A Tentative Discussion of Treating Diseases with Urine

Based on Scientific Anylasis
Kalsang Puntsog
Traditional Tibetan Hospital of Shannan Region, Tibet

This paper proves that human urine can promote health, dispel diseases and prolong life based on scientific analyses and practices of Tibetan medicine. To treat diseases with human urine has a history of thousands of years in China. According to documents, modern researches and clinical reports, the main composition of human urine are urea, potassium chloride, potassium, phosphoric acid, others are uric acid, creatinine, hippuric acid, calcium, magnesium, vitamins, hormone and urokinase, etc. Urine therapy has the effects of nourishing yin to lower the fire, stopping bleeding, removing stasis to alleviate pain, detoxicating and reducing swelling, clearing the heart and tranquillizing the mind, resistanting cancer, preventing measles, and prolonging life. The paper makes a rather detailed and comprehensive exposition with Tibetan medical theory on the form of urine, its treating mechanism, special reasons in diagnosis based on its colour, urine protein and other corpuscles, and its usage, amount and points for attention in clinical work..