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Armstrong mentions the use of cow's urine for boils some rural districts. In one case that came to his attention, a man who had a number of painful boils under his arm was quickly cured by compresses of cow's urine.

Not long before the writing of his book, some of the most exclusive and expensive toilet soaps were made from dehydragted salts and fats from the urine of grass-fed cows and from the urine of Russian peasants, Armstrong says.

He cites more contemporary examples of the use of urine-therapy. W. H. Baxter, J.P., of Leeds and Harrogate, is said to have cured himself of cancer by drinking his own urine and applying urine compresses. Armstrong stresses that the treatment was particularly effective as Baxter fasted on urine and water only during the treatment period. Such fasting is an essential part of the treatment--at any rate in the case of serious diseases, he says.


Urine Therapy in Combination with Fasting

Drawing on various written records and oral traditions, Armstrong recommmends a therapy that combines drinking urine and topical application with fasting. Unfortunately, however, in this day and age when most of us are nine-to-fivers, fasting is no easy task. Experts in the field may acknowledge the effectiveness of fasting for curing all sorts of ailments, but in reality, it is extremely difficult for the uninitiated to fast under ordinary circumstances. First of all, one needs at least one month of free time. In addition, one needs to be knowledgeable about the amount and types of food to be eaten before and after the actual fasting period, as these are the most important periods during the process. Fasting is a waste of time without such knowledge.

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Quoting from Armstrong:

"Last century, between the eighteen-sixties to seventies, the drinking of one's own urine was a well-known cure for jaundice,and some doctors had the courage to prescrive it. I learned from one of my patients that, when he was a boy, his grandfather had cured him of an attack of jaundice by urging him, on the advice of a doctor, to drink all the urine he passed during the four days of his illness.

Among gipsies, the health-giving properties of urine have been known for centuries. Cow's urine has been taken in large quantities for the cure of Bright's disease, dropsy and other afflictions. I once met a Dorset farmer who had over a period of sixty years drunk four pints of cow's urine a day. He was 80 at the time, strainght as a yard-stick, and he told me that he was never ill. He had, on the advice of a gipsy, begun the treatment at the age of 20 for throat and chest trouble. Nevertheless, cow's urine as a curative agent is inferior to the patient's own urine, and I have known it to fail in a case of Bright's disease brought on by alcoholism."

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Armstrong notes that urine was extolled as a valuable mouthwash by a Parisian dentist in the 18th century.

He cites Prof. Jean Rostande, who repeatedly stressed the biological significance of hormones found in urine in Candide:

"A recent discovery regarding the activity of hormones has completely revolutionized their study--viz., that certain of them filter through the kidney to pass out in the urine. Multile hypophysical hormones, the hormones of the adrenal and hormones of the sexual glands, have been found in normal urine. The discovery of hormone-urinoltogy has had far-reaching consequences. Urine provides a practically unlimited quantity of basic matter...From the therapeutic point of view it is possible to envisage the use of these human hormones as apparently capable of exercising great power over the human organism..."

Armstrong points out that urine was extolled in olden days and misunderstood by semi-modern society, but has finally been considered an invaluable magic potent which contains highly purified and large quantities of vitally imortant elements. This view bears out contentions by a Mr. Ellis Barker that "our body distills the most wonderful medicines and provides the most perfect serums and anti-bodies," he states.

Armstrong quotes a pamphlet by Dr. T. Wilson Deachman, Ph.C., M.D., who writes:

"As the urine content varies according to the pathological state of the patient, its use is indicated in all forms of disease except those caused by traumatism (broken limbs) or those that are of a mechanical nature. It saves the physician from the mistake that is made in selecting the indicated remedy from three thousand drugs or more... What cannot be cured by the forces of the body cannot be cured by the forces outside the body."

Armstrong notes that Maurice Wilson, who attempted to climb Mount Everest, ascribed his immunity and astonishing stamina to his many fasts on urine only and to urine massages, both of which he learned from Tibetan Llamas and Indian yogis. These individuals claim to live to a great age through the use of urine and can also traverse deserts inaccessible to ordinary mortals, he says.

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Getting back to The Water of Life, Armstrong goes further back in history in citing the use of urine. According to a book called Salmon's English Physician published in 1695:

"It (urine) is the serum or watery part of the blood, which being diverted by the emulgent arteries to the reins is there separated, and by the ferment of the parts, converted in to urine. Man' or woman's urine is hot, dry (?), dissolving, cleasing, discussing, resists putrefaction; used inwardly against obstructions of the liver, spleen, gall, as also against the Dropsie, Jaundice, Stoppage of the terms in women, the Plague and all manner of malign fevers...

Outwardly (applied) it cleanses the skin and softens it by washing it therewith, especially being warm, or new made. Cleanses, heals and dries up wounds, though made with poisoned weapons. Cures dandruff, scurf, and bathed upon the pulses, cools the heat of fevers. Is excellent against trembling, numbness and the palsy, and bathed upon the region of the spleen, urine eases the pains thereof.

The virtues of the volatile salts of urine--It powerfully absorbs acids and destroys the very root of most diseases in human bodies. It opens all obstruction of... Reins, Mysentery and Womb, purifies the whole mass of Blood and Humous cures...Caclexia...Rheumatism and Hypochondriac diseases, and is given with admirable success in Epilepsies, Vertigoes, Apoplexies, Convulsions, Lythargies, Migraine, Palsies, Lameness, Numbness, loss of the use of limbs, atrophies, vapors, fits of the mother, and most cold and moist diseases of the head, brain, nerves, joints and womb. (Leucorrhoea should be added to this list.)

It opens obstructions of the reins and urinary passages, disssolves tartarous coagulations in those parts, breaks and expels stone and gravel."

The "root of most diseases" is thought to refer to the impurities and foreign matter within the various organs. Urine helps to purify the blood by washing out these impurities, thereby making it possible for the body to overcome all diseases.

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I can vouch for urine's efficacy as stated above. One of my acquaintances was able to clear up ringing in the ears by following my advice to insert some urine into his ears. Pouring a little urine into the ears helped me cure an inflammation of the middle ear. I simply squirted some in my ear each morning with a water squirter, left it remain there for few minutes, then drained it. Since urine is volatile, it will evaporate quickly if adequately drained. It works wonders on ear inflammations, too.

I know for a fact that urine is good for the eyes. My own eyesight has steadily improved over the years. Interestingly enough, colors take on a much more vivid hue once one starts using urine eye drops. Urine helps to rid the eyes of dirt, dust, and sleep and leaves them feeling very refreshed.

Armstrong mentions using urine as a hand lotion, but I have found it effective in curing athlete's foot. It only took two weeks to get rid of that. Readers who usually wear nylon socks and find themselves troubled by athlete's feet are strongly recommended it to try it.

I am well aware of urine's efficacy on the anus. Hemorrhoids will clear up simply by moistening some cotton balls with urine and applying them to the anus. Be sure to remoisten them from time to time.

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He begins his book with such skepticism about modern Western medicine and its foundations, asking why doctors can't suggest anything better than surgery, radium or X-rays even after cancer researchers have spent 50 yeears studying the cause and cure of malignancies.

He then cites the value of urine as a curative agent, taking up examples from old and contemporary sources. Initally, he quotes from a book entitled One Thoundand Notable Things, whch was published in England, Scotland and Ireland at the beginning of the 19th century:

"An universal and excellent remedy for all distempers inward and outward--Drink your own water in the morning nine days together and it cures the scurvy, makes the body lightsome and cheerful.

It is good against the dropsy and jaundice, drunk as before(stated).

Wash your ears with it warm and it is good against deafness, noises and most other ailments in the ears.

Wash your eyes with your own water and it cures sore eyes and clears and strengthens the sight.

Wash and rub your hands with it and it takes away numbness, chaps and sores and makes the joints limber.

Wash any green wound with it and it is an extraordinary good thing.

Wash any part that itches and it takes itcheness away.

Wash the fundament and it is good against piles and other sores."

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Since I can read only Japanese and English, I have been unable to come across any literature on the subject in other languages. But from my meager reading, I have found one book I hope readers will look into themselves. That is The Water of Life.

Unfortunately I cannot introduce this work in its entirety due to copyright and other problems. I found the case histories cited by Armstrong extremely valuable but will confine myself to the book's most salient points here. I urge interested individuals to contact the publisher in Britain.

Naturally the book concerns urine. The author maintains that urine can cure all ills with the exception of ailments resulting from traumatic shock. He takes up various case histories and also his views as to reasons for its efficacy.

The Water of Life was first published in 1944, a period corresponding to the end of Britain's colonial expansion era after it had virtually extracted whatever it could from East Asia, Africa nd America. This period overlapped with the end of WWII.

At the time, British medical circles wielded enough power to enact legislation forbidding anyone other than a qualified medical practitioner from recommending urine therapy, or from writing or talking about its effects. Armstong's case histories were taken from data gathered before the law went into effect. He notes in the introduction that the law prevented him from supplementing that information.

Why would the British medical society have a law passed prohibiting urine therapy? Armstrong says it's because doctors would be unable to make a living if the general public was healthy as a result of having practiced urine therapy.

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Chapter Eight


Urine Therapy in Britain: The Water of Life


In this chapter I would like to take up an English-language book on urine therapy. The work, The Water of Life, was written by J.W. Armstrong, a natural healing therapy theorist. It was published in 1971 by Science Press of Britain. Apparently it was well received, because as of 1984, it was in its seventh printing.

The name and address of the publisher is:

Health Science Press
1 Church Path, Saffron Walden
Essex, England


I have included the publisher's address here so readers can purchase a copy themselves. This address was re-confirmed at the time when I wrote this first book in 1984.

Since starting urine therapy, I have experienced various changes in my body and have had the opportunity to come in contact with people who have told me various stories about urine. Urine therapy was more often than not a type of folk medicine that existed before modern Western medicine gained general acceptance. The strange theories, oral traditions, and actual practices that I learned of which span East and West and transcend time underscored to me the depth and range of this unique therapy.

After learning of various oral traditions regarding urine therapy, I felt some written literature must also exist and immediately began to search for references. But unfortunately I could find virtually nothing about drinking urine as a health tonic. Although the rapid development of urology has resulted in volumes of academic papers, none of them mention drinking urine. ranscend time underscored to me the depth and range of this unique therapy.

After learning of various oral traditions regarding urine therapy, I felt some written literature must also exist and immediately began to search for references. But unfortunately I could find virtually nothing about drinking urine as a health tonic. Although the rapid development of urology has resulted in volumes of academic papers, none of them mention drinking urine.

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The physical deterioration we experience with aging is, in essence, the drying out of the cells. Our bodies' water content is diminished by sweat, tears, saliva and urine excrement. That's why urine is dark colored and smells strong when we are tired. I make a point to drink extra urine when I'm particularly tired, as I can feel its reinvigorating effects in a matter of 20 minutes.

In a way, people do not so much require a diet of solid food. Our craving for solid food comes purely out of habit. Although we only need enough calories to keep our bodies running, we tend to stuff ourselves until we feel full. Overeating is another major cause of illnesses. A Japanese saying suggests eating no more than about 80 percent of one's capacity. What I am trying to get across here is that a cupful of food should give us adequate energy if it has enough calories to sustain the body.

The life cycle of trees provides an example of the wonderful workings of nature. The autumn foliage marks the separation of the leaves from the tree and their return to the earth. Yet the falling of autumn leaves is not without meaning. The nutrients contained in the leaves return to the ground and supplement the energy for the tree itself. The return of the leaves to the earth is part of a complex process in which the tree is given renewed life in the spring. So the decay of autumn leaves is not a futile process, but a meaningful cog in the life cycle of nature.

I believe urine plays the same type of function. Humans are intrinsically equipped with the power to heal themselves and the power to resist illnesses. We produce just enough nutrients and energy to sustain this resistance system.

Humans, like all other animals, are part of the natural world. Other animals drink their own urine. And in the animal world, the mother will eat the umbilical cord that has protected the fetus and sent her nutients to it. People around the world are said to have traditionally eaten human umbilical cords and some people continue to do so today.

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Humans are not born with perfectly formed bodies. Every person has his/her own Achilles' heel. I feel the accumulation of chemical agents in this weak spot accounts for the formation of cancer cells there.

Let's say a band-aid is kept stuck on the skin for an extended period. Unable to breath, the skin will turn white, and the cells will eventually die. The accumulation of chemical agents in the body will result in the same phenomenon.

Similarly, the bras in which women perpetually constrict themselves in are essentially synthetic nylon fibers bound around the breasts. While they may provide extra protection for the heart, the amount of pressure is something to be reckoned with. That much pressure applied to the wrist would cut off the circulation and leave the hand non-funtional. The same can be said of the area constricted by the bra. I personally think the increase in heart problems and breast cancer was much lower before the war.

I placed "cancer cells" in parentheses because I consider what Western doctores term "cancer cells" as clusters of accumulated chemical agents or the surrounding tissue that has been destroyed by them. In other words, I believe what Western scientists term cancer cells to be the product of chemical additives.

The human body is said to be comprised of about 70 percent water. That water is found in each cell of our bodies. Our cells are supported via the surface tension provided by this water. Each individual has a different number of cells. Initially we are born with about 400 million cells, but the numbers diminish as we age. Life expires once the cell count drops to a certain level.