Urine Therapy :: Health Medicine Papers

peeing Therapy At the end of the winter of 1996, something historic occurred. During that February in India, the First World Conference on water supply Therapy took place. Scholars around the world gathered together to discuss the age-old practice of urine therapy. Although urine therapy had been around for thousands of years, it had fallen into obscurity over the last century. Now, urine therapy was officially back in business. So what exactly was this alternative practice that dealt with ones own bodily fluid? And how does it help? What are the claims of effectivity? What does the scientific and medical world have to say about it? How does it work? Does it work? These, were the questions that demanded discussion.What is urine therapy?The basic definition of urine therapy is using (your own) urine internally or externally as a way to aid or sustain your health. Urine therapy, which includes drinking, injecting, massaging with-, and/or bathing in- urine, is an ancient practice th at is used today, non only in times of sickness, but also in times of good health for preventive health maintenance. It has been claimed to have proven helpful in a great number of varying illnesses, ranging from a simple cold and a throat-ache, to tuberculosis and asthma, from minor skin problems such as itching to major skin problems such as eczema, psoriasis and even skin cancer. But you probably ask, How can your own urine benefit your health? Besides, isnt it toxic?Urine as a lifesaverDuring the NBC Nightly News on October 16, 1992, Tom Brokaw reported that, In Egypt, rescue workers found a 37-year old man alive(p) in earthquake rubble. He survived almost 82 hours by drinking his own urine. His wife, daughter and mother would not and they died (http//www.all-natural.com/urine.html ). Weve all heard stories of individuals who have any lived or died by being trapped in places without food or water for days. In those stories, the survivors were always the ones that drank their own urine. The ones that died probably could not overcome the misguided thoughts that urine is an unhealthy macerate product of the body. But its not urine is simply a substance that the body does not need at the time, and a substance that the body secretes. And sometimes, its a lifesaver.Whats in urine?Urine, 95% of which is water, 2.5% of which is urea, and 2.5% of which is a mixture of minerals, salts, hormones, and enzymes, is not a toxic waste product.