In alternative medicine, the term urine therapy (also urotherapy, urinotherapy or uropathy) refers to various applications of human urine for medicinal or cosmetic purposes, including drinking of one’s own urine and massaging one’s skin with one’s own urine. A practitioner of urine therapy is sometimes called a uropath. In the Indian ayurvedic tradition, urine therapy may be called amaroli. 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. For thousands of years, nearly every culture in recorded history has included urine therapy for all manner of disease or injury. Urine has been prescribed in India for over 5,000 years for health benefits, as written in Damar Tantra, an ancient Sanskrit text on Shivambu practice (urine therapy). In traditional Tibetan medicine, examination of the patient’s urine is one of the main sources of information for a diagnosis. The Chinese have treated themselves with urine both externally and internally for centuries. They treated wounds by sprinkling urine on them (custom widespread in the Far East); taken internally it was believed to stimulate the circulation. Chinese ancient medical texts record specific ways to use urine and even describe how it can be purified into a powdered crystal to satisfy any squeamishness on the part of the patient. The Aztec civilization also used urine to heal wounds.

In The Bible it is written: “Drink water from your own cistern, flowing water from your own well.” (The Book of Proverbs 5:15). In the Ebers Papyrus of 1500 B.C, one of the oldest surviving documents of Egyptian history, bathing all over with urine every morning was described as a medical practice. Various other cultures recommend drinking urine to increase fertility and stimulate sexuality. The Greeks and Romans were also acquainted with the use of urine as a medicine. But also later in history there are many references to urine as being helpful to combat illnesses. A good example can be found in a major German encyclopedia (Johann Heinrich Zedler’s Grossen Vollständigen Universallexikon, 1747), in which the author offers numerous tips concerning the use of urine as medicine. In last century it was the Englishman John Armstrong who was the urine therapy pioneer with his work and with his book The Water of Life, famous both in West and East. 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.

In February 1996 the First World Conference on Urine Therapy took place in India, in May 1999 the second one took place in Germany, in April/May 2003 in Brazil and the most recent will be this year in South Korea. Scientists, practitioners and survivors of so-called “incurable” diseases from 40 countries exchanged their knowledge about healing and preventing health problems. This shows that the curative powers of urine are still appreciated all over the world. The fact that a number of allopathic doctors also visited these conferences shows that this remarkable and sometimes despised therapy, which for a long time was almost forgotten, is coming back to the forefront. Urine therapy can be a very effective healing modality. Sometimes when all else fails, it can turn a person around.

    Urinotherapy is nothing new as it has been working its way into this world for quite a while. This practice is derived from the Indian tradition wherein urine is treated as food, medicine and an immune booster. Urine contains compounds that are very specific to the individual from which it comes. It is antibacterial, antifungal, antiviral, anticancer, anticonvulsive and antispasmodic. It is totally non-toxic. You may squint at this thought but this therapy has helped many people due to the presence of so many different properties. Urine therapy may not be your first choice but can be the last attempt in curing your disease.

Even though urinotherapy has so many benefits, people may tend to shy away due to its unconventional method. Drinking urine is a concept that is hard for most people to swallow, but its claimed healing abilities may make this ancient practice worth a try. After you overcome your initial gag response, you may realize that there might just be something to this and if you are searching for health, this is an area to investigate. There are numerous reports and double blind studies that go back to the turn of the century supporting the efficacy of using urine for health. Urine is considered to be an invaluable source of nourishment and natural healing, produced by our own body, which modern medical science has proven to be one of the most powerful natural medicines known to man.

Don’t take this therapy lightly. More than any other method, it represents the principles of natural medicine. One’s own urine is a specific medicine for anyone who is ill. It is made for him or her personally and is just right for what he or she needs at the present moment, because it changes its composition all the time. It is not only something that cures, but it also sustains health when taken as a preventative. Taken energetically, one could consider urine to be an exact hologram of both healthy as well as diseased body fluids. All information from the body fluids is collected and stared in the urine. One’s own urine is the best medicine for the kidneys that we could imagine. It is clear for any holistic health practitioner that all cycles within the body are interconnected, and this means that the healing of one of those cycles will have a positive effect on the others.

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 auto-immunization. Urine does contain minute particles connected with possible disease processes in the body. These minute particles are mainly antibodies, which upon re-ingesting can help the body to react on specific pathological situations.

Human urine has strengthening and curative characteristics concerning many deficiencies. From canker sores to cancer, there is nothing that its advocates claim it will not cure. It works wonders in many minor problems and diseases such as ear, eye and oral infections, flu, common cold, fever, fatigue, animal bites, baldness, insomnia, toothaches and all kind of skin problems – acne, itching, warts, dry skin, herpes, burns and bruises. Urine is said to deter aging. It also can help the immune system to cope with more serious conditions such as stomach problems, heart disease, hypertension, broken bones, bronchitis, psoriasis, eczema, infertility, piles, gangrene, chicken pox and tuberculosis.

Multiple sclerosis, colitis, lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, hepatitis, hyperactivity, pancreatic insufficiency, psoriasis, eczema, diabetes, mononucleosis, adrenal failure and so many other ailments have been said to be relieved through use of this therapy. Furthermore it has proven very helpful in the treatment of a number of very serious, immune related diseases, such as chronic and severe allergies, asthma, cancer, M.E. and AIDS. In the two last cases it did definitely not always lead to long term healing results, but it often alleviated symptoms to considerable extent and sometimes indeed resulted into remarkable improvement of the diseased condition.

Urine may provide energy, maintain youth, and make skin and hair beautiful. And the claims continue. The list of maladies that urotherapy is used to fight is long and varied. With such wondrous properties, it is amazing that science developed new medicines when a key to good health was already in the bottle, so to speak. Urine is abundant (everyone has their own supply), it’s free, and it can’t be patented. Everyone is a walking pharmacopoeia.

To get some understanding of how urine can be such a powerful healing substance in and of itself, let’s take a closer look at its composition. We know already that it is 95 percent water, 2.5% urea and 2.5% a mixture of minerals, salts, hormones and enzymes. Clinical studies have proven that the thousands of critical body chemicals and nutrients that end up in urine reflect the individual body’s functions. When re-utilized, these chemicals and nutrients act as natural vaccines, antibacterial, antiviral and anticancinogenic agents as well as hormone balancers and allergy relievers. In 1975, one of the founders of Miles Laboratories, Dr. A. H. Free, published his book Urinalysis in Clinical Laboratory Practice, in which he remarked that not only is urine a sterile body compound (purer than distilled water), but that it is now recognized that urine contains literally thousands of compounds.     For example, melatonin, present in significant amounts in urine, especially morning urine, is a natural hormone that has already been proven to help regulate sleep. Muramyl dipeptide, another natural hormone found in urine, mirrors the calming action of seratonin. If wishing to enhance fertility, one could drink urine high in a specific hormonal content.

Another important component of urine is urea, a commonly recognized antibacterial, antifungal and antiviral agent. The presence of urea in the urine results from the body’s chemical balancing of the sodium chloride and water ratio. When used on a wound, urea causes an osmotic imbalance inside bacteria and fungi that ultimately kills them. Due to its effectiveness, urea is used in many topical ointments and creams sold pharmaceutically, both prescription and over-the-counter. Urea is found in a broad range of medicines used to treat inflammation and is a main ingredient in Herpigon, a medicine used to treat herpes infections. Only the substance urea can be poisonous when present in very large amounts in the blood. However, this is irrelevant in the practice of drinking urine, as urine 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 tonifying effect when applied to the skin. We can find urea in many skin products as one of the main components - specifically in many woman cosmetics.

Among other urine constituents mentioned in Dr. Free’s treatise, here’s just a few nutrients used and tested for their potential or actual therapeutic value: Alanine, Arginine, Ascorbic acid, Allantoin, Amino acids, Bicarbonate, Biotin, Calcium,  Creatinine, Cystine, DHEA, Dopamine, Epinephrine, Folic acid, Glucose, Glutamic acid, Glycine, Inositol,  Iodine, Iron, Lysine, Magnesium, Manganese, Methionine, Nitrogen, Ornithane, Pantothenic acid, Phenylalaline, Phosphorus, Potassium, Proteins, Riboflavin,  Tryptophan, Tyrosine, Vitamin B6, Vitamin B12,  Zinc. Is it enough for you to knock your socks off?

Despite what you may have been led to believe about urine, pharmaceutical companies have grossed billions of dollars from the sale of drugs made from urine constituents. Research is happening every day in labs attempting to isolate specific elements of urine so they can create new drugs and patent the substances. For instance, Pergonal is a fertility drug made from human urine. 1992 sales of this drug were reported at $855 million while it costs a patient $1400 a month to consume. Urokinase, a urine ingredient, is used in drug form and sold as a miracle blood clot dissolver for unblocking coronary arteries. Urea, medically proven to be one of the best moisturizers in the world, is packaged in expensive creams and lotions. Take the M out of Murine eye drops and what do you have? It’s made from carbamide - another name for synthetic urea. Premarin is the trade name for a hormone extracted from the urine of pregnant mares. It is an estrogen replacement therapy used in the treatment of menopause symptoms. Fertility drugs contain estrogens from human urine that stimulate ovulation in women and sperm production in men. And examples can continue.

     We owe it to ourselves to permanently change our health for the better with the most proven, simplest natural cure in existence – urinotherapy. This is the most astounding proven natural cure that medical science has ever discovered and yet the incredible research findings on this incomparable natural medicine haven’t been revealed to the public. Perhaps it has been too controversial or not financially rewarding enough for it to be talked about and encouraged as a potent medicine. However, for almost the entire course of the 20th century, doctors and medical researchers have been proving in both laboratory and clinical testing that our own urine is an enormous source of vital nutrients, vitamins, hormones, enzymes and critical antibodies that cannot be duplicated or derived from any other source. Besides the revolting discrepancy between the medical truth and the public information regarding urine, there is also a matter of mentality. The most difficult thing is to overcome the mis-informed thoughts that urine is a waste product of the body as many have been conditioned to think of urine as “dirty”. Quite the opposite is true: it has been scientifically proven that urine is not a toxic product. Except in the case of a urinary tract or kidney infection, urine fresh from the urethra is sterile, devoid of any pathogens. Urine is just a substance the body secretes that contains elements not needed at the time. Far from being harmful, it contains known healing agents. It is 95 percent water, with less than five percent urea, vitamins, minerals, enzymes, hormones, proteins, antibodies and other beneficial pharmacological agents.

Contrary to popular belief, urine is actually a by-product of blood filtration and not waste filtration. Medically, urine is referred to as “plasma ultrafiltrate”, which is a purified derivative of the blood itself, made by the kidneys, whose main function is to keep the composition of the blood in optimal balance. After passing through the liver, where toxins are removed to be excreted as solid waste, the nutrient-filled blood now purified undergoes a more extensive filtering process in the kidneys, where excess components not usable at that time by the body are collected in the form of the sterile, watery solution that is urine. When there is too much water, the kidneys will remove it. But that doesn’t make water into a toxic waste product. Urine can be compared to leftovers from a meal, and this metaphor may help us understand why our bodies excrete elements that are valuable to our health and well-being.

It has been proven that urine is entirely sterile after secretion and has an antiseptic effect. We are talking here about urine from the point of view of somebody who follows a reasonably healthy diet, and who does not use chemical drugs or allopathic medicines. Urine therapy is a method based upon the principle of ‘natural cycles’. Medical researchers have discovered that many of the elements of the blood that are found in urine have enormous medicinal value, and when reintroduced to the body, they boost the body’s immune defenses and stimulate healing in a way that nothing else does.