One of the first things we need to clear up is the common perception
of urine. Urine is not what you think it is. As a matter of fact, you
probably have no idea what urine is or how your body makes it.
In reality, urine is not, as most of us believe, the excess water
from food and liquids that goes through the intestines and is ejected
from the body. I know that we generally think of urine in just this
way: you eat and drink, the intestines 'wring' out the good stuff in
the food, and the urine is the leftover, dirty, waste water that your
body doesn't want, so it should never, ever be reintroduced into the
body in any form-right? Wrong.

No matter how popular a conception, this commonly shared scenario may
be, it just isn't true. Urine is not made in your intestines. Urine
is made in and by your kidneys. So what does this mean, and why
should it change the way you feel about urine?
In layman's language, this is how and why urine is made in the body.
When you eat, the food you ingest is eventually broken down in the
stomach and intestines into extremely small molecules. These
molecules are absorbed into tiny tubules in the intestinal wall and
then pass through these tubes into the bloodstream.
The blood circulates throughout your body, carrying these food
molecules and other nutrients along with critical immune-defence and
regulating elements such as red and white blood cells, antibodies,
plasma, microscopic proteins, hormones, enzymes, etc., which are all
manufactured at different locations in the body. The blood
continually distributes its load of life-sustaining elements
throughout the body, nourishing every cell and protecting the body
from disease.
As it flows through the body, this nutrient-filled blood passes
through the liver where toxins are removed and later excreted from
the body in the form of solid waste. Eventually, this
purified, 'cleaned' blood makes its way to the kidneys.
When the blood enters the kidneys it is filtered through an immensely
complex and intricate system of minute tubules, called nephron,
through which the blood is literally 'squeezed' at high pressure.
This filtering process removes excess amounts of water, salts and
other elements in the blood that your body does not need at the time.
These excess elements are collected within the kidney in the form of
a purified, sterile, watery solution called urine. Many of the
constituents of this filtered watery solution, or urine, are then re-
absorbed by the nephron and delivered back into the bloodstream. The
remainder of the urine passes out of the kidneys into the bladder and
is then excreted from the body.
So, you say, the body's gotten rid of this stuff for a reason-so why
would we want to use it again? And here's the catch. The function of
the kidneys is to keep the various elements in your blood balanced.
The kidneys do not filter out important elements in the blood because
those elements in themselves are toxic or poisonous or bad for the
body, but simply because the body did not need that particular
concentration of that element at the time it was excreted.

And medical researchers have discovered that many of the elements of
the blood that are found in urine have enormous medicinal value, and
when they are reintroduced into the body they boost the body's immune
defences and stimulate healing in a way that nothing else does.
As medical research has revealed:
"One of the most important functions of the kidney is to excrete
material and substances for which the body has no immediate need..."
(A. H. Free, and H. M. Free, Urinalysis in Clinical and Laboratory
Practice, CRC Press, Inc., USA, 1975, pp. 13-17)

For instance, the kidneys filter out water and sodium from the blood
into the urine. These are both vital life-sustaining elements without
which your body cannot function. But both elements could be lethal if
there were too much water or sodium in your blood.
Now what about potassium, calcium and magnesium? These are familiar
nutrients that we ingest in our food and vitamin pills every day, but
they're also in your urine. These nutritional elements are extremely
valuable substances to the body, certainly not toxic, and yet the
kidney excretes these elements into the urine. Why? Because it's
taking out the excess amounts of potassium, calcium, etc. that are
not needed by your body at the time they are filtered out. Actually,
it is this regulating process of the kidneys and the excretion of
urine that allows us to eat and drink more than our bodies need at
any one time.
"The principal function of the kidney is not excretion, but
regulation... The kidney obviously conserves what we need, but, even
more, permits us the freedom of excess. That is, it allows us to take
in more than we need of many necessities-water and salt, for example-
and excrete exactly what is not required."
(Dr Stewart Cameron [Professor of Renal Medicine, Guy's Hospital,
London], Kidney Disease: The Facts, Oxford University Press, Oxford,
UK, 1986)

But this isn't the end of the story. Scientists have discovered that
urine, because it is actually extracted from our blood, contains
small amounts of almost all of the life-sustaining nutrients,
proteins, hormones, antibodies and immunising agents that our blood
contains.
"Urine can be regarded as one of the most complex of all body fluids.
It contains practically all of the constituents found in the blood."
(A. H. Free and H. M. Free, Urinalysis in Clinical and Laboratory
Practice, CRC Press, Inc., USA, 1975, pp. 13-17)

Many medical researchers, unlike most of us, know that far from being
a dirty body-waste, fresh, normal urine is actually sterile and is an
extraordinary combination of some of the most vital and medically
important substances known to man. Now this fact may be unknown to
the vast majority of the public today, it is nothing new to modern
medicine.

To us, the public, urine seems like an undesirable waste product of
the body, but to the medical research community and the drug industry
it's been considered to be liquid gold. Don't believe it? Read this:
"Utica, Michigan - Realising it is flushing potential profits down
the drain, an enterprising young company has come up with a way to
trap medically powerful proteins from urine. Enzymes of America has
designed a special filter that collects important urine proteins, and
these filters have been installed in all of the men's urinals in the
10,000 portable outhouses owned by the Porta-John company, a
subsidiary of Enzymes of America.
"Urine is known to contain minute amounts of proteins made by the
body, including medically important ones such as growth hormone and
insulin. There is a $500-million-a-year market for these kinds of
urine ingredients.
"This summer, Enzymes of America plans to market its first major
urine product called urokinase, an enzyme that dissolves blood clots
and is used to treat victims of heart attacks. The company has
contracts to supply the urine enzyme to Sandoz, Merrell Dow and other
major pharmaceutical companies. Ironically, this enterprise evolved
from Porta-John's attempt to get rid of urine proteins-a major source
of odour in portable toilets.
"When the president of Porta-John began consulting with scientists
about a urine filtration system, one told him he was sitting on a
gold mine.
"The idea of recycling urine is not new, however. 'We thought about
this,' says 26 Whitcome of Amgen, a Los Angeles biotechnology
firm, 'but realised we'd need thousands and thousands of litres of
urine.'
"Porta-John and Enzymes of America solved that problem. The 14
million gallons flowing annually into Porta-John's privies contain
about four-and-a-half pounds of urokinase alone. That's enough to
unclog 260,000 coronary arteries."
("Now Urine Business", Hippocrates magazine, May/June 1988)

But urokinase isn't the only drug derived from urine that, unknown to
us, has been a financial boon to the pharmaceutical industry.
In August of 1993, Forbes magazine printed an article about Fabio
Bertarelli who owns the world's largest fertility drug-producing
company, the Ares-Serono Group, based in Geneva, whose most important
product is the drug Pergonal which increases the chances of
conception. Guess what Pergonal is made from?
"To make Pergonal, Ares-Serono collects urine samples from 110,000
postmenopausal women volunteers in Italy, Spain, Brazil and
Argentina. From 26 collection centres, the urine is sent to Rome
where Ares-Serono technicians then isolate the ovulation-enhancing
hormone."
(N. Munk, "The Child is the Father of the Man", Forbes Magazine, 16
August 1993)

Ares-Serono earned a reported $855 million in sales in 1992, and
people pay up to $1,400 per month for this urine extract.

Obviously, most of us are operating under a gross misconception when
we wrinkle our nose at the thought of using urine in medicine.
Urea, the principal organic solid in urine, has long been considered
to be a 'waste product' of the body. It's even been considered to be
dangerous or poisonous, but this, too, is completely untrue.
Like any other substance in the body, too much urea can be harmful,
but urea in and of itself is enormously valuable and indispensable to
body functioning. Not only does urea provide invaluable nitrogen to
the body, but research has shown that urea actually aids in the
synthesis of protein, or, in other words, it helps our bodies use
protein more efficiently. Urea has also been proven to be an
extraordinary antibacterial and antiviral agent and is one of the
best natural diuretics ever discovered.
Urea was discovered and isolated as long ago as 1773 and is currently
marketed in a variety of different drug forms.
These are a few more examples of commercial medical applications of
urine and urea in use today:

* Ureaphil: diuretic made from urea
* Urofollitropin: urine-extract fertility drug
* Ureacin: urea cream for skin problems
* Amino-Cerv: urea cream used for cervical treatments
* Premarin: urine-extract oestrogen supplement
* Panafil: urea/papain ointment for skin ulcers, burns and infected
wounds

Another urine-related product ingredient is carbamide. Carbamide is
the chemical name for synthesised urea. Where do you find carbamide?
In places you'd never thought of, such as in products like Murine Ear
Drops and Murine Ear Wax Removal System which contain carbamide
peroxide, a combination of synthetic urea and hydrogen peroxide.

Medical researchers have also proven that urea is one of the best and
only medically proven, effective skin moisturisers in the world. In
many years of laboratory studies, researchers discovered that, unlike
just about all other types of oil-based moisturisers that simply sit
on the top layers of the skin and do nothing to improve water
retention within skin cells (which gives skin its elasticity and
wrinkle-free appearance), urea actually increases the water-binding
capacity of the skin by opening skin layers for hydrogen bonding,
which then attracts moisture to dry skin cells.
This is a remarkable fact considering that women spend billions of
dollars a year on outrageously expensive skin moisturisers whose
ingredients, even in tightly controlled double-blind comparison
tests, don't even come close to hydrating dry skin as well as simple,
inexpensive urea.
So, as surprising as it seems, urine and urea do have an amazing,
voluminous history in both traditional and modern medicine.

An article, titled "Autouro- therapy", published in the New York
State Journal of Medicine (vol. 80, no. 7, June 1980), written by Dr
John R. Herman, Clinical Professor of Urology at Albert Einstein
College of Medicine in New York City, points out the general
misconceptions regarding urine and its medical use:
"Autouropathy (urine therapy) did flourish in many parts of the world
and it continues to flourish today... There is, unknown to most of
us, a wide usage of uropathy and a great volume of knowledge
available showing the multitudinous advantages of this modality...
"Urine is only a derivative of the blood... If the blood should not
be considered 'unclean', then the urine also should not be so
considered. Normally excreted, urine is a fluid of tremendous
variations of composition...
"...Actually, the listed constituents of human urine can be carefully
checked and no items not found in human diet are found in it.
Percentages differ, of course, but urinary constituents are valuable
to human metabolism..."
Look up urea in a medical dictionary. In Mosby's Medical and Nursing
Dictionary, urea is defined not as a useless body waste but as a
systemic diuretic and topical skin treatment. It's also prescribed to
reduce excess fluid pressure on the brain and eyes.

Uric acid, another ingredient of urine, is normally thought of as an
undesirable waste product of the body that causes gout. But even uric
acid has recently been found to have tremendous health-promotion and
medical implications.
Medical researchers at the University of California at Berkeley
reported in 1982 that they have discovered that:
"Uric acid could be a defence against cancer and ageing.
"It also destroys body-damaging chemicals, called free radicals, that
are present in food, water and air and are considered to be a cause
of cancer and breakdowns in immune function.
"Uric acid could be one of the things that enables human beings to
live so much longer than other mammals."
(O. Davies, "Youthful Uric Acid", Omni magazine, October 1982)

Urine is a critically important body fluid that has fascinated
medical science throughout the centuries. Medical scientists study
urine with tremendous intent because, unlike the public, they know
that it contains innumerable vital body nutrients and thousands of
natural elements that control and regulate every function of the body.
So, whether we know it or not, urine does have an extremely important
and undisputed place in medicine-and not just as a diagnostic tool or
as an ingredient of various synthetic drugs.

Your first reaction once you've read the convincing research
demonstrating urine's often startling medical uses may be a
willingness to use it as long as it's altered enough to make it
unrecognisable. Many people might consider a synthetic or chemically
altered form of urine-such as urokinase, the blood clot dissolver-as
preferable to using it as a natural medicine.
But, there are many reasons for using urine in its natural form
rather than as a synthetic drug or extract, not the least of which is
the fact that there is no synthetic equivalent for individual urine,
and never will be, owing to the tremendous complexity and uniqueness
of each person's urine constituents.

Just as nature produces no two people who are exactly the same, there
are also no two urine samples in the world that contain exactly the
same components. Your own urine contains elements that are specific
to your body alone and are medicinally valuable ingredients tailor-
made to your own health disorders.
How can that be? It is because your urine contains hundreds of
elements that are manufactured by your body to deal with your
personal, specific health conditions. Your body is constantly
producing a huge variety of antibodies, hormones, enzymes and other
natural chemicals to regulate and control your body's functions and
combat diseases that you may or may not know you have.
Modern research and clinical studies have proven that the thousands
of critical body chemicals and nutrients that end up in your
individual urine reflect your individual body functions, and, when re-
utilised, act as natural vaccines, antibacterial, antiviral, anti-
cancer agents, hormone balancers, allergy relievers, etc. (Talk about
the perfect preventive care treatment!)

Many doctors have discovered and shown that it's extremely important
to use our own natural urine in healing because extracts or synthetic
drug forms of urine don't contain all of these individualised
elements that address our personal, individual health needs.
Another reason that many doctors have emphasised the use of the
natural form of urine is that it does not produce side-effects
whereas synthetic drugs and therapies all produce side-effects, many
of which are extremely dangerous.
As an example, the urine-extract drug called urokinase, which is used
to dissolve dangerous blood clots, can cause serious abnormal
bleeding as a side-effect; but natural urine itself, which contains
measurable amounts of urokinase, has been used medicinally even in
extremely large quantities without causing side-effects.

If you're not familiar with just how pervasive and extreme the risk
of chemical drug-taking is, go to the library and look up a copy of
The Physician's Desk Reference for Non-prescription Drugs (Medical
Economics Data Productions Co., Inc., 1993, 14th ed.). This is the
doctor's guide to every prescription and over-the-counter drug on the
market, and every one of them is accompanied by a long list of
ominous and frightening potential side-effects.

On the other hand, in almost 100 years of laboratory and clinical
studies on the use of natural urine and simple urea in medicine,
extraordinary results have been obtained, but no toxic or dangerous
side-effects to the user have ever been observed or reported by
either researchers or patients using the therapy.
As we've learned, urea, which is the principal solid ingredient of
urine, has been synthesised and medically used with excellent results
and with no side-effects. But again, research has shown that whole
urine can cure many disorders that urea cannot, because urine
contains thousands of therapeutic agents such as important natural
antibodies, enzymes and regulating hormones that urea alone does not
contain.

Urine therapy not only has dozens of successful research trials
supporting it, but also thousands of success stories from people all
over the world. As many people today have discovered, conventional
medicine held no answers for either their chronic or acute illnesses
and health disorders-but urine therapy did.

About the Author:
Martha Christy is a nutritional and natural health-care consultant,
medical research writer and editor, and author of the international
bestseller, Learn to Control Stress with the Stress Test. Her other
books include Reconstructing The Real You, Even Good Foods Can Be Bad
For You (Personalizing Your Nutrition), Balancing Your Body's pH,
Simple Diagnostic Tests You Can Do At Home, and Homeopathy and Your
Own Perfect Medicine.

Urea

A very inexpensive product, you can purchase urea by the pound.
Professor E.F. Demopoulas, used urea to break the hydrophobic bonds
of cancer cells, which are protected from the body's own immune
cells. Urea breaks up this water structure, the colony of cells is
suddenly unable to feed, and the cancer is unprotected from the
body's immune system. In hundreds of cases of skin, eyelid, and lip
cancer, Professor Demopoulas, through injecting a 20% urea solution
around the tumors and by applying urea powder to ulcerated skin
tumors was able to realize a 99% success rate.

Urea, as you might already know, comes from urine. We get over 1,200
medicinal uses from urine, and there are a few books you can find on
urine therapy. Orally, urea aids in liver cancer if it is less than a
third the size of the liver, and aids with small lung tumors. There
is only one problem: it is quickly absorbed by the kidneys (they
recognize it immediately). A 50% solution injected into tumors shows
immediate reduction of tumor size and mass.

For liver cancer, urea can be used if your Blood Urea Nitrogen (BUN)
levels are tested once a week, and kept at 35-40. A solution of 25
grams of creatin hydrate is mixed with 15 grams of urea (the mixture
is called Carbatine—see "Drugs Known to Fight Cancer") in a quart of
water, shake well and drink 1/7th of the mixture every hour and a
half. Monitor BUN levels: if low, add 5 grams of urea; if high,
subtract 5 grams.

When taken orally after bowel surgery, only 25% developed lung or
liver metastases over the two years following surgery. [Clinical
Oncology, 1977, 3] A good enema is 15% urea and saline solution.

Urine Therapy

In 1945, John W. Armstrong published a book called The Water of Life,
A Treatise on Urine Therapy. The book explored the difficult-to-
accept idea that drinking one's own urine will promote healing and
restore health to those afflicted with grave illnesses. Martha
Christy also published a book on this topic titled Your Own Perfect
Medicine in the late 1980's. I highly recommend reading both of them.
Christy's approach is more technical and includes injections of
prepared urine tissue and taking urine drops under the tongue.

Armstong's approach is simpler: To resolve life-threatening disease
conditions, drink every drop of your own urine and neither eat nor
drink anything else until you are completely well!! In his book,
Armstong provides the history of many, many patients with a variety
of serious conditions (cancers, massive infections, heart conditions,
etc.) who were frequently near The End. In some cases, the patient
was so gravely disabled, that he couldn't produce any urine of his
own. In those cases, Armstong would'jump start' the patient with his
own urine. Afterwards, the patient was able to produce a small amount
of his own. With each subsequent ingestion of urine, the patient
would gain in both strength and relief from pain. For the most
serious cases, patients drank nothing but their own urine for periods
of 90, 120, 150 days! Some, even longer. Armstrong points out that
rubbing the body with old urine (for a substantial period of time,
E.g.1-2 hours) is a necessary adjunct treatment to ingestion in very
serious cases. In less severe cases, rubbing with old urine will
clear up most skin conditions and produce a smooth, blemish-free skin
if applied regularly (ladies, take note). Why this works is explained
at length in the books, but briefly the

1. replenishment of vital tissues lost to the ill patient through the
urine and the

2. reingestion, refinement, and re-filtering of antibodies and other
immune enhancing substances allows the body to exclusively
concentrate on destroying, unclogging, and removing the offending
organisms and diseased tissue, without the burdens of routine work
such as digestion and normal detoxification

Of course, we normally think of both urine and stool elimination as
waste, but urine, unlike feces, is totally sterile. Mind you, it's
the filtrate of your own blood. Many people in normal health drink
urine daily in order to keep their health and maintain physical
beauty. Get the books and read them. In the event of survival
difficulties, this simple technique can save your life.

Beyond the Urine Therapy Story, I knew I had discovered a trusted and
kindred spirit when Armstong began the book's Introduction with the
following words: "Owing to the increasing part played by vested
interests in many branches of human endeavor, not least in the very
lucrative providing of remedies for disease, intelligent members of
the public, are growing more and more distrustful of orthodox medical
methods."

He continued the book's Introduction by asking why, after more than
50 years (as of 1945), can orthodox cancer researchers only offer the
knife, radium, or X-rays to address this malignancy after so much
time, money, and effort has been expended to discover its cause and
cure? The author further inquires, why, after so many letters from
doctors testifying to the highly unsatisfactory results of radium
treatment (repeatedly published in the British Medical Journal), did
the Cancer Ring ( the Cancer Establishment or Cancer Industry as we
would refer to it today) continue to tout radium as the "best"
therapy? Finally, why, did the Cancer Research Ring, who "still asks
the public to donate large sums of money towards the discovery of a
cure", continuously discount and belittle effective treatments for
cancer, when those therapies were proposed by practitioners of non-
orthodox medicine?

58 years later, nothing much has changed when it comes to the
politics of Big Medicine. Today, we know the answers to John
Armstrong's questions. Only the most naive and uninformed among us
continue to believe the party line spouted by the
pharmaceutical/medical establishment and their propaganda flunkies
such as the The American Cancer Society: "The Cure for Cancer is just
around the Corner"; "Get a Checkup and Write a Check"; "The Race for
The Cure"; " Marathon to Beat Breast Cancer"; etc. It's pure rot:
nothing but lies to bilk the trusting and believing public out of
their money and fend the appearace of doing honest research. The
promoters and planners of these publicity/ fund raising events
deserve the greatest possible condemnation for their deceit.