Urine Therapy

An early-morning cup of tea is an often heard-of pick-me-up, but some daring souls around the world seem to prefer a more readily available energy-drink in the morning—their own piss. The middle stream of their early-morning urine, often mixed with fruit juice or honey, apparently gives them ample amounts of energy as well as curing them from various maladies, starting from joint pains to hair-fall. Pissing off? Keep reading to find out more about what is probably one of the oldest remedial processes of the world.

Human-urine has been used for a long time for a range of purposes. In ancient Rome, urine was frequently used to whiten teeth. Ancient Indian texts have myriad references to Shivambhu- the waters of Lord Shiva, and this term has been interpreted as urine, which seemed to have been used for massaging one’s skin. The practice of amaroli in Ayurvedic texts also seemed to have been referring to urine therapy. In other parts of the world like China and Japan, and of course, the land of fads—America, the practice is still continuing in various small and not-so-small communities, with a number of public figures openly embracing what comes across as an absolutely abominable health culture.

It is indeed true that human-urine contains some minerals that can be quite beneficial for us. But point is, if those minerals are coming out of our bodies, we must have consumed them in some manner at some point of time, and because our body could either not process it, or did not need it, we excreted them. So how is it logical to drink one’s own urine? It may be that urine as a drink is not harmful for our bodies, despite containing amounts of the toxic component Urea, albeit in a nominal fraction, but just because something is not adversely affecting one’s health does not mean she starts taking it as a possible elixir of life. The thought that urine is panacea renders the whole stream of pharmaceutical sciences pointless.

Urine therapy enthusiasts, a large body that includes celebrities like Madonna, British actress Sarah Miles, as well as public figures such as former Indian Prime Minister Morarji Desai and Cameroon health minister Urbain Olanguena Awono, claim that the amber-coloured magic-liquid offers cure to multiple sclerosis, colitis, lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, hepatitis, eczema, diabetes, herpes, and even cancer! Therapy guides on the internet have supposedly encouraging dos and donts which asks one to do anything from “starting with a drop or two and advancing to one glass a day” or “sniffing urine to cure problems in the nasal tract” to “massaging fresh or old urine on the whole body to complement fasting therapy”. But this branch of  therapy is yet to be completely proven scientifically and is often considered as psuedoscience by hardline allopaths and conventional medical practitioners.

Opinions are clearly divided regarding the credibility of urine therapy as most doctors are sceptical about this remedy while some others are entirely convinced of the almost magical qualities of  piss. There have obviously been some cases where urine therapy has worked in a seemingly miraculous fashion, which has won it a large number of followers worldwide, but it is indeed not a way of life for the faint-hearted.

Promona Sengupta

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