AN AMAZING UNTOLD STORY
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by permission © 1994 by Martha M. Christy Extracted with permission
from Chapters 1 and 2 of her book Your Own Perfect Medicine
Published in 1994 by FutureMed, Inc., Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
There is an extraordinary natural healing substance, produced by our
own bodies, that modern medical science has proven to be one of the most
powerful natural medicines known to man. Unlike many other natural medical
therapies, this method requires no monetary investment or doctor's intervention
and can be easily accessed and used at any time. The extensive medical
research findings on this natural medicine have never been compiled and
released to the general public before now, but those who have been fortunate
enough to hear about this medicine and use it have found that it can produce
often astounding healing even when all other therapies have failed.
This book tells of the doctors, medical researchers and the hundreds
of other people who have used this extraordinary medicine throughout our
century to cure a huge variety of common illnesses and combat even the
most incurable diseases. This is the extraordinary untold story of a natural
healing substance so remarkable that it can only be called our own perfect
medicine. My own experience with this little-known natural medicine began
as a result of my search for an answer to many years of serious chronic
illnesses that had begun very early in life. Like thousands of people today,
I had developed chronic, degenerative disorders that couldn't be helped
by conventional medicine and which threatened to destroy permanently my
ability to work, function and simply enjoy life.
When I was young, I suffered through the same measles, mumps, chicken
pox and colds that everyone else did. And like other children, I played
hard, worked hard, and dreamed of the day when I would become a vigorous,
emancipated teenager, just like everyone else. But, for me, that particular
dream wasn't going to come true. One beautiful July morning at the age
of 12, I awoke with a start. Suddenly, surprised and frightened, I realised
I was lying in a dark red pool of blood that was so large it had soaked
through even the thick layers of my mattress. Trembling and weak, I pushed
myself up out of bed and felt a horrible, wrenching pain tear through my
abdomen.
My worried mother came running in answer to my screams, but, after assessing
the situation, said there really wasn't much she could do about the pain
of my first menstrual period. But what neither she nor I knew at the time
was that what should have been a natural transition to adolescence and
menstruating was, for me, going to become a waking nightmare that lasted
almost 30 years. At the onset of each one of my monthly menstrual periods
I would invariably end up either in my doctor's office or at the emergency
room of the hospital screaming with pain, bleeding copiously and passing
huge clots of blood.
For
several months after my 'periods from hell' began, my mother chauffeured
me around the city from doctor to doctor with no success until our family
doctor finally instituted a monthly regimen of painkillers such as Demerol
or Darvon injections and then sent me home with a big, round bottle of
full-strength prescription codeine with which I proceeded to dope myself
senseless for the next eight to 10 days. This same cycle was repeated every
month for almost 20 years.
Throughout adolescence, the simple everyday functions of getting up
and going to school were an often monumental and utterly exhausting effort
for me. Unlike the rest of my family and friends, I had marked periods
of extreme exhaustion. I became extremely susceptible to colds and flu
and felt bone-chillingly cold all the time-even in the warmest summer weather.
By the age of 14, the effort of combating severe chronic pain and fatigue
while trying to keep up normal activities became impossible. I collapsed
and had to be hospitalised and removed from school for several months.
But even after a huge battery of medical tests and innumerable visits with
doctors and specialists, no one was able to diagnose what was causing my
problems.
After many weeks I returned to school and struggled through the high-school
years with the aid of generous amounts of codeine and other strong painkillers
that my doctor willingly prescribed. But by the time I left home for college,
the symptoms of bleeding, exhaustion, pain and digestive problems became
so bad that I often was unable even to leave my room or take part in daily
activities.
I kept up the Demerol injections and codeine for many years and added
to my regimen several other new painkillers and drugs which had been developed
for menstrual problems. But the problems continued unabated, and in the
ensuing years I developed myriad other serious health problems.
During the years from age 18 to 30 I was diagnosed with pelvic inflammatory
disease, ulcerative colitis, Crohn's disease or ileitis (a chronic, painful
inflammation of the colon), chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), Hashimoto's
disease (a disorder of the thyroid gland) and mononucleosis.
I had severe chronic kidney infections, two miscarriages, chronic cystitis,
severe candida and external yeast infections along with marked adrenal
insufficiency and serious chronic ear and sinus infections for which I
was prescribed antibiotics on an ongoing basis for several years. Food
and chemical allergies also became a big problem, and even though I ate
almost nothing because of my extreme food allergies, I actually kept gaining
weight, which only added to the discomfort of all the other health disorders
with which I was dealing.
The bottles of drugs I had taken during this time could have filled
a small landfill, but none of my illnesses or disorders had been resolved
and, in fact, they were more debilitating than ever. It seemed as though
I had become nothing more than a walking encyclopaedia of disease, and
the worst part about the entire situation was that no matter how many failed
drug therapies I tried, any visit to the doctor's office only resulted
in another discouraging failure.
Another big problem was the drug side-effects. I felt like a ping-pong
ball, bouncing from one drug to another as my doctors kept prescribing
more and different drugs to counteract the side- effects of the ones I
was already taking.
By the time I turned 30, the natural health movement was really picking
up speed, and, desperate for any solution, I tried out the Adelle Davis
nutrition regimen, megavitamin therapy, acupuncture, chiropractic care
and every herbal preparation and drug-free natural health therapy that
I could find.
Within two years, my chronic cystitis cleared up and the menstrual pain
and bleeding markedly decreased. The ulcerative colitis also responded
and the sinus infections disappeared. I felt that I was slowly and surely
regaining strength and health and even beginning to experience a portion
of the energy and vigour that 'normal' healthy people enjoy-and all without
drugs.
When I conceived my son at 34 and made it through the first trimester
without miscarrying, I felt as though I'd conquered the final health frontier.
Unfortunately, in my burst of enthusiasm, I underestimated the impact of
pregnancy on my understandably frail health, and the birth for which I
had so carefully prepared was a near-fatal disaster requiring emergency
surgery. As it turned out, even despite all the illness and pain I'd gone
through in the years before the birth, all of it seemed like child's play
after I ran head-on into the serious complications of a difficult childbirth.
For months after the birth I hounded my gynaecologist, complaining of
unremitting and severe abdominal cramps, cystitis and horribly painful
menstrual periods. My natural health treatments would give temporary relief
but, mystifyingly, didn't seem to have the same beneficial and lasting
effects that they'd had before my pregnancy.
I underwent every conceivable medical test, each of which came back
negative, but the problems just didn't go away. My doctor flinched every
time I walked in the door and then sent me back out again with increasingly
severe assurances that the pain was "unwarranted" and probably all in my
head.
After
alienating every doctor in town with my complaints, I finally gave up and
decided to 'suffer in silence' until one hot summer day, almost 24 months
after the birth, I suddenly fell screaming with pain on my living room
floor in front of my terrified two- year-old. I literally had to crawl
to the phone to call my husband. When he carried me, screeching, into my
OB's office, the doctor clicked his tongue disapprovingly. "Now it can't
be that bad, dear. We just checked you out a few months ago," he cajoled.
He gave me codeine and sent me home. Forty-eight hours later I was
in the operating room having emergency surgery for multiple-ruptured ovarian
tumours.
A couple of days after the procedure, my doctor sauntered into my hospital
room with a conciliatory grin on his face. "Gee," he drawled apologetically,
"we had no idea anything like this was going to happen. Your ovary looked
horrible-engorged to the size of a grapefruit. No wonder you were hurting.
Sorry you had to go so long without help but, you know, the tests just
never turned up anything. And oh, by the way, the pathologist found a little
endometriosis in your right ovary."
Endometriosis is an incurable women's disease in which uterine tissue
for some unknown reason detaches itself from the uterus, moves to other
locations in the body and attaches itself to other organs or body tissue.
This misplaced uterine tissue spontaneously bleeds in response to hormonal
changes, causing internal bleeding, scarring and often excruciating pain
that can destroy the woman's ability to live and function normally. This
disease is not uncommon among women, but it is incurable, at least by conventional
medical standards.
My "little" endometriosis turned into the monster that ate Tokyo. Three
months after my doctor had 'successfully' operated, I was again sitting
in the ultrasound room at the hospital, watching as several new endometrial
tumours appeared on the monitor screen, accompanied by the usual excruciating
pelvic pain, internal bleeding, constipation, haemorrhagic cystitis and
acute exhaustion.
After the ultrasound I decided to contact a doctor who was recommended
to me as an expert on endometriosis. He told me that he felt that my health
problems had originally stemmed from undiagnosed severe endometriosis and
an underactive thyroid which had probably been present since adolescence.
He recommended an immediate hysterectomy, which I underwent. The day after
the operation, the doctor visited me and compassionately whispered that
I would "never have a problem with endometriosis again". But he was wrong.
Twenty months later, I had more tumours and another operation. Three
months after that, the pain, tumours and internal bleeding reappeared and
I was scheduled for what would by now have been my sixth surgical procedure
in five years, which I refused to undergo.
Desperate and seriously debilitated, I flew to Mexico where I spent
$15,000 on an intensive course of intravenous megavitamin and live-cell
therapy at one of the alternative cancer clinics which had offered some
hope for my case. For weeks, doctors poured nutrients and natural medicines
into my veins and mouth. I watched as many of the cancer patients around
me seemed to get better and better with the treatments. And I did, too-for
about two months.
I spent my 40th birthday hopelessly sick and in bed, which was where
I stayed that entire year. The drugs, operations and Mexican treatments
had completely failed, and my usual herbs and homoeopathic remedies, although
they gave temporary relief, seemed almost useless against the disease.
And by now, even though I had health insurance, my husband and I had spent
over $100,000 of our own money, and still I couldn't even get out of bed.
I had one last surgery which removed another large bleeding tumour.
When I got home from the hospital I weighed 89 pounds and developed a post-surgical
infection which required several courses of antibiotics. After taking the
antibiotics, I developed an extremely severe case of candida (yeast infection).
My
hands and arms became covered with a horribly itchy fungal infection that
nothing could relieve or cure, and I remained generally exhausted, bedridden
and in intense pain.
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Because of the surgeries, I was also experiencing early and severe menopausal
symptoms: hot flushes, mood swings, water retention and depression. But
because endometriosis is exacerbated by oestrogen, my doctor recommended
that I refrain from taking oestrogen supplements which she said would have
relieved the severe and very unpleasant symptoms.
Several months after the surgery, the all-too-familiar endometrial symptoms
returned. My doctor assured me that all was well, but when I asked for
and received my surgical records from the hospital I found she had written
that "all attempts to remove endometriosis will be done, but complete surgical
care can rarely be guaranteed; the patient may require further therapy
for endometriosis, medically or surgically". For my exhausted and bewildered
husband and myself, this prognosis seemed like an insurmountable and final
defeat.
I had one more heart-to-heart talk with a gynaecologist who told me,
"Given the severity of your case, the reality is that you could be facing
a lifetime of corrective surgery." Given the state of my health at the
time, I couldn't envision that "lifetime" meant anything more for me than
a few additional years of mind-numbing pain and misery before my body finally
gave out.
After nearly a lifetime of illness, these last episodes in my late thirties
and early forties seemed like the final blow, and in all honesty I felt
that there was no way out and no hope in sight. No matter how many times
I'd been assured by my doctors that drugs and surgery would cure the endometriosis
and my other disorders and make it possible for me to live a normal life,
the doctors had been proven wrong.
A few weeks later when I heard that one of my friends from the cancer
clinic had died in his sleep, I felt sad for his family but happy for him
because he was finally free of his pain and suffering. In many ways I felt
that he was the lucky one and I almost wished that the same thing would
happen to me. It seemed that death would have been a blessing, especially
so that my family could be freed from the seemingly never-ending burden
of my illness and be able to get on with their lives.
Sitting alone and discouraged one morning, I glanced up dismally from
a book I was reading when my husband came into the room. "I've got something
else we can try, honey," he chirped enthusiastically, and proceeded to
describe his conversation with a woman who had cured herself of a serious
and reportedly incurable kidney disorder by using an unusual therapy. "Whaaat!"
I responded after he told me what the therapy was. "I don't think so,"
I said, and went back to reading my book.
But after several more days and many more horrible episodes of pain
and drugs, my husband handed me a small book and said, "You've got to try
this." I picked up the book and began to read.
The small, unpretentious-looking book was full of fascinating stories
about people who had been cured of even the worst diseases with a seemingly
strange and little-known natural therapy. The therapy seemed incredibly
effective, yet I still felt reluctant to try it. But as I read further
on in the book, the stories were so compelling and the therapy was so simple
that suddenly it didn't seem strange or preposterous to me any more. And
at this point in my now nearly futile existence, I knew I had absolutely
nothing to lose by trying it-so I did.
From the first day I began the therapy, to my immense surprise I got
almost instantaneous relief from my incurable constipation and fluid retention.
Within a week, my severe abdominal and pelvic pain was unbelievably gone.
The chronic cystitis and yeast infections (internal and external) soon
disappeared, and food allergies, exhaustion and digestive problems all
began to heal.
After a few more months of the therapy I noticed that, amazingly, my
colds, flu, sore throats and viral symptoms, all of which had resurfaced
and become chronic after the surgeries, now rarely made an appearance.
My hair, which had fallen out in handfuls after my fifth surgery, became
thick and lustrous, my weight normalised and my energy and strength increased
so markedly that I was even able to work again.
Last summer I hiked four miles into the Grand Canyon. For the first
time in many years I can swim and even comfortably ride horseback or on
my mountain bike for hours at a time-all formerly unimaginable activities.
Much to my own and my family's amazement, I am back at work. After 30 years
of almost non-stop illness, I have a rich, full life again-and all because
of an unbelievably simple and effective natural medicine that almost none
of us even knows exists.
This natural therapy became, for me, a priceless gift of health, as
it has for many others. It gave the fastest, most dramatic results of any
natural or manmade medical treatment I have ever tried and was truly the
miraculous happy ending to my long story of illness and failed medical
treatments. By using this simple, natural medicine, along with other natural
healing approaches such as homoeopathy, herbs, good nutrition and rest,
I have been able to remain consistently disease-free and I feel better
and stronger than I have ever felt in my life since that fateful day in
July so many years ago. And even though this natural medicine seemed so
peculiar to me at first, I later discovered to my surprise that medical
researchers have been intensively studying and using this medicinal substance
for decades.
As a matter of fact, unknown to the vast majority of the public, this
incredibly simple and wonderful natural treatment is a well-proven medical
therapy that has been used extensively and successfully throughout the
20th century by doctors and researchers from many different branches of
medicine all over the world and has been shown to be amazingly effective
in treating a huge variety of illnesses.
It's time that all of us should know about this therapy and about the
medical research findings on this truly remarkable natural medicine-which
is why I have written this book.
Up until this point, whenever anyone wrote or talked about using this
substance for healing, they've been told that it's just an unproven folk
remedy or old wives' tale. But, as you'll discover in the following pages,
this is completely untrue. The truth is that doctors and medical researchers
for years have scientifically proven the tremendous effectiveness of this
natural medicine. They just haven't told us about it-for reasons which
we'll discuss later on in the book.
This simple, natural method may seem less glamorous than commercial
drugs and space-age surgical techniques because it's not glorified by the
press or hyped by sophisticated, sugar-coated advertising themes. But when
all the manmade medicines in the world can't help, people like myself have
been eternally grateful to find that nature has provided this safe, painless
solution to even seemingly incurable illnesses.
WHAT MODERN SCIENCE KNOWS ABOUT A MIRACLE MEDICINE (AND
ISN'T TELLING)
So what is this mystery miracle medicine and why don't any of us know
anything about it? If the body really does produce such an amazing substance,
and doctors and scientists have used it to heal people, where are the news
reports, the accolades, the commercials, the media hype? You want to know
the answer? Then prepare yourself by first opening your mind. Let go of
your initial disbelief and preconceptions and get ready for the best-kept
secret in medical history. This extraordinary miracle medicine that numerous
doctors, researchers and hundreds of people have used for healing is human
urine.
Surprised? Now before you scream "I don't believe it!" consider this.
Whether you know it or not, you've already re-used and reingested your
urine-large amounts of it for a long period of time-and it's one of the
reasons you're alive today.
As medical researchers have discovered:
"Urine is the main component of the amniotic fluid that bathes the
human fetus. "Normally the baby 'breathes' this urine-filled amniotic fluid
into its lungs. If the urinary tract is blocked, the fetus does not produce
the fluid, and, without it, the lungs do not develop." (G.
Kolata, "Surgery on Fetuses Reveals They Heal Without Scars", The New York
Times, Medical Section, 16 August 1988)
This is a fact that probably none of you without a medical background
know, but the reality is that urine is absolutely vital to your body's
functioning, and the internal and external applications of urine have proven
medical ramifications far beyond anything that we, the general public,
can imagine. What amazes people most when they first hear about the medical
use of urine is that they've never heard of it before. To the vast majority
of mankind, urine is nothing more than a somewhat repugnant 'waste' that
the body has to excrete in order to function.
But as you'll discover, urine is not a waste product of the body but,
rather, an extraordinarily valuable physiological substance that has been
shown throughout the history of medical science right up until today to
have profound medical uses that most of us know absolutely nothing about.
One of the first things we need to clear up is the common perception
of urine. Urine is not what you think it is. As a matter of fact, you probably
have no idea what urine is or how your body makes it. In reality, urine
is not, as most of us believe, the excess water from food and liquids that
goes through the intestines and is ejected from the body. I know that we
generally think of urine in just this way: you eat and drink, the intestines
'wring' out the good stuff in the food, and the urine is the leftover,
dirty, waste water that your body doesn't want, so it should never, ever
be reintroduced into the body in any form-right? Wrong.
No matter how popular a conception, this commonly shared scenario may
be, it just isn't true. Urine is not made in your intestines. Urine is
made in and by your kidneys. So what does this mean, and why should it
change the way you feel about urine?
In layman's language, this is how and why urine is made in the body.
When you eat, the food you ingest is eventually broken down in the stomach
and intestines into extremely small molecules. These molecules are absorbed
into tiny tubules in the intestinal wall and then pass through these tubes
into the bloodstream.
The blood circulates throughout your body, carrying these food molecules
and other nutrients along with critical immune-defence and regulating elements
such as red and white blood cells, antibodies, plasma, microscopic proteins,
hormones, enzymes, etc., which are all manufactured at different locations
in the body. The blood continually distributes its load of life-sustaining
elements throughout the body, nourishing every cell and protecting the
body from disease.
As it flows through the body, this nutrient-filled blood passes through
the liver where toxins are removed and later excreted from the body in
the form of solid waste. Eventually, this purified, 'cleaned' blood makes
its way to the kidneys.
When the blood enters the kidneys it is filtered through an immensely
complex and intricate system of minute tubules, called nephron, through
which the blood is literally 'squeezed' at high pressure. This filtering
process removes excess amounts of water, salts and other elements in the
blood that your body does not need at the time.
These excess elements are collected within the kidney in the form of
a purified, sterile, watery solution called urine. Many of the constituents
of this filtered watery solution, or urine, are then re-absorbed by the
nephron and delivered back into the bloodstream. The remainder of the urine
passes out of the kidneys into the bladder and is then excreted from the
body.
So, you say, the body's gotten rid of this stuff for a reason-so why
would we want to use it again? And here's the catch. The function of the
kidneys is to keep the various elements in your blood balanced. The kidneys
do not filter out important elements in the blood because those elements
in themselves are toxic or poisonous or bad for the body, but simply because
the body did not need that particular concentration of that element at
the time it was excreted.
And medical researchers have discovered that many of the elements of
the blood that are found in urine have enormous medicinal value, and when
they are reintroduced into the body they boost the body's immune defences
and stimulate healing in a way that nothing else does. As medical research
has revealed: "One of the most important functions of the kidney is to
excrete material and substances for which the body has no immediate need..."
(A.
H. Free, and H. M. Free, Urinalysis in Clinical and Laboratory Practice,
CRC Press, Inc., USA, 1975, pp. 13-17)
For instance, the kidneys filter out water and sodium from the blood
into the urine. These are both vital life-sustaining elements without which
your body cannot function. But both elements could be lethal if there were
too much water or sodium in your blood.
Now what about potassium, calcium and magnesium? These are familiar
nutrients that we ingest in our food and vitamin pills every day, but they're
also in your urine. These nutritional elements are extremely valuable substances
to the body, certainly not toxic, and yet the kidney excretes these elements
into the urine. Why? Because it's taking out the excess amounts of potassium,
calcium, etc. that are not needed by your body at the time they are filtered
out. Actually, it is this regulating process of the kidneys and the excretion
of urine that allows us to eat and drink more than our bodies need at any
one time. "The principal function of the kidney is not excretion, but regulation...
The kidney obviously conserves what we need, but, even more, permits us
the freedom of excess. That is, it allows us to take in more than we need
of many necessities-water and salt, for example-and excrete exactly what
is not required." (Dr Stewart Cameron [Professor of Renal
Medicine, Guy's Hospital, London], Kidney Disease: The Facts, Oxford University
Press, Oxford, UK, 1986)
But this isn't the end of the story. Scientists have discovered that
urine, because it is actually extracted from our blood, contains small
amounts of almost all of the life-sustaining nutrients, proteins, hormones,
antibodies and immunising agents that our blood contains. "Urine can be
regarded as one of the most complex of all body fluids. It contains practically
all of the constituents found in the blood." (A. H. Free
and H. M. Free, Urinalysis in Clinical and Laboratory Practice, CRC Press,
Inc., USA, 1975, pp. 13-17)
Many medical researchers, unlike most of us, know that far from being
a dirty body-waste, fresh, normal urine is actually sterile and is an extraordinary
combination of some of the most vital and medically important substances
known to man. Now this fact may be unknown to the vast majority of the
public today, it is nothing new to modern medicine.
To us, the public, urine seems like an undesirable waste product of
the body, but to the medical research community and the drug industry it's
been considered to be liquid gold. Don't believe it? Read this:
"Utica, Michigan - Realising it is flushing potential profits down the
drain, an enterprising young company has come up with a way to trap medically
powerful proteins from urine. Enzymes of America has designed a special
filter that collects important urine proteins, and these filters have been
installed in all of the men's urinals in the 10,000 portable outhouses
owned by the Porta-John company, a subsidiary of Enzymes of America."Urine
is known to contain minute amounts of proteins made by the body, including
medically important ones such as growth hormone and insulin.
There is a $500-million-a-year market for these kinds of urine ingredients.
"This summer, Enzymes of America plans to market its first major urine
product called urokinase, an enzyme that dissolves blood clots and is used
to treat victims of heart attacks. The company has contracts to supply
the urine enzyme to Sandoz, Merrell Dow and other major pharmaceutical
companies. Ironically, this enterprise evolved from Porta-John's attempt
to get rid of urine proteins-a major source of odour in portable toilets.
"When the president of Porta-John began consulting with scientists about
a urine filtration system, one told him he was sitting on a gold mine.
"The idea of recycling urine is not new, however. 'We thought about this,'
says 26 Whitcome of Amgen, a Los Angeles biotechnology firm, 'but realised
we'd need thousands and thousands of litres of urine.'
"Porta-John and Enzymes of America solved that problem. The 14 million
gallons flowing annually into Porta-John's privies contain about four-and-a-half
pounds of urokinase alone. That's enough to unclog 260,000 coronary arteries."
("Now
Urine Business", Hippocrates magazine, May/June 1988)
But urokinase isn't the only drug derived from urine that, unknown to
us, has been a financial boon to the pharmaceutical industry. In August
of 1993, Forbes magazine printed an article about Fabio Bertarelli who
owns the world's largest fertility drug-producing company, the Ares-Serono
Group, based in Geneva, whose most important product is the drug Pergonal
which increases the chances of conception. Guess what Pergonal is made
from? "To make Pergonal, Ares-Serono collects urine samples from 110,000
postmenopausal women volunteers in Italy, Spain, Brazil and Argentina.
From 26 collection centres, the urine is sent to Rome where Ares-Serono
technicians then isolate the ovulation-enhancing hormone." (N.
Munk, "The Child is the Father of the Man", Forbes Magazine, 16 August
1993)
Ares-Serono earned a reported $855 million in sales in 1992, and people
pay up to $1,400 per month for this urine extract. Obviously, most of us
are operating under a gross misconception when we wrinkle our nose at the
thought of using urine in medicine.
Urea, the principal organic solid in urine, has long been considered
to be a 'waste product' of the body. It's even been considered to be dangerous
or poisonous, but this, too, is completely untrue. Like any other substance
in the body, too much urea can be harmful, but urea in and of itself is
enormously valuable and indispensable to body functioning. Not only does
urea provide invaluable nitrogen to the body, but research has shown that
urea actually aids in the synthesis of protein, or, in other words, it
helps our bodies use protein more efficiently. Urea has also been proven
to be an extraordinary antibacterial and antiviral agent and is one of
the best natural diuretics ever discovered. Urea was discovered and isolated
as long ago as 1773 and is currently marketed in a variety of different
drug forms. These are a few more examples of commercial medical applications
of urine and urea in use today:
Ureaphil: diuretic made from urea
Urofollitropin: urine-extract fertility drug
Ureacin: urea cream for skin problems
Amino-Cerv: urea cream used for cervical treatments
Premarin: urine-extract oestrogen supplement
Panafil: urea/papain ointment for skin ulcers, burns and infected wounds
Another urine-related product ingredient is carbamide. Carbamide is
the chemical name for synthesised urea. Where do you find carbamide? In
places you'd never thought of, such as in products like Murine Ear Drops
and Murine Ear Wax Removal System which contain carbamide peroxide, a combination
of synthetic urea and hydrogen peroxide.
Medical researchers have also proven that urea is one of the best and
only medically proven, effective skin moisturisers in the world. In many
years of laboratory studies, researchers discovered that, unlike just about
all other types of oil-based moisturisers that simply sit on the top layers
of the skin and do nothing to improve water retention within skin cells
(which gives skin its elasticity and wrinkle-free appearance), urea actually
increases the water-binding capacity of the skin by opening skin layers
for hydrogen bonding, which then attracts moisture to dry skin cells.
This is a remarkable fact considering that women spend billions of dollars
a year on outrageously expensive skin moisturisers whose ingredients, even
in tightly controlled double-blind comparison tests, don't even come close
to hydrating dry skin as well as simple, inexpensive urea. So, as surprising
as it seems, urine and urea do have an amazing, voluminous history in both
traditional and modern medicine.
An article, titled "Autouro- therapy", published in the New York State
Journal of Medicine (vol. 80, no. 7, June 1980), written by Dr John R.
Herman, Clinical Professor of Urology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine
in New York City, points out the general misconceptions regarding urine
and its medical use:
"Autouropathy (urine therapy) did flourish in many parts of the world
and it continues to flourish today... There is, unknown to most of us,
a wide usage of uropathy and a great volume of knowledge available showing
the multitudinous advantages of this modality... "Urine is only a derivative
of the blood... If the blood should not be considered 'unclean', then the
urine also should not be so considered. Normally excreted, urine is a fluid
of tremendous variations of composition..."...Actually, the listed constituents
of human urine can be carefully checked and no items not found in human
diet are found in it. Percentages differ, of course, but urinary constituents
are valuable to human metabolism..." Look up urea in a medical dictionary.
In Mosby's Medical and Nursing Dictionary, urea is defined not as a useless
body waste but as a systemic diuretic and topical skin treatment. It's
also prescribed to reduce excess fluid pressure on the brain and eyes.
Uric acid, another ingredient of urine, is normally thought of as an
undesirable waste product of the body that causes gout. But even uric acid
has recently been found to have tremendous health-promotion and medical
implications. Medical researchers at the University of California at Berkeley
reported in 1982 that they have discovered that: "Uric acid could be a
defence against cancer and ageing. "It also destroys body-damaging chemicals,
called free radicals, that are present in food, water and air and are considered
to be a cause of cancer and breakdowns in immune function. "Uric acid could
be one of the things that enables human beings to live so much longer than
other mammals." (O. Davies, "Youthful Uric Acid", Omni magazine,
October 1982)
Urine is a critically important body fluid that has fascinated medical
science throughout the centuries. Medical scientists study urine with tremendous
intent because, unlike the public, they know that it contains innumerable
vital body nutrients and thousands of natural elements that control and
regulate every function of the body. So, whether we know it or not, urine
does have an extremely important and undisputed place in medicine-and not
just as a diagnostic tool or as an ingredient of various synthetic drugs.
Your first reaction once you've read the convincing research demonstrating
urine's often startling medical uses may be a willingness to use it as
long as it's altered enough to make it unrecognisable. Many people might
consider a synthetic or chemically altered form of urine-such as urokinase,
the blood clot dissolver-as preferable to using it as a natural medicine.
But, there are many reasons for using urine in its natural form rather
than as a synthetic drug or extract, not the least of which is the fact
that there is no synthetic equivalent for individual urine, and never will
be, owing to the tremendous complexity and uniqueness of each person's
urine constituents.
Just as nature produces no two people who are exactly the same, there
are also no two urine samples in the world that contain exactly the same
components. Your own urine contains elements that are specific to your
body alone and are medicinally valuable ingredients tailor-made to your
own health disorders.
How can that be? It is because your urine contains hundreds of elements
that are manufactured by your body to deal with your personal, specific
health conditions. Your body is constantly producing a huge variety of
antibodies, hormones, enzymes and other natural chemicals to regulate and
control your body's functions and combat diseases that you may or may not
know you have.
Modern research and clinical studies have proven that the thousands
of critical body chemicals and nutrients that end up in your individual
urine reflect your individual body functions, and, when re-utilised, act
as natural vaccines, antibacterial, antiviral, anti-cancer agents, hormone
balancers, allergy relievers, etc. (Talk about the perfect preventive care
treatment!)
Many doctors have discovered and shown that it's extremely important
to use our own natural urine in healing because extracts or synthetic drug
forms of urine don't contain all of these individualised elements that
address our personal, individual health needs.
Another reason that many doctors have emphasised the use of the natural
form of urine is that it does not produce side-effects whereas synthetic
drugs and therapies all produce side-effects, many of which are extremely
dangerous.
As an example, the urine-extract drug called urokinase, which is used
to dissolve dangerous blood clots, can cause serious abnormal bleeding
as a side-effect; but natural urine itself, which contains measurable amounts
of urokinase, has been used medicinally even in extremely large quantities
without causing side-effects.
If you're not familiar with just how pervasive and extreme the risk
of chemical drug-taking is, go to the library and look up a copy of The
Physician's Desk Reference for Non-prescription Drugs (Medical Economics
Data Productions Co., Inc., 1993, 14th ed.). This is the doctor's guide
to every prescription and over-the-counter drug on the market, and every
one of them is accompanied by a long list of ominous and frightening potential
side-effects.
On the other hand, in almost 100 years of laboratory and clinical studies
on the use of natural urine and simple urea in medicine, extraordinary
results have been obtained, but no toxic or dangerous side-effects to the
user have ever been observed or reported by either researchers or patients
using the therapy.
As we've learned, urea, which is the principal solid ingredient of urine,
has been synthesised and medically used with excellent results and with
no side-effects. But again, research has shown that whole urine can cure
many disorders that urea cannot, because urine contains thousands of therapeutic
agents such as important natural antibodies, enzymes and regulating hormones
that urea alone does not contain.
Urine therapy not only has dozens of successful research trials supporting
it, but also thousands of success stories from people all over the world.
As many people today have discovered, conventional medicine held no answers
for either their chronic or acute illnesses and health disorders-but urine
therapy did.
About the Author:
Martha
Christy is a nutritional and natural health-care consultant, medical research
writer and editor, and author of the international bestseller,
Learn
to Control Stress with the Stress Test. Her other books include
Reconstructing
The Real You, Even Good Foods Can Be Bad For You (Personalizing Your Nutrition),
Balancing Your Body's pH, Simple Diagnostic Tests You Can Do At Home, and
Homeopathy and Your Own Perfect Medicine
"Your
Own Perfect Medicine" by Martha Christy
In this extraordinary how-to book, Martha Christy examines research
findings and testimonials relating to urine therapy, and includes step-by-step
instructions to using urine therapy at home. In its examination of this
ancient therapy which has been around for over 5,000 years, Your Own Perfect
Medicine makes use of information from urologists, neurologists, immunologists,
pediatricians, dermatologists and university researchers to state its case
for urine therapy. Ms. Christy also answers the important question, "why
haven't the thousands of findings on urine therapy been publicized?" This
book is a valuable tool for the growing numbers of consumers who are determined
to take control of their own health.
From the Back Cover:
It's the most astounding proven natural cure that medical science has
ever discovered-and yet none of the incredible research findings on this
incomparable natural medicine have ever been revealed to the public! Now,
for the first time ever, learn to use this simple method and read about
the startling and amazing medical cures that prestigious researchers and
doctors themselves have witnessed in clinical use of this inexpensive,
incredibly effective yet virtually unknown natural medicine. You owe it
to yourself to permanently change your health for the better with the most
proven, simplest natural cure in existence-Your Own Perfect Medicine!
Do
you have a question about urine therapy or need guidance? Larry Erb
volunteers his time to provide guidance and support in your quest to find
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