“Urine was popular folk medicine throughout the seventeenth century. Thorndike gives many referneces. Emmanuel König, of Basel, in his book The Animal Kingdom (1683) recommended drinking one’s urine to heal heartburn, depressiion, gout, toothaches, colic, jaundice, and high fevers. Daniel Bockher, a German physician, in 1622 published a popular work titled Medicus Microcosmos. It priases the healing properties of urine, excrement, lice, sperm, tapeworms, and ear wax.”

“Among a spate of recent books on urine therapy, one of the most impressive is Martha M. Christy’s oversize paperback, Your Own Perfect Medicine: The Incredible Proven natual Miracle Cure that Medical Science Has Never Revealed!…My copy is a 1998 fifth printing!…Among blurbs on the back cover…are the following remarks by David G. Williams, M.D., of the Alternative Health Newsletter…Anotehr comment, “This agent was found to be definitely life saving,” is attributed to Dr. Manucher J. Javid, identified as a neurosurgeon at the University of Wisconsin’s Medical School, in Madison….I wrote to Dr. Javid, now retired, to ask what he thought of Christy’s book. As I suspected, he was appalled by how she had quoted him out of context. His research, he pointed out in a letter, was on the use of urea to reduce intercranial pressure. Urea, he explained, is not obtained from urine…”I can unequivocally state,” he writes, “that the use of urea iin medicine should not be extended to endorse any claim for drinking or injecting human urine.”

“Christy’s book reveals in vast detail how drinking one’s uring will cure cancer, arthritis, tuberculosis, AIDS, and migraine. You name it, urine will cure it.”… 

“Barnett and Adleman list the following side effects of urine drinking: nausea, vomiting, migraine, boils, pimples, rashes, palpitations, diarrhea, uneasiiness, and fever, but add that these are ‘normal’ symptoms that one should not worry about!”

“In his recent book Ask Dr. Weil (1998) he [Weil] says that although urine may have some value when applied to the skin, drinking it has no value whatever.

The author concludes: “I shudder at the thought of readers [of Christy's book] who are seriously ill, and who may be so persuaded that drinking urine will cure whatever ails them that they will not seek medical help that could save their lives.

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Source: Northwest Center for Health & Safety