Wish You Could Fertilize Crops with Pee? Urine Luck

I work in the wastewater industry and learned a few years back about the depletion of phosphorus. In my business phosphorus is a pollutant, because so much of it is in our liquid waste stream, not only from human waste, but also our detergents. Currently, we are up against removing the phosphorus to prevent degradation of our streams (=$$$ and typically goes to landfill), but we have the ability to extract the phosphorus for reuse as well (=$$$?, use for fertilizer or other applications). With the phosphorus depletion that is occurring, this could be the direction we need to be heading…

“I don’t regret anything about my life. Crime is always a wrong move. It’s true. However, we live in a society that is worse than criminality. Better to be crazy than to be a dreamer.”
-RAFFAELE CUTOLO

Bottles filled with wine of beautiful vibrant colours refract the soft sunlight of the evening. The colours exude health and many studies have shown that including as much colour in one’s diet is the key to fighting many diseases and deficiencies and for better health. “Eating fresh fruits is the best thing you can do for your body,” says Dr John Carmo Rodrigues, a PhD in microbiology and a practitioner of alternative medicine. He has made medicinal wines of around 130 fruits, vegetables and roots including ginger, turmeric, apple, grape, jambul, mango, guava, jack fruit and musk melon. “Medicinal wines are non-clarified wines and are made for preserving the medicinal properties of the fruits, herb or spice of which it is made. Thus one can avail of the benefits of the fruits even during the season when they are not available and in places where the fruit does not grow,” he adds. “The medicinal value is in the suspended material in the wine. Medicinal wines are medicines first and wines next,” he continues.
-http://www.thegoan.net/Business/Wellness/Naturally-intoxicating/00643.html

Egnatius, because he has snow-white teeth, smiles all the time. If you’re a defendant in court, when the counsel draws tears, he smiles: if you’re in grief at the pyre of pious sons, the lone lorn mother weeping, he smiles. Whatever it is, wherever it is, whatever he’s doing, he smiles: he’s got a disease, neither polite, I would say, nor charming. So a reminder to you, from me, good Egnatius. If you were a Sabine or Tiburtine or a fat Umbrian, or plump Etruscan, or dark toothy Lanuvian, or from north of the Po, and I’ll mention my own Veronese too, or whoever else clean their teeth religiously, I’d still not want you to smile all the time: there’s nothing more foolish than foolishly smiling. Now you’re Spanish: in the country of Spain what each man pisses, he’s used to brushing his teeth and red gums with, every morning, so the fact that your teeth are so polished just shows you’re the more full of piss.
-CATULLUS

Long term practice of combined yoga postures and ‘Pranayama’ can lead to lowering of the basal metabolic rate (BMR).
-http://emedicinelive.com/yoga-reduces-basal-metabolic-rate

This is an ancient therapy which not only works on physical level but works much deeper than that which is mental and spiritual level. It is called Shivambu in Ayurveda and Amroli in ancient scriptures like Tantra.
-https://www.scribd.com/doc/126309309/Urine-Therapy-for-Any-Kind-of-Diseases

This Indian version of drinking urine is already very advanced practice. It’s also very well thought out. Best way to do it is to first learn to survive with extremely scarce raw vegan diet in controlled situations.
-http://forum.healingdao.com/general/message/24436/

Few months ago there was discussion about drinking one’s own urine, but I had impression that it was not meant to be totally serious.

Besides need to teach body to survive with very little amount of food & drink one also should learn to depressurize both bladder (vajroli mudra) and the lower part of the alimentary canal (ashwini mudra) in order to prepare certain special circulatory systems to get awakened. Also many other things.

But here seem to be problem who are the real adepts with this kind of very special advanced techniques.

My personal impression is that for example Swami Satyananda Saraswati, who seemingly has been seriously presenting himself as an adept with this so called amaroli, really didn’t master it. His guru Swami Shivananda still less.

So in my opinion it’s one of those practices which at least in yogic context belong to the class of so called open secrets.

HOWDY

Ps. Sorry for my broken English.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dunScywmPm4

http://www.amazingabilities.com/amaze5a.html

As c-howdy mentions, this was discussed before, but just to repeat:

Yes, there are a lot of advocates of drinking urine in the HT community.
In fact, even Master Chia does this practice (you can see him drinking a glass of urine in his Cosmic Detox) book. Advocates say that it promotes saving of some hormones and vitamins, and drinking urine could kill some infections (although the latter bit I believe is simply due to it being mostly salt water).

I do not myself support the practice.
I think the negatives outweigh the positives.

NEGATIVES:

1. Interfere in your body’s ability to remove the toxic substance urea from the body.

Advocates will say that on re-consumption of urine, it does not go back into the blood and it simply leaves the colon with solid waste. This is false. Your small intestines absorb everything, including toxins. This is why your body absorbs the toxic substance alcohol when you consume an alcoholic drink and you show a “blood alcohol level”. Everything you consume, on some level, makes its way back into the blood.

2. By #1, this means your body has to filter out this toxic substance twice. This creates extra wear on the kidneys.

Your kidneys do work to filter it out, and now they need to do so again.
This creates extra wear on your kidneys.

This is why those who are without water and drink urine to save their lives, often end up in the hospital when they are saved–not just due to dehydration–but due to kidney stress and inflammation.

3. Increases salt concentration in your body

Urinating is one of your body’s premier mechanisms for removing salt–an element which tends to accumulate in too high of concentrations through our diets as it is. Drinking urine drives your salt concentration (i.e. sodium levels) much higher than they would if they were not interfered with. Letting your body remove salt is very important and should not be interfered with.

4. Makes water-soluble vitamins toxic

Water-soluble vitamins can be taken in high doses, because what your body does not need, it expels in urine. If you re-consume your urine, you are interfering in your body’s natural protection mechanism. You can end up poisoning yourself by interfering in your body’s normal detoxification process.

In short, I can not support the practice.

If you are dying of dehydration, and you have no other choice, of course you should drink urine. There is no better option. However, if you access to water and you are not in a life-threatening situation, every “benefit” you could possibly get through drinking urine can also be achieved through other means that do not carry the negatives listed above.

If someone else disagrees and is really passionate about urine drinking, then that is their choice and I am happy that they are happy. I myself will choose different beverages.

S