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Eight Brilliant Uses for Urine
Published by Anne Lyken Garner in Science
March 3, 2010
So flushing it down is not the way to go.
1. Urine Therapy – Oral
This is a popular Asian practice for good health, and a cure-all especially for colds, flu’s and gout. It is believed that one should drink the first stream of the day, nice hot and steaming to boost one’s immunity.
If you do want to try it, you can choose to either drink it straight or mix in with your morning fruit juice, or a glass of water. It’s also good for the teeth as it has bleaching properties.
2. Enhancing Beauty
To improve skin quality, it is suggested that a wash in the fluid at least once a week maintains youth, keeps the skin smooth, and protects against most forms of dry skin. This bizarre activity is practiced even today having endured for thousands of years. There are of course the obvious advantages of cost and availability.
3. A Cure for Hangover
Urine is said to be the best cure for a morning hangover. Drinking the first stream of urine after an overindulgent night out is said to wake up the energy inside you.
4. For the Garden
If you have problems with the neighbors’ cats soiling your garden, the best cure is for the man (testosterone) of the house to catch his first pee in container and empty it out on the targeted area.
Some companies sell pellets made from the urine of carnivorous animals such as mountain lions and bobcats. These pellets are then scattered around the garden so as to deter animals like squirrels and domestic cats from marking territory (which they feel have already been marked by bigger animals) in your garden.
In addition, one part urine to 10 parts water is a great and free way of fertilizing the garden.
5. Ammunitions
Many years ago, stale urine was used to make munitions. The urine was left for more than a year to ferment. The salts formed from this fermentation were then washed and mixed with wood ash, dried out, then added to sulphur and charcoal to make black powder.
6. As Clothes Dye
In the past urine has been used as a mordant (this is a substance which helps fabric dye to set, like tannic acid or iodine) to help in the process of dyeing wool.
7. Jelly Fish Stings
Actually, urine should not be used as a cure for jelly fish stings since it releases the poisons in the sting rather than retard them.
8. Electricity
Physicists in Singapore have published an article in the Journal of Micro-mechanics and Micro-engineering about their success in creating the first paper battery to generate electricity from urine.
This paper battery will use the substance it is testing (urine) as the very source of energy used to do the test.
They will use this device to test for diseases like diabetes. It will be used by patients to monitor their health from their own sitting rooms (or bathrooms), and would be widely used as it will be cheap and accessible.
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In drinking urine isn’t their the danger of contracting shigella? I heard about a cruise ship with a tainted water supply, and the travelers were down with shigellosis. The problem stemmed back to urine in the water.
Anne, your article is very well written.
Hi Judy, as with everything else, I am certain that there are quite a lot of dangers in having contact with other people’s body fluids. This urine therapy only ever advocates drinking your own.
Having said that, there is no way I am ever going to bathe in, or drink my own urine. I may try the garden pellets idea to keep away the neighbour’s cat who constantly digs out my new plants, but I’ll have to say ‘no thank you’ to the others.
Thanks for the comment.
I actually tried #2. It works. Your article reminded me of how well it worked. I am going to do it again starting tomorrow morning. I have a 1 year old baby and I hear that baby urine is even better. Ha,ha…give it a try; my skin was never clearer or smoother.
Thanks for the reminder.
hi dwtai, I was actually told when I had the babies that their urine is good for washing your skin in. Your comment reminded me of this.
I didn’t try it though, for fear that I’d smell. I did see a tv show a while back where a man drank his own urine on stage. After he’d swallowed it, the hostess took a whiff of his breath and said that it smelt of pee.
So far, I’ve been blessed with good genes and don’t look even close my age, so thankfully I could give this particular therapy a miss.
Good on you though, and hope the baby pee works its wonders for you.
I was really surprised when I read some of these uses! I think (for me) this is one of your most interesting articles yet.
Urine is supposed to be good for ear aches too by putting a few drops into the ear.
There’s no way I’m going to drink or wear urine…I’ll just be content to look my age…and Darlene’s right about the earache and urine, my mom-in-law tried to talk me into this years ago, of course I ran!!
Why would anyone put a waste product in their body or on their skin?
Just because other cultures have been doing it for centuries does not mean it it safe or healthy. These are the same people who think animal penises (among other things) are for enhancing the sex drive, causing the destruction of entire species.
This is just nasty, much like rubbing feces in wounds or cremated ashes of dead ancestors on the body to become ‘one’ with them.
if you get a sting from a jellyfish pour a litre of urine on it it will help cure it
Try using urine on stained hands when you’ve been blackberrying
It looks like they have many good uses for urine but im suprised they didnt add the use of it on hair. I thought it sounded freaky when i heard it but i actually tried it and it worked. While showering if you pour fresh urine in your hair and let it sit for a minute and then wash it out. It will make your hair more shiny and it gives it volume.
befire shaving I wet my thick beard with urine and then apply a mixture of aloe creme (any kind)and urine and massage it in for a few minutes. The blade glides effortlessly for a close shave and my skin is very smooth.
I pee urine every morning into the toilet andd it gives the water a nice golden yellow…oh brother!
The first stream of the day can also be used for better eye sight. Just put 2 drops of the first stream in each eye. I’ve heard of people doing that to get rid of their glasses. It alteast will reduce your eye power and prevent the 40+ glasses.
Collect many liters of urine and pour it down holes made by moles. They will leave the burrow and go else where. Once I collected 40 liters of urine and when they moles returned, I poured it into the first hole they made in my lawn. I have not seen anymore activity since. Collecting all that urine saved many flushes of my toilet. You can save water too.
it’s a good article..but can u give me some crops/plants that i can test on to put some urine?
Thank You……! For my assignment…….!
Gargling urine for 20-30 minutes a day can cure any gum disease or mouth lesions! I hear it is goo to rub urine on your body before laying out in the sun, it helps give you a sexy dark tan!
Perhaps the wierdest thing I’ve read thus far
All jokes aside. Me, personally, I’m one to try just about anything once, especially if it promotes health. Urine WAS NOT an exception, mind you. To the skeptic’s surprise, including my very own, it worked. My HAIR, my SKIN, and my overall health has benefited. Incontrovertibly. Make no mistake about it. It works. Farewell…
Please I would like to know the negative side effects before i can try it. Thanks. Xty
urine therapy does work wonders. i have acne, and used pro-active. i was still breaking out. but i began drinking urine and also dabbing some on the dark spots on my face left from acne. I’ve been doing this for about three days now, and it is showing some great results. My skin is glowing more, my lips even look redder and healthier. (and i dont smell like pee lol!). As far as lightning eye colr, i’m not sure. I’ve been putting a couple of drops in my eye for the past couple of days and noticed that they were more radiant. As for all the skeptics: did you know that while in the woumb, you drank your own urine? Also: How could it be unhealthy if it promotes health and cures diseases?
not exactly related,
i have pee leaking out of my butthole and i dont know why?
it is very annoying and akward, it also affects my social life because it makes my farts really wet and sloppy
can some one help me get rid of these wet sloppy farts?
PS: sometimes when im in school i think i need to fart but when i push a bunch of poop just sprays out along with a loud duck noise
please help me