Introduction: "In February 1996 the First World Conference on Urine Therapy took place in Indi a (in May 1999 the second world conference took place in Germany). The fact that a number of allopathic doctors also visited these conferences show s that this remarkable and sometimes despised therapy, which for a long time was almost forgotten, is coming back to the forefront. And rightly so. Urine therapy is very effective, and it is always available and quite inexpensiv e, to say the least, which is absolutely wonderful in a world which sees itself confronted with increasing health- as well as financial problems. But what is this urine therapy? How does it work? What are its roots? What has t he medical world to say about it? And, not the least important, how do you go ab out it? Coen van der Kroon covers almost all questions concerning urine therapy and its history in his book The Golden Fountain; The Complete Guide to Urine Therapy. (T he book recently appeared at Amethyst Books/Gateway Books; ISBN 0-944256-73-2; 1 52 pages; illustrated; 8.95 or $14,95). In the following article connections of urine therapy with the yoga traditions a re explored. Also practical tips are given for the application of urine therapy in daily life . You will find more detailed application programs here. Meanwhile, the below is a reasonable starting point. If you haven't done it yet, you might be convinced, after reading this article o r The Golden Fountain book, to take a sip from your own golden nectar... If not, it's definitely worth reading anyway! What is urine therapy? How does it work? Urine therapy means using (your own) urine externally or internally as a way to promote or maintain your health. The first question that probably comes to mind is whether urine is not a toxic s ubstance and how a toxic waste product could ever be of any benefit for your hea lth. Well, urine is NOT a toxic waste product and this has been scientifically proven . 95% of urine is water, 2.5% consists of urea and the remaining 2.5% is a mixture of minerals, salt, hormones and enzymes. Toxic substances are being removed fro m the body through the liver and intestines, through the skin and through the ou tbreath. The main function of the kidneys is to keep the composition of the blood in opti mal balance. When there is to much water, the kidneys will remove it. But that d oesn't make water into a toxic waste product. Only the substance urea can be poisonous when present in very large amounts in t he blood. However, this is irrelevant in the practice of drinking urine, as urin e is not immediately put back in the bloodstream. In the small amounts urea gets

back into the body, it is purifying, clears up excess mucus and has a number of specific, very useful effects. Moreover, it has a wonderful healing and tonifyi ng effect when applied to the skin. You can find urea in many skin products as one of the main components- specifica lly in many woman cosmetics. Furthermore, urine is entirely ect. We are talking here about ows a reasonably healthy diet, medicines. Urine therapy is a s'. sterile after secretion and has an antiseptic eff urine from the point of view of somebody who foll and who does not use chemical drugs or allopathic method based upon the principle of 'natural cycle

As long as we do not interfere chemically with the body's natural cycle, the bod y produces urine which is perfectly suitable for re-cycling. If you ingest a gre at deal of chemical substances - and these days all kinds of processed food cont ain chemicals - part of this will end up in the urine, in which case the composi tion of the urine changes. Normally, however, urine is a healthy substance which contains healthy, harmless and nourishing components. Some natural cycles take place more quickly than others, but the cycle in genera l is the foundation of all life. If we let nature run her course, there will be no waste, and a disturbed equilibrium will always come back into balance. Just a s we are capable of disturbing a natural equilibrium, we can also do our part in helping nature recover her balance. In order to support such a recovering of ba lance, we are equipped with a wonderful, natural 'house pharmacy': our own urine provides us with a swift and safe method for using the powers of the natural cy cle. What exactly are the effects of urine therapy? Briefly, if urine is ingested and/or rubbed into the skin, it purifies blood and tissues, provides useful nutrients and sends the body a signal about what is in or out of balance. This last effect is called (oral) auto-immunization. This br ings us to a last important feature of urine. Urine itself is, as said, not a to xic waste product. It does contain however minute particles connected with possi ble disease processes in the body. These minute particles are mainly antibodies, which upon re-ingesting can help the body to react on specific pathological sit uations. Urine therapy has proven helpful in a great number of various diseases, ranging from a simple cold and a throat-ache, to tuberculosis and asthma, from minor ski n problems such as itching, to more serious skin diseases such as eczema, psoria sis and even skin cancer. Urine therapy in the East: therapy or way of living? Urine therapy has been practiced for thousands of years and has merely fallen a bit into obscurity in the last century. However much urine therapy may seem to be unorthodox and perhaps revolutionary, it does not introduce anything new or original. It has been known throughout the centuries both in the West and in the East. Especially within yoga and tantra t radition the use of urine has been kept alive. It served partially as a real 'th erapy', a method to cleanse the physical body of impurities, but also as a way t o further spiritual growth. As such it should be considered more as a spiritual practice or lifestyle.Very illustrative in this sense are the following remarks: Swami Satyananda Saraswati states in 'Amaroli - The Way of the Yogi', the prefac e to the book Amaroli (Amaroli is the practice of ingesting ones own urine):

"I am fully acquainted with the topic of amaroli and have had personal experienc e with its use. Of course, I did not use it for therapy but in order to perfect vajroli kriya, and I am convinced that those who want to perfec t vajroli will have to go through the process of amaroli. Since 1943, right up to 1978 (date of publication of the book Amaroli), I have n ever seen bad results from the use of amaroli, either in therapy or for vajroli. Just recently a very ill gentleman approached me and asked me my opinion on ama roli. I suggested that he try it for himself and see what happens. Now, two mont hs later, he has recovered completely. From the healing point of view, if amaroli proves to be less dangerous than the therapeutic use of drugs, synthetic hormones and various other assorted chemical substances, if it proves less corrosive and nutritionally harmful than Coca Col a and 7-Up, if it is less dependence-producing and intoxicating than alcohol, le ss distasteful than eating gelatin, manufactured from the hooves and tendons of animals, then I am sure it will be a boon to humanity. I personally feel that we must state the facts on amaroli in as straightforward, clear and direct a manner as possible. Then mankind may just possibly find that there are many other benefits hidden in the science of amaroli than originally believed." (From: Amaroli, S. S. Saraswati, Bihar School of Yoga, Bihar 1978, ou t of print) Some time ago, my attention was drawn to an article in the reputable English wee kly journal The New Scientist. It was about the research done by two Australian scientists into drinking morning urine by Indian yogi's and its possible positiv e effect on meditation practice. The hypothesis is that this might be due to a h ormone found in morning urine called melatonin. Urine therapy in the West Apart from these effects within meditation context, the use of urine is very pra ctical as far as curing all kind of ailments and diseases is concerned. This pra ctice has been known all over the world and in many cultures. The Greeks and Rom ans were acquainted with the use of urine as a medicine. But also later in histo ry there are many references to urine as being helpful to combat illnesses.A goo d example can be found in a major German encyclopedia (Johann Heinrich Zedler's Grossen Vollstndigen Universallexikon, 1747), in which the author offers the foll owing tips concerning the use of urine as medicine: "Useful substances can be found in human as well as animal urine... Human urine has strengthening and curative characteristics concerning many deficiencies: "For example, a mixture of potato- and sulphur-powder, mixed with heated, old ur ine helps against hair loss. One should rub this mixture into the scalp; this sl ows down loss of hair (calf's gall can be added if necessary). "One can best heal injuries to the eyes with honey dissolved in the lightly boil ed urine from a young man. One should wash the eyes as often as possible with th is fluid. "All kinds of throat inflammation can be helped by gargling with urine to which a bit of saffron has been added. "Trembling hands and knees can be helped by washing and rubbing one's own warm u rine into the skin directly after one has urinated.

"In the beginning stages of dropsy, one should drink one's own morning urine on an empty stomach for a prolonged period of time. This also helps against jaundic e." In this century it was the Englishman John Armstrong who was the urine therapy p ioneer with his work and with his book The Water of Life, famous both in West an d East. Armstrong realized that the powerful medical world entertained other ide as about the usefulness of urine. Even so, he was exceptionally persistent in his conviction and enthusiasm concer ning urine therapy, probably because through urine therapy, he cured himself of tuberculosis which had been declared 'incurable'. Armstrong began urine therapy after a long and agonizing journey in which doctor after doctor proved unable to cure him of his TB symptoms. On the contrary, his condition only worsened. He decided to try urine therapy for two reasons. First of all, a quotation from the Bible stimulated his curiosity: "Drink water from your own cistern, flowing water from your own well." (The Book of Proverbs 5:15) Secondly, he had childhood memories of his mother smearing urine on his face wh ich was swollen from a bee sting, and of his grandfather treating animals with u rine. Recently, a lot of books have been published on urine therapy, especially in Germany, and some of those books have been written by regular doctors. This s hows that there is a development towards a little bit more understanding and acc eptance from people working within the regular medical field. The authors of these books show, just like Armstrong did, how versatile the appl ication possibilities of urine are. It works wonders in many minor problems and diseases such as ear- and eye infections, burns and bruises, allergic conditions (hay fever), fungus infections of the skin, warts, etc.. But it also can help t he immune system to cope with more serious conditions such as chronic colds, flu , stomach problems, bronchitis, etc.. Furthermore it has proven very helpful in the treatment of a number of very serious, immune related diseases, such as chro nic and severe allergies, asthma, cancer, M.E. and AIDS. In these cases it did d efinitely not always lead to long term healing results, but it often alleviated symptoms to considerable extent and sometimes indeed resulted into remarkable im provement of the dis-eased condition. Urine therapy and yoga tradition Let's go back to the Indian history, where even much older texts describing the practice of urine therapy are available. A presumably 5,000-year-old document ha s been found which describes the practice of urine therapy in different respects . In this document, there are many references to herbs and medicines still used in present day Ayurveda. This document consists of 107 verses (slokas), is calle d Shivambu Kalpa Vidhi ('the method of drinking urine in order to rejuvenate'), and is part of a document called Damar Tantra. (The entire text can be found in Chapter 7 of The Golden Fountain) Shivambu literally means the water of Shiva, t he highest god in the Indian pantheon. The name Shiva means auspiciousness. In I ndia, at least among urine therapists, one often speaks of drinking Shivambu, wh ich simply means drinking the water of auspiciousness. They also sometimes jokin gly refer to it as 'Morarji Cola', as India's former prime minister Morarji Desa i used to practice urine therapy. He openly advocated this therapy and said Indi a would be well off when more people would use this extremely inexpensive and ef fective way of treatment. These are the opening verses of the Damar Tantra text, in which the god Shiva begins to speak with his wife Parvati: Verses 1 - 4: "Oh Parvati! (The God Shiva speaks to his wife Parvati.) Those who practice this method can enjoy the fruits of their meditation and this method. For this, cert ain actions have been recommended along with certain types of utensils. The Shiv

ambu is to be drunk from pots made of gold, silver, copper, brass, iron, tin, gl ass, earth, bamboo, bones, leather, or a bowl made of plantain leaves. The urine should be collected in any one of the above mentioned utensils and should be dr unk. However, earthen pots are the best for use." Practical instructions are given on how to collect and ingest urine, and advice on what is best to eat if you drink your own urine. It has to be kept in mind, h owever, that this document was written for those who practice yoga, work intensi vely with their body and soul and adapt their food to this lifestyle. Neverthele ss, the following verse contains some helpful general guidelines for everyone wh o uses urine therapy. Verse 5: "The follower of the therapy should avoid pungent, salty ingredients in his meal s. He should not over-exert himself. He should follow a balanced and light diet. .." Urine was equated with a divine drink which had the power to exterminate all kin ds of illnesses and ailments. The following verse suggests that physical purific ation is connected with a life of meditation. Verse 9: "Shivambu is a divine nectar! It is capable of abolishing old age and various ty pes of diseases and ailments. The follower should first ingest his urine and the n start his meditation." As said before, drinking urine is not the only way to apply urine therapy. A num ber of verses discuss the importance of massaging with urine. For example: Verse 48: "Shivambu should be applied to the whole body. It is exceptionally nourishing, a nd can relieve all ailments." Verse 87: "Oh Parvati! If he massages his body thrice a day and night with Shivambu, his c ountenance will be shining and his heart will be strong. His body and muscles wi ll be strong. He will float in pleasure." This last text is special because it connects physical purification with purity of spirit and state of mind. Verse 87 is an especially good example of this beli ef. The hormonal component seems to have a positive effect on the state of mind. Various people with whom I have spoken felt noticeably more emotionally stable, high-spirited and vital after they started urine therapy. Probably this partly has something to do with the aforementioned hormone melatonin. Other ancient texts which are part of the religious and spiritual heritage of In dia also contain fragments about and refer either to urine therapy or to 'amarol i' ('nectar of immortality'). A few examples: Hatha Yoga Pradipika 3;96-97: "In the doctrine of the Kapalikas, amaroli is the drinking of the midstream, lea ving the first for it is too pungent (too much bile) and the last, which is usel ess. He who drinks amari, snuffs it daily, and practices vajroli, is said to be practicing amaroli." Gyanarnava Tantra, Chapter 22: "After realizing the exact knowledge of dharma and adharma,every aspect of the w orld becomes holy - stool, urine, ovum, nails, bones, are all holy things in the sight of that person who has explored mantra. O Parvati, different deities are

living in that water from which urine is made, then why is urine said to be cont aminated?" Harit, Chapter 1 on Urine: "Human urine is basic, bitter and light. It destroys diseases of the eyes, makes the body strong, improves digestion and destroys coughs and colds." Bhawa Prakasha, Verse 7, Chapter on Urine: "Human urine destroys poison, properly used it gives new life, purifies blood, c lears skin troubles, is sharp in taste and contains many salts." Yoga Ratnakar, Mutrashtakam Verse 11: "Human urine controls bile in the blood, destroys worms, cleans intestines, cont rols cough and calms nerves. It is sharp in taste, destroys laziness and is an a ntidote to poisons."

How to apply urine therapy? Below you will find internal and external applications. Please also review our p ractice programs page for more information. Internal application Drinking - Morning urine is best. Take the middle stream. You can start with a f ew drops, building up to one glass a day. Good as a tonic, as a preventative and in minor illnesses. Fasting - Drink all the urine you pass, except for the evenings, otherwise you w on't get any sleep. You can also take some extra water. The urine will quickly c hange its taste into almost neutral. Fasting on urine and water cleanses the blo od. Toxins are removed through liver, skin and outbreath. Gargle - Gargling with urine works wonders when having a throat-ache. Also good for toothache and generally when having a cold. Enemas - Urine colenemas and enemas work very well in cleansing the colon and in providing a direct immune stimulant. Vaginal douche - Helpful in e.g. yeast problems, white discharge, etc.. Ear- and eyedrops - Ear infections; conjunctivitis, glaucoma. For the eyes, dilu te the urine with some water. Sniffing urine/Neti - Sinusitis and other nose problems. Very good preventative for colds and to clean the subtle channels in the head. External application Massaging/Rubbing - You can use either fresh or old urine. Old urine (4 to 8 day s) is generally more effective, but it has a strong to very strong smell. Massag ing the whole body is a very important complementary treatment when fasting. It nourishes the body through the skin and helps against increased heartbeat. You c an leave the urine on or wash it off after an hour or so, just with water or wit h a mild, natural soap. Fresh urine as an after shave gives you a beautiful soft skin. But it is also very helpful and healing in all kind of skin problems: itc

hing, sunburns, eczema, psoriasis, acne, etc.. Gentle rubbing of urine into acupressure points (e.g. on the ears) - very useful when reactions are otherwise too strong, e.g. with very heavy allergic reaction . Footbaths - Any skin and nail problems of the feet (athletes foot, ringworm, etc .) Compress - When rubbing is not appropriate, this is another way of applying urin e on the skin. Hair- and scalp massage - Renders the hair soft and clean. Sometimes stimulates new hair growth. Some guidelines and warnings: It is generally not recommended to combine urine therapy with the use of (prescr ibed) chemical, allopathic medicines or recreational drugs. The combination may be dangerous to your health. If you are taking any form of allopathic medicine, begin with the external application (urine massage) until you are free of all me dication, if possible. If it is not possible or safe to stop the use of certain medicines, start with t aking a few drops of urine internally or use a homeopathic tincture or gently ru b fresh urine into the acupressure points of your ears. Keep looking and feeling very carefully how you and your body are reacting on the treatment. When suffer ing from a serious illness or, generally, when in doubt, consult a good natural doctor.

Transmutation and the healer within [By Coen Van der Koon] "It has always been a kind of vocation for me to connect East and West, ancient and modern, spiritual heritage and science. So with urine therapy: it has a rich history, certainly here in the East. It is connected with spiritual practice as well as with modern scientific research. A good example is the research project at the University of Newcastle, England, into the effect of drinking morning ur ine by Indian yogis on their meditation practice. This paper is meant to make an other such a small connection. Over the years, urine therapy has proved to be an effective tool for healing. Mo st urine therapists, some of whom have been practicing urine therapy for decades , have never sought an explanation for why it works: their own experiences were sufficient proof. For some time now, however, there has been increasing interest in the search for a scientific explanation. This is because urine therapists be lieve it is important for urine therapy to be acknowledged as a valid method of treatment: doctors should be well-informed about the effects of this therapy so that as many people as possible can benefit from it. Since members of the medica l world demand an explanation, the interest in scientific research has grown. Another reason for this growing interest is that a number of 'mainstream' doctor s have also had positive experiences with urine therapy, which is reason enough for them to investigate how and why it works. This is not a recent development: in the 1930's, for example, the German pediatrician Martin Krebs successfully tr eated many patients with urine therapy, and subsequently published the results As a physician, he was convinced that urine therapy was an effective method of t

reatment, but he also realized that other doctors would not readily accept this fact since it conflicted with the scientific dogma which formed the foundation o f their profession. A good deal of research has already been conducted within the medical world into the composition of urine and its separate components. The researchers Free and Free published a report listing two hundred substances found in urine. They poin t out that these are only the most significant substances, and that urine probab ly contains thousands of components. Several substances found in urine seem to be of value as medication, some of whi ch have already been processed and used as such. The fact that certain individua l components of urine are effective does not prove that urine therapy is effecti ve. Conversely, however, it can be assumed that the components which have a part icular effect as an individual substance, have the same effect when taken as a c omponent of urine. In certain cases it could be imagined that the combination of these substances with other components of urine reduces or cancels out the effe ctiveness, but this is not the most obvious conclusion. We can, therefore, reaso nably assume that if an individual substance displays a certain characteristic, it will also have this characteristic as a component of urine. The more individu ally effective substances found in urine, the stronger the argument that urine a s a total entity has a therapeutic effect. A condition of this argument is that urine as a total entity does not contain substances with an obviously harmful ef fect: as yet there is no evidence to suggest that such substances have been foun d in urine. The small amounts of possibly toxic substances which can be found in urine largely seem to have a positive effect on the immune system. If urine did contain extremely harmful substances, it would be difficult to explain how many people (myself included) who drink their own urine every day for years could st ill be in exceptionally good health. So research has not yet been conducted on u rine as a total entity which can be therapeutically applied. Still unanswered ar e questions regarding how and why urine therapy works, since urine is used here as a total entity. A number of hypotheses have, however, been suggested which can serve as the basi s for further scientific research. One of those hypotheses I would like to propo se here. This hypothesis deals with the immunological effect of urine therapy an d its deeper energetical dynamics. It deals with the so called 'healer within'. Urine therapy has often been associated with spiritual practice which might make it seem a bit magic. But, as science is discovering today, ancient spiritual id eas come very close to today's most recent discoveries in the field of quantum m echanics and vibrational healing methods. But back to the basics: Urine therapy (using self-produced urine) can be conside red to be an extension of the methods of Jenner and Pasteur. An important task of the immune system is to rid the human body of diseased or u nusable substances that have developed during the course of an illness. When the se substances reach healthy tissue, the serum or blood becomes stronger, the act ivity of leukocytes (white blood cells) increases, and the patient probably reco vers. This phenomenon is known as auto-inoculation or self-vaccination and can b e seen as mother nature's method of healing an illness without external interven tion. Urine therapy can be seen as a form of self-vaccination: certain bodily su bstances which have been removed from the body, some of which may have been prod uced as a result of illness, are re-introduced into the body in small amounts. T hese substances are re-absorbed into the blood through either the intestines or the skin. According to this hypothesis, the immune system is then given the chan ce to react appropriately. The doctors Remington, Merler and Uhr have demonstrat ed that a particular part of urine-protein is able to eliminate certain pathogen s.

This discovery supports the assumption that urine therapy can be used to treat o r prevent certain illnesses. In the early nineteenth century, Dr. Charles Duncan conducted research into therapies with self-produced substances, including urin e therapy. He demonstrated that patients suffering from gonorrhoeic urethritis (infection o f the urinary tube as a result of the venereal disease gonorrhea) produce their own medication in the form of their own discharge. Auto-therapy was applied here by placing a drop of a patient's discharge directly on the tongue, in order to stimulate the body's natural powers. This method had a strong healing effect at every stage of the illness: if applied at an early stage, it could cause the gon orrhea to disappear. Auto-therapy is based on the principle that the body can us e all fresh, self-produced, unaltered diseased tissue substances which originate from the micro-organisms causing the illness. Seen in this light, patients have their own medication in exactly the form constructed by nature to heal their co ndition. The results of Dr. William D. Linscott's research suggest that auto-the rapy strengthens and stimulates the immune system, in particular with regard to the T-cells. The T-cell population of several patients who initially displayed a low T-cell count increased after treatment with urine therapy. Workable affordable health care. The Transmutation theory Most of what has been said here will be valid from a strictly mechanistic point of view. The transmutation theory, though, needs a new, holistic paradigm which is based more on the dynamics of energies. In recent scientific research, a shift is visible from reductionism to holism. I t is beyond the scope of this paper to go into this matter. I nevertheless want to take the new paradigm fully into account here in trying to find explanations for the effectiveness of urine therapy. Urine can be considered to contain an ex act holographic picture of the body fluids and tissues. The biofeedback of this holographic information by re-ingesting the urine may well inform the energy sys tem in a way which helps restoring a disturbed balance. The medical doctor and u rine therapist Abele cautiously discusses the possible effect of urine as hologr aphic feedback: "The question rises as to whether urine could possibly be consid ered to be a sort of liquid-hologram. Once the body has been made conscious of u rine in an unconventional way (such as it being reintroduced into the body by in tramuscular injection) the whole organism evaluates it and subsequently updates its own regulating mechanisms (at least in specific cases)." The theory of transmutation implies that the body is capable, through energetic exchange within the body itself, to transmute certain substances or molecules in to other ones. 'Short-circuiting' the system by ingesting one's own secreted bod y fluids might stimulate the transmutational forces within and challenge the bod y to transform unusable substances into usable ones without being constantly dis turbed by new external input. It could possibly go as deep as to restructure dis turbed DNA. This would specifically apply to fasting on urine. An important aspect here is the theory of structured water. The body consists fo r the biggest part of water and so does urine. Not all water is the same though. The molecular structure of water can be less or more organized and in the latte r case one speaks of structured water. The more it is organized, the better all kind of enzymatic processes can do their job. These enzymatic processes, in thei r turn, are responsible and necessary for the digestion, absorption and transmut ation of all nutrients. It is scientifically proven how water in biological systems becomes more organiz ed. Water also becomes more organized through exposure to sunlight and through c

lose contact with crystals. The body is both a receptor of sunlight and it conta ins a high amount of solid and liquid cristallinelike substances. Also body flui ds themselves form fluid crystals. Urine is thus a cristallinelike substance containing a high amount of structured water. This structured water, when taken in again, promotes better enzymatic fu nctioning and it has a higher solubility for minerals. A higher amount of struct ured water in the body system is correlated with better health and more energy. The fact that urine is a liquid crystal substance, particularly because of the v arious salts in it, implies that it contains crystalline vibrations completely i n tune with the vibrational condition of the body. Re-ingestion might give the b ody valuable vibrational information needed for two things. Healthy vibrations w ill strengthen the already existing, healthy body resonance. 'Diseased' or stres s-vibrations will counteract any unhealthy resonance in the body. It is known th at disturbing sounds of any sort can be counteracted best by confronting it with the same sounds. The vibratory patterns of the body, both in the bones (solid c rystals) and in the tissues and fluids (liquid crystals), play an important role in the process of transmutation. The resonance field of a crystal can make a pr otein, for example, change its form into one that is more useful for the body, o r easier adaptable by it. Seeing urine as a liquid crystalline like substance containing a high amount of structured water may help understanding its healing qualities on the more subtle levels. This is just one little step in trying to explain the energetical effect of urin e therapy on the human organism. This way of thinking should be considered as a kind of scientific, modern 'alchemy'. There is nothing wrong or scary about this terminology and the way of thinking t hat goes with it. It is nothing new and at the same time highly modern. It provi des a chance to scientifically explain urine therapy in its fullest potential, w hile at the same time taking into account its rich, spiritually associated, hist ory. Urine therapy confronts us with a very concrete 'healer within' which works both on a mechanistic and on an energetic level. The latter implies that urine, as a holographic substance, can affect all levels of being, from the physical, throu gh the electromagnetical fields of the emotions and the mind, up to the subtler genetic vibrational information of the soul. In this sense urine therapy can be verily seen as one of the divine manifestations of cosmic intelligence. Thus the ancient name Shivambu Kalpa, a name and a therapy to be treated with ap propriate respect. ***************************************************** The Damar Tantra is an ancient Sanskrit work. It contains a detailed description of the system of therapeutics utilizing 'Shivambu', i.e. Auto Urine Therapy, as expounded by Lord Shiva to His Divine Consort the Goddess Parvati. There are 107 sholkas or verses in the meter called 'anushtup chnadas'. It is asserted in the Damar Tantra that all diseases can be cured by Shivambu (one's own urine), and all mankind can retain health and strength through the regular use of Shivambu. For the convenience of the readers, only the English translation of the Tantra verses are presented here.

Auto-Urine Therapy (Shivambu Kalpa): The Indian version as detailed in the DAMAR TANTRA.

O Parvati! I shall expound to you the recommended actions and rituals of Shivambu Kalpa that confers numerous benefits. Those well versed in the scriptu res have carefully specified certain vessels for the purpose. (1) Utensils made from the following materials are recommended: Gold, Silver , Copper, Bronze, Brass, Iron, Clay, Ivory, Glass, Wood from sacred trees, Bones , Leather and Leaves. (2, 3) The Shivambu (one's own urine) should be collected in a utensil made of any of these materials. Among them, clay utensils are better, copper are by far the best. (4) The intending practitioner of the therapy should abjure salty or bitter foods, should not over-exert himself, should take a light meal in the evening, s hould sleep on the ground, and should control and master his senses. (5) The sagacious practitioner should get up when three quarters of the nigh t have elapsed, and should pass urine while facing the east. (6) The wise one should leave out the first and the last portions of the uri ne, and collect only the middle portion. This is considered the best procedure. (7) Just as there is poison in the mouth and the tail of the serpent, O Parv ati, it is even so in the case of the flow of Shivambu. (8) Shivambu (auto- urine) is heavenly nectar, which is capable of destroyin g senility and diseases. The practitioner of Yoga should take it before proceedi ng with his other rituals. (9) After cleansing the mouth, and performing the other essential morning fu nctions, one should drink one's own clear urine, which is the annihilator of sen ility and diseases. (10) One who drinks Shivambu for the duration of a month will be purified int ernally. Drinking it for two months stimulates and energizes the senses. (11) Drinking it for three months destroys all diseases and frees one from al l troubles. By drinking it for five months, one acquires divine vision and freed om from all diseases. (12) Continuation of the practice for six months makes the practitioner highl y intelligent and proficient in the scriptures, and if the duration is seven mon ths, the practitioner acquires extraordinary strength. (13) If the practice is continued for eight months, one acquires a permanent glow like that of gold, and if it is continued for nine months, one is freed fro m tuberculosis and leprosy. (14) Ten months of this practice makes one a veritable treasury of luster. El even months of it would purify all the organs of the body. (15) A man who has continued the practice for a year becomes the equal of the sun in radiance. He who has continued for two years conquers the element Earth.

(16) If the practice is continued for three years, one conquers the element o f Water, and if it is continued for four years, the element Light is also conque red. (17) He who continues the practice for five years conquers the element Air, a nd he who continues it for seven years conquers pride. (18) Continuation of the practice for eight years enables one to conquer all the important elements of Nature, and continuation of it for nine years frees on e from the cycle of birth and death. (19) One who has continued the practice for ten years can fly through the air without effort. One who has continued it for eleven years is able to hear the v oice of his sour (inner self). (20) He who has continued the practice for twelve years will live so long as the moon and the stars last. He is not troubled by dangerous animals such as sna kes, and no poisons can kill him. He cannot be consumed by fire, and can float o n water just like wood. (21) O Goddess! I shall ase listen attentively. He lia) mixed with Auto-Urine s, and acquires happiness. tell you now about other variants of the therapy. Ple who takes powdered amrita (gaduchi, Tinospora Condifo habitually for six months, is freed from all disorder (22, 23 cont...)

Powdered haritaki (harade, Terminalia Chebula) should be assiduously tak en with Shivambu. This combination destroys senile degeneration and all diseases . If this practice is continued for a year, it makes one exceptionally strong. ( ...23, 24) One masha (about one gramme) of sulpher be taken along with Shivambu eve ry morning. He who continues the practice for three years will live as long as t he moon and the stars last. His urine and feces will whiten gold. (25) The powder of the Koshtha fruit should be mixed properly with Shivambu a nd taken in the prescribed manner. If this practice is continued for twelve year s, one's body will be free from the ravages of old age such as wrinkles on the s kin, and whitening of the hair. One acquires the strength of a thousand elephant s, and lives as long as the moon and the stars continue to exist. (26) If powdered pepper and Triphala Choorna (mixed powder of Terminalia Bela vica, Terminalia Chebul and Phylonthus Embica) mixed with Shivambu are taken reg ularly, one acquired a radiance like that of the gods. (27) The long with a e digestive h a mixture ime (escape essence (bhasma) of mica and sulpher should be taken with Shivambu a little water. This cures al disorders caused by malfunctioning of th system and all disorders caused by the Vata humour. He who takes suc regularly become strong, acquires a divine radiance, and can cheat t the ravages of time). (28, 29)

He who takes Shivambu daily and excluded salty, sour and bitter food fro m his diet acquires divine accomplishments quickly. Freed from all ailments, and possessing a body comparable to that of Shiva Himself, he disports himself like the gods in the Universe for an eternity. (30). ******************************

(Coen Van Der Kroon) Urine consists of 95% of water, 2.5% of urea and the remaining 2.5% is a mixture of minerals, salts, hormones and enzymes. Only urea , the substance after which urine is named, can be poisonous when present in the blood. However, this is ir relevant in the practice of drinking urine, as urine is not immediately put back in the bloodstream. In small amounts urea gets back into the body, it is purify ing, and clears up excess mucus. Urine is entirely sterile after secretion and h as an antiseptis effect. One of the liver's most important functions is detoxification of the blood. The liver removes poisonous substances from the blood and either stores them or secr etes them into the gall bladder. In the latter case, the poisonous substances en d up as bile in the intestinal canal. They then leave the body in the form of de fecation. After the blood is detoxified by the liver, it flows to the kidneys. The kidney's most important function consists of balancing out all elements in t he blood. They remove all superfluous vital substances from the blood, and filte r out a surplus of water. This water and the vital substances consequently form urine. In order to save energy and bring the blood into balance, the kidneys rem ove unused enzymes from the blood. The same goes for hormones, minerals and othe r substances. It is clear that urine is full of vital elements, which can hardly be called waste products. Human urine has strengthening and curative characteristics concerning many defic iencies. A mixture of potato and sulphur powder, mixed with heated, old urine he lps against hair loss. One should rub this mixture into the scalp; this slows do wn loss of hair. All kinds of throat inflammation can be helped by gargling with urine to which a bit of saffron has been added. Trembling hands and knees can b e helped by washing, and rubbing one's own warm urine into the skin directly aft er one has urinated. An universal and excellent remedy for all distempers inward and outward. Drink your own water in the morning nine days together and it cure s the scurvy, makes the body lightsome and cheerful. It is good against the drop sy and Jaundice, drunk as before. Wash your ears with it warm and it is good aga inst deafness noises and nost other ailments in the ears. Wash your eyes with yo ur own water and it cures sore eyes and clears and strengthens the sight. Wash a nd rub your hands with it, and it takes away numbness, chaps and sores and makes the joints limber. Wash any green wound with it and it is an extraordinary good thing. Wash any part that itches and it takes the itch away. Wash the fundament and it is good against piles and other sores. More than any other method, urine therapy represents the principles of natural medicine. One's own urine is a spe cific medicine for anyone who is ill. It is made for him or her personally and i s just right for what he or she needs at the present moment, because it changes its composition all the time. It is not only something that cures, but it also s ustains health when taken as a preventative. Taken energetically, one could cons ider urine to be an exact hologram of both healthy as well as diseased body flui ds. All information from the body fluids is collected and stared in the urine. O ne's own urine is the best medicine for the kidneys that we could imagine. It is clear for any hotistic health practitioner that all cycles within the body are interconnected, and this means that the healing of one of those cycles will have a positive effect on the others. Urine was often used at the front, for lack of other medication and as a disinfectant for surgery instruments. A Russia doctor treated many people from far and wide, and was able to alleviate or completely cure illnesses with nothing else than urine therapy, while other methods up unti l then had failed. Drinking urine is a good alternative wherever water is scarce. It not only satis fies the need for liquid, but also actually keeps the body healthy. Some time ag o there was an earthquake in Egypt. A survivor was pulled out of the rubble in C airo after being trapped for three days. The man had kept himself alive by, amon g other things, drinking his own urine and he was in excellent condition. I hear

d another story about a man who kept himself alive with his own urine for a week in a collapsed mine. At the time of his rescue, he looked fine and was in extra ordinary health. I also recently read an article about an Italian athlete who wa s lost in the Sahara for ten days. Upon returning to the civilised world, he tol d how he had drunk his own urine for lack of other liquids. He had kept himself alive by eating desert plants and insects and drinking his own urine. Shipwrecke d people can drink their own urinr to surtive, although one should not wait unti l the body is almost dehydrated before doing so. Drinking urine is also a smart way to survive in situations in which water is unsafe to drink. During earthquak es and floods, water is often infected with pathogens, while urine is always sce nic Drinking polluted water can cause serious, often fatal, illnesses Urine is a perfect alternative: if drunk fresh, it quenches thirst without present-ing any danger and is always available - any timer anywhere. Moreover, it will help com bat possible diseases. Soldiers have survived long periods in the wilderness by drinking their own urine, and soldiers in the Foreign Legion are sometimes instr ucted to rub their own urine into their skin in order to build up resistance to illness. Soldiers sometimes also uri-nate into their shoes before starting on a march, as urine apparently helps prevent blisters. The method of using urine for (new) shoes was often applied in the past and today I sometimes meet people who know how to get their shoes fitting by using this versatile fluid. It is genera lly not recommended to combine urine therapy with the use of (prescribed) chemic al allopathc medicines or recreational drugs. The combination may be dangerous t o your health. If you are taking any form of allopathic medicine, begin with the external application (urine massage) until you are free of all medication, if p ossible. Urine therapy consists of two parts: internal appication (drinking urine) and ex ternal application (massaging with urine). Both aspects complement each other an d are important for optimal results. The basic principle of urine therapy is the refore quite simple: you drink and massage yourself with urine. Even so, there a re a number of different ways to apply urine therapy. After your initial experie nces, you will be able to determine. Throughout the civilized world, blood and b lood products are used in the medical world without evoking the repugnance assoc iated with urine. We often use prepacked cells, plasma, white blood cells and co untless other blood components. Urine is nothing other than a blood product. We see ba-bies being breastfed and we are not filled with re-pugnance. We drink cow 's milk and eat cheese from cows, goats and other animals without a second thoug ht. We eat dairy products in the form of blue cheese (moulded) or as sour drinks such as yogurt and buttermilk, not to mention all the other bizarre things whic h are considered to be delicacies. If it is not the color (and it is not, becaus e we drink wine, beer and fruit juice of the same color);and if it is not the sm ell (and it is not, because we consume considerable amounts of cheese which smel l much worse) and if it is not the temperature, then perhaps it is the taste. Ho w many people do you know who have drunk enough urine to really know what it tas tes like? Probably not too many. Those who regularly drink their own urine say i t. But taking urine into your mouth might be too big a step to begin with. Rubbi ng a drop into the and first smelling your own urine can help you to overcome pa rt of the barrier. Really, it often does not smell bad at all. Many people even like its sometimes sweet odor. More extensive massaging of urine into your skin is also a good way to become accustomed to your life water. How can you overcome feelings of aversion to drinking your own golden elixir? Start by drinking a dr op then a sip each day and slowly build up to a fill glass of urine. This is the most comfortable way to allow your body, mind and soul to become accustomed to this therapy. Another method, which I myself used, is to begin by fasting for a few days. The urine is then so watery that after the second glass you will notice only a sligh tly salty taste, which makes it much easier to let go of the idea that urine is dirty or at least tastes dirty. If you still cannot bring yourself to drink your own urine pure, mix a dash of it into a glass of fruit juice or mix it with wat

er and honey. Then try to switch over from the dilution to drinking urine pure. Collect the middle stream of the first morning urine. The small amounts at the b eginning and ending of urination do not have to be collected. The first part rin ses the urinary passage clean, so the urine will be as sterile as possible. The last part sometimes contains sediment and is of little value. Only your own, fre sh urine should be used. You are comfortable with. This may vary from one to sev eral glasses per day. If you drink your urine not only in the morning but later in the day as well, the urine from approximately one hour after eating is usuall y the best. Do not eat up to thirty minutes after drinking your urine. After a m eal wait for at least an hour before drinking any urine. A higher level of hormo nal discharge takes place at night when the body completely relaxes and restores itself. Morning urine is therefore the most rich in vital substances. No extra diet restrictions apply if you drink one glass of morning urine per day, but a d iet low in salt and (especially animal) protein is prefer-able and it will ensur e that your urine tastes and smells milder. However, if you drink urine several times a day, a diet low in protein and salt is essential. A lot of fresh fruit a nd vegetables are recommended. Before a fast: Two days before the fast, decrease the intake of protein-rich and heavy foods, especially fried and fatty foods. Fruit and raw vegetables are eas ily digestible and ensure that the intestines clean themselves so the actual fas t can easily begin. In this period, start drinking greater amounts of urine. Ac tual fast: In this period, exclusively drink water and urine. It is best if you do not work during the fast. Although some exertion is possible, rest and relaxa tion are important in order for the purifying process to take place undisturbed. In the beginning, stay with drinking the middle stream. Alternated with urine, pure, clean water can be drunk. Once the fast has been in progress for some time , all the urine can be drunk. In this period, you will urinate quite easily (uri nating every fifteen minutes is not unusual). A complete body massage every day with old, heated urine is highly recommended. Urine massage is good for blood ci rculation, and massaging with old urine also ensures that you do not have heart palpitations during the fast. Furthermore it serves as a way of feeding the body through the skin, immediately into the muscle and lymph tissue. During fasts, u rine enemas are highly recommended. Many illnesses begin in the intestines and i t is vey important to get rid of toxic waste products stored in them and to keep them clean. After a fast: This period is necessay in order to slowly and caref ully return to a normal and natural eating pattern. You should take at least one week to gradually and carefully readjust your eating hab-its. The best way to e nd a fast is to stop drinking urine and water at the end of the afternoon. After one hour, drink a glass of orange juice, lemon juice with water, grape juice or apple juice. The next day, drink another glass of fruit juice during lunch. Fro m this time on, start eating juicy fruits. The following day, eat vegetable brot h, steamed vegetables and rice. This is a good way to return to your old pattern of eating, excluding the unhealthy habits. If fasting exclusively on water and urine is too great of a strain, consume one light meal per day. This fast proceeds according to the same basic rules as a co mplete fast, except for a few differences: 1) Eat a light meal consisting of wholemeal bread, brown rice with steamed vegetables, raw vegeta-bles or fruit preferably at the end of the afternoon. Che w the food well. 2) Refrain from eating or drinking (including urine or water) one hour befo re and after the meal. During a chronic illness, the body often has a high level of toxicity, which mea ns that poisonous substances can be found in the tissues. Administering an enema is a good way to remove poisonous substances from the body, and especially from the intestines. Furthermore, a number of substances found in urine are better a bsorbed by the body in this way than by oral ingestion. Urine should be kept in the mouth for twenty to thirty minutes or, when that see

ms too much, as long as possible. Gargling with urine is an effective way to fig ht gum problems or other month and tongue disorders. In addition, toothaches dis appear quickly and teeth stay healthy. It can help heal aphts quite fast. After gargling, spit the urine out again. Painful, burning and tired eyes can be relieved by applying a few drops of fresh or boiled urine to the eyes. Eye cups with urine are also quite useful. It is s ometimes wise to dilute the urine used for eyedrops with a bit of water. Eyedrop s are very helpful in cases of conjunctivitis. Irritation due to the wearing of contact lenses can disappear or be relieved by this treatment. Regular eye treat ments with urine therapy may improve eyesight. You can use four-day old urine fo r earaches or ear infections, as old urine enhances the effect of this method, b ut fresh urine will do as well. Put some drops in the ears and close them with s ome cotton wool dipped in oil. Salt water or urine is sniffed in the nose from a small bowl. Sniffing urine is the most effective treatment for a stuffed nose, other sinus disorders such as sinusitis, and problems with the uppermost part of the respiratory canal. This method also affects the eyes positively. If pure ur ine is too strong, dilute it with water. A 1/1.00.00 solution of urine should be placed under the tongue. Begin with two drops a day and increase this amount to ten drops a day. It is best to keep urine in a dark brown glass bottle which ca n be closed with a cork or some cotton wool, or glass pot with the top or lid pl aced on top of it (rather than screwed on). In this way the bottle or pot is clo sed while allowing air in, which is necessary for the fermentation process. When I go on vacation, I always keep a bottle of old urine on hand as a first aid re medy for wounds. It works excellently. Simultaneous compresses on the anus and a bdomen are very effective in the treatment of hemorrhoid. A mixture of clay and urine applied directly to the skin, can be used in the treatment of skin disease s. For those who value smooth, flawless skin and a healthy appearance massaging fre sh urine daily into the skin in the morning or in the evening is recommended. Th is is the secret of many a sex symbol and beauty queen. You can use this method during your morning shower. It is also extremely effective as an aftershave loti on. If you can smell the urine after using it as an after shave use a (natural) perfumed body or skin lotion. I rub fresh urine thoroughly into my skin in the m orning before I take a shower and pay extra attention to my face and hair. Skin becomes soft and smooth, and hair lustrous and clean. A foot bath is good for th e circulation and can also affect the entire body, as reflex zones are situated under the foot. Both heated, old and warm, fresh urine are suitable for these pu rposes. If you plan to take a foot or hip bath, collect your urine over the cour se of one day so that you have enough to fill a washtub half-way. You can dilute the urine with water to increase the amount of liquid in the washtub. This is an excellent remedy for dandruff, lifeless hair and even baldness and ha ir loss. Massage urine briskly into the scalp, allow it to be absorbed for thirt y minutes to an hour, and then wash it out with lukewarm water (do not use soap or shampoo). Hair becomes clean and lustrous. If you do not rinse out the urine, the effect is even more powerful. You can use both fresh and old urine for this . Your hair will, however, become more beautiful and vital. Those who apply urin e therapy often do not turn grey but retain their original hair colour at a late r age. If intensively applied, hair might grow again on bald spots. While practicing the more intensive form of urine therapy follow a diet low in p rotein and salt. Avoid refined pre-processed and synthetic foods such as sugar, white flour, and canned foods. Herbs (also in herbal tea) might cause the urine to taste sharp and bitter making it more difficult to drink. Some urine herapist s advise against drinking milk, primarily because dairy products are processed a nd contain unnatural additives, and because milk produces a great deal of mucus in the body. In general, it is advisable to decrease the intake of acid-producin g foods and to increase the intake of alkaline-promoting foods. Reduce the use o

f alcohol, tobacco and caffeine to an absolute minimum. Urine therapy is most be neficial if your diet contains no alcohol, tobacco products, coffee, junk foods & meat. Rub the infected areas with urine. Let the urine soak in for one to two hours an d then rinse with water. If this method is not effective, place compresses on th e areas. Never squeeze or puncture pustules or blisters. They usually disappear with correct treatment after three to seven days. Vomiting particularly occurs when urine tastes and smells very strong and unplea sant, such as is the case with fever, jaundice and a number of other diseases. I n some cases drinking urine can be extremely unpleasant. However, if you drink a s much urine as possible, the urine will quickly become thinner and taste more p leasant. Vomiting is good in so far as it cleans the stomach, so there is no cau se for worry. After vomiting, you will be less tense and feel better. If vomitin g continues even after the stomach is empty, call in professional help. After vo miting out urine, rest and consume only some light liquids, such as water with l emon juice. Once wellrested, continue with urine therapy. Fever is actually the most thorough way for the body to discard unwanted substan ces. Reduce the amount of urine to be ingested, depending on how high the fever is, and get a lot of rest. If necessary, temporarily cease urine therapy until t he fever has come down. During a cleansing process the body sometimes removes excess mucus from the lung s and bronchial tubes. If a great deal of mucus is released, reduce the amount o f urine to be ingested or stop temporarily. Start inhaling urine through the nos e, as this clears the upper part of the bronchial tubes. Avoid milk and dairy pr oducts, as well as all mucusproducing nutrients such as fat and carbohydrates. T his can occur as a result of the extra energy the body must exert in order to ex crete the surplus of poisonous substances. Pregnant women can practise urine the rapy with the following restrictions. The first morning urine should NOT be inge sted. After drinking water, tea or milk, you may drink the second or third flow. The urine should be light in colour, not too sharp or bitter and not too concen trated. Women can drink their urine during their menstruation period. Many women experience this as unpleasant, in which case it is better to stop for a few day s. It is always best to consider what feels good for yourself. It is advisable to monitor and balance your pH, i.e. the acid/alkaline condition of your body, especially with intensive application of urine therapy & fasting. Your urine pH should ideally vary from approximately 5 (more acid) to 8 (more a lkaline) during the course of a day. When there is a tendency to either overacid ity (acidosis) or overalkalinity (alkalosis), your body is not functioning corre ctly. Everything you eat and drink has an effect on your body and consequently on your urine. The healthier your dietary habits are, the better your urine will taste. Urine therapy in itself does not perform miracles. Unless you provide your body with the essential nutrients, it will not possess the raw materials needed to m aintain good health. If you eat healthly and consciously, your urine will contai n many essential nutrients which can be reused. Even so, the body may have a def iciency of certain nutrients if they are not supplemented by a complete range of foods. In the long run, this may result in illnesses and ailments. The human bo dy is not made to digest and absorb the many harmful additives to which we are n owadays exposed. Chemical products and radiation added to food products have bee n proven to be harmful.The recommended range of foods consists of fresh vegetabl es and fruit, whole grains, seeds, nuts, bean, natural sweeteners such as honey, and a limited use of dairy products. It is advisable to follow a vegetarian diet during intensive application of urin

e therapy. This means that it is best for you to refrain from eating all meat an d dairy products, or at least reduce this to a mini-mum, especially if you pract ise the therapy for an extended period of time. This also applies if you are fas ting or if you drink several glasses of urine per day. If you continue to eat me at, you probably have a high concentration of nitrogen wastes, uric acids and ot her acidic substances in your urine, which are not helpful when reingested in th ese large amounts. A surplus of these substances in the blood can lead to an abn ormally high degree of acidity. The body consequently acidifies, creating a bree ding ground for illnesses. The above mentioned substances in high concentrations cause the urine to taste extremely unpleasant. If you wish to keep eating meat, the best meat products are fish and fowl, free of hormones. Avoid foods contain ing refined flour products, white sugar and white rice. These nutrients also aci dify the blood and body. Avoid processed & radiated foods, and foods which conta in colorings or flavorings. Unfortunately, it is not easy to come by good, clean water. Tap water is full of harmful substances, such as fluoride, chlorine and aluminium. It is advisable, especially for drinking & to use purified water from bottles or containers. You can also purchase a good water filter. It is more difficult to come by fresh air . You can, however, go to a wooded area or the beach for the exer-cise you need. Exercise (in moderation) is important. It increases the heartbeat, stimulates t he circula-tion and strengthens the muscles. It also deacidi-fies the blood. Mos t importantly, it should form a part of your daily routine, and preferably a ple asurable part. The idea that urine is a poisonous waste product is not based upon fact. It has been scientifically proven that, besides water, urine consists mainly of mineral s, hormones and enzymes which are not harmful to the body. The body can reuse ma ny of these substances. Urine is simply a healthy liquid which is filtered out o f the bloodstream. What at one moment was part of the blood can be found in urin e a split second later. Certain substances are then filtered by the kidneys and secreted as raw materials, which can be directly absorbed by the body upon renew ed intake by way of drinking or massaging. The kidneys filter hundreds of litres of blood per day (approximately 1700 liters). The greatest part of the filtered urine, the socalled 'preurine', is directly reabsorbed into the blood. Excess s ubstances and the end products of nitrogen and protein metabolism together with water form the one to two litres of excreted urine. The kidneys are not intended to remove poison-ous substances from the body - the liver, intestines, skin and exhalation take care of this. Obviously, the food you consume finds its way int o the blood, and therefore into the urine, which is why it is important to follo w a healthy diet. Urine is a sort of information card which registers the condition of the blood. When that information is carried back to the body, the body can consequently rea ct according to this feedback; it will normally do this in an appropriate and pr ecise way. The body is an extremely advanced and intelligent system. The intestines donot absorb all the substances we consume and they are able to m ake a selection. To a certain extent, they select what is useful to the body and excrete the rest through defecation. Certain substances are converted by the ba cteria in the intestines into other substances which the body can use or absorb better in that form. You might ask if urea will not cause any poison-ing symptom s when taken in again. Although urea is poisonous when present in very large amo unts in the blood, only relatively small amounts of urea are ingested when you d rink urine This does not end up directly in the blood, but rather in the intesti -nes, and primarily has a purify, cleansing effect. The bulk of it does not show up as urea in the blood, but is converted into the highly useful substance glut amine. It is indisputable that the urine from ninety percent of the population is almos

t entirely free of all bacteria (sterile). Doctors and pathologists confirm this . This is simply because urine does not come into contact with anything until it is excreted, and furthermore contains substance which kill bacteria. In the oth er ten percent, micro-organisms can be found, which can be caused by a latent il lness or infection of the kidneys or urinary passages. Drinking urine which cont ains a certain amount of micro-organisms can nevertheless be considered harmless . We constantly eat, drink and inhale bac-teria. A large number of bacteria perm anently exist in our body, and they generally do not make us sick. Externally ap plied, urine is an excellent antiseptic remedy. Fresh urine is sterile & therefo re excellent for cleaning wounds. Old urine contains ammonia & other substances which ensure that the infection & decay are combated. Nature works in cycles, aflowing matter to re-turn to its original substance and be reused for construction. Many substances still floating through the blood in compounded form are filtered by the kidneys and return to their original substa nces. In this way they can easily be re-absorbed by the body. Once again, I refe r to the example of a tree which lives off its fallen leaves. Nature possesses a n infal-lible capacity for recycling, of which urine therapy is a remarkable, bu t sadly forgotten. I would again like to point out that we have all experienced this urine cycle as a fetus in the womb. For almost nine month, we drank our own urine in the form of amniotic fluid. This liquid was an important contribution to the development of our bodies. Drinking urine is certainly not strange. It is the foundation of our existence. Rational thinking has completely suppressed many natural human instincts. For ex ample, all animals void eating if they are sick. Many illnesses can be quickly c ured in this way, since digesting food requires a great deal of energy. By not e ating, we can direct much more energy towards the recovery process. Human beings , however, often continue eating when they are sick. On top of that, the patient is often advised to eat especially well, even if he or she is absolutely not hu ngry. Urine therapy and healthy dietary habits go together. As already mentioned, no s ubstance which has not earlier been consumed will appear in the urine. A change in dietary habits as part of urine therapy undoubtedly plays an important role i n a possible healing process. Exclusively change your dietary habits. Urine ther apy also has an extraordinarily positive effect if you fast exclusively on water and urine, in which case you completely refrain from eating. The same results a re achieved with a urine and water fast in one week as with a juice or water fas t in two to three weeks. The fact remains: the substances you eat, drink or othe rwise ingest are important, especially regarding longterm health. Applying urine therapy while maintaining unhealthy dietary habits is like lighting a candle to the sun. The taste of urine partly depends on what you have eaten and drunk the previous day. If you eat a great deal of animal proteins, use a lot of spices or drink st rong herbal tea, your urine will probably have a strong taste. Also, when your b ody is out of balance, i.e. if you are sick, urine often tastes stronger than no rmal. While applying urine therapy it is wise to reduce the intake of especially animal proteins and strong herbs and spices. If you wish to gradually become ac customed to the taste, mix urine with water or fruit juice or mix a spoonful of honey into the urine. The remedy, urine, is not lucrative. Urine is free and alw ays available for those who need it. In a world which money talks, urine therapy can appear be threatening to those who earn their living by manufactunng or pre scribing medicine. In short, urine therapy does not fit in the current economic picture of scarcity. Many people believe we are healthier nowadays thanks to adv ances in medical science. This is partly true.The flip side of the coin is that we have had to give up a great deal of freedom and independence. The enormous ef forts of medical science are partly based upon the failure to really cure illnes ses. Fighting symptoms is considered to be crucial, but this does not take care

of the cause. Urine therapy, being a real nature cure, not only reduces the symp tom, but also deals with the cause of the illness. When you are convinced it wor ks for you, the reluctance to talk about it will gradually subside, and maybe ev en disappear. Perhaps you will start to enjoy talking about it, as I do. You can be sure that you will be surrounded by plenty of laughter, which in fact can be rather pleasant. The odor of urine is much less repulsive than most people thin k since most associate urine with public toilets. Actually, it often smells rath er pleasant when applied fresh on the skin. I myself regularly use pure urine as aftershave and hair lotion. The majority of useful, vital substances is found in the morning urine. This is because at night, while you sleep, your body is totally relaxed. This deep relax ation gives the body the chance to carry out its recovery activities. The decomp osition products partly end up in the urine and can be reabsorbed and used for n ew build-up processes. This process of filtering by the kidneys returns the soca lled raw decomposition products to their original substances, which can subseque ntly be absorbed and re-used by the body. Certain hormones are also released dur ing sleep, a number of which are intended to bring about the above mentioned dee p relaxation. Reabsorbing these hormones ensures that we are more rested during the waking hours. It saves the body energy because it does not have to manufactu re these hormones again. Ingestion of the morning urine, which is full of hormon es, regulates the entire hormonal process. These hormones have the particular fu nction of maintaining hormonal balance. In theory, it is best to use exclusively your own urine, especially if internall y applied. However, if you are in a state of shock and cannot urinate, the urine from somebody else can safely be administered. If possible, use the urine from somebody of the same sex. Different hormones can be found in the urine from a ma le than in that of a female. For certain illnesses, it seems to be beneficial to ingest the urine from children. The urine from a child is often very pure, espe cially if the child follows a healthy diet. In some cases, the urine fron a chil d can also be used in the external massage application for the seriously ill who cannot produce enough of their own urine. Urine from different people usually does not differ much in its ingredlents, whi ch is why the urine from one person will also to some extent work for somebody e lse. However, your own urine contains personal, characteristic substances and pr ovides the particular information the body needs in order to carry out the heali ng process as effectively as possible. In general, it is no problem to combine urine therapy with any other form of nat ural treatment. This also applies to the use of nutritional supplements as long as they are natural. One should refrain from any chemically manufactured supplem ents. Experience has shown that the use of vitamin supplements in combination wi th the practise of urine therapy can considerably cut down the amount of supplem ents you need to take, because of the recycling effect. Many substances, such as vitamins and enzymes, act as carriers for other. Urine therapy can also be seen as a form of self-vaccination: certain bodily substances which have been remove d from the body, some of which may have been produced as a result of illness, ar e rein-troduced into the body in small amounts. These substances are reabsorbed into the blood through either the intestines or the skin. According to this hypo thesis, the immune system is then given the chance to react appropriately. In the early nineteenth century, Dr. Charles Duncan conducted research into ther apies with self-produced substances, including urine therapy. He demonstrated th at patients suffering from gonorrhoeic urethritis (infection of the urinary tube as a result of the venereal disease gonorrhoea) produce their own meditation in the form of their own discharge. Auto-therapy was applied here by placing a dro p of a patient's discharge directly on the tongue, in order to stimulate the bod

y's natural powers. This method had a strong healing effect at every stage of th e illness: if applied at an early stage, it could cause the gonorrhoea to disapp ear. Auto-therapy is based on the principle that the body can use all fresh, sel f-produced, unaltered dis-eased tissue substances which originate from the micro -organisms causing the illness. Seen in this light, patients have their own medi cation in exactly the form constructed by natute to heal their condition. Ten effects of Urine Therapy: Reabsorption and reuse of nutrients, Reabsorption of hormones, Reabsorption of enzymes, Reabsorption of urea, Immunological effect , Bactericidal and virucidal effect, Salt therapy, Diuretic effect, Transmutatio n theory, Psychological effect. The filtering process in kidneys should break down this tissue to its original m aterials, after which it can be reused by the body to build in new tissue. Reabs orption can be a means for the body to generally conserve energy: reingestion of hormones gives the body the chance to reuse at least a number of these, so that it is not necessary to expend energy on manufacturing new hormones. Hormones ar e actually extremely powerful molecules, the production of which requires a grea t deal of energy. Once produced, they are able to cause a complete alteration in the balance of bodily processes, the personality, the emotions and the state, o f mind, even if only a few molecules are released. So even the slightest reabsor ption of hormones may well have a powerful effect on our state of health and lev el of energy. I have already referred to research on the effects of melatonin, a hormone found in urine which possibly has a calming effect. Melatonin also has a powerful ant i-cancer effect. Some people recommend to use the first urine after sexual inter course. During the process of sexual stimulation certain hormones are released i n the higher endocrinal glands which have a regenerating effect on the body for men as well as women. On research conducted on the enzyme Urokinase, positive results can be expected from the effects of enzymes in urine as a total entity. Urokinase causes vasodil ation and resembles nitroglycerine in its ability to strengthen the bloodstream from the coronary artery to the cardiac muscle. Urokinase is extracted from urin e and brought on the market as medicine on a large scale. Besides water, urea is the main component of urine and is a decomposition produc t of converted proteins. A person excretes approximately an average of 25 to 30 grams of urea per day. We come in contact with urea at an early age, as a fetus in the womb. The level of urea in amniotic fluid, which consists for the most pa rt of urine from the fetus doubles in the last two months of pregnancy. Before w e are born, we drink well over half a litre per day of this liquid. The fetus al so breathes it in; this is essential for proper development of the lungs. Scars disappear after an operation on a foetus in the womb due to the healing capaciti es of the urea in the amniotic fluid. Bactena are not yet active in the intestinal canal. Once we are born, the intest inal flora start to work, which have a special role in the conversion of urea. S cientists estimate that 25% of the urea in an adult finds its way into the intes tines, where it is decomposed into ammonia by intestinal bacteria. The body reus es a certain part of urea; the extra supply created by applying urine therapy in creases the gultamine level in the body. This consequently strengthens the immun e system and specialised organs, and at the same time heals damages to the diges tive tract. Urea has the capacity to moisten the skin and regulate its condition one of the reasons why it is processed in many skin creams. Some pharmaceutical companies use horse urine for the production of urea and they actually have lot s of horses in their factory. Early urine is not toxic, although some toxic substances might be present in uri ne in small amounts, especially if one is ill. This small amount of toxic substa nces possibly contributes to the effectiveness of urine therapy. If toxic substa

nces enter the body, body's defence mechanisms are called into action (the immun e system). If substances which leave the body via the urine are the same as thos e involved in the illness process, they can stimulate the defence system to atta ck and in this way fight the illness. This might explain why urine therapy has p roven so helpful in treating allergies. The practise of drinking and massaging w ith urine allows antibodies greater access to the body, which stimulates the imm une system. Applying urine to a fresh cut or scrape prevents infection and keeps flies away (important in coun-tries with a warm climate). Urine compresses from fresh or old urine help to combat infections and often cause them to disappear. Although urine does not entirely prevent the growth of bacteria in the urethra (infections often arise), it clearly has a powerful antiseptic effect when exter nally applied. Salt solutions remove old mucous embedded in the mucous membranes. If one drinks a salt liquid, part of the sait goes into the body, where it dissolves the surp lus of mucus in the lungs and in other organs. As a salt liquid, urine also has a laxative effect and is recommended to relieve constipation. As it moves throug h the intestinal canal, the salt detaches waste and draws water into the intesti nes, as a result of which bowel movement becomes easier. According to this theor y, drinking urine, like drinking salt Water, accelerates the metabolism. It remo ves a surplus of sugar from the blood and draws out toxic substances from cells. In this way, urine therapy is a good cleansing technique. Using urine instead o f salt is also more effective because urea and ammonia are organic solvents: the y dissolve fats and other natural bodily secretions. These substances probably e nsure that the cous membranes and body cells are powerfully affected. By ingesting urine, one stimulates the body not only to excrete part of these me tabolic products at an accelerated rate, but also to convert another part into u seful substances. A previously mentioned example of this is urea, which is conve rted through ammonia into glutamine. The theory of transmutation implies that the body is capable, through energetic exchange within the body itself, to transmute certain substances or molecules in to other ones. Short-circuiting the system by ingesting one's own secreted body fluids might stimulate the transmutational forces within and challenge the body to transform unusable sub-stances into usable ones without being constantly dist urbed by new external input. This would spe-cifically apply to fasting on urine. Another important aspect is the theory of struc-tured water. The body consists for the biggest part of water and so does urine. Not all water is the same thoug h. The molecular structure of water can be less or more organized and in the lat ter case one speaks of structured water. The more it is organ-ized, the better a ll kind of enzymatic processes can do their job. These enzymatic processes, in t heir turn, are responsible and necessary for the diges-tion, absorption and tran smutation of all nutrients. Urine is thus a crystalline-like substance containin g a high amount of structured water. This structured water, when taken in again, promotes better enzymatic functionin g and it has a higher solubility for minerals. A higher amount of structured wat er in the body system is correlated with better health and more energy. The fact that urine is a liquid crystal substance, particularly because of the various s alts in it, implies that it contains crystalline vibrations com-pletely in tune with the vibrational condition of the body. Reingestion might give the body valu -able vibrational information. Healthy vibrations will strengthen the already cx -isting, healthy body resonance. Diseased or stressvibrations will counteract an y unhealthy resonance in tbe body. It is known that disturbing sounds of any sor t can be counteracted best by confronting it with the same sounds. The vibratory patterns of the body, both in the bones (solid crystals) and in the tissues and fluids (liquid crystals), play an important role in the process of transmutatio n. The resonance field of a crystal can make a protein, for example, change its form into one that is more useful for the body, or easier adaptable by it.

Applying your own bodily substances in an attempt to heal can lead to a consider ably broadened outlook on the intelligence and power of the body, and can increa se your ap-preciation and love for yourself as a physical and spiritual being. I nstead of regarding excretions (re-ally just a part of yourself) as enemies, you regard them as your helpers. This healthier way of seeing yourself might well h ave a powerful healing effect on your body. Urine therapy confronts us with a ve ry concrete 'healer within' which works both on a mechanistic and on an energeti c level. The latter implies that urine, as a holographic substance, can affect a ll levels of being, from the physical, through the electromagnetic fields of the emotions and the mind, up to the subtler genetic vibrational information of the soul. ***************************************** Universal Tao on Urine Therapy The Holy Water http://www.universal-tao.com/article/urine_therapy.html Complete Guide Urine Therapy (Coen Van Der Kroon) Urine consists of 95% of water, 2.5% of urea and the remaining 2.5% is a mix ture of minerals , salts, hormones and enzymes. Only urea , the substance after which urine is named, can be poisonous when present in the blood. However, this is irrelevant in the practice of drinking urine, as urine is not immediately put back in the bloodstream. In small amounts urea gets back into the body, it is p urifying, and clears up excess mucus. Urine is entirely sterile after secretion and has an antiseptis effect. One of the liver's most important functions is detoxification of the blood. The liver removes poisonous substances from the blood and either stores them or secretes them into the gall bladder. In the latter case, the poisonous substance s end up as bile in the intestinal canal. They then leave the body in the form o f defecation. After the blood is detoxified by the liver, it flows to the kidney s. The kidney's most important function consists of balancing out all elements in the blood. They remove all superfluous vital substances from the blood, and f ilter out a surplus of water. This water and the vital substances consequently f orm urine. In order to save energy and bring the blood into balance, the kidneys remove unused enzymes from the blood. The same goes for hor-mones, minerals and other substances. It is clear that urine is full of vital elements, which can h ardly be called waste products. Human urine has strengthening and curative characteristics concerning many d eficiencies. A mixture of potato and sulphur powder, mixed with heated, old urin e helps against hair loss. One should rub this mixture into the scalp; this slow s down loss of hair. All kinds of throat inflammation can be helped by gargling with urine to which a bit of saffron has been added. Trembling hands and knees c an be helped by washing, and rubbing one's own warm urine into the skin directly after one has urinated. An universal and excellent remedy for all distempers in ward and outward. Drink your own water in the morning nine days together and it cures the scurvy, makes the body lightsome and cheerful. It is good against the dropsy and Jaundice, drunk as before. Wash your ears with it warm and it is good against deafness noises and nost other ailments in the ears. Wash your eyes wit h your own water and it cures sore eyes and clears and strengthens the sight. Wa sh and rub your hands with it, and it takes away numbness, chaps and sores and m akes the joints limber. Wash any green wound with it and it is an extraordinary good thing. Wash any part that itches and it takes the itch away. Wash the funda

ment and it is good against piles and other sores. More than any other method, u rine therapy represents the principles of natural medicine. One's own urine is a specific medicine for anyone who is ill. It is made for him or her personally a nd is just right for what he or she needs at the present moment, because it chan ges its composition all the time. It is not only something that cures, but it al so sustains health when taken as a preventative. Taken energetically, one could consider urine to be an exact hologram of both healthy as well as diseased body fluids. All information from the body fluids is collected and stared in the urin e. One's own urine is the best medicine for the kidneys that we could imagine. I t is clear for any hotistic health practitioner that all cycles within the body are interconnected, and this means that the healing of one of those cycles will have a positive effect on the others. Urine was often used at the front, for lac k of other medication and as a disinfectant for surgery instruments. A Russia do ctor treated many people from far and wide, and was able to alleviate or complet ely cure illnesses with nothing else than urine therapy, while other methods up until then had failed. Drinking urine is a good alternative wherever water is scarce. It not only s atisfies the need for liquid, but also actually keeps the body healthy. Some tim e ago there was an earthquake in Egypt. A survivor was pulled out of the rubble in Cairo after being trapped for three days. The man had kept himself alive by, among other things, drinking his own urine and he was in excellent condition. I heard another story about a man who kept himself alive with his own urine for a week in a collapsed mine. At the time of his rescue, he looked fine and was in e xtraordinary health. I also recently read an article about an Italian athlete wh o was lost in the Sahara for ten days. Upon returning to the civilised world, he told how he had drunk his own urine for lack of other liquids. He had kept hims elf alive by eating desert plants and insects and drinking his own urine. Shipwr ecked people can drink their own urinr to surtive, although one should not wait until the body is almost dehydrated before doing so. Drinking urine is also a sm art way to survive in situations in which water is unsafe to drink. During earth quakes and floods, water is often infected with pathogens, while urine is always scenic Drinking polluted water can cause serious, often fatal, illnesses Urine is a perfect alternative: if drunk fresh, it quenches thirst without present-ing any danger and is always available - any timer anywhere. Moreover, it will help combat possible diseases. Soldiers have survived long periods in the wil-dernes s by drinking their own urine, and soldiers in the Foreign Legion are sometimes instructed to rub their own urine into their skin in order to build up resistanc e to illness. Soldiers sometimes also uri-nate into their shoes before starting on a march, as urine apparently helps prevent blisters. The method of using urin e for (new) shoes was often applied in the past and today I sometimes meet peopl e who know how to get their shoes fitting by using this versatile fluid. It is g enerally not recommended to combine urine therapy with the use of (prescribed) c hemical allopathc medicines or recreational drugs. The combination may be danger ous to your health. If you are taking any form of allopathic medicine, begin wit h the external application (urine massage) until you are free of all medication, if possible. Urine therapy consists of two parts: internal appication (drinking urine) an d external application (massaging with urine). Both aspects comple-ment each oth er and are important for optimal results. The basic principle of urine therapy i s therefore quite simple: you drink and massage yourself with urine. Even so, th ere are a number of different ways to apply urine therapy. After your initial ex periences, you will be able to determine. Throughout the civilized world, blood and blood products are used in the medical world without evoking the repugnance associated with urine. We often use prepacked cells, plasma, white blood cells a nd countless other blood components. Urine is nothing other than a blood product . We see ba-bies being breast-fed and we are not filled with re-pugnance. We dri nk cow's milk and eat cheese from cows, goats and other animals without a second thought. We eat dairy products in the form of blue cheese (moulded) or as sour

drinks such as yogurt and buttermilk, not to mention all the other bizarre thing s which are considered to be delicacies. If it is not the color (and it is not, because we drink wine, beer and fruit juice of the same color);and if