Autologous urine treatment

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The treatment of own urine (synonymous for own urine therapy ) is a historical or alternative medical treatment method in which the own urine is drunk in small or larger amounts, applied externally or administered by syringe. Instilling in the eyes, nose or ears is also described. Some users now consider autologous urine treatment to be part of naturopathy and are intended to stimulate the body's own defenses (non-specific immunotherapy), but this is rejected by leading representatives of naturopathy; The therapy can also not be found in any naturopathic textbook. Furthermore, according to the proponents of autologous urine treatment, the urine contains minerals, hormones and the body's own germicidal substances, which is why it can also be trickled onto wounds - in the opinion of users with a therapeutic effect. Neither the benefits nor the harmfulness of urine treatments have been proven.

Composition of the urine

Urine is an excretion product of the body that contains the substances excreted by the kidneys: primarily water, minerals, end products of protein metabolism and acids and other substances, including urea . Urea is used in evidence-based medicine to treat some skin diseases.

Contrary to the widespread opinion that urine in healthy people is germ-free in the bladder, it already contains a large number of different bacteria there . Since the lower urethra is not germ-free, urine contains up to 10,000 germs per milliliter when it emerges.

There is also the risk that urine infections may contaminate the affected areas of the skin with other bacteria, which can cause inflammation in the diseased areas of the skin ( e.g. Escherichia coli , chlamydia or gonococci ).

history

In the late Middle Ages, therapy with urine, for example in combination with valerian and beaver root, for the internal treatment of the "plague" is documented in a pharmacopoeia, which was written around 1495 by the Alsatian "lay doctor" Anton Trutmann, which was kept in the Bern burger library . In the first half of the 20th century autologous urine therapy became known through the British author John W. Armstrong . Armstrong said he had cured himself of tuberculosis diagnosed as "incurable" by fasting for 45 days, during which he only consumed water and his own urine . The trigger for his attempt was a biblical passage from the Old Testament: In the Book of Proverbs it says in chapter 5, verse 15: "Drink water from your cistern and what wells up from your well" . However, this chapter deals with a warning to men against adultery, and in this context uses the terms “your cistern” and “your well” as metaphors for your own wife . In the decades that followed, Armstrong supervised several thousand cases of urine fasts. He published his observations in the 1944 book "The Water of Life" . Armstrong wrote, and other urine therapists agree, that diagnosis plays next to no role in self-urine therapy, as almost all diseases are said to respond to this particular therapy. In Germany, urine therapy became known to a broader public in the early 1990s through the journalist Carmen Thomas , who took up the topic in her broadcasts and published the book Urine - a very special juice in 1993 .

application

Although there is no evidence of a health-promoting effect, urine therapy is used for the following diseases:

Application forms

Urine is used in the following forms of application :

Here, the urine is examined before the injection, made sterile and then injected subcutaneously . There are also methods in which (in the opinion of the representatives of this form of therapy) only the active components are extracted and then processed in a similar way to homeopathy .

Contraindication

In the opinion of supporters of autologous urine therapy, the risks and side effects are low. There is an increased risk for own urine therapy in general or for certain application routes of own urine in:

  • decompensated cardiovascular, liver, kidney diseases
  • diabetes
  • high blood pressure
  • consuming diseases like tuberculosis
  • advanced cancer
  • Hyperthyroidism
  • acute illnesses with high fever
  • Urinary tract infections

Summary

From a scientific point of view, the procedures presented here are at best ineffective in the case of the proposed indications. If people with serious illnesses (such as diabetes mellitus ) use their own urine treatment instead of effective medically prescribed therapy, there may be dangerous consequences from neglecting to treat the serious illness.

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  1. ↑ Gabi Hoffbauer: pills, herbs, promise of salvation. the greatest errors in conventional medicine and naturopathy Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich 2005. ISBN 3-453-12031-0 , "Urine is a healing juice" p. 242 ff.
  2. ↑ Quarks & Co. broadcast on urine
  3. ^ Alan J. Wolfe, Evelyn Toh, Noriko Shibata, Ruichen Rong, Kimberly Kenton: Evidence of Uncultivated Bacteria in the Adult Female Bladder . In: Journal of Clinical Microbiology . tape 50 , no. 4 , April 1, 2012, ISSN  0095-1137 , p. 1376-1383 , doi : 10.1128 / JCM.05852-11 , PMID 22278835 , PMC 3318548 (free full text).
  4. ^ Gundolf Keil : Trutmann, Anton (Truotmann, Antoni). In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil, Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 1423.
  5. ↑ Rainer Sutterer: Anton Trutmanns Pharmacopoeia '. Part I: Text. Medical dissertation Bonn 1976, p. 81.
  6. ^ Gundolf Keil: That of Glarus (Glaritz). In: Burghart Wachinger et al. (Hrsg.): The German literature of the Middle Ages. Author Lexicon . 2nd, completely revised edition, ISBN 3-11-022248-5 , Volume 3: Gert van der Schüren - Hildegard von Bingen. Berlin / New York 1981, col. 48 f .; here: col. 49.
  7. ↑ bibel-online.net
  8. ^ Warning of adultery
  9. ↑ divinehealth.info ( Memento of the original from October 6, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.divinehealth.info

literature

  • Johann Abele: The autologous urine treatment. Experiences and observations , Haug-Verlag, 1995. ISBN 3-7760-1537-3
  • Ingeborg Allmann and Ulrike Kohrs-Gerlach: Urinary therapy for health professions, basics and practice , Johannes Sonntag Verlagbuchhandlung , 1998. ISBN 3-938201-00-2
  • John W. Armstrong: Urin - Water of Life , Ingeborg Allmann Verlag and Buchversand, 2002. ISBN 3-00-008845-8
  • Gabi Hoffbauer: pills, herbs, promises of salvation. the greatest errors in conventional medicine and naturopathy Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich 2005. ISBN 3-453-12031-0
  • Gennadi Malachov: Urine Therapy , Phönix Verlag, 1999. ISBN 3-00-004176-1
  • Angela Martens: Heilsaft Urine - An old remedy rediscovered , Weltbild Buchverlag, 1999. ISBN 3-89604-756-6
  • Flora Peschek-Böhmer: Urine therapy - a taboo is broken , Heyne Verlag, 1995.
  • Carmen Thomas: A very special juice, urine , VGS publishing company, Cologne 1993. ISBN 3-8025-1268-5
  • Eberhard Teske: Healthy through own urine , Corona Verlag, Hamburg 1995 (vol. 1), 1996 (vol. 2). ISBN 3-928084-29-1 (vol. 1), ISBN 3-928084-31-3 (vol. 2)
  • FC Paullini: Newly increased, heyy dirt apothecary How namely with feces and urine almost all, yes even the most severe, most poisonous diseases, and charmed damage from the head to the feet, internally and externally, happily cured. With all sorts of rare histories and comments that are useful as well as delightful, also other fine memorabilia, tried and tested again, now considerably improved for the fourth time, and increased with the other part , Frankfurt, 1734 Online