Urine Therapy

Other Names : urotherapy, urinotherapy, Shivambu, uropathy, auto-urine therapy. In the Indian ayurvedic tradition, urine therapy may be called amaroli. Another name is Shivambu Kalpa, taken from the title of the ancient text Shivambu Kalpa Vidhi. Here, shivambu can be translated as "the waters of Shiva", and refers to the urine.
See also :

• Gomutra
• Panchgavya

Special Precautions of Urine Therapy

• Despite many claims, there has been no research that has found drinking urine to be useful for any illness. Human urine is normally relatively free of bacteria, since the bladder itself is normally a sterile environment, and drinking small amounts of one's own urine is unlikely to be seriously harmful. However, the urethra does contain bacteria, and this is why many physicians ask for a urine sample mid-stream, in order to allow the first few seconds of urination to wash out the bacteria within the urethra.
• Urinating on jellyfish stings is a common folk remedy, but has no beneficial effect and may be counterproductive as it can activate nematocysts remaining at the site of the sting.
• A study on bacterial isolates contained in the urine of Nigerian children and cows found a significant presence of antibiotic-resistant pathogen strains, including E. coli, Shigella, and Salmonella. The study concluded that these pathogens may be introduced into the body through urine consumption, most notably through the traditional urine therapy treatments conducted by some local individuals.
• Urine contains many vitamins, hormones and nutrients that are essential to the proper functioning of human body. However, it also contains metabolic waste by-products and small amounts of toxins such as ammonia and formaldehyde.

Health Benefits and uses of Urine Therapy

Promoters of urine therapy believe urine to have many preventative and curative powers. Some cultures have traditionally used urine as a medicine, especially India's, where it is prescribed by the Shivambu Kalpa Vidhi, which (among other uses and prescriptions) suggests massaging one's skin with aged, concentrated urine. In traditional Tibetan medicine, examination of the patient's urine is one of the main sources of information for a diagnosis.

• The Koryak tribe of Siberia is reported to have used the Amanita muscaria mushroom as an entheogen, and to have drunk the urine of those using the mushroom in order to experience the effects themselves. Tribesmen who could not afford the mushrooms drank the urine of those who could; tribesmen drank their own urine in order to prolong the experience; and tribesmen on trips carried their own urine with them. They sometimes concentrated their urine by partially freezing it and ingesting the unfrozen liquid. R. Gordon Wasson has theorized that the mythological soma of the Vedic religion was also Amanita muscaria.
• The homeopath John Henry Clarke wrote, "…man who, for a skin affection, drank in the morning the urine he had passed the night before. The symptoms were severe, consisting of general-dropsy, scanty urine, and excessive weakness. These symptoms I have arranged under Urinum. Urinotherapy is practically as old as man himself. The Chinese (Therapist, x. 329) treat wounds by sprinkling urine on them, and the custom is widespread in the Far East. Taken internally it is believed to stimulate the circulation".
• Among modern celebrities, the British actress Sarah Miles has drunk her own urine for over thirty years, claiming that it immunises against allergies, amongst other health benefits.
• Modern claims and findings : Urine's main constituents are water and urea. However, it contains small quantities of many hormones and metabolites, including corticosteroids. Urea has been claimed by some doctors to have an anti-cancer effect. In addition, the other chemicals in urine might have some effect if ingested. In 1997, Joseph Eldor, of the Theoretical Medicine Institute in Jerusalem, published a paper suggesting that because cancer cells release antigens which appear in the urine, oral autourotherapy could spur the intestinal lymphatic system to produce antibodies against these antigens.
• The literature on the anticancer and other properties of auto-urine therapy needs a critical review. The use of cow urine (Gomutra), its distillate and Panchgavya is becoming quite widespread. As a consequence, the lay public does not have proper guidance. There is a need to generate reliable data on urine therapy from studies with Ayurvedic Pharmacoepidemiology, Observational Therapeutics, Reverse Pharmacology, Systems Ayurveda and Integrative Oncology. Cancer patients are often desperate to try any unconventional and traditional remedy claimed to be useful. There is a need to caution that sometimes such attempts may deprive the patient of availing of a management protocol that is curative/palliative or they may even run the risk of hazardous side effects.

References

• https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6148057/
• Shivambu Kalpa Vidhi, a part of the Damar Tantra
• Your Own Perfect Medicine, Martha M. Christy, Scottsdale, AZ: Future Medicine, 1994.
• The Golden Fountain: The Complete Guide to Urine Therapy, Coen van der Kroon, Scottsdale, AZ: Wishland Publishing, 1996.
• The Water of Life: A Treatise on Urine Therapy, John W. Armstrong, London: True Health Publishing Co., 1940s.
• Shivambu Kalpa: The Ancient Healing Way of the Self, by the Self, with Medicine of the Self, Arthur Lincoln Pauls, Ortho-Bionomy Pub., 1978.
• Shivambu Was Is and Will Be, Nila Sanghvi, Mumbai.
• " RAKSHANK" a book on extract of Urine Therapy written by Dr Rakshak Mal Lodha:- rakshakmal@gmail.com
• https://www.easyayurveda.com/2018/06/27/uses-animal-urine/