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Is it ever OK to drink your own urine? No, but you can splash it on your face

By Ryan Bradley Posted 4.20.11 at 5:03 pm 3 Comments

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Urine is usually sterile (if it isn’t, you have a disease, probably in the kidneys) and has been used for centuries, if not longer, for ailments as varied as cancer sores, hair loss, and vertigo. The book “Urine Therapy: Nature’s Elixir for Good Health,” claims that if vertigo stems from a “mild circulatory problem or something of that nature…every morning and every night fresh urine should be rubbed on the neck and into the hairline. In addition, every time you wash your hair before shampooing massage some urine into the scalp and let it work for at least an hour.” While this is not medically proven to work, it won’t hurt you either. It might make you smell a little ripe.

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cafenitro

04/20/11 at 10:41 pm

Urine (topically) cures both dandruff and athletes foot. The enzymes kill the offending fungus.

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CodeZero

04/21/11 at 11:23 am

Urea, the chemical in which Urine gets it's name, is used in everything from hand creams to cigarette flavoring to a browning agent in factory made pretzels.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urea

I can sence a little bias in this article, personally I don't find the idea of using my own urine for anything other than maybe writing my name in the snow, I can't speak down about those that use it for other purposes.

Contrary to what the author says, it is NOT harmful. And i doubt it changed in the last 10 years, but when I was in the Military, if there was an absolute lack of potable water, urine could be used in a pinch. Urine isn't just water and waste, it contains unabsorbed vitamins and nutrients as well. So if it means death, or drinking urine, it's better to drink the urine.

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luckysaintluis

04/21/11 at 6:21 pm

well the wikimedia fool is completely wrong with "not recommended" and forgoing "evaluation", but any a.h. can write in wikimedia and ignore 4000 years of medical and therapeutical proof. What you drink in the urin are all types of antidotes produced by your wise body and many of them related to UREA are used since thousands of years.... but as long as some dump describes it as waist water and ugly or absurd ideas here we go again and again and again. Why dont we drive on free water when petrol is that funny......