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Re: Any views on(aggghh)...Amaroli! For Renee....Your opinion?From: Barbra (anonymous@obgyn.net)Mon, 4 Mar 2002 05:54:42 -0600 (CST)
At Sun, 03 Mar 2002, Renee wrote: > Despite the paucity of modern scientific substantiation, there is some common-sense evidence that explains why some of these beliefs exist. Let's start with using urine to sterilize and cleanse wounds. Remember a major component of urine is urea. Urea is commonly recognized as an effective antibacterial, antifungal and antiviral agent. Its mechanism is simple. The presence of urea in the urine is the result of the body's chemical balancing of sodium chloride and water ratio. When used on a wound, urea causes an osmotic imbalance that kills bacteria and fungus. It is so effective it is used in many topical ointments and creams sold pharmaceutically, both prescription and over-the-counter. Urea is found in a broad range of medicines used to treat inflammation. It is a main ingredient in the medicine Herpigon, used to treat herpes infections. Urine also can smooth and moisturize the skin. Your face cream or wrinkle remover most likely has urea or a derivative in it. Check out the ingredients. Each time you use it you are effectively smearing urine on your face. According to John Armstrong's 1971 book, The Water of Life, expensive and elegant European facial soaps often contain human, cow or pig urine. Historical anecdotes have said that drinking urine can prevent strokes and help break down blood clots and scabs. This lore was applied when investigators in the nineteenth century found that some component of urine could digest proteins, specifically fibrin, the key in clotting. In 1952, G.W. Sobel isolated the enzyme in urine that the folk lore claimed. He named it urokinase and it is now used in preparations to break up clots in heart disease and stroke. Apparently folk lore was right. Did modern medicine make it better or just more expensive? Certainly it's easier to sell.
How do you make a hormone?
Urine contains a number of
different hormones. Fertility drugs
contain estrogens from human urine
that stimulate ovulation in women
and sperm production in men. Maybe
the Zimbabwean tribe that drinks
baboon urine in beer as an
aphrodisiac has reason to do so. (I'll
stick to a scotch and soda.) If you're
taking Premarin, it's prepared from
mares' urine and other natural
sources, including human.
Several references recommend
drinking urine for sleeplessness. And
it's a well-known fact now that
melatonin is a natural hormone that
helps regulate sleep. So guess what?
Melatonin is present in significant
amounts in the urine, especially
morning urine. And not only
melatonin is present. There is a
compound known as muramyl
dipeptide. Simply put, it mirrors the
action of seratonin, another
well-known calming hormone. These
may explain why Vedic texts
recommend that yogis practice
amaroli to enhance the ability to
meditate more deeply.
Often there are broad, sweeping
claims made by proponents of
almost every therapeutic modality.
To entertain the possibility that urine
therapy can cure everything from
canker sores to cancer seems to be
one of those claims. There is no
therapy, massage therapy to
chemotherapy, aromatherapy to
heart surgery, that can hope to meet
claims of 100 percent success. And
honestly, I don't think most
proponents of urine therapy intend
such claims. But despite the first
impression that the Western mind
often has of seeing the modern
practice of amaroli as antiquated at
least and revolting at most, its value
need not be dismissed out-of-hand.
There is plenty of information on
the internet about urotherapy. Not all
of it is placed there by people trying
to sell a product. After all, the best
source is one's own "cistern"
according to the Bible. Whether it's
the ingestion of urine or its topical
application, there seems to be
scientific reason, if not scientific
testing, that says it makes sense.
The best advice is the advice you can
give yourself. Know it exists. Find
out more about it. Make your own
decisions.
>Barbara,
-- Gentle hugs to all, Barbra Camara
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