YourOwn Perfect Medicine An Amazing Untold Story There isan extraordinary natural healing substance, produced by our own bodies thatmodern medical science has proven to be one of the most powerful naturalmedicines known to man. Unlike many other natural medical therapies, thismethod requires no monetary investment or doctor's intervention and can beeasily accessed and used at any time. Theextensive medical research findings on this natural medicine have never beencompiled and released to the general public before now, but those who have beenfortunate enough to hear about this medicine and use it have found that it canproduce often astounding healing even when all other therapies have failed. This booktells of the doctors, medical researchers and the hundreds of other people whohave used this extraordinary medicine throughout our century to cure a hugevariety of common illnesses and combat even the most incurable diseases. Thisis the extraordinary untold story of a natural healing substance so remarkablethat it can only be called our own perfect medicine. My ownexperience with this little-known natural medicine began as a result of mysearch for an answer to many years of serious chronic illnesses that had begunvery early in life. Like thousands of people today, I had developed chronic,degenerative disorders that couldn't be helped by conventional medicine andwhich threatened to destroy permanently my ability to work, function and simplyenjoy life. When Iwas young, I suffered through the same measles, mumps, chicken pox and coldsthat everyone else did. And like other children, I played hard, worked hard,and dreamed of the day when I would become a vigorous, emancipated teenager,just like everyone else. But, for me, that particular dream wasn't going tocome true. Onebeautiful July morning at the age of 12, I awoke with a start. Suddenly,surprised and frightened, I realised I was lying in a dark red pool of bloodthat was so large it had soaked through even the thick layers of my mattress.Trembling and weak, I pushed myself up out of bed and felt a horrible,wrenching pain tear through my abdomen. Myworried mother came running in answer to my screams, but, after assessing thesituation, said there really wasn't much she could do about the pain of myfirst menstrual period. But what neither she nor I knew at the time was thatwhat should have been a natural transition to adolescence and menstruating was,for me, going to become a waking nightmare that lasted almost 30 years. At theonset of each one of my monthly menstrual periods I would invariably end upeither in my doctor's office or at the emergency room of the hospital screamingwith pain, bleeding copiously and passing huge clots of blood. Forseveral months after my 'periods from hell' began, my mother chauffeured mearound the city from doctor to doctor with no success until our family doctorfinally instituted a monthly regimen of painkillers such as Demerol or Darvoninjections and then sent me home with a big, round bottle of full-strengthprescription codeine with which I proceeded to dope myself senseless for thenext eight to 10 days. This same cycle was repeated every month for almost 20years. Throughoutadolescence, the simple everyday functions of getting up and going to schoolwere an often monumental and utterly exhausting effort for me. Unlike the restof my family and friends, I had marked periods of extreme exhaustion. I becameextremely susceptible to colds and flu and felt bone-chillingly cold all thetime-even in the warmest summer weather. By theage of 14, the effort of combating severe chronic pain and fatigue while tryingto keep up normal activities became impossible. I collapsed and had to behospitalised and removed from school for several months. But even after a hugebattery of medical tests and innumerable visits with doctors and specialists,no one was able to diagnose what was causing my problems. After many weeks Ireturned to school and struggled through the high-school years with the aid ofgenerous amounts of codeine and other strong painkillers that my doctorwillingly prescribed. But by the time I left home for college, the symptoms ofbleeding, exhaustion, pain and digestive problems became so bad that I oftenwas unable even to leave my room or take part in daily activities. I kept upthe Demerol injections and codeine for many years and added to my regimenseveral other new painkillers and drugs which had been developed for menstrualproblems. But the problems continued unabated, and in the ensuing years Ideveloped myriad other serious health problems. Duringthe years from age 18 to 30 I was diagnosed with pelvic inflammatory disease,ulcerative colitis, Crohn's disease or ileitis (a chronic, painful inflammationof the colon), chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), Hashimoto's disease (a disorderof the thyroid gland) and mononucleosis. I hadsevere chronic kidney infections, two miscarriages, chronic cystitis, severecandida and external yeast infections along with marked adrenal insufficiencyand serious chronic ear and sinus infections for which I was prescribedantibiotics on an ongoing basis for several years. Food and chemical allergiesalso became a big problem, and even though I ate almost nothing because of myextreme food allergies, I actually kept gaining weight, which only added to thediscomfort of all the other health disorders with which I was dealing. Thebottles of drugs I had taken during this time could have filled a smalllandfill, but none of my illnesses or disorders had been resolved and, in fact,they were more debilitating than ever. It seemed as though I had become nothingmore than a walking encyclopaedia of disease, and the worst part about theentire situation was that no matter how many failed drug therapies I tried, anyvisit to the doctor's office only resulted in another discouraging failure. Anotherbig problem was the drug side-effects. I felt like a ping-pong ball, bouncingfrom one drug to another as my doctors kept prescribing more and differentdrugs to counteract the side- effects of the ones I was already taking. By thetime I turned 30, the natural health movement was really picking up speed, and,desperate for any solution, I tried out the Adelle Davis nutrition regimen,megavitamin therapy, acupuncture, chiropractic care and every herbalpreparation and drug-free natural health therapy that I could find. Withintwo years, my chronic cystitis cleared up and the menstrual pain and bleedingmarkedly decreased. The ulcerative colitis also responded and the sinusinfections disappeared. I felt that I was slowly and surely regaining strengthand health and even beginning to experience a portion of the energy and vigourthat 'normal' healthy people enjoy-and all without drugs. When Iconceived my son at 34 and made it through the first trimester without miscarrying,I felt as though I'd conquered the final health frontier. Unfortunately, in myburst of enthusiasm, I underestimated the impact of pregnancy on myunderstandably frail health, and the birth for which I had so carefullyprepared was a near-fatal disaster requiring emergency surgery. As itturned out, even despite all the illness and pain I'd gone through in the yearsbefore the birth, all of it seemed like child's play after I ran head-on intothe serious complications of a difficult childbirth. Formonths after the birth I hounded my gynaecologist, complaining of unremittingand severe abdominal cramps, cystitis and horribly painful menstrual periods.My natural health treatments would give temporary relief but, mystifyingly,didn't seem to have the same beneficial and lasting effects that they'd hadbefore my pregnancy. Iunderwent every conceivable medical test, each of which came back negative, butthe problems just didn't go away. My doctor flinched every time I walked in thedoor and then sent me back out again with increasingly severe assurances thatthe pain was "unwarranted" and probably all in my head. Afteralienating every doctor in town with my complaints, I finally gave up anddecided to 'suffer in silence' until one hot summer day, almost 24 months afterthe birth, I suddenly fell screaming with pain on my living room floor in frontof my terrified two- year-old. I literally had to crawl to the phone to call myhusband. When he carried me, screeching, into my OB's office, the doctor clickedhis tongue disapprovingly. "Now it can't be that bad, dear. We justchecked you out a few months ago," he cajoled. He gave me codeine and sentme home. Forty-eight hours later I was in the operating room having emergencysurgery for multiple-ruptured ovarian tumours. A coupleof days after the procedure, my doctor sauntered into my hospital room with aconciliatory grin on his face. "Gee," he drawled apologetically,"we had no idea anything like this was going to happen. Your ovary lookedhorrible-engorged to the size of a grapefruit. No wonder you were hurting.Sorry you had to go so long without help but, you know, the tests just neverturned up anything. And oh, by the way, the pathologist found a littleendometriosis in your right ovary." Endometriosisis an incurable women's disease in which uterine tissue for some unknown reasondetaches itself from the uterus, moves to other locations in the body andattaches itself to other organs or body tissue. This misplaced uterine tissuespontaneously bleeds in response to hormonal changes, causing internalbleeding, scarring and often excruciating pain that can destroy the woman'sability to live and function normally. This disease is not uncommon amongwomen, but it is incurable, at least by conventional medical standards. My"little" endometriosis turned into the monster that ate Tokyo. Threemonths after my doctor had 'successfully' operated, I was again sitting in theultrasound room at the hospital, watching as several new endometrial tumoursappeared on the monitor screen, accompanied by the usual excruciating pelvicpain, internal bleeding, constipation, haemorrhagic cystitis and acuteexhaustion. After theultrasound I decided to contact a doctor who was recommended to me as an experton endometriosis. He told me that he felt that my health problems hadoriginally stemmed from undiagnosed severe endometriosis and an underactivethyroid which had probably been present since adolescence. He recommended animmediate hysterectomy, which I underwent. The day after the operation, thedoctor visited me and compassionately whispered that I would "never have aproblem with endometriosis again". But he was wrong. Twentymonths later, I had more tumours and another operation. Three months afterthat, the pain, tumours and internal bleeding reappeared and I was scheduledfor what would by now have been my sixth surgical procedure in five years,which I refused to undergo. Desperateand seriously debilitated, I flew to Mexico where I spent $15,000 on anintensive course of intravenous megavitamin and live-cell therapy at one of thealternative cancer clinics which had offered some hope for my case. For weeks,doctors poured nutrients and natural medicines into my veins and mouth. Iwatched as many of the cancer patients around me seemed to get better andbetter with the treatments. And I did, too-for about two months. I spentmy 40th birthday hopelessly sick and in bed, which was where I stayed thatentire year. The drugs, operations and Mexican treatments had completelyfailed, and my usual herbs and homoeopathic remedies, although they gavetemporary relief, seemed almost useless against the disease. And by now, eventhough I had health insurance, my husband and I had spent over $100,000 of ourown money, and still I couldn't even get out of bed. I had onelast surgery which removed another large bleeding tumour. When I got home fromthe hospital I weighed 89 pounds and developed a post-surgical infection whichrequired several courses of antibiotics. After taking the antibiotics, Ideveloped an extremely severe case of candida (yeast infection). My hands andarms became covered with a horribly itchy fungal infection that nothing couldrelieve or cure, and I remained generally exhausted, bedridden and in intensepain. Becauseof the surgeries, I was also experiencing early and severe menopausal symptoms:hot flushes, mood swings, water retention and depression. But becauseendometriosis is exacerbated by oestrogen, my doctor recommended that I refrainfrom taking oestrogen supplements which she said would have relieved the severeand very unpleasant symptoms. Severalmonths after the surgery, the all-too-familiar endometrial symptoms returned.My doctor assured me that all was well, but when I asked for and received mysurgical records from the hospital I found she had written that "allattempts to remove endometriosis will be done, but complete surgical care canrarely be guaranteed; the patient may require further therapy forendometriosis, medically or surgically". For my exhausted and bewilderedhusband and myself, this prognosis seemed like an insurmountable and finaldefeat. I had onemore heart-to-heart talk with a gynaecologist who told me, "Given theseverity of your case, the reality is that you could be facing a lifetime ofcorrective surgery." Given the state of my health at the time, I couldn'tenvision that "lifetime" meant anything more for me than a fewadditional years of mind-numbing pain and misery before my body finally gaveout. Afternearly a lifetime of illness, these last episodes in my late thirties and earlyforties seemed like the final blow, and in all honesty I felt that there was noway out and no hope in sight. No matter how many times I'd been assured by mydoctors that drugs and surgery would cure the endometriosis and my otherdisorders and make it possible for me to live a normal life, the doctors hadbeen proven wrong. A fewweeks later when I heard that one of my friends from the cancer clinic had diedin his sleep, I felt sad for his family but happy for him because he wasfinally free of his pain and suffering. In many ways I felt that he was thelucky one and I almost wished that the same thing would happen to me. It seemedthat death would have been a blessing, especially so that my family could befreed from the seemingly never-ending burden of my illness and be able to geton with their lives. Sittingalone and discouraged one morning, I glanced up dismally from a book I wasreading when my husbandcame into the room. "I've got something else we can try, honey," hechirped enthusiastically, and proceeded to describe his conversation with awoman who had cured herself of a serious and reportedly incurable kidneydisorder by using an unusual therapy. "Whaaat!" I responded after hetold me what the therapy was. "I don't think so," I said, and wentback to reading my book. But afterseveral more days and many more horrible episodes of pain and drugs, my husbandhanded me a small book and said, "You've got to try this." I pickedup the book and began to read. Thesmall, unpretentious-looking book was full of fascinating stories about peoplewho had been cured of even the worst diseases with a seemingly strange andlittle-known natural therapy. The therapy seemed incredibly effective, yet Istill felt reluctant to try it. But as I read further on in the book, thestories were so compelling and the therapy was so simple that suddenly itdidn't seem strange or preposterous to me any more. And at this point in my nownearly futile existence, I knew I had absolutely nothing to lose by tryingit-so I did. From thefirst day I began the therapy, to my immense surprise I got almostinstantaneous relief from my incurable constipation and fluid retention. Withina week, my severe abdominal and pelvic pain was unbelievably gone. Thechronic cystitis and yeast infections (internal and external) soon disappeared,and food allergies, exhaustion and digestive problems all began to heal. Aftera few more months of the therapy I noticed that, amazingly, my colds, flu, sorethroats and viral symptoms, all of which had resurfaced and become chronicafter the surgeries, now rarely made an appearance. My hair, which had fallenout in handfuls after my fifth surgery, became thick and lustrous, my weightnormalised and my energy and strength increased so markedly that I was evenable to work again. Lastsummer I hiked four miles into the Grand Canyon. For the first time in manyyears I can swim and even comfortably ride horseback or on my mountain bike forhours at a time-all formerly unimaginable activities. Much to my own and myfamily's amazement, I am back at work. After 30 years of almost non-stopillness, I have a rich, full life again-and all because of an unbelievablysimple and effective natural medicine that almost none of us even knows exists. Thisnatural therapy became, for me, a priceless gift of health, as it has for manyothers. It gave the fastest, most dramatic results of any natural or manmademedical treatment I have ever tried and was truly the miraculous happy endingto my long story of illness and failed medical treatments. By using thissimple, natural medicine, along with other natural healing approaches such ashomoeopathy, herbs, good nutrition and rest, I have been able to remainconsistently disease-free and I feel better and stronger than I have ever feltin my life since that fateful day in July so many years ago. And eventhough this natural medicine seemed so peculiar to me at first, I laterdiscovered to my surprise that medical researchers have been intensivelystudying and using this medicinal substance for decades. As amatter of fact, unknown to the vast majority of the public, this incrediblysimple and wonderful natural treatment is a well-proven medical therapy thathas been used extensively and successfully throughout the 20th century bydoctors and researchers from many different branches of medicine all over theworld and has been shown to be amazingly effective in treating a huge varietyof illnesses. It's timethat all of us should know about this therapy and about the medical researchfindings on this truly remarkable natural medicine-which is why I have writtenthis book. Up untilthis point, whenever anyone wrote or talked about using this substance forhealing, they've been told that it's just an unproven folk remedy or old wives'tale. But, asyou'll discover in the following pages, this is completely untrue. The truth isthat doctors and medical researchers for years have scientifically proven thetremendous effectiveness of this natural medicine. They just haven't told usabout it-for reasons which we'll discuss later on in the book. Thissimple, natural method may seem less glamorous than commercial drugs andspace-age surgical techniques because it's not glorified by the press or hypedby sophisticated, sugar-coated advertising themes. But when all the manmademedicines in the world can't help, people like myself have been eternallygrateful to find that nature has provided this safe, painless solution to evenseemingly incurable illnesses. What Modern Science Knows About A Miracle Medicine (And Isn'tTelling) So whatis this mystery miracle medicine and why don't any of us know anything aboutit? If the body really does produce such an amazing substance, and doctors andscientists have used it to heal people, where are the news reports, theaccolades, the commercials, the media hype? You want to know the answer? Thenprepare yourself by first opening your mind. Let go of your initial disbeliefand preconceptions and get ready for the best-kept secret in medical history. Thisextraordinary miracle medicine that numerous doctors, researchers and hundredsof people have used for healing is human urine. Surprised?Now before you scream "I don't believe it!" consider this. Whetheryou know it or not, you've already re-used and re-ingested your urine-largeamounts of it for a long period of time-and it's one of the reasons you'realive today. Asmedical researchers have discovered: "Urine is the main component of theamniotic fluid that bathes the human fetus. "Normally the baby 'breathes'this urine-filled amniotic fluid into its lungs. If the urinary tract isblocked, the fetus does not produce the fluid, and, without it, the lungs donot develop." (G. Kolata, "Surgery on Fetuses Reveals They HealWithout Scars", The New York Times, Medical Section, 16 August1988) This is afact that probably none of you without a medical background know, but thereality is that urine is absolutely vital to your body's functioning, and theinternal and external applications of urine have proven medical ramificationsfar beyond anything that we, the general public, can imagine. Whatamazes people most when they first hear about the medical use of urine is thatthey've never heard of it before. To the vast majority of mankind, urine isnothing more than a somewhat repugnant 'waste' that the body has to excrete inorder to function. But asyou'll discover, urine is not a waste product of the body but, rather, anextraordinarily valuable physiological substance that has been shown throughoutthe history of medical science right up until today to have profound medicaluses that most of us know absolutely nothing about. One ofthe first things we need to clear up is the common perception of urine. Urineis not what you think it is. As a matter of fact, you probably have no ideawhat urine is or how your body makes it. In reality, urine is not, as most ofus believe, the excess water from food and liquids that goes through theintestines and is ejected from the body. I know that we generally think of urinein just this way: you eat and drink, the intestines 'wring' out the good stuffin the food, and the urine is the leftover, dirty, waste water that your bodydoesn't want, so it should never, ever be reintroduced into the body in anyform-right? Wrong. No matterhow popular a conception, this commonly shared scenario may be, it just isn'ttrue. Urine is not made in your intestines. Urine is made in and by yourkidneys. So what does this mean, and why should it change the way you feelabout urine? In layman'slanguage, this is how and why urine is made in the body. When you eat, the foodyou ingest is eventually broken down in the stomach and intestines intoextremely small molecules. These molecules are absorbed into tiny tubules inthe intestinal wall and then pass through these tubes into the bloodstream. The bloodcirculates throughout your body, carrying these food molecules and othernutrients along with critical immune-defence and regulating elements such asred and white blood cells, antibodies, plasma, microscopic proteins, hormones,enzymes, etc., which are all manufactured at different locations in the body.The blood continually distributes its load of life-sustaining elementsthroughout the body, nourishing every cell and protecting the body fromdisease. As itflows through the body, this nutrient-filled blood passes through the liverwhere toxins are removed and later excreted from the body in the form of solidwaste. Eventually, this purified, 'cleaned' blood makes its way to the kidneys. When theblood enters the kidneys it is filtered through an immensely complex andintricate system of minute tubules, called nephron, through which the blood isliterally 'squeezed' at high pressure. This filtering process removes excessamounts of water, salts and other elements in the blood that your body does notneed at the time. Theseexcess elements are collected within the kidney in the form of a purified,sterile, watery solution called urine. Many of the constituents of thisfiltered watery solution, or urine, are then re-absorbed by the nephron anddelivered back into the bloodstream. The remainder of the urine passes out ofthe kidneys into the bladder and is then excreted from the body. So, yousay, the body's gotten rid of this stuff for a reason-so why would we want touse it again? And here's the catch. The function of the kidneys is to keep thevarious elements in your blood balanced. The kidneys do not filter outimportant elements in the blood because those elements in themselves are toxic orpoisonous or bad for the body, but simply because the body did not need thatparticular concentration of that element at the time it was excreted. Andmedical researchers have discovered that many of the elements of the blood thatare found in urine have enormous medicinal value, and when they arereintroduced into the body they boost the body's immune defenses and stimulatehealing in a way that nothing else does. Asmedical research has revealed: "One of the most important functions of thekidney is to excrete material and substances for which the body has noimmediate need..." (A. H. Free, and H. M. Free, Urinalysis in Clinicaland Laboratory Practice, CRC Press, Inc., USA, 1975, pp. 13-17) Forinstance, the kidneys filter out water and sodium from the blood into theurine. These are both vital life-sustaining elements without which your bodycannot function. But both elements could be lethal if there were too much wateror sodium in your blood. Now whatabout potassium, calcium and magnesium? These are familiar nutrients that weingest in our food and vitamin pills every day, but they're also in your urine.These nutritional elements are extremely valuable substances to the body,certainly not toxic, and yet the kidney excretes these elements into the urine.Why? Because it's taking out the excess amounts of potassium, calcium, etc.that are not needed by your body at the time they are filtered out. Actually,it is this regulating process of the kidneys and the excretion of urine thatallows us to eat and drink more than our bodies need at any one time. "Theprincipal function of the kidney is not excretion, but regulation... The kidneyobviously conserves what we need, but, even more, permits us the freedom ofexcess. That is, it allows us to take in more than we need of manynecessities-water and salt, for example-and excrete exactly what is notrequired." (Dr Stewart Cameron [Professor of Renal Medicine, Guy'sHospital, London], Kidney Disease: The Facts, Oxford University Press,Oxford, UK, 1986) But thisisn't the end of the story. Scientists have discovered that urine, because itis actually extracted from our blood, contains small amounts of almost all ofthe life-sustaining nutrients, proteins, hormones, antibodies and immunizingagents that our blood contains. "Urinecan be regarded as one of the most complex of all body fluids. It containspractically all of the constituents found in the blood." (A. H. Free andH. M. Free, Urinalysis in Clinical and Laboratory Practice, CRC Press,Inc., USA, 1975, pp. 13-17) Manymedical researchers, unlike most of us, know that far from being a dirtybody-waste, fresh, normal urine is actually sterile and is an extraordinarycombination of some of the most vital and medically important substances knownto man. Now this fact may be unknown to the vast majority of the public today,it is nothing new to modern medicine. To us,the public, urine seems like an undesirable waste product of the body, but tothe medical research community and the drug industry it's been considered to beliquid gold. Don't believe it? Read this: "Utica, Michigan - Realizing itis flushing potential profits down the drain, an enterprising young company hascome up with a way to trap medically powerful proteins from urine. Enzymes ofAmerica has designed a special filter that collects important urine proteins,and these filters have been installed in all of the men's urinals in the 10,000portable outhouses owned by the Porta-John company, a subsidiary of Enzymes ofAmerica. "Urineis known to contain minute amounts of proteins made by the body, includingmedically important ones such as growth hormone and insulin. There is a$500-million-a-year market for these kinds of urine ingredients. "Thissummer, Enzymes of America plans to market its first major urine product calledurokinase, an enzyme that dissolves blood clots and is used to treat victims ofheart attacks. The company has contracts to supply the urine enzyme to Sandoz,Merrell Dow and other major pharmaceutical companies. Ironically, thisenterprise evolved from Porta-John's attempt to get rid of urine proteins-amajor source of odour in portable toilets. "Whenthe president of Porta-John began consulting with scientists about a urinefiltration system, one told him he was sitting on a gold mine. "Theidea of recycling urine is not new, however.'We thought about this,' says 26Whitcome of Amgen, a Los Angeles biotechnology firm, 'but realized we'd needthousands and thousands of liters of urine.' "Porta-Johnand Enzymes of America solved that problem. The 14 million gallons flowingannually into Porta-John's privies contain about four-and-a-half pounds ofurokinase alone. That's enough to unclog 260,000 coronary arteries."("Now Urine Business", Hippocrates magazine, May/June 1988) Buturokinase isn't the only drug derived from urine that, unknown to us, has beena financial boon to the pharmaceutical industry. In Augustof 1993, Forbes magazine printed an article about Fabio Bertarelli who owns theworld's largest fertility drug-producing company, the Ares-Serono Group, basedin Geneva, whose most important product is the drug Pergonal which increasesthe chances of conception. Guess what Pergonal is made from? "Tomake Pergonal, Ares-Serono collects urine samples from 110,000 postmenopausalwomen volunteers in Italy, Spain, Brazil and Argentina. From 26 collectioncenters, the urine is sent to Rome where Ares-Serono technicians then isolatethe ovulation-enhancing hormone." (N. Munk, "The Child is the Fatherof the Man", Forbes Magazine, 16 August 1993) Ares-Seronoearned a reported $855 million in sales in 1992, and people pay up to $1,400per month for this urine extract. Obviously,most of us are operating under a gross misconception when we wrinkle our noseat the thought of using urine in medicine. Urea, theprincipal organic solid in urine, has long been considered to be a 'wasteproduct' of the body. It's even been considered to be dangerous or poisonous,but this, too, is completely untrue. Like anyother substance in the body, too much urea can be harmful, but urea in and ofitself is enormously valuable and indispensable to body functioning. Not onlydoes urea provide invaluable nitrogen to the body, but research has shown thaturea actually aids in the synthesis of protein, or, in other words, it helpsour bodies use protein more efficiently. Urea has also been proven to be anextraordinary antibacterial and antiviral agent and is one of the best naturaldiuretics ever discovered. Urea was discovered and isolated as long ago as 1773and is currently marketed in a variety of different drug forms. These area few more examples of commercial medical applications of urine and urea in usetoday: â¢Ureaphil: diuretic made from urea â¢Urofollitropin: urine-extract fertility drug â¢Ureacin: urea cream for skin problems â¢Amino-Cerv: urea cream used for cervical treatments â¢Premarin: urine-extract oestrogen supplement â¢Panafil: urea/papain ointment for skin ulcers, burns and infected wounds  Anotherurine-related product ingredient is carbamide. Carbamide is the chemical namefor synthesised urea. Where do you find carbamide? In places you'd neverthought of, such as in products like Murine Ear Drops and Murine Ear WaxRemoval System which contain carbamide peroxide, a combination of syntheticurea and hydrogen peroxide. Medicalresearchers have also proven that urea is one of the best and only medicallyproven, effective skin moisturisers in the world. In many years of laboratorystudies, researchers discovered that, unlike just about all other types ofoil-based moisturisers that simply sit on the top layers of the skin and donothing to improve water retention within skin cells (which gives skin itselasticity and wrinkle-free appearance), urea actually increases thewater-binding capacity of the skin by opening skin layers for hydrogen bonding,which then attracts moisture to dry skin cells. This is aremarkable fact considering that women spend billions of dollars a year onoutrageously expensive skin moisturisers whose ingredients, even in tightlycontrolled double-blind comparison tests, don't even come close to hydratingdry skin as well as simple, inexpensive urea. So, assurprising as it seems, urine and urea do have an amazing, voluminous historyin both traditional and modern medicine. Anarticle, titled "Autouro- therapy", published in the New York State Journalof Medicine (vol. 80, no. 7, June 1980), written by Dr John R. Herman,Clinical Professor of Urology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in NewYork City, points out the general misconceptions regarding urine and itsmedical use: "Autouropathy (urine therapy) did flourish in many parts ofthe world and it continues to flourish today... There is, unknown to most of us,a wide usage of uropathy and a great volume of knowledge available showing themultitudinous advantages of this modality... "Urineis only a derivative of the blood... If the blood should not be considered'unclean', then the urine also should not be so considered. Normally excreted,urine is a fluid of tremendous variations of composition... "...Actually,the listed constituents of human urine can be carefully checked and no itemsnot found in human diet are found in it. Percentages differ, of course, but urinaryconstituents are valuable to human metabolism..." Look upurea in a medical dictionary. In Mosby's Medical and Nursing Dictionary, ureais defined not as a useless body waste but as a systemic diuretic and topicalskin treatment. It's also prescribed to reduce excess fluid pressure on thebrain and eyes. Uricacid, another ingredient of urine, is normally thought of as an undesirablewaste product of the body that causes gout. But even uric acid has recentlybeen found to have tremendous health-promotion and medical implications. Medicalresearchers at the University of California at Berkeley reported in 1982 thatthey have discovered that: "Uric acid could be a defense against cancerand ageing. "Italso destroys body-damaging chemicals, called free radicals that are present infood, water and air and are considered to be a cause of cancer and breakdownsin immune function. "Uricacid could be one of the things that enables human beings to live so muchlonger than other mammals." (O. Davies, "Youthful Uric Acid", Omnimagazine, October 1982) Urine isa critically important body fluid that has fascinated medical sciencethroughout the centuries. Medical scientists study urine with tremendous intentbecause, unlike the public, they know that it contains innumerable vital bodynutrients and thousands of natural elements that control and regulate everyfunction of the body. So, whether we know it or not, urine does have anextremely important and undisputed place in medicine-and not just as a diagnostictool or as an ingredient of various synthetic drugs. Yourfirst reaction once you've read the convincing research demonstrating urine'soften startling medical uses may be a willingness to use it as long as it'saltered enough to make it unrecognizable. Many people might consider asynthetic or chemically altered form of urine-such as urokinase, the blood clotdissolver-as preferable to using it as a natural medicine. But, there are many reasons for using urine in its natural formrather than as a synthetic drug or extract, not the least of which is the factthat there is no synthetic equivalent for individual urine, and never will be,owing to the tremendous complexity and uniqueness of each person's urineconstituents. Just asnature produces no two people who are exactly the same, there are also no twourine samples in the world that contain exactly the same components. Your ownurine contains elements that are specific to your body alone and aremedicinally valuable ingredients tailor-made to your own health disorders. Howcan that be? It is because your urine contains hundreds of elements that aremanufactured by your body to deal with your personal, specific healthconditions. Your body is constantly producing a huge variety of antibodies,hormones, enzymes and other natural chemicals to regulate and control yourbody's functions and combat diseases that you may or may not know you have. Modernresearch and clinical studies have proven that the thousands of critical bodychemicals and nutrients that end up in your individual urine reflect yourindividual body functions, and, when re-utilised, act as natural vaccines,antibacterial, antiviral, anti-cancer agents, hormone balancers, allergyrelievers, etc. (Talk about the perfect preventive care treatment!) Manydoctors have discovered and shown that it's extremely important to use our ownnatural urine in healing because extracts or synthetic drug forms of urinedon't contain all of these individualised elements that address our personal,individual health needs. Anotherreason that many doctors have emphasized the use of the natural form of urineis that it does not produce side-effects whereas synthetic drugs and therapiesall produce side-effects, many of which are extremely dangerous. As anexample, the urine-extract drug called urokinase, which is used to dissolvedangerous blood clots, can cause serious abnormal bleeding as a side-effect;but natural urine itself, which contains measurable amounts of urokinase, hasbeen used medicinally even in extremely large quantities without causingside-effects. If you'renot familiar with just how pervasive and extreme the risk of chemicaldrug-taking is, go to the library and look up a copy of The Physician's DeskReference for Non-prescription Drugs (Medical Economics Data Productions Co.,Inc., 1993, 14th ed.). This is the doctor's guide to every prescription andover-the-counter drug on the market, and every one of them is accompanied by along list of ominous and frightening potential side-effects. On theother hand, in almost 100 years of laboratory and clinical studies on the useof natural urine and simple urea in medicine, extraordinary results have beenobtained, but no toxic or dangerous side-effects to the user have ever beenobserved or reported by either researchers or patients using the therapy. As we'velearned, urea, which is the principal solid ingredient of urine, has beensynthesized and medically used with excellent results and with no side-effects.But again, research has shown that whole urine can cure many disorders thaturea cannot, because urine contains thousands of therapeutic agents such asimportant natural antibodies, enzymes and regulating hormones that urea alonedoes not contain. Urinetherapy not only has dozens of successful research trials supporting it, butalso thousands of success stories from people all over the world. As manypeople today have discovered, conventional medicine held no answers for eithertheir chronic or acute illnesses and health disorders-but urine therapy did. Urine Therapy Book Review Drinking one's own urine is an age-old practice, especially insickness, but is also used by many during good health for preventive healthmaintenance. Reviewing 6 books on the subject, Natural Urine Therapist, AhmenHeaven (www.fruitnut.net) writes: The first book that arrived was Martha Christy's "Your OwnPerfect Medicine" - - a large book, but easy-to-read, containing fullyconvincing reviews of many scientifically-proven and medically-documentedstudies showing how drinking one's own urine can be highly therapeutic, even inthe most difficult cases. The title summarizes it all, as one's own urine iseach individual's own best personal medicine, because each person's own urinecontains a variety of anti-bodies to specific ills, which are unique to eachindividual. Christy's book is somewhat repetitive, though full of information,and she gets the point across. She writes that medical researchers havediscovered many elements (from the blood) that are in urine, have enormousmedicinal value, and "when they are re-introduced into the body, theyboost the body's immune defenses and stimulate healing in a way that nothingelse does." "Ifyou believe in me, you will never thirst... Rivers of living water shall flowfrom your bellies.." - Jesus (in John 7:38) This strange behaviour, called "urine therapy," or"auto-immune therapy," or "intrinsic medicine," or simply"UT," and also known in India as "amaroli" (the practiceitself) and "Shivambu" (urine, the "water of Shiva"), has awell-documented, proven record of its power to heal an amazing variety of ills,with no negative or harmful effects. Coen van der Kroon's book "The GoldenFountain" lists around 175 different ailments or diseases of the humanbody, that have been cured by urine therapy, which includes drinking, massagingwith-, and bathing in- urine. (Also used for nose drops, ear drops, eye drops,foot baths, eye cups, douche, enemas, etc). Urine therapy has historical roots in ancient Egypt, ancientChina, ancient India, Europe in the middle-ages, and even in this century,there have been hundreds of medical studies (including doctors who injected itdirectly into the blood, apparently because the taste was considered tooobjectionable). In Dr. CP Mittal's book Miracles of Urine Therapy, the authormentions certain doctors in India who believe in urine therapy, but know thattheir patients won't drink it. So when the patient comes in for a visit, thedoctor asks for a urine sample. The doctor takes it into the back room, whereit is repackaged as medicine, with taste and smell disguised. Dr. Mittal writesthat we should forgive these deceptive doctors, because it's the only way theycan get the patients to drink their urine. It is a divine nectar, withsupernatural qualities. Urine Therapy, also known as urine-therapy, urotherapy, autourinetherapy, autourotherapy, amaroli, UT, AUT, uropathy, Manav Mootra, Shivambu,"Water of Life" After all, as the Bible says, "the life (or life-force) ofthe flesh is in the blood," and as urine comes from the blood, it containsthat "life-force." Imbibed fresh and warm, it is a living food, and anourishing drink, that is also cleansing, as well as medicinal. The main theory is that it helps build immunity to disease, muchlike a vaccination. Martha Christy goes into all of this, and partly focuses onits use as a cosmetic, among other things. She recommends starting off withjust a few drops, applied topically to the skin. Urine is helpful for acne,eczema, psoriasis, ringworm, sores, fungal infections, insect bites, snakebites, wounds, burns, abrasions, and even gangrene. Urine is also is a richsource of hormones, especially DHEA and melatonin, and other sex hormonesincluding testosterone, androgen, and estrogen. It is also a rich source ofenzymes, vitamins and minerals, and the amino acid creatine (used bybody-builders, in the form of an extract from beef). Urine is also a source ofallantoin (also found in comfrey and aloe vera, known as 'bone-knit,' incomfrey, and useful in aloe for preventing sunburn). Although I have notseen any information on HGH in urine, I suspect urine may also be a source ofHGH (human growth hormone). Urine contains vitamin B-12, vitamin C, vitamin B-6, and othervitamins, and many minerals. There are approximately 200 known biochemicalelements in urine, but researchers believe this is just the tip of the iceberg.Dr. Beatrice Bartnett writes that it is now known that urine contains thousandsof bio-chemical compounds, but that only 200 or so have been studied ascompounds of interest to medical scientists. Urine contains elements found inthe diet, mixed with elements of the blood, and filtered by the liver andkidneys, before flowing out of the body. Most of the toxins in the food we eat(if any) is filtered out of the blood, through the liver and kidneys, while anytoxic matter that makes its way into the urine would be highly diluted. The endproduct, urine, is actually less toxic and more alive than much of the food anddrink that goes into the body. The body is even able to digest junk foods anddevitalized liquids, and produce from it a valuable, medicinal drink. Urine ismedicinal, cleansing, and nourishing. Think how much more valuable andmedicinal is the urine from healthy, clean blood, which is fed by pure,natural, organic, raw foods. Drinking your own urine makes you think seriouslyabout what you eat. Rather than being "toxic," urine (which is about 95%water) may actually contain some of the purest water that we can drink. It is aby-product of our blood, filtered by the liver and kidneys, and the cleaner theblood is, the healthier the urine will be. Even urine from relatively unhealthyblood contains valuable immunological factors that can improve health ifrecycled. If you continue to recycle your urine, the color and tastecontinually gets more clear and pure, the more it is recycled. Thus, empiricalobservation proves that urine-drinking has a cleansing effect on the blood.Supposedly, even in the worst cases (where the urine is dark and cloudy, andsmells bad), it can become totally clear in only a matter of only a few days atthe most. Thus, drinking one's own urine is a very powerful blood cleanser andpurifier. Urine is pure, fresh, organic, live, filtered"structured" water, at body temperature, containing large quantitiesof pure, predigested nutrients. It is fresh, raw, and alive, and the cost istotally free (to say the least). No wonder the general medical professiondoesn't know more about it - - there's no money in it for doctors or forpharmaceutical companies (although there are many pharmaceutical preparations,moisturizing lotions, etc, which derive from urine). Urine is anti-bacterial, anti-fungal, and anti-viral. It is usedin cases of AIDS, cancer, fatigue, anemia, all sorts of urinary diseases, forweight-loss, colds and flu, candida, diabetes, digestive problems, jaundice,etc. It is medically-proven against polio, rabies, and tuberculosis. The listof diseases for which it is effective is very long, and around 175 knowndiseases are said to respond to this kind of therapy. Urine therapy is truly a"panacea" (i.e., a "cure-all" or "universalremedy"). The folklore is to take the middle stream only, and morning urineis best, although John Armstrong often recommended drinking it all, every drop,until well. The past few years have seen "World Symposiums" onurine-therapy, attended by hundreds of doctors from around the world who drinktheir own urine. Martha Christy offers sensible advice, and many case studies.She suggests not flushing the kidneys by taking copious amounts of water, whichdilutes the healing properties of the urine. Before reading her book, I thoughtI might start drinking a little of my own. Now, as strange as it seems, I honestly feel there may be nothingbetter to drink. After you read the highly-documented proof in these books, youprobably won't want to waste another drop of this precious fluid (which is nota waste product, but a by-product of your own blood). In fact, the body haspredigested the food, mixed it with elements in your own blood, filtered outthe poisons, and is producing a product that is very nutritious and provenbeneficial for health, even (and especially) in cases of sickness. This isfiltered blood, that is richer and more alive coming out, than the food goingin!! Our bodies provide us with an amazing biochemical pharmacy, if we wouldonly recognize this fact. Urine contains a vast array of anti-bodies, hormones, and enzymes,and is anti-viral, anti-bacterial, anti-septic, and anti-fungal. If you can accept the fact that urine is actually one of thepurest, and most nutritious, and easily digested and easily absorbed foods,then you can be sure to never go hungry again, and you will always be fed withthe purest foods, whose source you can trust. As Jesus said: "If youbelieve in me, you will never thirst.... Rivers of living water will flow fromyour bellies." (How can you absolutely trust there's not a poison in yourdrink? Many times, people have been poisoned to death, both intentionally andunintentionally). A few years ago, there was a recall on celery sold in thesupermarket, because it had traces of an insecticide called 'parathion' on it.Just a few drops of 'parathion' can be lethal to a human being!! If you drinkyour own urine, you can be assured that it's pure, fresh, and organic, and iscompatible with your own system. Drinking your own urine also makes you question what you put intoyour body. The taste of your urine will change depending on what you consume.My own urine usually tastes slightly bitter, or slightly salty, or slightlysweet, sometimes a mixture of these three tastes. Sometimes it tastes veryclear and pure, with almost no flavour. sometimes it is very sweet, if Iâvebeen eating sweets. It usually also gets very clear whenever I recycle my urinea few times in a row. The elements in the food and drink we ingest, pass intothe blood stream, and are filtered by the liver and kidneys. Urine is onesubstance in nature that has been examined and analyzed more than most allother substances. But urine is much more than what most people think it is.While most people in the modern world consider urine to be a filthy wasteproduct, it is actually more valuable than we care to recognize. Urine is asuper-food and a solvent, charged with the life-force (even the heat) from theblood, and is medicinal, cleansing, and nourishing. Martha Christy refers to John Armstrong (author of "The Waterof Life") who did pioneering research in the 1920's, 30's, and 40's.Armstrong himself fasted on his own urine (and water) for 45 days, in order toheal himself of tuberculosis. He claims it completely saved his life from"incurable" tuberculosis, and also he found it rejuvenated himphysically, and even his skin became soft as a young girl's. Surprisingly, he broke his own 45-day urine fast by eating rawbeef!! [the author of this review does not believe you should try this]He also drank raw milk, and railed against consumption of pasteurized milk,writing humorously that many people think "pasteurized" means"fresh from the pasture." However, for most of his patients, whofasted on urine, he recommended transitioning back to normal eating, bystarting simply with just orange juice and then oranges, and slowly transitioningback to a healthful diet. Armstrong supervised more than 1,000 people inurine-fasts -- although I saw in print somewhere the number 40,000 patients --during the 1920s, 30s, and 40s. Armstrong wrote, and other urine therapists attest, that diagnosisplays no practical part in treatment, since most every known disease can becured by this means. Armstrong's book was originally published in 1944, writtenin a dialect specific for Great Britain in the 40's, sounding a little haughtyand difficult to read. But if one tries to understand what he's saying,translating it into modern English, Armstrong's work is an amazing proof ofurine therapy. In his book, he reviews many of his more interesting cases,including one patient who fasted for 101 days on his own urine. Another man whocouldn't lose weight, fasted for 49 days on his own urine, going from 420pounds, down to 105 pounds (in just 7 weeks). Armstrong talks about his own(and his predecessors') use of urine therapy in healing diseases like obesity, commoncold and flu, heart disease, growths and cancers, prostate trouble, arthritis,glaucoma, rheumatism, cataract, venereal disease, leukemia, malaria,diphtheria, chickenpox, scarlet fever, rheumatic fever, bronchial asthma,orchitis, Bright's disease, jaundice, scurvy, dropsy, burns, rash, warts,bed-wetting, menstruation trouble, kidney disease, urinary complaints, mucuscolitis, pyorrhea, gangrene, etc.... Armstrong also recommends its use as a mouthwash, aftershavelotion, anti-septic, etc. He writes: "...within man himself is to be foundthe substance to cure his diseases." He writes that his book substantiateshis contentions by the case histories he cites, on the principle that "oneounce of facts is worth many pounds of theories." One other notable fact about Armstrong is that he understood theneed to massage with urine. He insists that cures were faster and moreeffective in those who bathed, massaged, rubbed, and soaked themselves withurine. He got this idea, he says, on his first fast on urine and water, whenthis Biblical verse came into his mind: "when thou fastest, anoint thyhead and wash thy face." (Matthew 6:17). He also points out the otherBiblical verse (in Proverbs 5) that originally led him to drinking his urine:"Drink water from thy own cistern." Surprisingly, he appears to havemissed the most important verse, from John 7:38: "Rivers of living watershall flow from your bellies." Armstrong highly recommended massaging urine onto the skin,especially to the face, neck, and feet. Urine is absorbed through the skin, andis an excellent cosmetic for healthy as well as blemished skin. It moisturizesskin at the same time it heals burns, and can even prevent and/or heal scartissue. Massaging and soaking the skin with urine is also a way for thehormonal contents of the urine to be slowly re-absorbed into the system, whileby-passing digestive juices that may neutralize their potency. As for use on skin, almost all the researchers and writers saythat old urine is preferable, some as much as 4 to 8 days old. The ancientIndian text Shivambu Kalpa Vidhi suggests using old, boiled-down urine for skinmassage, with 75% of the water boiled off. But research has shown that freshurine, as well as urine which is boiled down to 25% consistency, and alsounboiled urine which is at least 4 days old, are all excellent for use on theskin. The smell of ammonia in the old urine is not toxic, and is actuallybeneficial. Do not drink old urine. Use old urine only on skin. These researchers and writers on urine therapy also recommendurine massages, urine packs, urine eye-drops, ear-drops, foot baths, and evenurine enemas! Urine nose-drops (or sniffing a thimbleful of urine, or just afew nose drops of urine, with an eye-dropper down the nostrils), can helploosen mucus and clear up blocked nasal passages. Martha Christy also pointsout, an accepted practice in France in an earlier century was for wealthy womento soak themselves in urine baths. The next book I read was Coen van der Kroon's "The GoldenFountain: The Complete Guide to Urine Therapy," a high-quality book, withmany more case studies, numerous references, extensive bibliography, andcomplete text of the 107 verses of the ancient Sanskrit text Shivambu KalpaVidhi. I loved the picture of the Indian Holy Man drinking his own urine out ofa human skull - although I prefer a ceramic cup, or a coconut shell. In the next paragraph are some of the verses from the ShivambuKalpa Vidhi ("the method of drinking urine for rejuvenation"), partof a 5,000-year-old document called the Damar Tantra, which offers advice on"amaroli," and a prognosis for its followers. Urine therapy (thetherapeutic drinking of Shivambu) has been used in ayurvedic medicine forthousands of years. "Shivambu" means the water of Shiva (the highestgod in the Hindu pantheon), and Shiva means auspiciousness. "ShivambuKalpa Vidhi" also translates as "Water of Auspiciousness." I'vealso seen it referred to as the "Water of Life," the "DivineNectar," the "Golden Elixir," etc., although I call it the"Fountain of Youth." The Kingdom of Heaven is within us, taughtJesus. It is just divine that after all our searching for the "Fountain ofYouth," we have finally discovered that it is within us. From the Shivambu Kalpa Vidhi (verses 9 through 21):"Shivambu is a divine nectar! It is capable of abolishing old age andvarious types of diseases and ailments... All the ailments subject to from thevery birth will be completely cured... One's body will be internallycleansed... Drinking it for two months stimulates and energizes the senses...Followed for three months, all types of ailments will disappear and allmiseries will evaporate... After five months, the follower will be completelyhealthy, and will be bestowed with divine eyesight... After six months, thefollower will be exceptionally intelligent... After seven months, the followerwill be exceptionally strong... After eight months, the human body will possessdivine lustre, like that of shining gold that will be permanent... After ninemonths of continual use, tuberculosis and leprosy will perish... After tenmonths of continual use, the follower becomes practically the treasury oflustre and brightness... After eleven months, the follower becomes pure, bothexternally and internally... After one year of continual use, the followeracquires solar shining... ... Seven years of use makes the follower capable of conqueringhis ego... Nine years of this method will make the follower immortal.... Afterten years of experimentation, it will be possible to float in the air withease... Twelve years will enable one to be as long lived as the moon and theplanets... Dangerous animals such as serpents will not affect one in any way;serpents' poison will not kill the follower. One can float on water just aswood floats, and he will never drown.... Continuing with verses 22 through 44: "If taken for sixmonths continuously, the powder of Amrita dissolved in Shivambu will make a manfree from human ailments and he will become perfectly happy... the powder ofHaritaki mixed with Shivambu should be taken regularly for one year. It puts astop to old age and disease, and if used for one year, makes a manexceptionally strong and healthy.... The stomach powder, Kostha Churna, shouldbe taken with Shivambu continually for a period of twelve years. The tokens ofold age such as wrinkles on the skin, gray hair, etc., vanish. Man will havethe strength of ten thousand elephants... ...Man becomes strong and divinelylustrous. He can enjoy longevity and can compete with death... He becomes freefrom human ailments. He assumes a divinely lustrous physique, like that ofShiva; he can recreate the universe and can lead a divinely pleasant life...possesses divinely pleasant lustre full of bliss... Mixture of lotus roots,mustard seeds and honey...taken with Shivambu...makes the human bodyexceptionally light and energetic... Other herbal preparations taken with Shivambu are "capable ofrelieving old age and all kinds of diseases... makes a man lustrous and he acquiresa body with divine attributes... All pains and miseries vanish... all humanailments perish and the body becomes well-nourished and strong... and ... canconquer death... relieved of any type of ailment.... brain power becomesbrilliant.... voice becomes melodious... relieves any disease ... bestowed withdivine eyesight... makes a man free of ailments and his hair becomes blackagain... can enjoy the fruits of meditation and will experience spiritualgrowth... Continuing from Verse 48: "Shivambu should be applied to thewhole body. It is exceptionally nourishing, and can relieve all ailments... Thefollower can acquire divine power... The follower's body will be cleansed, hismind will be ever cheerful and he can attain divine lustre... will have insightin the Scriptures... will become very strong and brave... the follower willbecome, as it were, a god on earth.... He will become a good orator and all theuniverse will be visible to his eyesight... he will become the master andauthority of meditation. He will enjoy the utmost pleasure in life... the bodybecomes healthy and strong... will then be able to control ejaculation and willbe unconquerable in sexual intercourse... becomes a symbol of learning andenjoys excellent eyesight... will be free of old age and will have excellentforesight... will possess excellent and long eyesight within a distance ofmiles... will be able to hear from a long distance... He can read the minds ofothers... even the most beautiful Princess will be attracted to him... mentaldisorders will disappear... the follower of this therapy will become as youngas a lad of sixteen years... ...the signs of old age disappear promptly...helps to conquer old age... gives divine countenance... old age will be undercontrol... follower will acquire a radiant personality... he will definitelyenjoy longevity... his heart will be strong. His body and muscles will bestrong. He will float in pleasure... will be full of strength and bravery...body will be shining with lustre... will be well versed in arts and sciences...have an impressive voice... One hundred and twenty four ailments (arising fromKapha, Pitta, and Vata) will vanish with this treatment... eyesight will besharp... even fire will not harm him. He will not be burnt by fire... cleansesthe body, keeps it free of disease, and allows the follower to move quickly...the follower will quickly master the practice of yoga... deficiency of mineralsin the body is corrected... eyesight brightens, oratory powers and knowledge areacquired... Verses 104 through 107 conclude: "Oh Goddess, during theprocess of the intake of Shivambu, the following things should be strictlyavoided: vegetables in the form of leaves, flowers, or legumes; grains thatcause flatulency; and starchy, pungent, sour, and salty foods. Sexualintercourse should also be avoided. This will help to accomplish the fruits ofthis method. Behaving against these rules will put man in unexpecteddifficulties. ... Oh my beloved Parvati! I have narrated the details of ShivambuKalpa. This is its technique. Attempts should be made to keep it a secret. Donot tell anyone." Always use fresh urine (fresh and warm) if drinking, althoughurine that has aged for several days (Coen van der Kroon suggests 4 to 8 days)is better for the skin. Dr. Beatrice Bartnett (author of "Urine Therapy -It May Save Your Life") suggests that we make a prayer thanking our bodiesfor providing us with this divine elixir, and to drink it slowly, willingly,and with cheerfulness. Martha Christy recommends plenty of rest, and urineseems to be a great normalizer. It is supposedly high in melatonin, which mayhelp give it its calming effect (while also strengthening the physical body andimmune system). Besides known for its laxative and diuretic effect, it alsohelps clear up congestion (gargle with it for a sore throat, or sniff it forrelief from sinus and respiratory congestion). Drinking my urine seems to makeme feel stronger, and also more relaxed (perhaps because of its melatonincontent), and I feel more self-confident, and happier. Drinking my own urine definitely seems to have an invigoratingeffect, and it certainly must be considered a medicinal tonic. The taste of my urine varies. Sometimes it is clear and pure, likewarm rainwater, with no taste, or only a slight taste that is notobjectionable. Sometimes it has a distinct, smooth, rich flavour, although youmay have to "develop a taste for it." After all, your first sip ofwine, or swig of beer, probably didn't taste too good either, until you"developed a taste for it." I eat a relatively simple, naturalvegetarian diet, so my urine is usually not objectionable in flavour. However,whenever it tastes objectionable (which is rare), I don't drink it. This may bean important, although overlooked, aspect to the practice of amaroli, since theShivambu Kalpa Vidhi warns the follower to avoid certain foods (and otheractivities) if dr
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