Ayurveda: Facts and Fallacies of Urine Therapy

Fallacy: Urine is a biological waste, which contains a host of micro-organisms.

Fact: Urine is only a derivative of the blood. It is a fluid, which has tremendous variations of composition. These excess elements from the circulating blood are filtered and collected within the kidney in the form of a purified, sterile, watery solution called urine. This is almost free from all kinds of microorganisms like bacteria.

Fallacy: The body has excreted it because it does not need it anymore.

Fact: The function of the kidneys is not excretion, but regulation. The kidneys do not filter out important elements in the blood not because those elements are toxic or dangerous for the body but simply because the body is not in need of that particular concentration of the element at the time it was excreted. Researchers have observed that urine, because it is actually extracted from our blood, contains small amounts of almost all the life-sustaining elements, enzymes, proteins, hormones, antibodies and immunising agents that our blood contains.

Fallacy: Synthetic derivatives of urine are better option.

Fact: Urine in its natural form is beneficial because it does not produce side-effects.
And extract of urine called urokinase which is used to dissolve blood clots can cause serious abnormal bleeding as a side-effect. In contrast, not even a single case with such serious side-effects was reported when natural urine (though it contains measurable amounts of urokinase) was used. Moreover, urine contains thousands of therapeutic agents, such as important natural antibodies, enzymes and regulating hormones that extracts like urea, uric acid or urokinase do not contain.

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