I am easy going by nature, but I do have a sensitive streak. I am particularly sensitive to smells and can't bear the smell of rotten things. Such smells turn my stomach upside down and bring on an urge to vomit. This feeling usually strikes when I am in a tight spot or am very worried about something. Having sensitivities like this, there is no way I could drink body waste, I thought to myself. To my surprise, however, the three other people who were with me and heard Miyamatsu's story tried it the very next day. I laughed the matter off, thinking they were easily deluded, regarless of how persuasive Miyamatsu may have been.
But when one comes to think of it, no one makes any money off this therapy. Other health therapies, like drinking tortoise blood, egg extract or oyster essence, require outlays of around 100 dollars a month to keep up. But one's own urine is completely free. Not a cent goes to Mr. Miyamatsu.
I still had my doubts and asked him whether urine wasn't actually a placebo and individuals who believed in it were just psyching themselves up. I reminded him most ailments can betraced to one's state of mind.
But Miyamatsu said initially he did not believe in the power of urine and tried it only because he felt he had no other alternative. He did not have any expectations but found it taking almost immediate effect on his body. I had to believe him, since Miyamatsu is far from the fanatical type, but is rather on the cool side.
A month later, I met my friends who had begun the therapy. The converstion centered on how their bodies had changed in the meantime. Miyamatsu was present, but the newcomers to urine therapy dominated the lively conversation. They agreed that urine had a cleansing effect on their stomachs and intestines and said they felt that the first glass of urine in the moring on an empty stomach went through their systems in a flash.