Posted on 09/02/2004 12:25:32 PM PDT by harrycarey
Cup of urine a day keeps ailments at bay
Thu Sep 2,11:11 AM ET
BANGKOK (AFP) - Drinking urine can eliminate sinus trouble, turn grey hair black and even cure cancer, a Thai academic said, citing a study of local Buddhists who engage in the unorthodox practice.
Ratree Cheepudomwit, of the Thai Traditional and Alternative Medicine Development Department, said hundreds of urine drinkers attested that consuming a daily cup worked wonders for their overall health and helped slow the ageing process.
She said that in June she queried 250 members of Santi Asoke, a strict indigenous Buddhist movement believed to have thousands of followers, and 204 respondents said they had learned from ancient Buddhist manucripts that drinking one's urine improved health.
"Of the respondents, 87 percent confirmed that it had head-to-toe benefits for them, including for example reduction of dandruff, grey hair, sinus problems and cancer," Ratree told AFP.
The medical elixir was not easy on everyone's system, as about one in 10 urine drinkers suffered diarrhea afterwards, but the practice should not be viewed with disgust, she said.
"Other groups of people who drank urine were Buddhist monks who practised in accordance to scriptures which are more than 2,500 years old," she said.
Well, it will cure athlete's foot. But that doesn't require drinking it.
About 20 minutes.
You forgot the first name "Rat Tree." What a lark.
Is Pabst Blue Ribbon running a new ad campaign?
Dohp!
Tell us something we don't already know.
Just damn.
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Actually, the cancer part might make sense. Dr. Burzynski has isolated peptides called "neoplastons" that seem to have srong anti cancer properties.
He extracts them from urine.
Also, oriental medicine in general places great emphasis on the content of the urine. A Dateline study once pitted an old oriental doctor against regular Western cancer therapies for breast cancer. The results? The old Chinese dude did as well if not better than all the radiations and chemotherapies.
I have also read reports that drinking urine can have strong, positive effects on the immune system.
That is, "Rat-tree cheepo-dum-wit" as pronounced by English speakers.
Doesn't it make you long for an ice cold mug of - WHAT?!!!!
Say no more. Aren't these the same people who think that eating bear pancreases and mushrooms that grow on the heads of certain caterpillars cures all sorts of ills?
Well the women's hormone supplement Premarin (estrogen) is from mare's urine. Crush one of the pills and the smell is...horse urine.
Can one still buy the Irish stuff here in the States?
That stuff will make your crap black.
BTW, I hear from my alternative medical doc that if you eat it, it will cure baldness, foot and mouth disease and replace missing teeth. Good thing I don't have any of those problems!
Now the big question is.. do they prefer it warm or ice cold?
blechhhh..
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