I recall my Grandmother speaking about a child with ear infection and how the mother put warm urine in the child's ear for relief.
I would have NEVER admitted to having an ear ache after I head Grandma tell that story.
(In my mind I saw an old woman squatting over a child laying on it's side. I never could figure out HOW she got the pee in the kid's ear)
As an adult, I now understand about collecting urine samples in a cup, but as a kid I had NO IDEA.
A vivid imagination is a horrible thing when you're a child.
Luckily, my family wasn't "into" the warm urine thing, LOL! But that reminded me that for earaches, we sometimes got warmed olive oil put in our ears, then cleaned out.
i've heard the urine treatment and I've also been told urine is sterile as it leaves the body. I don't know about that. I haven't tried it and don't plan on it.
Jungle medicine has some unusual treatments. They believe that packing a jungle ulcer with sugar crystals, i.e. table sugar, will heal it. I've done that and it does help.
But the most unusual I've heard about is the treatment for pink eye. Wash the eye as often as posible with the direct application of mother's milk. Wash it continuously as possible. The challenge is finding a willing donor.