroon covers almost all questions concerning urine therapy and its history in his book The Golden Fountain; The Complete Guide to Urine Therapy. (C oen van der Kroon is a health consultant, living in Amsterdam, Holland. Ayurveda & Yoga: Amaroli An explanation of the practice of Amaroli, Shivambu, or Auto-Urine Therapy follo ws. This practice comes from Yoga and is the use of one's own urine as food, med icine, restorative, transforming agent and immune system booster. It is sometime s called 'Your Own Doctor'. Amaroli is very simple to do and increases the power of the immune system, strengthens the Aura and improves skin health. Spiritual aspirants will find that the mind is less inclined to behave like a monkey, spir itual energy is kept high, and progress towards samadhi is smoother. The effects are magnified if the practitioner has a Yoga practice and an Ayurvedic diet and lifestyle. Three million Chinese drink their own urine Beijing, June 1, 200: More than three million Chinese drink their own urine in t he belief it is good for their health, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Friday. Participants at a recent seminar on the practice in the northeastern city of Shenyang were told that urine contains many active ingredients which str engthen the immune system, Xinhua said. "Urine contains no bacterium and is more sanitary than blood," Yang Liansheng, a professor from the Liaoning Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine, was quot ed as saying. Engineer Zhu Jinfu told the seminar he had been drinking his own u rine since he was 13 and had lived a healthy life for the last 58 years, Xinhua added. Many of his forefathers had also lived to a ripe old age thanks to urine therapy, he said. (Reuters) Urine Therapy: Nature's Elixir for Good Health Urine Therapy: Nature's Elixir for Good HealthUrine Therapy: Nature's Elixir for Good Health by Flora, Ph.D. Peschek-Bohmer, Gisela Schreiber, Flora, Ph.D Pesch ek-Bohmer An introduction to urine therapy 's amazing effectiveness in treating a wide arr ay of physical complaints. Contains effective treatments for acne, asthma, hair loss, indigestion, infections, migraines, warts, wrinkles, and many other common ailments. Examines the historical use of urine therapy in the United States, Eu rope, and Asia. Includes a program for overcoming initial aversion to urine ther apy. If you are like most people, trained from their earliest years to regard urine a

s a mere waste product, the thought of using it for its healing powers may seem shocking. Yet urine has long played an important role in the holistic medical tr aditions of societies all over the world, and is even mentioned in the Ebers Med ical Papyri of ancient Egypt. For centuries people have been availing themselves of urine's incredible curative powers for ailments ranging from anemia to warts . Urine is free, sterile, and acts homeopathically to "prepare" the immune syste m. Urine Therapy includes many case histories of people who have successfully tr eated their ailments with urine, along with cogent explanations of why urine doe s what it does, how to ensure that the wastes flushed out with your urine aren't taken back in, and why urine may be the best tonic available for your immune sy stem. In addition to protocols for using urine to treat a wide array of diseases , the book offers a program that teaches you step-by-step to overcome any initia l aversion to urine therapy. Still playing an important role in the medical syst ems of countries as diverse as Germany, Japan, and India, this surprising health treatment has been gaining popularity in the United States. Making Your Own Medicine by Roy Oakes How common is the use of urine? It is used in the manufacture of hormones, diure tics, and cancer fighting drugs. As urea, it is one of the primary ingredients i n many face and skin creams---just read the labels---because it is one of the be st moisturizers available. As a medicine, it can be used as an extract, injected , topically and in oral applications. Scientific research on urine therapy start ed at the turn of the last century and continued until shortly after World War I I, when drug companies realized there was more money to be made in urine extract s than in promoting its self-healing properties. Dr. Williams states that urine is probably the most specific customized medicine you will ever have available. He refers to the remarkable story of Martha Chris ty, who for years suffered a long list of chronic ailments untreatable by conven tional medicine. She reluctantly agreed to try urine therapy and experienced alm ost immediate relief. She went on to document not only her story but those of ma ny others in her book " Christy cites numerous medical and scientific studies th at have been conducted on urine, as well as testimonials from numerous converts, and provides a good resource for understanding the benefits and supporting evid ence for using urine therapy. Home Cure also offers a source book for physicians . For me the most compelling argument for trying urine therapy was its benefit in the treatment of HIV/AIDS. World Conference on Urine Therapy April 30 to May 4, 2003 Water of Life Water of Life by John W. Armstrong "The universe keeps gifting us with blessings and we often miss them. Our educat ion or culturization gets in the way. I really think the best things in life are free. The Water of Life by John Armstrong is a beginning, an opening door, that will hopefully change opinions. The cases presented are not only interesting th ey are convincing." an amazon.com reviewer

Urine: The Fountain of Youth The main theory is that it helps build immunity to disease, much like a vaccinat ion. Martha Christy recommends starting off with just a few drops, applied topic

ally to the skin. Urine is helpful for acne, eczema, psoriasis, ringworm, sores, fungal infections, insect bites, snake bites, wounds, burns, abrasions, and eve n gangrene. Urine is also is a rich source of hormones, especially DHEA and mela tonin, and other sex hormones including testosterone, androgen, and estrogen. mo re From the mailbag at Shirley's Wellness Cafe Testimonials about the amazing healing power of UT Healing diabetes, improving blood circulation, and much more Additional testimonials about the healing powers of one's own urine AIDS - Gangrene - Hepatitis - Asthma - Tooth Abscess - Prostate Cancer - Enlarge d Prostate - Food Poisoning - Malaria Disentery - Parasites - Amebas - Multiple Sclerosis - Fibroid Tumor - Epilepsy - Allergies - Fever - baby with Consumption - Breast Lumps Testimonial from the BB discussions group about urine therapy "Lately, when Grandma (92 years old) had a very badly bruised spot on her ankle, mom was at the end of her wits to get it to heal. The doctor's antibiotics didn 't help, neither did colloidal silver, peroxide, grapefruit seed extract, or man y of the herbs (echinacea, chaparral, etc.). Then when mom said it was looking l ike gangrene was setting in, I remembered the books saying that applying urine w as about the single most effective treatment for gangrene. Grudgingly, I mention ed it... mom said it couldn't hurt... and within three days I got a call telling me that since she soaked a cloth with grandma's urine and kept it applied (chan ging it a few times a day), it looks like the infection was gone and there was h ealthy pink skin forming at the edges already. This after about 5 or 6 weeks of downhill slide. Mom was thrilled, as was grandma, whose ankle no longer hurt." The simple use of ones own urine "Armstrong began urine therapy after a long and agonizing journey in which docto r after doctor proved unable to cure him of his TB symptoms. On the contrary, hi s condition only worsened. He decided to try urine therapy for two reasons. Firs t of all, a quotation from the Bible stimulated his curiosity: "Drink water from your own cistern, flowing water from your own well." (The Book of Proverbs 5:15 ) Secondly, he had childhood memories of his mother smearing urine on his face w hich was swollen from a bee sting, and of his grandfather treating animals with urine. Recently, a lot of books have been published on urine therapy, especially in Germany, and some of those books have been written by regular doctors." SCIENCE AND UROPATHY After innumerable clinical and laboratory tests carried out over several years i n Japan, China, U.S.A. Switzerland, and many other European countries, it has be en conclusively proved that over and above urea it contains enzymes (of differen t kinds), vitamins, antibodies, amino acids, valuable salts and minerals, carbon ates, bicarbonates, pigments, carbohydrates and hormones. more Urine Therapy: the medical community has already been aware of [urine's] astound ing efficacy for decades, and yet none of us has ever been told about it. Why? M aybe they think it's too controversial. Or maybe, more accurately, there wasn't any monetary reward for telling people what scientists know about one of the mos t extraordinary natural healing elements in the world Tom Brokaw, NBC Nightly News, October 16, 1992:

"In Egypt, rescue workers found a 37-year-old man alive in earthquake rubble. He survived almost 82 hours by drinking his own urine. His wife, daughter and moth er would not and they died." Share information about natural alternative to conventional medicine with your f riends Share information about natural alternative to conventional medicine with your f riendsQuestion? Comment? Need support? Meet people of like-minded - Join a UT di scussion group. It's free Discussion of all therapeutic aspects of the ancient p ractice of Urine Therapy also known as Amaroli, Shivambu, Auto-Urine Therapy and Uropathy. Discussion of general holistic health practices is encouraged, especi ally with regards to how they interact with Urine Therapy. Our community is glob al, encompassing practitioners of UT from around the world. I invite you to part icipate in our on going discussion of this 5,000 year old healing art and discov er the transformative powers of your own body. * UROTHERAPY FOR PATIENTS WITH CANCER Joseph Eldor, MD * BB discussions group about urine therapy * THE URINEIST SOCIETY: A Support Group for Practicioners of Urine The Road To Better Health may begin with a Healing Crisis As you move toward better health with natural healing programs (such as uropathy ) and better nutrition, healing begins to occur. As part of the healing process the body will begin to discard toxic residues which have built up in your body o ver the years. The healing process usually does not occur without repercussions Urine therapy is not just for humans... Click on the chimp picture to view this brief movie of a chimp doing UT. It is a mazing - animals are so smart! If you don't have DSL be patient, the download ma y take a minute or two (over 800 KB mpg file size) (not for the squeamish or chi ldren under 18 years of age) "Cooper also mentions that a celebrated breeder of cattle and horses succceeded in getting his animal's skin into an astonishing condition of fineness by giving them about a tablesoonful of old human urine with every meal." John Henry Clark e M.D Urine Therapy The simple use of ones own urine - Transmutation: The 'Healer Within' - Urine pr operties & efficacy? - Damar Tantra- ancient UT Sutra - UT- psychological factor s - UT- suggested programs - Tibetan urinalysis - Urine fasting UT Doctor in India: nila_sanghvi@hotmail.com Dr. Nila Sanghvi is the author of "Shivambu - Urine Therapy" phone 91-33-474-8308 address: 39, Chakraberia Rd (south), Bhowanipur, Calcutta, India 700025 Chinese Association of Urine Therapy 72, Wu Kon Lio Road, Wuku Industrial Park, Taipei Hsien, Taiwan, R.O.C. Tel: G88 6-2-2988446 Fax: G886-2-2996990 Uroterapia a Mexican Site in Spanish, English Italian, French. nformation on fas ting too.

Ayurveda & Yoga: Amaroli Excellent resources on UT Additional Books on Uropathy: # Urine-Therapy : It May Save Your Life; Beatrice Bartnett; Paperback # Urine Therapy; John F. O'Quinn; Paperback # The Miracles of Urine Therapy; Beatrice Bartnett, Margie Adelman; Paperback A large collection of UT books from Amaroli Books You can also order these books from amazon.com You can also mail-order these books from the Bodhi Tree bookstore (in Los Angele s) at 800 825-9798 or you can email the Bodhi Tree bookstore Urine Therapy and Medication (allopathic drugs) There are differences of opinions: "It is generally not recommended to combine urine therapy with the use of (presc ribed) chemical, allopathic medicines or recreational drugs. The combination may be dangerous to your health. If you are taking any form of allopathic medicine, begin with the external application (urine massage) until you are free of all m edication, if possible. If it is not possible or safe to stop the use of certain medicines, start with taking a few drops of urine internally or use a homeopath ic tincture or gently rub fresh urine into the acupressure points of your ears. Keep looking and feeling very carefully how you and your body are reacting on th e treatment. When suffering from a serious illness or, generally, when in doubt, consult a good natural doctor." The simple use of one's own urine This from Martin Lara author of "Uropathy"p.155 "Although I don't recommend mixi ng medicines with urine therapy, there have been cases of individuals who were v ery ill at home or in a hospital--some dying of AIDS, cancer and other diseases -- who wer receiving chemotherapy when they decided to s tart using their urine. These people had nothing to loose and they took a chance by drinking their urin e while they were taking medications. In these cases, something truly amazing ha ppened: urine seemed to be such a powerful stimulant to the immune system that m edications were completely neutralized and expelled from the body in a matter of days. These individuals reported miraculous improvement over a few days. The he adaches, pains in the body, diarrhea, vomiting, lack of appetite and physical de cay afflicting them usually improved in a few days. And simultaneously, these pe ople developed a tremendous appetite. These people stated that they felt an imme diate improvement when they started using their urine. In many cases they recove red so quickly that their doctors were completely baffled. In a few days they we nt home where they could resume their sleeping habits and take control of their health and their lives. After going home, several individuals gained as much as 25 pounds within a month of practicing uropathy, eating better food and taking g ood care of themselves. I really don't know how each person will react and I ask that you be very careful before making a decision with respect to medications." ***************************************************** Amaroli is an important technique of yoga which was first used in conjunction wi th many of the advanced practices. Today, however, amaroli is better known as a therapeutic process and people everywhere are asking how it can be used. First of all, amaroli must be learned from a qualified teacher who has thorough knowledge of the practice. The method of taking amaroli varies from person to pe rson. In some cases it is the fresh substance and in others the preserved substa nce that should be used. Sometimes only the first urine of the day is taken, and in other cases it is taken up to lunch time. In the case of fast growing diseas

es like cancer, we tell the patient to drink everything. Amaroli becomes very powerful if you take care of your diet. Whatever purpose yo u use it for, you must avoid proteins of every nature. It is also best to avoid too much sweet, sour, spicy or pungent food. Raw food and certain fruits like ba nana, papaya and citrus fruits are very good in the practice of amaroli. Remembe r that the raw foods have better value for building up the bodily resistance and fighting disease. Those who take amaroli after lunch must discontinue the pract ice one hour before and three hours after each meal. It is also a common rule be fore practising amaroli, to make an application on the head and soles of the fee t, that is, you have to anoint the head and feet. In the past, yogis used amaroli because when meditation is practised for long ho urs, the inner body temperature falls. Under such circumstances, the practice of amaroli maintains the digestive system. Meditation also has an effect on the cardiovascular system, and the blood pressu re can drop suddenly. If it falls gradually, this does not matter so much, but a rapid fall adversely affects the cardiovascular system. Amaroli safeguards agai nst this. Therefore, if you practise meditation for long periods, you should tak e amaroli for this reason. Scientific discoveries have revealed that amaroli contains up to twenty four dis tinct groups of hormones. One of these is uricode which is important for maintai ning the health of the cardiovascular system. This is why the advanced yogis too k up the practice of amaroli. Female yogis also practised amaroli because long term use influences the levels of prostaglandin hormone in the reproductive system. These hormones destroy the ova before they have matured. By the practise of yoga and especially hatha yoga, all the impurities are thrown out of the body as it is cleansed. When the body is pure, its power of immunity is lost. So a yogi can sometimes suffer from contagious diseases because his sy stem contains fewer antibodies. Thus amaroli was practised by great yogis to mai ntain a certain 'level of antibodies in the body. These yogis could remain in a cave for three months and nothing would happen to them, but if an ordinary man d id this, he would get a lot of skin problems. If you want to practise amaroli, you must find someone who knows the science and can teach you properly, but this is basically how to start. Have a simple fast for one day. You can take fruit juice, and raw or boiled vegetables, however, a total fast is better. If your intestines are not clean, empty them by enema or g lycerine suppository. If you know the short version of shankaprakshalana, taking six glasses of warm salty water, that's the best way. Next morning when you get up, take the midstream of the first urine. This is eno ugh to start with, and you can continue taking this for one month. If you don't have any positive or negative reaction, then start to use the second urine also, sipping a little water in between. Don't drink the water, only sip a little, no t more than half a cup. Continue twice per day for another month. During this ti me you will definitely have either a positive or negative reaction. If it is pos itive, increase the intake to three times each day, sipping water in between. If there is a negative reaction, find out what it is due to. Perhaps it is caused by improper diet, or maybe you are suffering from some disease. In this case, re duce to the previous quantity. If the reaction is positive, increase by one roun d. In my opinion, three rounds is sufficient. Continue this for many months. Then o nce in a year or so, leave your home and stay alone somewhere in the countryside

, fix your diet and practise amaroli the whole day, for one week only. If there is a positive reaction every day, continue. If there is a slight negative reacti on, go back to the stage up to which you did not get that reaction. You will not have any problem then. You have only to eliminate the excessive protein from the diet and continue this practice with total patience. Even if it takes one, two or three years to come up to the full practice of amaroli, it is still a rewarding period. It will help you in meditation and also in maintaining good health. **************************************** This is some very interesting info that i first learnt about in Dr Swami Vivekan anda Saraswati s course in rishikesh India. Which i sceptical at first but thought it needed more reserch - this is an email reply from one of australias top scie ntists - im posting this as it might be of interest to some people in this tibe but also id love to get any feed back on this topic:-) abc.net.au/science/k2/moments/ Karl Kruszelnicki ( this is dr karl the scientist i told u about:-) www.abc.net.au/science/k2/aboutkk.htm stevie URINE DRINKING BOOK You d probably have to be mighty thirsty to drink your own urine, but millions of people do it every day. Recent research shows it might not be such a crazy idea - and this research could lead us to the jet lag pill. People have been drinking their own urine for thousands of years. A few Prime Mi nisters of India, Morarji Desai and Mahatma Ghandi, did it every day. According to Paul Keating, Queen Beatrice of The Netherlands actually drank a glass of pig urine on Dutch TV, to prove that Dutch pork was of the highest standard. Some supporters of urine-drinking claim that it is mentioned in the Bible. Prove rbs 5: 15 says Drink thy waters of thine own cistern , while John 7: 38 says Out of his belly shall flow rivers of living waters . However, some old Indian documents are very definite about the benefits of drink ing your own urine. The ancient yogic text, Damara Tantra , refers to a technique called shivambu kalpa vidhi , which means literally urine revitalising technique . In this text it says a se nsible man gets up early in the morning when three quarters of the night has pas sed (about 3 or 4 AM), faces east and passes urine. The initial and concluding f low of urine is to be discarded. The intermediate flow is to be consumed. This i s the most suitable method . In other words, drink your own mid-stream urine, very early in the morning. They called this habit amaroli - and it was supposed to hel p them meditate. But other people claimed medical benefits from urine. As recently as 1863, the h abit of injecting urine was mentioned in a book called The Physiological Memoirs of Surgeon-General Hammond, U.S. Army . He recommended using a hypodermic needle a nd syringe. Today in alternative medicine, the healing use of urine is called uropathy . It is claimed to cure everything from cancer to AIDS. It s used in every form imaginable . Patients are supposed to drink it, squirt it into various body orifices to use it as an enema or a gargle or a douche, dribble it into their eyes and ears as drops,. If they re a little shy, they can start off with just sniffing urine. Cert ainly many athletes claim that washing your feet with urine heals blisters very rapidly. Normally, your body makes about 1 ml of urine per minute - about a small glassfu l every hour. Urine is about 95% water and about 5% solids. These solids include vitamins, proteins, enzymes, salts, uric acid, prostaglandins, and a recently-d

iscovered hormone called melatonin. Melatonin is the probably the reason the ancient yogis drank their own urine. Me latonin is made by the pineal gland, which the French philosopher and mathematic ian Descartes called the seat of the soul . As a drug, melatonin has a wide range of effects. If you eat it or drink it or s niff it, you can get everything from mild sedation, pain relief, sleep, a feelin g of emotional balance , increased visual imagery, and feelings of elation right up to an alteration in your ability to estimate time. Melatonin is produced by the pineal gland only when your eyes are shut. In your blood, the levels of melaton in peaks around 2 AM, but there are significant quantities made between midnight and 6 AM. It turns out that beta blockers, a drug commonly given for high blood pressure, prevent this night time release of melatonin. This might explain why beta blocke rs sometimes cause nightmares. Now the yogic ritual is to get up at 4 AM, drink your own urine and then meditat e. Any urine made after 2 AM is loaded with melatonin, and this melatonin might relieve some of the physical pain of sitting motionless and cross-legged for two hours. It would certainly make your meditation easier if you also had increased visual imagery, and feelings of elation. Also the melatonin helps to reset your body clock, and it fools your body into thinking that it has had enough sleep. In fact, scientists are looking at using melatonin as a pill to protect you agai nst jet lag, by re-setting your body clock. The yogic texts also say that the urine of children is superior to that of adult s. The pineal gland in children produces more melatonin, and this is why childre n sleep longer than adults. The urine of children has much more melatonin than t he urine of adults. The extra melatonin would help the meditation. The yogic texts also say that you should drink your own urine every day for over a month before you get the full effect. Studies have shown that you need to tak e melatonin for about a month to lock in your sleep cycles. So the ancient yogic texts were right. A glass of urine a day could keep the str ess away. Drinking your own urine could be very handy if you have a big project coming up, and need to burn the candle at both ends. If urine becomes really val uable, maybe recycled lemonade will cost more than fresh lemonade. PINEAL GLAND - BIOLOGICAL CLOCK The pineal gland is a small white gland buried nearly in the centre of the brain . It is shaped like a tiny pinecone, is about 8 mm long, and weighs about the sa me as a house spider - about one tenth of a gram. Parts of the pineal gland turn to calcium quite early in life. Doctors who see t his calcium on X-rays have long called it brain sand . They found it useful as a ma rker of the mid-line on X-rays of the skull. Brain sand is found in 30% of peopl e aged 10-20 years, and in 80% of people over 30 years old. During the day, the pineal gland turns tryptophan into serotonin. At night, it c onverts the serotonin into melatonin - the chemical that helped the early yogis meditate. So the pineal gland turns information about light (and how many hours of light there are each day) into the hormone, melatonin The pineal gland is quite small in animals that live near the Equator - where th e days are always 12 hours long, and the timing for breeding is not so critical. But near the North and South Poles, the timing is more critical, and the pineal gland is larger. In the newborn elephant seal, the pineal gland takes up 50% of the brain weight! THE HISTORY OF THE PINEAL GLAND Practically all animals with backbones over the last 500 million years have had a pineal gland. The pineal gland feeds information about the length of the day a nd the season to the master clock elsewhere in the brain. In the tuatara, the primitive New Zealand lizard, the pineal gland sits just ben eath the skin on the skull. In some lizards the pineal gland is exposed to dayli

ght through a clear window on the back of its head. Perhaps the pineal gland is the famous third eye of the mystical East. Herophilus, in the fourth century BC, claimed that the pineal gland was a valve th at regulated the flow of thought out of little storage bins in the brain. Ren Descartes, around 1640, believed that the rational soul lived in the pineal g land. He claimed that information about events in the real world entered the eye s, and then passed by strings in the brain to the pineal gland . The pineal gland reacted by sending humours down hollow tubes to various muscles of the body . He w as very close to the truth. In 1918, a Swedish anatomist, Nils Holmgren, found that some cells in the pineal gland of the frog and the dogfish were surprisingly similar to the light-detect ing cells in the retina. In 1958, melatonin was isolated by Lerner and his colleagues at Yale University. The chemists took 4 years to extract the melatonin from the collected pineal gl ands of 200,000 cattle. MELATONIN - THE DRACULA HORMONE Scientists call melatonin The Dracula Hormone because the blood levels are much hi gher at night. They also call it The Hormone of Darkness for the same reason, and also because we know so little about it. Daytime blood levels of melatonin (in people of all ages) are 17-43 pmol/l. Nigh ttime levels depend on your age. They are around 1080 pmol/l in children aged 13 years, 520 pmol/l in children and adolescents 8-15 years old, and they gradual ly drop until they reach levels of about 86 pmol/l in adults aged 50-70 years. Melatonin production is completely switched off by very bright light (about 2,50 0 lux). Typical indoor lighting is around 250-500 lux. Outdoor brightness ranges from 10,000 lux (cloudy day in northern Europe) to 80,000 lux (sunny day near t he Equator). JET LAG AND MELATONIN Jet lag is the disruption of your internal body clock. You want your breakfast por ridge when everybody else wants dinner. About 15% of travellers never get jet la g, 15% will be bed-ridden by it, while 70% can get by, but don t feel great. You n eed about one day to reset your clock from the shock of crossing one time zone. So it will take you 12 days to recover from flying halfway around the world over 12 time zones. The standard advice depends on which way you are flying. If you are heading EAST over six or fewer time zones, expose yourself beforehand to natural morning lig ht for about 3-4 hours. But if you re planning to cover more than six time zones, avoid the morning light and get the midday light. If you are heading WEST over s ix or fewer time zones, expose yourself to natural afternoon light for about 3-4 hours. But if you re planning to cover more than six time zones, avoid the aftern oon light and get the midday light. But this could all change when the melatonin pill becomes available. If you take melatonin in the morning, it delays your body clock. If you take melatonin in t he afternoon or early evening, it advances your body clock. So adjusting for jet lag could be as easy as taking a pill at the right time! URINE - CLEANER THAN SALIVA? Most people think that urine is full of germs. They re wrong - urine has fewer ger ms than your mouth, or the water you get out of a tap. Normally, urine is sterile . This medical jargon means that there are no significan t numbers of bacteria. If you were to take a few millilitres of urine, and add s ome germ-free food-for-bacteria, no bacteria would grow. But if you were unlucky to have a Urinary Tract Infection, then there would be bacteria in your urine. These bacteria would grow in the presence of bacteria-food. A microbiologist cou ld recognise these bacteria, and test to find which antibiotics would kill them.

Then your doctor would prescribe the most appropriate antibiotic. So while your urine might not seem very delicious or tasty to drink, at least it has fewer bacteria than your own saliva. URINE-DRINKING IN TAIWAN About 200,000 Taiwanese drink their own urine every morning. This movement began when Chen Ching-chuan met an old war friend, after 14 years separation. To his surprise, his old friend had not aged. His friend said he had been drinking his own urine - so Mr. Chen followed his example. Mr. Chen ran into trouble with the local police, when he recently had to apply f or a new identification card. He looked 44 years old, not 64 - but luckily, a fr iend gave the needed identification. The urine-drinking movement is now so popul ar that it even runs a Urine Therapy Hot Line. REFERENCES: The Pineal Gland by Richard J. Wurtman and Julius Axelrod, Scientific American, Ju ly 1965, pp 50-60 Melatonin Supplementation from Early Morning Auto-Urine Drinking , by M. H. Mills a nd T. A. Faunce, Medical Hypotheses (1991) 36, pp 195-199 A Glass of Urine a Day keeps the Stress Away 0, 29 February 1992, p.14 by Gail Vines, New Scientist, No. 181

Melatonin - the Hormone of Darkness by Robert D. Utiger, New England Journal of M edicine, Vol 327, No 19, 5 November 1992, pp 1377-1379 DAMAR TANTRAFri, August 25, 2006 - 6:58 PM Auto-Urine Therapy (Shivambu Kalpa): The Indian version as detailed in the DAMAR TANTRA.

O Parvati! I shall expound to you the recommended actions and rituals of Shivamb u Kalpa that confers numerous benefits. Those well versed in the scriptures have carefully specified certain vessels for the purpose. (1) Utensils made from the following materials are recommended: Gold, Silver, Copper , Bronze, Brass, Iron, Clay, Ivory, Glass, Wood from sacred trees, Bones, Leathe r and Leaves. (2, 3) The Shivambu (one's own urine) should be collected in a utensil made of any of t hese materials. Among them, clay utensils are better, copper are by far the best . (4) The intending practitioner of the therapy should abjure salty or bitter foods, s hould not over-exert himself, should take a light meal in the evening, should sl eep on the ground, and should control and master his senses. (5) The sagacious practitioner should get up when three quarters of the night have e lapsed, and should pass urine while facing the east. (6) The wise one should leave out the first and the last portions of the urine, and collect only the middle portion. This is considered the best procedure. (7) Just as there is poison in the mouth and the tail of the serpent, O Parvati, it is even so in the case of the flow of Shivambu. (8)

Shivambu (auto- urine) is heavenly nectar, which is capable of destroying senili ty and diseases. The practitioner of Yoga should take it before proceeding with his other rituals. (9) After cleansing the mouth, and performing the other essential morning functions, one should drink one's own clear urine, which is the annihilator of senility an d diseases. (10) One who drinks Shivambu for the duration of a month will be purified internally. Drinking it for two months stimulates and energizes the senses. (11) Drinking it for three months destroys all diseases and frees one from all troubl es. By drinking it for five months, one acquires divine vision and freedom from all diseases. (12) Continuation of the practice for six months makes the practitioner highly intell igent and proficient in the scriptures, and if the duration is seven months, the practitioner acquires extraordinary strength. (13) If the practice is continued for eight months, one acquires a permanent glow lik e that of gold, and if it is continued for nine months, one is freed from tuberc ulosis and leprosy. (14) Ten months of this practice makes one a veritable treasury of luster. Eleven mon ths of it would purify all the organs of the body. (15) A man who has continued the practice for a year becomes the equal of the sun in radiance. He who has continued for two years conquers the element Earth. (16) If the practice is continued for three years, one conquers the element of Water, and if it is continued for four years, the element Light is also conquered. (17 ) He who continues the practice for five years conquers the element Air, and he wh o continues it for seven years conquers pride. (18) Continuation of the practice for eight years enables one to conquer all the impo rtant elements of Nature, and continuation of it for nine years frees one from t he cycle of birth and death. (19) One who has continued the practice for ten years can fly through the air without effort. One who has continued it for eleven years is able to hear the voice of his sour (inner self). (20) He who has continued the practice for twelve years will live so long as the moon and the stars last. He is not troubled by dangerous animals such as snakes, and no poisons can kill him. He cannot be consumed by fire, and can float on water just like wood. (21) O Goddess! I shall en attentively. He ed with Auto-Urine cquires happiness. tell you now about other variants of the therapy. Please list who takes powdered amrita (gaduchi, Tinospora Condifolia) mix habitually for six months, is freed from all disorders, and a (22, 23 cont...)

Powdered haritaki (harade, Terminalia Chebula) should be assiduously taken with Shivambu. This combination destroys senile degeneration and all diseases. If thi s practice is continued for a year, it makes one exceptionally strong. (...23, 2 4) One masha (about one gramme) of sulpher be taken along with Shivambu every morni

ng. He who continues the practice for three years will live as long as the moon and the stars last. His urine and feces will whiten gold. (25) The powder of the Koshtha fruit should be mixed properly with Shivambu and taken in the prescribed manner. If this practice is continued for twelve years, one's body will be free from the ravages of old age such as wrinkles on the skin, and whitening of the hair. One acquires the strength of a thousand elephants, and l ives as long as the moon and the stars continue to exist. (26) If powdered pepper and Triphala Choorna (mixed powder of Terminalia Belavica, Te rminalia Chebul and Phylonthus Embica) mixed with Shivambu are taken regularly, one acquired a radiance like that of the gods. (27) The h a ive ure ape essence (bhasma) of mica and sulpher should be taken with Shivambu along wit little water. This cures al disorders caused by malfunctioning of the digest system and all disorders caused by the Vata humour. He who takes such a mixt regularly become strong, acquires a divine radiance, and can cheat time (esc the ravages of time). (28, 29)

He who takes Shivambu daily and excluded salty, sour and bitter food from his di et acquires divine accomplishments quickly. Freed from all ailments, and possess ing a body comparable to that of Shiva Himself, he disports himself like the god s in the Universe for an eternity. (30 ************************************************ DRINK TO YOUR HEALTH - URINE THERAPY Wealthy French women bathed in it, Chinese doctors used it to soothe sore throat s, and now you - all squeamishness aside - can drink it to cure what ails you. Swami Vivekananda s first book, Damaru Tantra, published in April 2009, is a trans lation and commentary of the ancient text describing the benefits of urine thera py for therapeutic as well as spiritual results. Order your copy of Damaru Tantra 15 includes shipping: Odds are you're among the 27 million Americans who recycle. Separating bottles, cans, plastic containers, newspapers, maybe even composting your kitchen and gar den scraps, are just a few of the ways you can show respect for your earthly hom e. But would you be willing to take the act of recycling a step further and inte rnally honor your bodily home, if it meant you'd have more energy, a stronger im mune system, and an ageless complexion? Of course you would. Well, what if I sai d you can have all this and more for the mere cost of - a cupful of urine? A lit tle hard to swallow? Well, it's true. It's urine therapy (UT), and all it takes is eight ounces a day and an unwavering pledge to throw out some of the distaste you associate with the human filtering system. That's what I did, and now, four years later, I'm a different person. I'm more i n tune with my body's needs and functions, and no longer anemic or hypoglycemic. I rarely get colds, haven't had the flu in years, and the yeast infection that had long been plaguing me is gone. UT has even heightened my connection to my da ily yoga practice. I now feel as healthy and strong as my headstand. Even so, I admit that the road to health involved more than a few dead ends. I i nitially heard about urine therapy when I was living in Japan. I was interviewin g Dr. Ryosuku Uryu, a respected naturopath, for an article in a Tokyo magazine. The interview proceeded just fine until he mentioned "pee drinking."

I laughed, and he launched into an earnest monologue on the virtues of urine the rapy. Weeks later, still haunted by his heartfelt narrative of personal and clin ical success, I decided to give urine a more serious look. At Dr. Uryu's counsel , I began the therapy gradually, rubbing my urine on my face at night (I refused to use it in the morning because I was terrified people would smell me on the t rains), until I'd worked up enough courage to actually drink it. I can still rem ember the effort it took not to throw up that first morning. Believe me, it was all downstream from there. If you got rid of it, why put it back? Contrary to what we learn in biology, urine isn't a dirty byproduct of intestina l work. Instead, it's a highly usable, sterile fluid that comes from the kidneys . The main function of the kidneys is to balance and filter the blood. Urine, th e kidneys' byproduct, is made from life-sustaining ingredients, like vitamins, m inerals, proteins, enzymes, hormones, antibodies, and amino acids - estimated to be thousands of compounds in all. For example, urine, also the primary componen t of amniotic fluid, contains DHEA (the wonder steroid heralded with antiaging a nd anticancer properties), allantoin (added to creams and ointments to promote w ound healing), factor S (used to naturally induce sleep), gastric secretary depr essants (which combat ulcer growth), urokinase (an enzyme known to dissolve bloo d clots), and, of course, urea (a key constituent in many antibacterial substanc es). Some scientists even suggest that uric acid, the most touted property of ur ine, may be an instrumental ingredient that allows humans to live longer than mo st other mammals. While this culture continues to call it pee, piss, wee-wee, tinkle, and number o ne, there are others who speak more poetically of urine, calling it, among other things, the soma beverage, the mother of medicine, the water of life, living wa ter within, life elixir, the water of Shiva, and the water of a thousand flowers . Whatever its name, this drugless self-remedy appears in all the ancient religi ous and medical texts of recorded history - the earliest of which is attributed to the 5,000-year-old vedic text known as the Damar Tantra. "Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well ," proclaims a proverb from the Old Testament. "The soma beverage is a universal remedy," declares the Atharva Veda. Hippocrates taught people to support their body's intrinsic defenses and to try natural interventions, such as urine, befor e resorting to stronger measures. The Romans, according the historian Suetonius, valued urine so much that the emperor placed a tax on every drop collected from public reservoirs. Wealthy French women bathed in it, and Chinese doctors used it to soothe sore throats. And, in the 19th century, French chemist Fourcroy dev oted an entire volume to the properties of human urine, because, in his words, t he "urine of man ... has furnished the most singular discoveries to chemistry .. . as well as to the art of healing." UT even managed to sneak into American lore. In 1810, for example, a Dr. Richard Hazeltine wrote of a proven healing agent used by "affectionate" mothers (as we ll as himself) called a "buttered flip" - a mixture of recent urine, hot water, honey, and a little butter. In addition, there are isolated stories of Native Am ericans using it, and tales of European and African-American grandmothers massag ing it into their skin to stay beautiful. More recently, TV archived the benefit s of urine therapy in 1978 when India's former prime minister Moraii Desai told a shocked Dan Rather and his 60 Minutes viewing audience of the remarkable effec ts of drinking urine, going so far as to say UT was the perfect way to help the millions of Indians unable to afford medical care. Whose urine is it anyway? Unequivocally the most primitive and primordial form of internal medicine, urine was isolated as a healing agent around 1773. UT has since been supported by doz ens of successful research trials. According to Martha Christy, author of Your O

wn Perfect Medicine, urine is highly respected by mainstream medical scientists and researchers, even if the general public isn't aware of its benefits. To see for yourself, check out the list of ingredients in face creams, shampoos, antiba cterial ointments, sleeping medicines, diuretics, estrogen supplements, and othe r grooming products and over-the-counter medications on the shelves today. You w ill find many of the components of urine listed there. Although I like to avoid conspiracy theories, it's hard not to wonder why so few people know about urine therapy. Could it be there's no money to be made from i t? Christy reports that the bulk of the scientific research on UT has been finan ced by the pharmaceutical industry "with the hope of isolating substances for sp ecific cures so they can be produced artificially and marketed as a new product. " The Ares-Serono Group, one of the world's largest fertility-drug companies, pr oduces the fertility hormone drug Pergonal from the urine of post-menopausal wom en in Italy, Spain, Brazil, and Argentina. In 1992 the company reported earnings of $855 million, and women pay up to $1,400 per month for this urine extract. T he U.S. company Enzymes of America uses a special filter to collect the proteins from men's urinals in the 10,000 portable outhouses owned by its subsidiary fir m, Porta-John. They've turned their collections into a pricey heart attack medic ine called Urokinase. Yet, even supposing money and patents weren't an issue, a manufactured substance is no match for what comes out of your own body. No matter what companies claim , no synthetic works as well as your own urine: You and only you produce the nat ural vaccines, anticancer agents, hormone balancers, and allergy relievers in th e exact forms you need. Furthermore, milligram per milligram, urine is a better supplement to your diet than vitamins, because the vitamins in urine have alread y been digested and synthesized. Besides, your own urine won't produce any lasti ng side effects - unlike, for example, urokinase, which causes abnormal bleeding . On top of all this, your urine has antibodies that can stop a disease long bef ore recognizable signs or symptoms could be detected by modern technology. UT tackles the root of a problem or imbalance rather than merely masking its sym ptoms by reinforcing the autoinoculation - or more simply, homeopathic - actions of the immune system. As cells discharge traces of diseased substances and allo w them to escape into healthy tissues, leukocyte activity increases and creates a powerful antigen serum, remnants of which are passed into the urine. To take o ne of Christy's examples, let's say you take a pill to help you sleep, even thou gh, unbeknownst to you, your insomnia is caused by an undiagnosed food allergy. Thanks to the pill, you start sleeping again, but after a while, fearful of beco ming over-reliant on the drug, you stop taking it. Boom, you're back to counting sheep. Using UT, both of your ills - sleep deprivation and food allergies - can be overcome at once. Your urine offers the exact antibodies you need to eradica te your allergy and provides factor S to naturally induce sleep. All this for fr ee. Please pass the pee For the truly faint of stomach, a homeopathic tincture acts as a safe prelude to UT. The more adventuresome can start out with one ounce and slowly work up to s ix or eight ounces daily. Drink your urine first thing in the morning, since hor monal secretions increase at night, when the body is totally relaxed and repairi ng itself. Always collect the intermediate flow and drink it right away; don't b oil or dilute it, as this destroys or reduces urine's most beneficial properties . Some experts suggest waiting at least 15 minutes after UT before eating or dri nking - although I have to admit I bend the rules a little and brush my teeth im mediately afterward. Personally, I like to create a ritual around drinking my urine. Although this so unds a bit weird, I go into the bathroom alone and pee into a round glass cup (a special one with the earth etched on it). Before drinking, I hold it to my hear

t, close my eyes, and connect with the intrinsic power of my body, thanking myse lf for healing. In this way, I begin every day in communion with myself. UT works best with adequate sleep, meditation, and exercise, and, like any other natural technique, it requires patience, discipline, and self-love. Also, the b etter your diet, the better the taste, although even within the parameters of a clean, preferably vegetarian, diet - one free of refined sugars, caffeine, nicot ine, preservatives, and drugs (since these substances can cause toxic build-up) - the flavors of urine will vary: The morning after miso soup, my urine tastes p articularly strong and salty; likewise, after curry, it tends to be spicy sweet. Although it does come out bitter at times, the only time I have any real diffic ulty is when I eat asparagus (I'll let you figure this one out). Most of the tim e, it has a subtle, slightly salty taste, and its color reminds me of an oaky, f ull-bodied chardonnay. Although I didn't experience it, the first-time recipient of UT will sometimes u ndergo a "healing crisis." Anytime during the first month, you may experience di scomfort while the body releases long-held toxins. Symptoms like headaches, naus ea, rashes, fever, diarrhea, vomiting, boils, and sweating are just part of the natural release process and well worth the final results. The best way to get th rough the detox period is to monitor your body's changes and regulate your UT in take accordingly, cutting back the amount until your symptoms subside. Other effective uses of urine include: topical applications (it's best to store it for a couple of days first, because bacterial fermentation enhances its heali ng effects), rubbings, foot baths, enemas, gargling, douching, eye and ear drops , and sniffing. I still use my urine as a nighttime face treatment. I have uncov ered studies showing that urine, more specifically urea, increases the water bin ding capacity of the skin, and I often get compliments on my smooth, clear compl exion. Believe it or not, I've even read that spraying fruits and vegetables wit h a urine and water solution will keep them bug- and fungus-free, and, most impo rtantly, will cleanse them of chemical sprays. Both externally and internally, urine functions as an excellent antidote for inf ections, skin ulcers, wounds, burns, snake bites, and insect stings. I learned t his - long before I heard of UT - on a summer field trip to the beach. About 10 of us were walking along the water with a counselor, when one my friends stepped on a dead jellyfish. Much to my amazement, the counselor lifted up his shorts ( carefully, so none of us kids saw anything) and peed on my friend's swelling foo t. Within seconds my friend forgot about the jellyfish and started screaming abo ut the treatment. To this day, I wonder if this unusual act of first aid was the seed that prepared me to accept urine therapy some 17 years later. It may save your life But more than just a rescue aid or supplement for the healthy, UT is also for th ose with chronic, acute, even severe illnesses. A practicing urine therapist in the 1930s and '40s and author of The Water of life, a nonscientific book of case studies, Dr. John Armstrong showed that urine fasts could heal just about any d isease that wasn't caused by traumatism or structural defects. He was especially fond of urine fasts, believing them superior to other liquid fasts because of u rine's ability to rebuild as well as cleanse. And he could make such claims, sin ce he not only cured others using urine fasts, but he cured himself of both tube rculosis and diabetes - something years of allopathic treatments had failed to d o. As with all "do it yourself" healing, UT recipients often become infused with a vitality they feel compelled to share. Powerful testimonials support every book I have read about UT, the most convincing of them coming from those whom convent ional medicine had sentenced to death. Christy writes of a woman with an inopera ble uterine tumor who drank nothing but her urine for seven days and made the tu

mor disappear, and of another "terminal" patient with metastatic cancer of the l iver who, in the throes of hepatitis and a high fever, decided she had nothing t o lose by drinking her morning urine: "By the fifth day, I felt more energetic, by the 10th, I returned to the doctor. He couldn't believe I was alive." The testimonials of PWAs (people with AIDS) are especially potent. In Urine-Ther apy: It May Save Your Life, author Beatrice Bartnett, a naturopathic and chiropr actic physician who cofounded the Water of Life Institute in Florida, cites a ca se of a man whose T-cell count went from 285 to 489 in four months while treatin g with UT alone. Other books document successful results from using UT to combat Karposi's sarcoma lesions, thrush, intestinal parasites, Epstein-Barr, herpes, diarrhea, and colitis. Researchers believe that UT works so well with AIDS and i ts opportunistic viruses because the urine of a PWA not only has anticancer agen ts, such as DHEA, retine, antieoplastons, uric acid, H-11 extract, and HUD (huma n urine's derivative), but it also contains the antibodies to HIV-1, a fact disc overed in 1988 by Dr. Alvin Friedman Kien at the New York University Medical Sch ool. In study after study, UT comes across as nothing short of miraculous. It fights free-radicals, eases morning sickness, acts as a diuretic, and has redressed a r emarkable number of ailments, including arthritis, hair loss, jaundice, eczema, leprosy, gangrene, malaria, venereal diseases, menstrual irregularities, candida , warts, prostate problems, obesity, asthma, migraines, toxemia, rabies, peptic ulcers, multiple sclerosis, and heart disease. Some even profess it enhances spi ritual growth. The general theme is one of a therapy that works when all others have failed. UT is a medicine we always have at our disposal (so to speak), one that can actu ally save our life in an emergency. During Jordan's Nine-Day War, Newsweek repor ted that the Red Crescent, the Islamic equivalent of the Red Cross, told the nat ion on public radio: Your children are expiring of thirst; we cannot help you ex cept by telling you that you may be able to save their lives by letting them dri nk their own urine. A friend of mine benefited from a similar understanding when he became sick in the middle of an unauthorized bicycle tour through the back r oads of China. In his words, "I was alone, feverish, completely dehydrated, and unable to get help for myself. Then I remembered urine therapy, and after a few weeks of my own urine, I was strong enough to continue my ride." I don't know ab out you, but I'd say pee drinking sure beats the alternative in these two situat ions. I realize accepting UT as the saving water of life or as the elixir that allows yogis to traverse great deserts doesn't mean you're ready to wake up tomorrow an d have yourself a cup of pee. Even so, whether you're curious or completely gros sed out, vast rewards are waiting. Give yourself a chance to get comfortable wit h the idea. When I got started, I imagined myself as a baby floating in the wate rs of my mother's urine, but if this doesn't work for you, try returning to the recycling analogy. Think of UT as composting, where leftovers are miraculously t urned into prized nutrition. Remember, nature rarely wastes a thing. Blake More is a poet and freelance writer living in Mill Valley, California. RESOURCES Your Own Perfect Medicine by Martha M. Christy (Future Med, Inc., Scottsdale , Ariz., 1994) The Water Of Life: A Treatise on Urine Therapy by J.W. Armstrong (Health Sci ence Press, Essex, England, 1971) Urine-Therapy. It May Save Your Life by Dr. Beatrice Bartnett (Water of Life Institute, Hollywood, Fla., 1989)

Return to articles ************************************* Introduction: "In February 1996 the First World Conference on Urine Therapy took place in Indi a (in May 1999 the second world conference took place in Germany). The fact that a number of allopathic doctors also visited these conferences show s that this remarkable and sometimes despised therapy, which for a long time was almost forgotten, is coming back to the forefront. And rightly so. Urine therapy is very effective, and it is always available and quite inexpensiv e, to say the least, which is absolutely wonderful in a world which sees itself confronted with increasing health- as well as financial problems. But what is this urine therapy? How does it work? What are its roots? What has t he medical world to say about it? And, not the least important, how do you go ab out it? Coen van der Kroon covers almost all questions concerning urine therapy and its history in his book The Golden Fountain; The Complete Guide to Urine Therapy. (T he book recently appeared at Amethyst Books/Gateway Books; ISBN 0-944256-73-2; 1 52 pages; illustrated; 8.95 or $14,95). In the following article connections of urine therapy with the yoga traditions a re explored. Also practical tips are given for the application of urine therapy in daily life . You will find more detailed application programs here. Meanwhile, the below is a reasonable starting point. If you haven't done it yet, you might be convinced, after reading this article o r The Golden Fountain book, to take a sip from your own golden nectar... If not, it's definitely worth reading anyway! What is urine therapy? How does it work? Urine therapy means using (your own) urine externally or internally as a way to promote or maintain your health. The first question that probably comes to mind is whether urine is not a toxic s ubstance and how a toxic waste product could ever be of any benefit for your hea lth. Well, urine is NOT a toxic waste product and this has been scientifically proven . 95% of urine is water, 2.5% consists of urea and the remaining 2.5% is a mixture of minerals, salt, hormones and enzymes. Toxic substances are being removed fro m the body through the liver and intestines, through the skin and through the ou tbreath. The main function of the kidneys is to keep the composition of the blood in opti mal balance. When there is to much water, the kidneys will remove it. But that d oesn't make water into a toxic waste product.

Only the substance urea can be poisonous when present in very large amounts in t he blood. However, this is irrelevant in the practice of drinking urine, as urin e is not immediately put back in the bloodstream. In the small amounts urea gets back into the body, it is purifying, clears up excess mucus and has a number of specific, very useful effects. Moreover, it has a wonderful healing and tonifyi ng effect when applied to the skin. You can find urea in many skin products as one of the main components- specifica lly in many woman cosmetics. Furthermore, urine is entirely ect. We are talking here about ows a reasonably healthy diet, medicines. Urine therapy is a s'. sterile after secretion and has an antiseptic eff urine from the point of view of somebody who foll and who does not use chemical drugs or allopathic method based upon the principle of 'natural cycle

As long as we do not interfere chemically with the body's natural cycle, the bod y produces urine which is perfectly suitable for re-cycling. If you ingest a gre at deal of chemical substances - and these days all kinds of processed food cont ain chemicals - part of this will end up in the urine, in which case the composi tion of the urine changes. Normally, however, urine is a healthy substance which contains healthy, harmless and nourishing components. Some natural cycles take place more quickly than others, but the cycle in genera l is the foundation of all life. If we let nature run her course, there will be no waste, and a disturbed equilibrium will always come back into balance. Just a s we are capable of disturbing a natural equilibrium, we can also do our part in helping nature recover her balance. In order to support such a recovering of ba lance, we are equipped with a wonderful, natural 'house pharmacy': our own urine provides us with a swift and safe method for using the powers of the natural cy cle. What exactly are the effects of urine therapy? Briefly, if urine is ingested and/or rubbed into the skin, it purifies blood and tissues, provides useful nutrients and sends the body a signal about what is in or out of balance. This last effect is called (oral) auto-immunization. This br ings us to a last important feature of urine. Urine itself is, as said, not a to xic waste product. It does contain however minute particles connected with possi ble disease processes in the body. These minute particles are mainly antibodies, which upon re-ingesting can help the body to react on specific pathological sit uations. Urine therapy has proven helpful in a great number of various diseases, ranging from a simple cold and a throat-ache, to tuberculosis and asthma, from minor ski n problems such as itching, to more serious skin diseases such as eczema, psoria sis and even skin cancer. Urine therapy in the East: therapy or way of living? Urine therapy has been practiced for thousands of years and has merely fallen a bit into obscurity in the last century. However much urine therapy may seem to be unorthodox and perhaps revolutionary, it does not introduce anything new or original. It has been known throughout the centuries both in the West and in the East. Especially within yoga and tantra t radition the use of urine has been kept alive. It served partially as a real 'th erapy', a method to cleanse the physical body of impurities, but also as a way t o further spiritual growth. As such it should be considered more as a spiritual practice or lifestyle.Very illustrative in this sense are the following remarks:

Swami Satyananda Saraswati states in 'Amaroli - The Way of the Yogi', the prefac e to the book Amaroli (Amaroli is the practice of ingesting ones own urine): "I am fully acquainted with the topic of amaroli and have had personal experienc e with its use. Of course, I did not use it for therapy but in order to perfect vajroli kriya, and I am convinced that those who want to perfec t vajroli will have to go through the process of amaroli. Since 1943, right up to 1978 (date of publication of the book Amaroli), I have n ever seen bad results from the use of amaroli, either in therapy or for vajroli. Just recently a very ill gentleman approached me and asked me my opinion on ama roli. I suggested that he try it for himself and see what happens. Now, two mont hs later, he has recovered completely. From the healing point of view, if amaroli proves to be less dangerous than the therapeutic use of drugs, synthetic hormones and various other assorted chemical substances, if it proves less corrosive and nutritionally harmful than Coca Col a and 7-Up, if it is less dependence-producing and intoxicating than alcohol, le ss distasteful than eating gelatin, manufactured from the hooves and tendons of animals, then I am sure it will be a boon to humanity. I personally feel that we must state the facts on amaroli in as straightforward, clear and direct a manner as possible. Then mankind may just possibly find that there are many other benefits hidden in the science of amaroli than originally believed." (From: Amaroli, S. S. Saraswati, Bihar School of Yoga, Bihar 1978, ou t of print) Some time ago, my attention was drawn to an article in the reputable English wee kly journal The New Scientist. It was about the research done by two Australian scientists into drinking morning urine by Indian yogi's and its possible positiv e effect on meditation practice. The hypothesis is that this might be due to a h ormone found in morning urine called melatonin. Urine therapy in the West Apart from these effects within meditation context, the use of urine is very pra ctical as far as curing all kind of ailments and diseases is concerned. This pra ctice has been known all over the world and in many cultures. The Greeks and Rom ans were acquainted with the use of urine as a medicine. But also later in histo ry there are many references to urine as being helpful to combat illnesses.A goo d example can be found in a major German encyclopedia (Johann Heinrich Zedler's Grossen Vollstndigen Universallexikon, 1747), in which the author offers the foll owing tips concerning the use of urine as medicine: "Useful substances can be found in human as well as animal urine... Human urine has strengthening and curative characteristics concerning many deficiencies: "For example, a mixture of potato- and sulphur-powder, mixed with heated, old ur ine helps against hair loss. One should rub this mixture into the scalp; this sl ows down loss of hair (calf's gall can be added if necessary). "One can best heal injuries to the eyes with honey dissolved in the lightly boil ed urine from a young man. One should wash the eyes as often as possible with th is fluid. "All kinds of throat inflammation can be helped by gargling with urine to which a bit of saffron has been added.

"Trembling hands and knees can be helped by washing and rubbing one's own warm u rine into the skin directly after one has urinated. "In the beginning stages of dropsy, one should drink one's own morning urine on an empty stomach for a prolonged period of time. This also helps against jaundic e." In this century it was the Englishman John Armstrong who was the urine therapy p ioneer with his work and with his book The Water of Life, famous both in West an d East. Armstrong realized that the powerful medical world entertained other ide as about the usefulness of urine. Even so, he was exceptionally persistent in his conviction and enthusiasm concer ning urine therapy, probably because through urine therapy, he cured himself of tuberculosis which had been declared 'incurable'. Armstrong began urine therapy after a long and agonizing journey in which doctor after doctor proved unable to cure him of his TB symptoms. On the contrary, his condition only worsened. He decided to try urine therapy for two reasons. First of all, a quotation from the Bible stimulated his curiosity: "Drink water from your own cistern, flowing water from your own well." (The Book of Proverbs 5:15) Secondly, he had childhood memories of his mother smearing urine on his face wh ich was swollen from a bee sting, and of his grandfather treating animals with u rine. Recently, a lot of books have been published on urine therapy, especially in Germany, and some of those books have been written by regular doctors. This s hows that there is a development towards a little bit more understanding and acc eptance from people working within the regular medical field. The authors of these books show, just like Armstrong did, how versatile the appl ication possibilities of urine are. It works wonders in many minor problems and diseases such as ear- and eye infections, burns and bruises, allergic conditions (hay fever), fungus infections of the skin, warts, etc.. But it also can help t he immune system to cope with more serious conditions such as chronic colds, flu , stomach problems, bronchitis, etc.. Furthermore it has proven very helpful in the treatment of a number of very serious, immune related diseases, such as chro nic and severe allergies, asthma, cancer, M.E. and AIDS. In these cases it did d efinitely not always lead to long term healing results, but it often alleviated symptoms to considerable extent and sometimes indeed resulted into remarkable im provement of the dis-eased condition. Urine therapy and yoga tradition Let's go back to the Indian history, where even much older texts describing the practice of urine therapy are available. A presumably 5,000-year-old document ha s been found which describes the practice of urine therapy in different respects . In this document, there are many references