Application examples of own urine in the domestic and medical field. Reasonable and useful measures. Traditional methods and refuted theses.
There are actually a few options for using your own urine. Much of what has spread in the field of own urine as a natural remedy, however, can be refuted today.
What is your own urine?
A person produces up to 1.5 liters of urine every day. A liquid composed mostly of water, enriched with creatinine, phosphates, salts, uric acid, and urea. Urine with a diet containing animal proteins has an acidic pH value, with a predominantly plant-based diet it has a basic pH value. Urea has a nitrogen content of over 46%, which makes it interesting for further use in the chemical industry and leads to numerous possible applications. Using a process called reverse osmosis, you can recover pure drinking water from your own urine. A method developed by NASA to supply astronauts with liquid as self-sufficiently as possible.
Using your own urine as a home remedy
For domestic use, urine mixed with water in a ratio of 1:10 can be used very well as a plant fertilizer for indoor and garden plants. A type of nutrient-rich hummus is made by mixing the diluted urine with coffee grounds powder and grated or ground eggshells into a homogeneous mass. This highly nutrient-rich fertilizer made from free waste products can be used in vegetable beds and for ornamental and crop plants.
Previous examples of the use of partially fermented urine as a natural cleaning agent or even as a substitute for shampoo have not become established as household remedies. Not because of a lack of effect or health concerns, but mostly due to the human aversion to urine.
All of the useful uses from old traditions for the further use of urine are no longer necessary today.
In the past, urine was used to tan leather. A remnant of this knowledge was the tradition, practiced until modern times, of soldiers urinating into new leather boots in order to make the leather supple and fit the boots perfectly to their own feet. This prevents the later formation of bubbles during long marches.
Own urine as a remedy
As a remedy in alternative medicine, the use of one’s own urine is limited to emergency external use for the initial treatment of abrasions, cuts, blisters, or sores. Own urine has an antibacterial and anti-inflammatory effect. You should really only use your own urine for this, as urine is already contaminated with up to 10,000 germs per milliliter when it leaves the bladder. If it is the body’s own terms, through the use of one’s own urine, the wound disinfection is harmless.
The internal use of one’s own urine as a natural remedy is not recommended, since there are no studies that can prove its effectiveness. There is at most a placebo effect here. While drinking your own urine poses few health risks, it also has no proven benefits. If you are taking medication and have an existing illness, you should generally avoid drinking the metabolized waste products.
The fact that there are still many traditional therapies with one’s own urine as a natural remedy in the Indian-Asian region, as well as the use of urine in the preparation of certain dishes, seems rather strange to the enlightened Central European.
