[INTL] What won't the Chinese do!

[Anne in TN]

Friday, June 1, 2001

Over Three Million Chinese Drink Their Own Urine

BEIJING (Reuters) - More than three million Chinese drink
their own urine in the belief it is good for their health, the
official Xinhua news agency reported on Friday.

Participants at a recent seminar on the practice in the
northeastern city of Shenyang were told that urine contains
many active ingredients which strengthen the immune system,
Xinhua said.

"Urine contains no bacterium and is more sanitary than
blood," Yang Liansheng, a professor from the Liaoning
Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine, was quoted as
saying.

Engineer Zhu Jinfu told the seminar he had been drinking his
own urine since he was 13 and had lived a healthy life for the
last 58 years, Xinhua said.

Many of his forefathers had also lived to a ripe old age thanks
to urine therapy, he said.

 

[cipher]

Yes, this has been considered an alternative therapy for a long time. I have a book called "Mircales of Urine Therapy" by Morarji Desai and Dr. C.P. Mithal.

Definitely not for the squeamish. I bought the book after sharing a repast with an aussie woman I met in Kathmandu. She told me that she had seen this book and we both just about bust a gut laughing, and I didn't believe her, then we went to the bookstore, where I bought the book, because I didn't think anybody back home would believe me.

Strange.

 

[Michiana MaJo]

I had read about that, too.....on one of these boards. I wonder how often urine can be recycled before it loses its efficacy?