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The Six Salient Points of Armstrong's Urine Therapy


As noted previously, the urine therapy advocated by Armstrong combines fasting and drinking one's own urine. He makes the following points drawing on the results of this combined therapy:

1. Forcing sick people to eat to keep up their strength is responsible for thousands of untimely deaths. Food cannot be absorbed by a sick body which is already full of obstructive matter. The only "food" for sick people is urine, as it can replace tissue unlike anything else.

2. Armstrong advocates the daily intake of one's own fresh urine, a glassful on rising and another glassful during the day. He recommends one meal a day, or two, at most, as adequate for maintaining health and strength.

3. All processed (de-natured) foods such as white bread, white sugar, polished rice and pasteurized milk should be avoided. White sugar is nothing other than an acid-producing aliment from which all the alkaline properties have been refined out of.

4. Excess starch does not provide energy, but rather merely clogs the system and inhibits its normal functions.

5. It is illogical and dangerous to try to combine drugs with urine therapy. Attempts to combine drugs with the urine-fast will result in failure.

6. Nothing is better than old urine for chapped hands, blisters, stings, sores. protection against perspiring feet, loss of hair, dandruff and various other skin afflictions.


Armstrong notes the book Mother India mentions that people bathe in and drink the waters of one part of a famous river in north middle India in the belief that it possesses healing properties. When the author of the book had samples of the water analyzed, it proved to be nothing more than a weak solution of urine and pure water.

Armstrong concludes with these words:

"Thus, Nature, if left alone does her work in her own way if we only have the faith to trust her, even though at first we may not understand her mysteries. Verily, Nature's ways are not our ways, and She defies and contradicts every superstition and orthodox tenet, practice and belief!"

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Those words apply every bit as much now as in 1918--perhaps even more so, Armstrong says.

"It is no exaggeration to say that, far from being an exact science, in spite of all "scientific" tests that patients are subjected to in these days, it (medical science) still remains such an inexact science that ten different doctors have been known to give ten different diagnoses relative to so apparently simple an ailment as persistent headaches."

He takes up an article in the American journal Liberty (Jan. 22, 1938) by a man in his late 20s who related his attempts to get rid of his chronic headaches by consulting ten doctors in succession:

The first doctor told him he had an obstruction in his nose, and must see a nose specialist; the second told him there was nothing the matter with his nose, but he must see an oculist; the third told him he had low blood pressure, and must have injections; the fourth told him he had high blood pressure,and must diet himself to lower it, the fifth told him his lever was enlarged, and he must have electrical treatment, the sixth told him his liver was not enlarged but it secreted insufficient bile; the seventh told him that his pituitary gland was not functioning properly, and he must have glandular injections; the eighth told him he was suffering from intestinal poisoning, and must cut down his eating and smoking; the ninth told him that his was a case of nervous debility, and he must take some pills for the trouble, the tenth told him there was nothing the matter with him and that his headaches were just headaches!"

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Armstrong says:


"However thick, concentrated, scanty and seemingly 'poisonous' urine may appear at the onset of such diseases as genuine Bright's disease, influenza and others, very soon it becomes filtered and greatly increased in volume when freely imbibed. This is a fact I have witnessed, together with other practitioners or urine-therapy, in hundreds of so-termed hopeless cases, and is the best and most definite answer to the objection with which I am dealing."


Finally he tackles the major objection put forth by most strident believers in modern Western medicine: Why urine has fallen into disrepute if it was at one time acknowledged to be such a valuable remedy.

Armstrong contends that the people who pose such questions are obviously not aware of the most elementary facts of orthodox medical history, which he refers to as:"...one long series of changes of policy, changes of drugs, of treatment of fads and fashions and 'exploded superstitions,' of altercations, of envies and even of persecutions."

He cites the Oct. 2, 1918 edition of The Times, which quotes Surgeon General Sir Watson Cheyne, M.P. as telling students at the Kings College H.M. School:

"Medicine is not an exact science. A good deal of what they (medical students) were being taught was not true. When they came to deal with life, they knew so little about the living body that they could not be dogmatic. They could only lay down hypotheses which would hold for a day then pass away; and just as the teaching of seventy years ago seemed to them very curious and not very sound, so it would be exactly the same forty years hence."

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To appreciate the significance of the valuable mineral salts shown to be to be contained in healthy urine, one needs to have studied The Biochemic System of Medicine, Armstrong maintains.

According to him:

"...As already implied, there are wide variations in urinary composition according to the foods and drinks consumed. For instance, taking fifty normal subjects, we find that whereas the average Urea N. amounts to 682, the maximum amounts to 1,829, whilst the minimum is 298. As to the volume of urine passed, it varies greatly according to diet and season of the year. Also urine passed at night is about one quarter of one half of that passed during daytime.

The idea that urine contains poisonous elements which the body is endeavouring to eliminate is based upon theory only, and is not demonstrated by the facts. As survivors in open boats and rafts often drink their own urine when their water supply becomes deficient, surely if they were drinking a poisonous flued they would die or become very ill? Far from this being the case, the practice of drinking urine is pronounced to be harmless, but (as the Medical Department of the Navy pointed out in a letter to an inquirer) 'the benefit obtained is not as great as would appear at first sight because in dehydration the output of urine falls to a very low level...' Meanwhile, I may remark that what may be a 'poison' when separated from its natural environment may not act as a poison when remaining in its natural environment."

The medical profession was apparently impressed by a book written by Charrin on the poisons of urine at the beginning of the 20th century. Armstrong, however, concurs with Prof. Jean Rostand, who later wrote:

"The time is not far off when it will be imperative to write of the blessings of urine."

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People who consider urine a colorless, transparent liquid that doesn't contain a smidgen of useful matter are wrong. State-of-the-art technology indicates there are more than 1,000 different constituent elements in urine (See p. 90-91 of Oshikko Kenko Shindanho), but it really isn't necessary to rely on such expensive equipment and advanced technology to get such a minute breakdown of urine's contents.

The following constituent elements and numerical values are provided in Armstrong's book. As the proportion in which these elements appear differs from person to person, these figures should be viewed as the average for a healthy person. Armstrong does not indicate exactly what these measurements refer to. I assume he is referring to the respective volumes of the constituent elements.

Urea N.(nitrogen) 682.0

Urea 1,459.0

Creatinine N. 36.0

Creatitine 97.2

Uric acid N 12.3

Uric acid 36.9

Amino N. 9.7

Ammonia N. 57.0

Sodium 212.0

Potassium 137.0

Calcium 19.5

Magnesium 11.3

Chloride 324.0

Total sulphate 91.0

Inorganic sulphate 83.0

Inorganic phosphate 127.0

pH 6.4

Total acidity as C.C.

N/10 acid 27.8

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The Head of a Chinese Herbal Medicine Firm Analyzes Urine


I would now like to introduce one more book on urine written by Yasuo Fujii, the president of Ryukakusan, a Japanese pharmaceutical firm. The book, entitled Oshikko Kenko Shindanho(Health Diagnosis Using Urine), was published in 1980 by Daiwa Shobo. It was the first book on urine therapy published in Japan. I recommend it highly, as it is very easy for laymen to understand about urine.

The breakdown of urine provided in Armstrong's book will be described later, but as Fujii's analysis is even more detailed, I will include it here in its entirety.

"The most effective means of detecting the warning signals our bodies send out is my monitoring the changes in our urine. But most people miss the opportunity to check the auto-regulatory mechanism that governs their health, as they pay little attention to urine, which they consider it dirty and filthy.

At hospitals, the volume, color, smell, and various other factors of urine are measured by different types of advanced equipment and reagents and expressed in extremely detailed numerical values. The constituent elements of urine that can be easily checked via current medical technology easily surpasses 200 items. It includes calcium, sodium, copper, fluorine, iodine, iron, lead, magnesium, sulfuric acid, phosphate, zinc, nitrogenous compounds. Elements in urine that are closely linked to proteins include albumin, gamma globulins, amino levulinic acid, 21 types of alpha amino acids, urea, xantheine. The carbon and hydrogen-related elements contained in urine include alpha ketones, citric acid, hippuric acid, lactic acid, and pyruvic acid. Vitamins include the ascorbic acid, choline, pantothenic acid, riboflavin and amine found in Vitamin C, and Vitamin A, among others. The list goes on and on, so I will stop here."

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Armstrong points out the unreliability of urine analysis as a means of diagnosis.


"Though urine-analysis is still a practice among orthodox doctors, it has been found that the elements in and general condition of urine depend far more on the character of the food and drink taken by the patient than on any fancied or real disease condition. Even the presence of sugar can no longer be regarded as an infallible sign of diabetes. This I have proved to my own satisfaction by taking for a day nothing but drinks made of chemical sweet powders, and nothing inthe way of food except a quantity of heavily sweetened ices. On such a diet, after twelve to fourteen hours the urine or an otherwise healthy person became charged with sugar and suggested to the doctor that he had diabetes! Similar mistakes have been made with regard to albumen found in the urine as the result of an ill-balanced diet. Some years ago a friend of the writer's connected with a Life Insurance Company had a number of 'Prospects' turned down owing to heavy deposits of albumen in their urine. Finally he brought three of these men along for investigation. By dint of altering their diet, all the supposed-to-be indications of Bright's disease, nephritis or albuminuria from which they were alleged to be suffering very soon vanished, and at the subsequent examination by the Insurance doctor they were told they must have had 'local inflammations' when previously examined!"

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Is Our Excrement Bad for Our Bodies?


Armstrong tackles one of the main objections to urine therapy, the question of returning discarded matter to the body.

"And now to answer another objection. How can it be right to take back into the body something which the body is apparently discarding? And yet if we turn to Nature, what do we find? We find that where instead of "scientific" manures, the dead leavesa are put back into the soil, the resultant flowers are the most fragrant, the fruits the sweeter, and the trees the healthier. On the other hand, where the soil is for some reason deprived of those chemical substances produced by the dead leaves,etc., then the trees which grow in that soil are disfigured by excrescences, which I think, quite aptly have been called tree-cancerss. What we are accustomed to regard as useless dead leaves are the very opposite of useless, and should be dug back into the soil instead of being swept away by the gardener. Let those who challenge this statement taste the Iceni Produce, grown from soil treated on the principle that all that comes from the soil should be put back into the soil, and they will soon be convinced that the principle is a correct one. The idea that Nature is wasteful is erroneous."

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Getting back to urine, one of the most troublesome question is why urine therapy hasn't become widely known and widely practiced if it's so effective. As Armstrong points out, one reason is the vested interest doctors have against its spread. But he also brings up another question.

"It has been argued that if man were intended to drink his own urine he would have been born with the instinct to do so. But one may as well argue that because man has not been born with the instinct to do deep breathing exercises or adopt other measures which have proved conductive to health, they are therefore invalid or reprehensible.

Take, for instance, the yogis of India. By dint of practicing breathing exercises, strange postures, etc., they not only arrive at a perfect state of health, but contrive to extend life far beyond the usual three score years and ten. At 150 years of age a proficient Hatha Yogi has not even a grey hair. It is true that the science of Yoga can only be safely learnt at the hands of a competent teacher; but that is another argument against the instinct theory."

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Say someone plans a 10-day fast. One should begin to cut back on the intake of food from the first to the fifth day before going into the actual fasting period from the sixth day one. After fasting for five days, the person should resume eating little by little from the 11th day onward. The body's condition will worsen rather than improve at this point unless one is careful about the volume and types of food eaten then.

I failed miserably the first time I fasted. When I resumed eating, I suddenly felt a ravishing hunger I had not experienced until then and tried to satiate this hunger. The more I ate, the hungrier I became. One week after the fast, I was in worse shape than when I started out. It's better to resume fasting at times like this. But since fasting involves a measure of danger, it's best todo so under the supervision of an expert. I must repeat, the most important part of fasting is the period when one resumes eating.

I have heard of cases of people fasting as long as 45 days. But Armstrong cites a case of a 101-day long fast on urine alone. A man blinded by a sting in one eye and continued use of atropine (a drug used to relieve spasms and dilate the pupil of the eye) in both regained his sight, Armstrong says.