The first time I was exposed to the concept that the body makes its own
medicine, it was through a friend who was introduced to it through an
eastern Indian "guru" type of fellow. I thought it was interesting but
a wacky kind of idea and I never thought about it again - until I came
across a book. The book is entitled, "Your Own Perfect Medicine" by
Martha Christy. She has an interesting story to tell.
Ms. Christy was sick. Very sick. For a very long time. Pelvic
inflammatory disease, ulcerative colitis, Chron's disease, chronic
fatigue syndrome, Hashimoto's disease, mononucleosis. She had severe
kidney infections, two miscarriages, chronic cystitis, severe candida,
endometriosis, adrenal insufficiency, serious chronic ear and sinus
infections, food and chemical allergies. And that wasn't the half of
it. She had every conceivable medical test, her share of surgery, and
drugs - plenty of them. Then she tried all forms of alternative
therapy. Homeopathy, herbs, mega-vitamins and liv-cell treatments in
Mexico. After traditional medicine failed to work, she and her husband
spent over $100,000 trying to get her well with alternative approaches.
Nothing worked.
And then one day, her husband brought home a little book that told
of how individuals had been cured of even the worst diseases with a
seemingly strange and little-known natural therapy. Soon afterwards,
she began the therapy herself. From the first day she began, she
received almost instantaneous relief from her incurable constipation
and fluid retention. Within a week, her severe abdominal and pelvic
pain was gone.
The chronic cystitis and yeast infections (internal and external)
soon disappeared and her food allergies, exhaustion, and digestive
problems all began to heal.
After a few more months, her colds, flu, sore throats and on again
off again viral symptoms disappeared. Her hair which had fallen out by
the handfuls after her fifth surgery became thick and lustrous. Her
weight normalized, and her energy and strength came back. After nearly
30 years of non-stop illness, Martha Christy was whole again.
What was this therapy that she had discovered? What was this
therapy that has helped seriously ill patients gain complete remissions
from their afflictions? What was it that she actually did?
Well, here it is. She orally and medicinally re-consumed her own urine.
Whoa! Gag! She did what?
That's what I thought when I first heard about this. But I also
absolutely needed to know more. What I discovered is that urine is not
the substance we think it is. In her book, Martha Christy explains what
urine is....
In Layman's Language
Urine is not, as many believe, the excess water from food and
liquids that goes through the intestines and is ejected from the body
as "waste". It is much different and much more. When you eat, the food
you ingest is eventually broken down in the stomach and intestines into
extremely small molecules. These molecules are absorbed into tiny
tubules in the intestinal wall and then pass through these tubes into
the blood stream.
The blood circulates throughout your body carrying these food
molecules and other nutrients, along with critical immune defense and
regulating elements such as red and white blood cells, antibodies,
plasma, microscopic proteins, hormones, enzymes, etc., which are all
manufactured at different locations in the body.
As the blood circulates, it passes through the liver where toxins
are removed and later excreted from the body in the form of solid
waste. Eventually, this now purified "cleaned" blood makes its way to
the kidneys. When blood enters the kidneys it is filtered through an
immensely complex and intricate system of minute tubules called nephron
through which the blood is literally "squeezed" at high pressure. This
filtering process removes excess amounts of water, salts and other
elements in the blood that your body does not need at the time.
These excess elements are collected within the kidney in the form
of a purified, sterile, watery solution called urine. Many of the
constituents of this filtered watery solution, or urine, are then
reabsorbed by the nephron and delivered back into the bloodstream. The
remainder of the urine passes out of the kidneys into the bladder and
is then excreted from the body.
The function of the kidneys is to keep the various elements in your
blood balanced. When your body doesn't need something at a particular
time, it is excreted - not because it is toxic or poisonous or bad for
the body, but simply because the body does not need that particular
element at the time.
Medical researchers have discovered that many of the elements of
the blood that are found in urine have enormous medicinal value, and
when reintroduced to the body, they boost the body's immune defenses
and stimulate healing in a way that nothing else does.
A Nutrient Rich Powerhouse
In 1975, one of the founders of Miles Laboratories, Dr. A. H. Free,
published his book Urinalysis in Clinical Laboratory Practice, in which
he remarked that not only is urine a sterile body compound (purer than
distilled water), but that it is now recognized that urine contains
literally thousands of compounds. Among the urine constituents
mentioned in Dr. Free's treatise is a list of nutrients that will knock
your socks off. Here's just a few...
Alanine, Arginine, Ascorbic acid, Allantoin, Amino acids,
Bicarbonate, Biotin, Calcium, Creatinine, Cystine, DHEA, Dopamine,
Epinephrine, Folic acid, Glucose, Glutamic acid, Glycine, Inositol,
Iodine, Iron, Lysine, Magnesium, Manganese, Melatonin, Methionine,
Nitrogen, Ornithane, Pantothenic acid, Phenylalaline, Phosphorus,
Potassium, Proteins, Riboflavin, Tryptophan, Tyrosine, Urea, Vitamin
B6, Vitamin B12, Zinc/
Stories have been told of individuals who have both lived and died
by being trapped in places without food and water for days. Those that
survived did so because they drank their own urine, those that perished
did not. The ones that died probably could not overcome the
mis-informed thoughts that urine is a waste product of the body. It's
not. It's just a substance the body secretes that contains elements not
needed at the time.
Despite what you may have been led to believe about urine,
pharmaceutical companies have grossed billions of dollars from the sale
of drugs made from urine constituents. Research is happening every day
in labs attempting to isolate specific elements of urine so they can
create new drugs and patent the substances. For instance, Pergonal is a
fertility drug made from human urine. 1992 sales of this drug were
reported at $855 million while it costs a patient $1400 a month to
consume. Urokinase, a urine ingredient, is used in drug form and sold
as a miracle blood clot dissolver for unblocking coronary arteries.
Urea, medically proven to be one of the best moisturizers in the world,
is packaged in expensive creams and lotions. Take the M out of Murine
eye drops and what do you have? Yep. It's made from carbamide - another
name for synthetic urea.
A Powerful Healer
To get some understanding of how urine can be such a powerful
healing substance in and of itself, let's take a look at how urine
therapy has been known to completely eliminate allergies.
We read where researchers have discovered that allergic responses
are caused by "renegade" white blood cells that inappropriately attack
substances even when they may be no threat to the body. So it is the
activity of these renegade white blood cells, called antigen receptors,
that needs to be corrected in order to cure the allergy.
In 1982, studies published by Dr. William Linscott (in Basic and
Clinical Immunology) showed that when these antigen receptors (or
renegade white blood cells) are reintroduced into the body, the body
actually developed antibodies to these antigen receptors, and the
antibodies then stopped the allergic response.
Realizing that the urine of allergic individuals contains the
allergy causing antigen receptors, researchers thought that to
re-introduce the urine back to the allergic individual would mean
antibodies would be produced which would then stop the allergic
response. And that is exactly what happens. Allergies have been
completely turned around with urine therapy.
Using urine in this way to cure the allergy, is one form of
isopathic treatment. You're using the same substance that is causing
the allergy, to be reintroduced to the body to have the body
manufacture its own antibody to it. If you grasp this point, you may be
able to see the ability of this therapy to be used in just about any
illness the body may experience.
More Electrons for Your Body
Most of the time when a measurement of any given urine sample's
oxidation and reduction reading (the ORP value) is taken, it often
shows the urine in a reduced state. Chemically this means that there
are more electrons (the charge is reduced in the negative direction).
We like to say that the flow of life moves on the flow of electrons. If
there are a lot of electrons in the urine, then where are they coming
from? Yep, from you. So if your papa ever said, child, you're pissing
your life away--might there be more to that statement then meets the
ears? Free electrons can be given to free radicals to fight oxidation
so perhaps urine therapy also works along these lines. Something to
think about. Or maybe it is just that things are better the second time
around - they've already been processed somewhat once.
Concepts From the Isopathic Thinkers
To take this isopathic idea a bit further, let's come back to the
theories of Guenther Enderlein and his biological perspective. As
you'll recall, Enderlein developed remedies that were based on his
observations that how we get sick is a function of the blood pH getting
thrown off causing microbes in the blood to grow into pathogenicity.
His biological remedies involved re-introducing the small colloids of
life, or the protits, back into the body to mate with the pathogenic
forms so they would de-evolve back into a non-pathogenic state. Mmm….
Now let's take this idea in relation to urine therapy and expand it
to meet this biological framework. Urine therapy has been able to cure
seemingly incurable disease states. Why is that? Well here's an idea.
The colloids in your blood that are the protits/somatids, are very
small particles. In fact they are so small as to be unfilterable by
something like the kidneys. Though researchers haven't been looking,
perhaps one of the invisible constituents of urine are these colloid
particles that naturally just get passed through the kidneys out of the
blood. When one consumes their own urine through the process of urine
therapy, they are receiving a dose of these pure colloids. These
biologically proceed to support the immune function, and possibly lead
to taking the pathogenic microbes in the blood back down to apathogenic
states. In this way, urine truly becomes the body's own perfect
medicine. Now Enderlein's theories have never been proven using modern
scientific procedures to verify his ideas, and at some levels has been
completely dis-proven, but nevertheless people still believe them.
Maybe the power of belief in this instance overcomes what factually may
not be real.
Open Minds Can Open Doors
Don't take this therapy lightly. Multiple sclerosis, colitis,
lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, cancer, hepatitis, hyperactivity,
pancreatic insufficiency, psoriasis, eczema, diabetes, herpes,
mononucleosis, adrenal failure, allergies and so many other ailments
have been said to be relieved through use of this therapy. After you
overcome your initial gag response (I know I had one), you may realize
that there might just be something to this and if you are searching for
health, this is an area to investigate. There are numerous reports and
double blind studies which go back to the turn of the century
supporting the efficacy of using urine for health.
The recurring points to all of the medical research done to date on
urine indicates that it is completely sterile. If it becomes
contaminated it happens after it leaves the body. Urine is a by-product
of blood filtration, not waste filtration.
Urine contains compounds that are very specific to the individual
from which it comes. It is antibacterial, antifungal, antiviral,
antineoplastic (anticancer), anticonvulsive, and antispasmodic. It is
totally non-toxic.
With research that could fill volumes, you may be wondering why you
haven't heard of this before. Well, urine is abundant (everyone has
their own supply), it's free, and it can't be patented. Reasons enough?