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Chemical Agents are the Root of Most Illnesses


I have long considered chemical agents are the leading cause of most illnesses. Take the terrifying Minamata disease, for example. That tragedy was caused by mercury poisoning attributed to industrial effluent flowing into the Minamata Bay in Kumamoto Prefecture of Kyushu. Local residents who ate poisoned fish taken from the bay were stricken by the progressively debilitating disease that attacks the central system and is often fatal. The disease struck not only those who ate the poisoned fish but their unborn children.

The thalidomide "flipper babies" were also a product of Western medicine's unquestioning reverence for chemotherapeutic drugs.

I fear the chemical additives in our daily food have the same effect as mercury and thalidomide poisoning. Scientific data has shown that mercury ramains in the body for 70 to 100 years once it enters it. If that is the case, it can be concluded that our current ailments are primarily caused by chemical agents in our bodies.

I believe the cancer cell Western doctors are trying so diligently to uncoveris a composite of accumulated chemical additives we consume in our daily diet.

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Oriental medicine views sicknesses as the result of an imbalance between yin and yang (darkness and light). In other words, illnesses represent a shift from light to darkness. Illnesses associated with light are those related to the viscera:the stomach, small and large intestines, gall bladder, bladder and tri-heaters which assist the functions of the viscera organs. Those associated with darkness appear when the lungs, spleen, heart, liver and kidneys are affected.

In Japanese, the word "important" (kanjin) is written with the Chinese characters for "liver" and "heart" or "liver" and "kidney." In this way, Orientals consider these three organs the most important in the body. Serious damage to any of them will result in a life-threatening situation.

As Oriental medicine assumes that symptoms associated with any given illness will depend on the type of organ damaged, the approach to the healing process is entirely different from that taken by Western medicine, which assumes that drugs will eliminate the respective symptoms. Under the Oriental medicine healing process, a gradual change in one's symptoms and condition occurs over time, since the natural healing process involves a healing of the organs themselves.

For example, a person with a damaged liver can be expected to have damaged other organs as well. Regardless of how much one may try to treat the liver, the person's condition will eventually regress unless efforts are mad to treat the other organs as well.

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Urine Therapy Helps to Ease Irritability


Personal experience has led me to believe that hormonal imbalances are the main cause of most illnesses. Hormone balance should be considered a barometer of the body's condition. As I noted before, varying cell counts among individuals account for the various reactions to urine therapy. One of the first things urine therapy corrcts is hormonal imbalance. In women, menstrual disorders or other hormone-related illnesses clear up in a matter of three to four months. The same holds true for men, who are likely to experience and erection every morning. This phenomenon also depends to a certain extent on age, but it is safe to say that impotent men in their 50s and 60s can experience erections again.

Oriental medicine maintains that the five organs control our five senses. The kidneys control fear, the lungs are accountable for grief, the spleen for compassion, the heart for ecstasy, and the liver for anger. When the liver functions deteriorate, people are said to become short-tempered, taking offense at the slightest provocation and becoming violent.

I noticed my temper has eased since drinking urine. My friends attribute it to mellowing with age, but I began to notice it only after starting urine therapy. Those who continue urine therapy can experience such change in personality which, according to Oriental medicine, is an indication that an individual has become healthy.

An important first step in natural healing is ensuring that the body is fully rested--that means plenty of sleep. Insomnia is the biggest aggravating factor behind illnesses. All sick people have some common symptoms: inability to sleep soundly, constipation, lack of sexual drive among men, and menstrual impalance among women. In other words, hormone secretion fails to work properly.

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Today, it appears that the use of haramaki, or woolen "girdles" Japanese wear to keep their stomachs warm is gradually dying out with the older generation. What accounts for the Japanese history of wearing haramaki? For some reason, Japanese have a long custom of protecting the abdomen. Being born back in the 1940s, I can recall being bundled up in an apron-like harmaki like Kintaro, the boy wonder of Japanese fairy tales. The custom of woolen girdles is not limited to Japan, but can be found in Europe as well. I have seen them on some of my patients.

To digress once again, I understand that the brassiere first originated in Brazil. As everyone knows, Brazil is famous for coffee. In the old days, ripe coffee beans that had fallen from the trees were harvested in big round baskets which were then shaken to separte the beans from the leaves and other extraneous matter that got mixed in. This separating work was undertaken by women, who found that their bosoms got in the way when they were shaking the baskets. So it was decided to push their bosoms down by wrapping ta cloth around them. This gradually developed into the bras of today. This development was aided by entrepreneurs' desire to make money, the notion that bras heighten women's beauty, and Christian morality that proscribed the baring of women's breasts.

Bras first found their way into Japan after the war. Before that, it was common for women to breast feed in public. Yet once women started wearing brassieres from the tender age of 12 or 13, they naturally started having a hard time getting their milk to start flowing. But effecting change is a difficult matter. Japan has given up the haramaki for the bra, rejecting something good for the body for something detrimental. Trends like this account for the growing numbers of sick people. The practice of urine drinking probably fell into demise in a similar fashion. Bras might be causing breast cancer???

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Why Japanese Use Haramaki


Oriental medicine offers a simple explanation about the functions of the human body. Food and drink are eaten,chewed,and sent to the stomach,which digests this matter and sends it to the small intestine. The small intestine, in turn, separates the essence of this ingested energy from the residual food matter, sending that energy to the spleen and the residual matter to the large intestine and bladder. The spleen, meanwhile, sends the energy to the pancreas, where blood is produced. The blood produced there is sent to the liver, which pools the blood, regulates its flow to the body, removes any impurities from it, and sends the purified blood to the heart through lung, which circulates it throughout the body. Old blood is fermented in the body, sent through the kidneys in a purifying process and excreted from the bladder in the form of urine. The last of the five major organs, the lungs, meanwhile, draws the power of the the universe that is contained in air into the body, helps the functioning of the heart and blood circulation, adjusts our life energy and blood levels, and harmonizes the working of all five organs.

All my outward signs of illness disappeared within a year of starting urine therapy, except for one spot between the small and large intestines. I sometimes felt a pain in my lower right abdomen similar to that of appendicites.

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Chapter Seven

Urine Therapy from the Viewpoint of Oriental Medicine


As I noted before, in the three and a half years since I first practiced urine therapy, the pains and the fears I felt about my body's weakness disappeared slowly but surely. This phenomenon is part of the natural healing process that leis at the root of Oriental medical philosophy.

In this chapter I would like to touch on the conclusions I have drawn from comparing what I learned about Oriental medicine in my study of acupuncture and the self-healing treatment I came to understand during the process of drinking urine.

Oriental medicine dates back 5,000 years. Clearly it has remained in existence for so long because of its proven effectiveness in curing various diseases. The concept of the five elements lies at the foundation of Oriental medicine theory: the lungs control the nose, the heart affects the tongue, the liver controls the eyes, the kidneys oversee the ears and the spleen is responsible for the lips. In other words, the five main organs regulate our five senses of smell, taste, sight, hearing and perception of heat and cold.

Suppose an abscess forms on the tongue. That's an indication of a problem with the heart, in which case it is more appropreate to treat the heart rather than the abscess. Ringing in the ears or loss of hearing marks a deterioration of the kidney's functions more than a problem in the ear itself. Similarly, lip creams and gels will not cure dry or peeling lips, as these symptoms are warning sighns from the spleen. Needless to say, this type of diagnosis will not apply when the problems result from externally induced factors such as injuries.

It is safe to say that Western medical doctors will direct patients with ear or nose problems to ear and nose specialists, and those with eye problems to eye specialists. Eye specialists will check the eyes only, then prescribe medication or eyeglasses. They pay no attention to the condition of the liver. That is the main difference between Oriental and Western medicine.

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Urine Therapy Brings Together Husband and Wife


I first met my wife early last summer through the introduction of a friend. Initially, I had no intention of getting married, I had only planned to treat her on the request of that friend. I asked her to bring along her doctor's diagnosis. It included duodenitis, nephritis, a polyp in her vocal chords and rheumatic symptoms, among other problems.

Thinking how sly her doctor was for assigning her so many ailments, I told her about the effects of urine and my own experiences. At the next session she said she had started immediately after that initial treatment. I remember her looking at me as though she didn't believe a word I was saying when I told her urine therapy virtually assured her cure. As I recall, I used Reiki treatment the next time I treated her, but by her next appointment, our relation had been reversed,and she was treating me.

I'm too shy to relate my love story here. But we decided to get married within three months of meeting one another. That is despite the fact I didn't have any of the things most men prepare before marriage. All my belongings could fit into two suitcases. Other than that, all I had was the 300,000 yen that I had earned from a book manuscript.

I had to wonder what kind of woman would be willing to spend the rest of her life with a man like me. I offered no security, I had no concrete plans as to how I planned to make a living in the future, or where I would live. Why would anyone want to live under such risky conditions? I felt too wretched to pose these questions, so I couldn't bring myself to ask her about her feelings.

I took the opportunity to announce our wedding to friends gathered at a party to commemorate the publication of my book. The next day we went on a three-day honeymoon to Tateshina in Nagano Prefecture. That night she took out two exquisite wine glasses which she had carefully wrapped up in white cloth. The glasses were so delicate they looked as though they would crack at the slightest touch. There was a small red and white ribbon tied to their stems.

We promised to spread the word of urine as long as we lived and toasted with each other's urine.

Since then, we have become a "smelly couple." Every morning our converstion begins with talk about urine and bowel movements.

"Did you have a BM?"

"Yeah, a little."

"Don't worry, you'll get over the constipation soon."

"Hey, look at my stomach. It's totally deflated. I really feel good."

"Let me see," I say, patting my wife's stomach. For some reason, her abdomen is till distended from the previous night's dinner.

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My 74-Year-Old Mother Begins Urine Therapy

(Since then, she received a permission to depart from this earth and took an instant death, as she expected, at the age of 93)


Virtually everyone in my family has started to drink urine. When I first began, my mother and siblings would give me terrible side glances as though I had committed some kind of heinous crime, and did their best to keep their distance.

This year (at then) my mother turned 74. Most people of her generation are healthy to begine with, but it's hard to fight time when one gets to that age. Recently she has become somewhat sickly. But one day she suddenly informed me that she had started urine therapy. I nearly fell of my chair. I couldn't believe it, but it was true. It seems one of her friends heard about my stories and tried it herself, only to become the picture of health in less than a month. That person's trasformation finally convinced my mother to believe in urine.

This brought home to me the truth of the words in the Bible about prophets not receiving any respect in their hometowns. Until then, I usually treated my mother at least twice month, as she caught colds or felt sick enough to stay in bed a few days. But since beginning urine therapy, she has had no need for my treatments. Today, she manages a busy schedule and is not bothered in the least by poor health.

Only after realizing how much good health improves family happiness can one truly realize how important and wonderful good health is. Once individuals become healthy, they stop picking on each other's bad points and start to concentrate on their strong and good points. Good health really is a marvelous thing. It's only natural for a person to become negative when he or she is always tired or in pain.

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This case history relates to a terminal-stage AIDS patient. As most readers are aware, AIDS is predominantly found among gay men (although the number of heterosexual people with AIDs and individuals contaminated through blood transfusions has also increased rapidly).

I have found urine therapy effective in fighting the symptoms of this fatal disease.

As I noted before, drinking someone else's urine is not a good idea, as cell counts differ among individuals. In old Japan, it was said that drinking the urine of a virgin was desirable, but that is because the bodies of young people are still pure.

As we all know, AIDS is not limited to men, but has risen sharply among women as well. AIDS is marked by severe lethargy, sudden loss of weight, and the appearance of red spots on the face and all over the body. These symptoms depend on which of the five organs and six viscera have been damaged. The liver and large intestine, which governs portions of liver,are more often than not damaged by AIDS.

A Caucasian Canadian patient of mine had symptoms of AIDS. I told her straightaway about urine therapy. She was reluctant at first, but since she had been to a number of doctors but was getting no better, she began before our next appointment. I also urged her to apply some of the left over morning urine to the spots. Within about four months, the spots began to disappear, her energy and appetite returned and she was able to sleep soundly. After that, her condition improved in a manner similar to other patients.

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As I recall, I told her it may be natural for a single woman who drinks urine to worry about finding a mate. But there's no need to tell one's husband about it, and there's no harm in keeping it a secret. The notion of being healthy and capable of leading a happy life with one's husband seems more important than keeping a secret from him. And if drinking urine seems so reprehensible, there's no need to try it.

The moment Ms. K appeared for her next appointment, I knew she had started up. She had a completely different expression--a look of satisfaction that signaled that she had overcome a great hurdle. She also exuded some kind of inner radiance.

Ms. K said although she only drank a thimbleful of urine each morning, she was very conscious of the changes taking place in her body. She noticed a big change in her pulse rate, in particular. She seemed very surprised at these changes. Her condition continued to improve and afterwards, she followed more or less the same path as other patients had toward recovery.

It is likely that Ms. K's problems stemmed largely from her unbalanced diet. But her long exposure to a computer was definitely another factor. It's not easy to switch jobs in order to escape such vocational hazards. I'm afraid this type of illness is one of the biggest social delemmas faced by modern man. In my mind, urine therapy is the only way to overcome such delemmas. That's what I am trying to prove in this book.