title: The medicinal use of urine.
abstract: Oral intake of freshly voided morning urine has been recommended for many diseases such as viral or bacterial infections. Symptoms reported during the first days of oral intake of urine include nausea, vomiting, headache, palpitations, diarrhea or fever. Several substances in the urine are believed to be important for oral intake such as urea, uric acid, cytokines, hormones or urokinase. Local urine therapies include embrocations, compresses for local tumors, whole body bath or foot bath in the urine, use of urine as eye drops, ear drops or nose drops and the use of urine for wound cleaning.
authors.affiliation: Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, University of Vienna, Austria.
authors.forename: W H
authors.initials: WH
authors.lastname: Hörl
mesh_terms: D000284:Administration, Oral; D000287:Administration, Topical; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D014556:Urine