Urine therapy: the danger of drinking urine that some celebrities sell

Urine therapy is considered a pseudotherapy encompassed in alternative medicine, which consists of the application of human urine for medicinal or cosmetic purposes. This includes drinking and ingesting one’s own urine and massaging it into the skin or gums. But there is no conclusive scientific evidence to support its therapeutic use.

However, the process became popular as an alternative medicine system mainly thanks to the British naturopath J.Ohn W. Armstrong at the beginning of the 20th century. Armstrong was inspired by his family’s practice of using urine to treat minor insect bites and toothaches, and his own experience of personal ill-health, which he treated with a 45-day fast by eating “nothing but urine and tap water.”

Beginning in 1918, Armstrong prescribed urine therapy devices of his own devising to thousands of patients, and in 1944 published “The water of life: a treatise on the therapy of urine” (“The water of life: A treatise on urine therapy”) which became a founding document of the discipline. The book was widely expanded and in India inspired the writing of “Manav Moutra” social reformer Raojibhai Manibhai Patel, and many subsequent works. These writings often refer to the “Shivambu Kalpa”a treatise on the pharmaceutical value of urine.

The justification offered by those who promote and follow this pseudotherapy, in general terms, express: “While the fetus remains in the maternal womb, it ingests amniotic fluid and its own urine and, thanks to this, does not suffer from diseases. Then, if we do not want to suffer from them, we must drink our own urine. In this line, the singer Virgin He subscribed a few years ago on his social networks, consuming his own urine. Among the recognized figures, the English actress sara miles he chose to drink the liquid.

There are no scientific studies that support the use of urine as a medicinal therapy. Is this considered useless pseudotherapy and even dangerous when drinking the elements that our own body discards because they are toxic or necessary. By drinking urine you can suffer gastrointestinal disturbances due to how aggressive it is for the mucosa and varieties of infections, since the urine contains bacteria that cause kidney problems, and on the skin they produce from skin infections to dermatitis.

by RN