Baby Urine Helps Acne

Although the thought of using urine to cure diseases is really alien to most americans – and when you first bring up the topic people think ugh. Actually the notion of using urine to cure diseases of the body has been around since civilization began. The fluids of the body have been key ingredients in magic and folk medicine of all cultures. In Africa, mothers use their own urine to protect their children’s eyes from cataracts. Hoodoo spells for good luck often call for the application of urine on the objects that need good luck. Englishmen would call for “chamber lye” in their aphrodisiac spells. In Islamic Arabia, urine is considered impure, but the urine of breastfed baby boys is considered pure.

Testimonials about Use of Baby Urine on Skin

One person who used urine to heal a cut which they sustained while camping, refers to the use of urine as an immunity-boosting topical. Anecdotes similar to this prescribe the use of urine topically to help with jellyfish stings. Another story is told about lumberjacks using urine to prevent calluses while on the job.

Specific Problems of Baby Urine

Usually baby urine is colorless and odorless. If there are any of the following, a doctor should be consulted.

Maple Syrup smell — A sweet sugary smell in the urine may be an indication of diabetes, which is very rare in infants. Or it may be an indicator of Maple Syrup Urine Disease (MSUD). The smell of the urine is occasionally or always sweet like maple syrup. One in 300,000 have it, and the forms of MSUD are varied. In the severest form, the child is very sick from the first week of life. In the intermittent form, the child is well the majority of the time and will only throw up and have the sugary smelling urine from time to time. The sugary smelling urine is the first sign of the intermittent form of the disease. The children with MSUD can be treated easily with a special diet, as their disease is the result of not having the right enzymes to process certain proteins.

Blue urine – When tryptophan is not absorbed by the stomach, the protein gets degraded in the intestine, to indicanuria which oxides to indigo blue upon contact with air. The infant may also have fever and visual problems. Again, diet would be restricted for such a child.

A Book On Uropoty And The Practice of Amaroli

The book “UrineTherapy” by Flora Peschek-Böhmer Ph.D., and Gisela Schreiber sheds light on a practice that is little discussed, the drinking of urine to help with acne and other diseases. The reasoning about drinking urine that the authors give us, is that the urine acts in the same way that a vaccine does. A vaccine brings you immunity by giving you a little piece of a dangerous virus, such as influenza virus. Your body then makes antibodies in response to the vaccine, and you then have protection. In urine, there are also small parts of digested viruses, bacteria, etc. When re-presented to your body through the drinking of urine, your immune system is better able to make antibodies than the usual infective route with the virus.

Germans are not the first to think of this therapy. In fact, urine drinking, or “amaroli” is a practice prescribed in the books of Hinduism and taught by yogis. The verses recommend drinking the middle portion of the first urination in the morning. This has been used to treat acne, boils, auto-immune diseases, fatigue, and even skin cancer. An account on the internet graphically described how parents who practice “amaroli” used it to treat their child’s foruncular acne.