Urine Therapy
By GreenMoo
@GreenMoo (11834)
January 10, 2013 11:33am CST
We have a steady stream of volunteers live with us, and each comes with a new set of ideas to share. One of the guys who is here at the moment seems to have more unusual ideas than normal, and one of the things he's really into is urine therapy.
I've not researched any of the things he's told me, but he's said that your own fresh urine can help to heal wounds, that it contains a life force so you should drink it, that if you pee on your land you will imprint the soil with your DNA and your veggies that grow there will be especially beneficial for you because they will be rich in the specific minerals you are deficient in ... and lots more.
Yesterday he had one of our other guests who had just cut his hand pee on it before he dressed the wound.
I can't say I'm convinced by many of his claims, although I have another friend who successfully uses his own fresh urine to treat a persistent skin infection. As urine is sterile when it exits the body, I don't actually see any harm in that practice. I'd draw the line at drinking it though!
Have you heard of urine therapy before? Would you consider peeing on a wound or drinking your pee?
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@wolfie34 (26771)
• United Kingdom
10 Jan 13
Oh yes, I have heard of urine therapy, I have even heard of people brushing their teeth with fresh urine because it has healing qualities for the gums, although I have never tried it. And apparently if you use urine on your scalp it's supposed to help again I haven't put this theory to test. Surely all the waste products go out in your pee, including toxins, surely if you drank your pee you would be imbibing the toxins back into your body again?
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@BarBaraPrz (45508)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
10 Jan 13
That's what I think, too. Your body's already rejected that stuff, why would you want to reintroduce it?
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@dragon54u (31636)
• United States
10 Jan 13
The only use I've ever had for urine is when I lived in the desert and was trying to grow vegetables. Jackrabbits would regularly raid my sad little garden and I had my boys urinate around the borders. That kept the little buggers out! And the boys thought it was neat to be allowed to do it as they had habitually done so in the wash out back when they were too lazy to come inside to the bathroom. 
I'd say that urinating on a fresh wound would be a decent way to wash it out if there was no other source of liquid available but like you, I'd draw the line at drinking it.
I'd say that urinating on a fresh wound would be a decent way to wash it out if there was no other source of liquid available but like you, I'd draw the line at drinking it.2 people like this
@peavey (16936)
• United States
10 Jan 13
I've heard of it but never tried it and probably won't. I'm just squeamish that way... however I did try diluting it with water and using it as a fertilizer on the garden. I couldn't tell much difference but I only did it twice, I think. Urine has potassium, magnesium and other minerals in it so I would think it would be of some value. It can also have medicines and other chemicals and minerals that are not so good (like lead and mercury) depending on the person.
@GreenMoo (11834)
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11 Jan 13
It's hugely useful in the garden once diluted, but tend to feel that if our bodies needed it they would have kept it in the first place therefore drinking it would be rather counterproductive.
I feel I should research more before slating the idea, but really it's not something which appeals.
@BarBaraPrz (45508)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
10 Jan 13
I've heard of this before, but don't agree with it.
A friend of mine told me that he used to pee in his garden, late at night and noticed that no weeds grew in the spot he chose. So he tried another spot, and the weeds eventually stopped growing there, too.
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@BarBaraPrz (45508)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
10 Jan 13
Yeah, I've heard of that, too.
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@Janey1966 (24170)
• Carlisle, England
10 Jan 13
Joan Collins once said on a talk show that she washed her face in her own urine. This was years ago. Everyone in the audience went 'Urgh!' but look at her now. Makes yer wonder!
@Janey1966 (24170)
• Carlisle, England
11 Jan 13
'Our Joanie' might not use her own wee now but she definitely did then. She always covers up, you notice and never shows her face to the sun. Out comes the hat in that instance.
@Shavkat (137212)
• Philippines
11 Jan 13
While reading this, I remember one of my teacher in College used to drink her pee. I feel disgusted, but she claimed there are minerals in the urine. Though it is still a waste of our body, whatever the nutrients excreted from the urinary tract system it is excreted for a reason. Thus it cannot absorb by the body. What if the urine has some bacteria, we can never say that the urine is clear enough to be used for the open wounds.
@earnnings (1325)
• India
11 Jan 13
thats true ... we have history of many great leader who drank their own pee for disease...excellently cured
@MsTickle (25180)
• Australia
16 Jan 13
I've heard of it as I believe most people have and I thought it was a quack sort of thing but apparently it is an accepted alternate therapy.
Whether it's acceptance by some is what is what gives it credence, I'm not sure. I'm inclined to think that anyone who uses this therapy are a bit alternate themselves.
@enchantedleppard (1541)
• United States
11 Jan 13
I have never heard of urine therapy. I don't think I could ever pour urine on a wound or drink my own pee. But.. I also don't judge. I think its a little weird, but to each their own, honestly. What about you? How do you feel about it? I don't really know how I would feel about a bunch of people peeing in my yard, or myself. And then digging in the flower bed? (I just giggled) Not my thing but whatever works!
@GreenMoo (11834)
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14 Jan 13
In a situation where there was no alternative cleanser, I think I'd probably pee on a wound. Urine is sterile at the point it leaves the body after all, and the key thing would be to wash out impurities. However, I can't see me ever drinking it.
As for using it in the garden, I'm not sure about his claims that it imprints DNA on your veggies, but it does make a great fertilizer when diluted. We use a compost loo here, so all our waste products end up back in the soil in the long term. It's a little larger than the average back yard though!
@katsmeow1213 (28717)
• United States
11 Jan 13
I've heard of it, but it's not something I would actually try unless I was desperate.
@earnnings (1325)
• India
11 Jan 13
Absolutely !
I heard about urine therapy. In our country cow urine is given very much priority. It has the power to cure all health ailments. CANCER is one of the dreadly disease whihc can be cured by cow urine.
There are many methods to many cures by urine therapy...Ill effects are also cured to far extent.
I heard about urine therapy. In our country cow urine is given very much priority. It has the power to cure all health ailments. CANCER is one of the dreadly disease whihc can be cured by cow urine.
There are many methods to many cures by urine therapy...Ill effects are also cured to far extent.
@thesids (22180)
• Bhubaneswar, India
11 Jan 13
Hi GreenMoo
Urophagia is the term. Dinking a healthy persons urine has some good effects on the drinkers health and that is said to be medically proven too.
A healthy man's urine is 95 per cent water, but it also contains small quantities of nutrients including calcium, folic acid, iron, magnesium and zinc - and these minerals are really considered to be good for anyone's health.
And I remember also reading the self-urine therapy dates back 5,000 years to ancient India, where it was known as "shivambu shastra" and seen as a way of rejuvenating body and soul. Our late Prime Minister Shree Morarji Desai was an advocate of the Urine Therapy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morarji_Desai) .
@changjiangzhibin89 (16539)
• China
12 Jan 13
It is a great fun having a strange mix of people at your farm.They come from different places and would tell you something unheard-of.There is something in what the guy said about urine.As early as Ming Dynasty (1368-1644 A.D.)here,there was a record of urine (mainly use infantile urine)in «Compendium of Materia Medica »,which has many medicinal properties and is for both external use and drinking,much more than treating skin infection.
@GreenMoo (11834)
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14 Jan 13
Since I originally posted I've looked a little more on the net about this subject and it's indeed a far more ancient and widespread practice than I'd imagined.
It IS interesting having different people to stay with all their different ideas and likes and dislikes. We have people from many different countries as well.
@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
10 Jan 13
Your terminology "unusual ideas" is certainly accurate because this is the most unusual idea that I have heard for a long while.
I can accept the idea that urine would be a very effective way of cleaning a wound, with your own urine being the obvious choice for someone to make. However, drinking it is absurd, the product has already been recycled through your body despatched as the excess waste. Logic suggests that if the product had beneficial qualities in respect of consumption then it would not have been excreted in the first place.
@Hatley (163781)
• Garden Grove, California
10 Jan 13
hi greenmoo sorry but no thanks on drinking my own pee. Yuck. Also I don't think I would use it on a wound bu t I once did suck on a small cut on my hand and it healed over night
. t hen I read that our own spit is antibacterial so perhaps thats is what healed it.I am a diabetic so usually wounds do not heal fast for me.I have heard of it bjt I wou ld no want t o drink it.
. t hen I read that our own spit is antibacterial so perhaps thats is what healed it.I am a diabetic so usually wounds do not heal fast for me.I have heard of it bjt I wou ld no want t o drink it.
@bounce58 (17387)
• Canada
10 Jan 13
I only know of urine as a remedy or course of action when a jellyfish sticks on you. But I've never heard of it being a 'therapy'.
I could see it being sterile, and could be helpful with wounds, but I doubt it's any better than regular over-the-counter remedies.
And I would draw the line on drinking it too!
@GreenMoo (11834)
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11 Jan 13
Better in that it's cheaper and more natural I guess, but I really don't see it being a solution I'd use unless I were out in the wilds somewhere with no other way of cleaning muck of a wound.
Pee works on jellyfish stings because they are alkaline and your pee tends to be acidic. It works just like vinegar. Which makes me wonder if it would therefore work on bee and wasp stings, which are another sort of sting you may receive when there's no vinegar to hand ...
@reddog25770 (212)
• United States
10 Jan 13
I heard of it but don't know any one who practices. I could never bring myself to drink unrine. Just nope couldn't do it.
We do use urine around the garden. The deer will demolish your garden here. If you don't put something out to keep them away. So the boys pee on the outside edges. It works better then any chemical product that we've tried.
