Auto-Urine Therapy

The About.com urban legends forum has a thread going about auto-urine therapy, which translates into 'drinking your own urine'. Is there really a thriving urine-drinking subculture? Well, yes. As the poster points out, all you have to do is google 'drinking your own urine' and you get all kinds of hits. The reason urine-drinking has so many fans is that it's supposed to offer numerous health benefits, including improving the immune system, giving you nice skin, acting great as a gargle if you have gum disease, and having very powerful anti-aging properties. I think I've mentioned before somewhere on my site that I have personal experience with this urine-drinking subculture. NOT that I've ever drunk the stuff myself (and I definitely never plan to). But I do have a relative who, according to family scuttlebutt, used to do it. She was into all the new-age, alternative medicine stuff like that. In her defense I have to say that she's now approaching 90 and is still in excellent health. In fact, she could probably pass for a sixty-year old. So maybe there's something to it (though I've still got no plans to try it out). I'm actually going to her house on Christmas day for dinner. I don't plan to sample the apple juice in her fridge.

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Posted on Sat Dec 18, 2004



Comments

As a long time urine therapy practitioner and occasional advocate, I wanted to add a comment or two to this discussion.

There are numerous benefits to urine therapy. Some are physical/physiological and some are psychological. It is impossible to separate them.

I began with drinking in 1991 while in India. I wanted to test the waters and see if it would help my travellers diarrhea. I was surprised that it did and I felt a little high from it.
Nothing like an affordable high that allowed me to travel without incidents. I continued and it helped to lift a mild chronic depression. I was hoping it would cure my allergies. It did not.
But later I was able to control my allergic reactions with small injections of my own urine.

I have found to the most appropriate use of the stuff to be is rubbing it on the skin. It is good to use the fresh stuff or if you can tolerate it, some that has ripened. The skin immune system is accesible in ways we don't understand yet. The skin converts uv light to vitamin d... and it seems to me it also converts urine to better health. Unfortunately, in order for a person to take advantage of this aspect of the therapy, they have to have something much more valuable than urine and also something much scarer: TIME.

If you ever have the time and a suitable place, I recommend that you suit up.... that is strip down to your birthday suit... and rub a cupful of your pee on your skin. Don't rinse it off for awhile. Let it percolate through. If possible don't rinse it for 5 or 6 hours. Notice how it makes you feel. It should give you a real boost. It is not something I can explain.
Its a real mystery and a nice one as well.

Happy Travels.

John
Posted by John Wynhausen  on  Wed Aug 31, 2005  at  11:30 AM
to all you none believers, read this:

since the age i realized i had toes, (about 3 years old) i would look at them and wonder why they were so DARK and brittle. i didnt ask my mom about them, i just figured they were supposed to be that way.

It wasnt until i was about 37 years old that i realized that i actually had a nail fungus, and i didnt know this until i seen a commercial for Lamasil (you know the one with the weird looking talking fungus on it?).

So i asked my doctor for a sample of the Lamisil and in a few days time, my toes actually started clearing up! i couldnt believe it!! but the stuff is a VERY strong drug and i chose to just put up with my toes being dark, until i did some research on urine therapy

One of the many things that urine therapy is purported to remedy is nail fungus, so for the past week i have been drinking after first a sip and now up to 1.5 ounces of urine 3-6 times a day, and guess what? MY NAIL FUNGUS IS CLEARING UP! toes that had pitch black nails on them now are turning PINK! im also putting urine on my face, which seems to be clearing up my acne and is stopping new acne from appearing. so look at me with disgust if you want to, but im very happy that im using something natural and free to get rid of a fungus i have had my entire life!
Posted by new at this  on  Sun Sep 25, 2005  at  12:34 PM
I love urine whehther its mine or my wife's. I have been taking self-drink of urine since my childhood. I am male 47 by profession a college professor of English. I look just the half of my actual age. The result of two glasses of urine in the first morning ritual. My skin is vey soft, no fat on the body. I work very hard for 20 hrs. I am never tired nor having any sense of fear. My sexual power is so much well-maintained; nay, rather Urine drink habits made me a successful professor, author( I write for six hours with my fountain pain atleast 20 pages creative writing. sex is now all pervasive.I have made it a routine I fuck my wife twice every day.I am fair, slim, energetic and sexy.Sex incites the imagination and removes deprression.We occassionaly drink eachothers urine.Its a cosmic Urino World 😊
Posted by samiran paul  on  Fri Oct 21, 2005  at  08:14 AM
Im a urologist many celebrities drink there own urine too keep looking young and healthy many of my clients include Jennifer Anniston ,Brad Pitt ,Tom Cruise , Oprah , DR.Phil,Past celebrities that were users were Jim Morrison ,Jack Klugman ,Steve Mcqueen ,and Ghandi To name a few the list goes on and on .i wouldnt be suprised to see brittany too.
Posted by ladiesman  on  Sat Oct 22, 2005  at  11:38 PM
Samiran Paul, are you really a professor of English? Looking at your spelling, punctuation and grammar, I'm more than little doubtful. Unfortunately, because of that, it also discredits your "testimonial" in my eyes.
Posted by Ms. Anon  on  Sat Nov 05, 2005  at  11:57 PM
Samiran Paul,
I have been trying to get my wife to allow me to drink her urine alas to no avail. Do you have suggestions on how I can accomplish this? I am a very strong proponent of urine massage!!!
Posted by steer  on  Thu Nov 10, 2005  at  10:26 AM
From the year of chemistry I did at uni many years ago I would guess that urine is the waste products of metabolism that the body is unable to utilize. On drinking urine I suppose the constituent products would react with gastric juices and be broken down and altered. Eg urokinase(used intravenously for dissolving blood clots through converting plasminogen to plasmin)would be broken down and not absorded directly into the bloodstream through the stomach wall. I may be wrong on that but so far I have not found a mention of orally administered urokinase. If you really want to tie your "noodle" in a knot look at http://www.innov-research.com
Posted by keith  on  Sat Nov 12, 2005  at  10:05 PM
From http://www.emedicine.com

Urokinase

"Urokinase (Abbokinase) is the fibrinolytic agent most familiar to interventional radiologists and the one that has been used most often for peripheral intravascular thrombus. At the time of this writing, urokinase is not available from the manufacturer. Its availability in the immediate future is not known. In the meantime, the FDA has encouraged the off-label use of reteplase and alteplase for local-regional lysis of venous and arterial thrombus at any location.

Urokinase is a physiologic thrombolytic agent that is produced in renal parenchymal cells. Unlike streptokinase, urokinase directly cleaves plasminogen to produce plasmin. When purified from human urine, approximately 1500 L of urine are needed to yield enough urokinase to treat a single patient. Urokinase is also commercially available in a form produced by tissue culture, and recombinant DNA techniques have been developed for urokinase production in E coli cultures.

In plasma, urokinase has a half-life of approximately 15 minutes. Allergic reactions are rare, and the agent can be administered repeatedly without antigenic problems."
Posted by Keith  on  Tue Nov 15, 2005  at  04:53 AM
I feel scary about drinking my own urine. I don't know if it is safe to drink my own urine. I need some help and more information about drinking urine. thank you for taking time to read this one.
Posted by Ed  on  Wed Nov 23, 2005  at  09:42 PM
Ed, Don't do it. In my opinion it is not and educated rational thing to do and is against what your conscience is telling you.

It is better to go out with friends and do sensible things and talk about sensible things.

What you really need is what is called "living water" that gives eternal life . see in the Bible John 4:10

Eat lots of fruit and vegetables. If you like dissolve a vitamin C tablet in a glass of water and drink that.
Posted by Keith  on  Thu Nov 24, 2005  at  03:41 AM
hello mates thats just nasty
Posted by bob  on  Sat Dec 03, 2005  at  09:47 PM
This is to ladiesman who wrote that he is a urologist to the celebrities. What ever happened to patient/doctor confidentiality? I would love to find out that drinking urine is the big secret in Hollywood, but how are we to know that you are credible?
Posted by abh  on  Wed Dec 07, 2005  at  11:49 AM
Ok - I tried it - and let me tell you what results I noticed. Immediately, (within the first 2 days), I had a new level of energy. My weight lowered by 8 pounds within the first week with no change in my diet or physical activity. I slept more soundly and woke up easier each morning. My skin, especially my face is begining to become clearer. I will say however that I do not drink the first stream in the morning but rather the second and all subsequent streams until bed. Perhaps not related is the fact that my wife commented on how much more enjoyable sex is recently - my new energy levle or something else perhaps. I am still looking on advice on how I can persuade my wife to allow me to drink her urine - I beleive the benefits will be almost two-fold.
Posted by steer  on  Wed Dec 07, 2005  at  12:03 PM
Steer, Your saying you drink the stuff all day?
Posted by Keith  on  Fri Dec 09, 2005  at  01:59 AM
Keith - yes with this exception; If I am not feeling amourous and I'm reletively certain my wife is not interested in sex, I stop by 8:00 PM. I've found that there is a tremendous amount of energy from drinking urine and I liken it to an adreniline rush. It takes some time to "come-down" from the high. the most difficult part was figuring out how to collect and drink my urine while at work but I've accomplished it and it's very successful now.
Posted by steer  on  Fri Dec 09, 2005  at  06:22 AM
Interesting steer.
I found another technical data site that has results of various experiments. I think it is mostly trying to justify using urea in sugar-free chewing gum.

Some of it is very technical. An extract I copied mentions excitement as a toxic reaction. It isn't specific about what type of excitement. Too much urea certainly sounds dangerous though.

http://www.inchem.org/documents/jecfa/jecmono/v32je16.htm

80 patients were hospitalized after ingestion of urea
fertilizer mistaken for table salt. The symptoms observed were
nausea, persistent violent vomiting, excitement, and severe general
convulsions. Complete recovery of all patients was observed within
a few days (Steyn, 1961).

The other couple of links I posted before were to websites and not the actual articles. So you have to do your own searches from information
Posted by Keith  on  Sun Dec 25, 2005  at  04:17 AM
Myth busted. Did anyone mention gout? It is caused by uric acid build up. So be careful.

http://www.hollywoodurology.com/uricacid.html
Posted by Keith  on  Sun Dec 25, 2005  at  03:22 PM
I really want to drink my girl friend urine, just want to know if it is not having harmful effects, please someone email me to advice me,
I really dream to drink it.
Posted by basim  on  Wed Mar 22, 2006  at  05:44 PM
Hi All, Urine is awesome. I've been drinking my own for years now. I also rub it allover myself. My skin is soft, and I love the way it feels. Occasiaonlly I get a sexual rush by urinating directly into my own mouth although it does tend to make a bit of a mess. Yum. Try it. You'll wish you'd been doing it for years.
Posted by Dirk  on  Thu Jul 06, 2006  at  11:23 PM
ok, all you piss drinkers have some real problems. It will be a cold day in hell when I start to drink my own piss. Bunch o' sick freaks.
Posted by LAAOY  on  Sun Apr 08, 2007  at  07:22 AM
First it is sterile and can save the life of someone stranded withouy water. It consists of mostly water and the amonia is formed outside the body by bacteria. Small amounts is ok but a steady diet can cause the stomach to become lazy or confused as well as the intestines and especially the kidneies and cause them to not properly digest your food. This would occur in daily drinking in volume and is noticable when the color of the urine will become very clear.
Posted by redman13  on  Sun Apr 08, 2007  at  11:13 PM
Have been using urine therapy for a couple of months now on my scalp, legs (external rub) and drinking it, gargling with it and using it as drops for a recurring ear infection all with excellent results. You really have nothing to lose but your inhibitions. I almost gagged the first time. Now I can knock back a glassful no problem. It also helps you get a read on the condition of your body. I highly recommend it. It's good for what ails you and it couldn't be more economical.
Posted by charlie1der  on  Fri May 04, 2007  at  02:17 AM
If dogs and other animals eat their own poopey and drink their pee pee Maybe we should just ask them since they are the experts! LOL
Posted by Sophie  on  Mon Jul 30, 2007  at  12:15 PM
I have been drinking my morning urine almost a year now for the purported health benefits. I have noticed my skin is softer and more pliable. I also noticed that if I am out walking it gives me more energy if I drink some during the walk. Has anyone else noticed this?
Posted by Art Driedger  on  Thu Oct 04, 2007  at  04:50 PM
I have been drinking my morning urine for almost a year now for the health benefits publized on various internet sites. Most noticeable my skin has gotten softer and more pliable. I also noticed tha if I am out for a walk and drink some particularly in the morning, I have more energy to contiune the walk. Has anyone noticed this?
Posted by Art Driedger  on  Thu Oct 04, 2007  at  05:07 PM
I have been reding about this urine therapy and honestly, I think I will give it a go.

I had very nice flawless skin until a few years ago. I have tried almost everything and nothing seems to work. Well, they seem to work for just a few days and bam!! the acne comes back in full swing.

Although I dont think I can bring myself to drink my own urine yet, I intend to start using it on my face to get rid of my acne.

I'll post my finding when I start on it.
Posted by Lisa  on  Mon Oct 08, 2007  at  08:08 AM
Aside from the supposed health benefits of this...it also happens to be a sexual fetish!

There are guys who piss directly into their own mouths, as a seXual turn on-(which I must admit is pretty hot to see!)

But what about consuming somebody else urine though??
Posted by Corbin69  on  Mon Oct 29, 2007  at  10:49 AM
I have been ingesting my urine regularly for ten years now. I find it really stimulating, and very effective at boosting my immune system.
Posted by Tunde Aina  on  Tue Oct 30, 2007  at  11:11 AM
I have been using Urine Therapy for four months and I will continue to do it until the day I die. The health benefits have been many. Several cultures have been using urine therapy for over 4,000 years so I think we have established that it is safe. It is said that 10 million chinese and many million in India drink their own urine every day. Drinking urine was unbelievable when I first heard about it, now I am one of its strongest proponents. By the way, there is no money in advocating Urine Therapy. So think about that the next time your Doctor tries to push another pill on you...
Posted by Nathan  on  Thu Nov 15, 2007  at  08:07 PM
When Mystress Midnight accepted me as her devotee, she baptized me with her urine, making her fingers wet with it; and then tracing her wet fingers across my forehead as she intoned each of the terms of our pact. Then she handed me the chalice, which was still mostly full of her sacred fluid, and as she stared deep into my eyes, I drank it all, mouth full by mouth full, swishing and savoring it as a connoisseur appreciates a fine wine. It definitely tasted like urine, but it was not a bad taste -- and judging by how much I hated beer the first time I drank that, I think I'm going to really come to love drinking Mystress' golden urine. Also, because it was still warm from her body, this was a moving and sacred experience for us both. However, I'll admit that I'm pleased to hear that urine is sterile.
Posted by Mystress Midnight's Devotee  on  Wed Dec 26, 2007  at  04:47 PM
Hello! I have been researching this for months, and am more and more inclined to take the plunge into ingesting it. Currently I use URO externally for my skin. I have noticed that there is an obvious glow and blemish control that comes with this. I store my morning urine for a few days, and in the morning and in the evening I rub liberally on my face and neck. At first I was freaked out, naturally. Western culture has done a fine job terrifying us of ourselves. With all that I have tried to treat my moderate acne, i figured why not use something natural from my own body. Im glad I did. Now I am obsessed with knowing more. I am interested in using URO for more than vanity purposes, and am excited to see the responce ingestion will have on my anxiety, depression, and overall stagnet health. I think the real key to taking this sort of plunge is a commitment to understanding, researching, and bravery. This is truly a practice for the brave, the aware, and the strong.
Posted by Mands  on  Wed Feb 06, 2008  at  01:04 PM
I have been reading about urine therapy and I'm extremely open minded so I tried it. I have found that I am addicted to it and even went so far as to do the urine enema. My body feels great and I am definitely sexually turned on by this and feel more energy than I have ever felt. I am a 40 year old female who works in the health care system. I did my research and if you do yours also and get over your inhibitions, you will find the same thing happening to you too!! I drink it - almost every time I go - even at work. I do the enema once a day - which I am able to hold because it just absorbs in and I do the massage on my skin - including my face. I have just started this one week ago and I just feel great!!! I also do the mouthwash gargle (with urine!!!) for the benefit of destroying bacteria in the gums. I'd love to be able to pee directly in my own mouth, but I'm not built that way! I wish I could see that one guy do it - that's a turn on. Oh by the way, every boyfriend I have had and one girlfriend (even two husbands) have delighted in showering me with their streams - in the shower of course!!!! Told you - I'm open minded!
Posted by KatWagner  on  Fri Feb 29, 2008  at  04:12 AM
Does ingesting one's early morning urine everyday cause an awful body odour?
Posted by Habun  on  Wed Mar 26, 2008  at  05:47 AM
Around last one year I am drinking my girlfriends urine regularly and I dont have any problem till now. But some one tole me that this is effect with my health and please guide me some one and confirm this is ok for me.
Posted by GOBIND SINGH  on  Mon Apr 28, 2008  at  05:24 AM
I love drinking my wife's pee. I try to drink a bladderful every second morning or so when we shower together. sometimes I manage to get most of it down - it comes our pretty fast. I get it straight from her and then immediatley perfom oral sex on her, so she gets an orgasm as a bonus. We love it !
Posted by Sime  on  Sat Jul 05, 2008  at  12:47 AM
Heard piss is good for your health from many people. Found out that the amniotic fluid when you are a baby is made from your piss, so you live in your piss for the first months of your life in the womb. If it is used for your birth, for you to develop and form, maybe it has some qualities that are good. I just read eating turds saves the lives of people with intestine probs 95% of the time and our government is spending $115 billion to research,, maybe they can use some funds to research drinking piss. may have to give it a try,, but man,, it sounds disgusting
Posted by kenny d  on  Wed Nov 05, 2008  at  04:59 PM
it is cleaner to bathe in your urine than water. Grose but true
Posted by hillary  on  Thu Mar 19, 2009  at  06:25 PM
Go ahead, re-ingest metabolic waste products, kill yourself
There's a reason you pee in the first place
Posted by bb  on  Wed Apr 28, 2010  at  08:54 PM
Ladiesman in Hollywood, ca. No joke!? You are an urologist? With "famous" people? Pity you cannot even spell their names or spell in general. You also have no knowledge of English grammar. This post is from a person for whom English is second language, yet I seem to be doing better than this "ladiesman".
Posted by FromOz  on  Sun May 09, 2010  at  07:31 AM
I am folowing auto urine therapy for the past 15 years. Mrs Jachinda Marie W/o Thaineese Guruvadippatti Kandavarayanpatti via Sundakkadupost Sivagangai District cured her brest cancer adopting fasting for 10 days with auto urine therapy under the guidance of Rev. Father I Jacob Sangamam PERUGAMANI Trichy Dist. For further details pl contact Fr jacob phone 0431 2902961 mobile9443164945
Posted by meyyappanannamalai  on  Sat May 15, 2010  at  08:36 PM


"Urban legend"?

In Europe, at least, this has been known for many generations. I learnt about it from my grandmother, and she learnt it from her grandmother. My grandmother's skin and hair at age 74, when I last saw her before moving far away, was the envy of many women.
The same is true of my own skin and hair.
Using urine daily instead of tonics and creams certainly hasn't damaged it, as far as I can see.

I am very healthy anyway, so I don't know how NOT drinking urine would have affected my health. In the past fifteen years it certainly hasn't harmed it.

The squeamishness of people, not to mention their ignorance, is the funniest of all.
They gobble jello - made from dead cows' bones - and smear their faces with cosmetic creams containing cow's piss, but they are afraid of their own urine?

And how does this qualify as a "hoax", anyway?

I am sorry for all those who are victims of their own mental limitations.
But I have learnt that is about as much as I can do.


Posted by Who Cares  on  Sat Mar 17, 2012  at  04:36 AM
Its only been 3 days. That's all, maybe its a placebo, maybe its actually real. But here's a personal story.

After being a devotee of the role of the "Super-successful-young-alpha-male" (James Bond style, you know)

Last year, at the age of 29, I've had the shingles.

Yes, your "lovely" western medics will say its RARE. That usually its only OLD people. Or people with low immune systems (Like cancer or aids) Then they'll rush into giving you that Zovirax or that injection.

Some reading online will make you find out that its just another lie. Their Chickenpox vaccine is "In-directly" responsible for a growing phenomena of YOUNGER PEOPLE WITH SHINGLES. Why? How? well, Shingles / Herpes zoster is the same virus as the Chicken Pox, hence since there are hardly any kids around with chickenpox in the western world;
There is hardly any exposure, and without the slightest exposure our bodies CAN'T develop Any antibodies to that virus. So we become PRONE TO IT MUCH YOUNGER AGE.

Either way, a Shingles outbreak Shingles can torture even the strongest . It can depress the most optimistic, happiest person you've ever met. It can destroy any desire to live.
After putting on that "Zovirax" cream and waiting for 4 days the shingles were gone,
And it seemed like there's a cure.

A year after I was suffering another "RARE" incident of Recurring shingles, this time the pain was back in the same place, with the same symptoms and I wanted to kill myself.

So, just before I took the plunge I decided to give it a try. This was 3 days ago. Without any fear or shame. With heaps of the most excruciating pain, I've drank my own piss.
The pain vanished. Completely the NEXT DAY.
Placebo? Maybe.
Guy with a white suit who escaped an asylum? Maybe.
You might be right, either way, thanks to this website and others documenting testimonials Its gone, no more pain. I'm going to keep on doing it. (Did the mid stream thing, orally, and didn't go all diet-maniac which means kept on smoking and drinking for a bit)

So the sum this comment up,
You might be right about me being crazy, but you've OBVIOUSLY NEVER HAD SHINGLES PAIN. Hopefully, you never will too.

If you do happen to be one of the unfortunates, let this be an interest-free encouragement to a mind opening experience. It's cheaper than zovirax, and from someone who tried BOTH, this worked faster and more effectively for me (If you're in pain now than drink / rub it on NOW, avoid waiting for Tommorow morning's mid-stream)

(there's no benefit for me by doing this. Other than keeping the balance and passing on the knowledge that was given to me)
Posted by Anonymous UT Practitioner  on  Sat Jul 06, 2013  at  12:14 AM
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