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The folkloric cure for athlete's foot has always been to urinate on your feet. But because of the chemical urea in urine, a chemical found in many over-the-counter athlete's foot remedies, there...
The pH of urine is affected by a variety of things, including diet, certain treatments, time of day, glucose level and even infections. Checking urine pH can be helpful in the discovery of...
Urine therapy is a treatment that involves using one's own urine in order to improve your health. Self-treatment using urine is a practice thousands of years old and has been used to treat a...
There are several medications available to help manage and control the development of HIV and AIDS in those with the disease. One alternative medicine purported to help in controlling HIV is the...
Bladder catheters are used for draining the bladder or collecting urine samples. Bladder or urinary catheters (hollow tube) can be used by both women and men. They are available in a variety of...
Millions of children across the world wet their beds every single night. A large percentage of those kids will stop wetting their beds with no treatment at all. You rarely need medication to stop...
Water pills are diuretics that cause the kidneys to get rid of excess sodium. When this happens, the body is also flushed of excess water. Water pills are used to treat heart failure, liver and...
Urine therapy is the use of urine for one's health. This may include external applications of urine, such as massage, or internal uses, such as drinking one's own urine. The practice of urine...
Summer is here, no matter whether you are outside fighting the hot weather, or stay inside an air-conditioned room, your body needs enough water. How to know your body had enough water every...
Urine consists mostly of watern with small amount of urea (a substance that can be harmful if it enters the blood stream) and excreted enzymes, minerals and hormones--which many believe can be...
While conventional medicine defines uropathy as a urinary system disease, in alternative medicine the term means something entirely different. Uropathy is known as urine therapy, and alternative...
A urinary tract infection is an infection that affects an area of the urinary tract. The infection is caused by bacteria that managed to get into the kidney or bladder and then spread throughout...
I know it might sound like a joke, but in truth, URINE THERAPY is highly accepted 'alternative' healing therapy. Urine, upon being dispelling from the body, is totally sterile and pure for up...
Water retention comes from many things - including PMS in women, hot weather, standing for long periods, side effects from certain medications, stress, and/or problems with heart, kidneys, liver,...
There is a lot of confusion by consumers on how to buy the best vitamins. There are many studies which indicate how depleted of nutrients our food supply is, which makes vitamins and nutrition...
Hard day at work? Treat yourself to a massage. Stress, sore muscles and even headaches can be alleviated by a back massage. You don’t have to wait for your significant other or an...
Do you remember Stephen King's "Misery" about a writer who woke from a car accident to find he'd been rescued and treated by a nurse who was his biggest fan? In one part of the book, he has no...
Problems in urinating? There are a lot of factors why you cannot urinate as much as you want. But to correct this matter all you do is drink coconut juice or if it is complicated then just call...
Using urine to cure athlete's foot fungus was nationally proclaimed by Madonna on the David Letterman show in the 1990s. Human urine is sterile. Fungus can be treated by sterilizing it. Although...
Urine therapy has been purported for centuries to cure a wide range of ailments such as pneumonia, leprosy, depression, hepatitis and cancer. Since ancient days, urinotherapy (also known as...
The practice of urine therapy is taught by a uropath--one who specializes in the art of uropathy. As an extension of alternative medicine, the role of a uropath requires no additional training....
Urine therapy, a branch of alternative medicine also known as uropathy, promotes the idea that many ailments can be cured by drinking one's own urine. Testimonials regarding its effectiveness on...
References to urine therapy, also known as amaroli, auto-urine therapy, shivambu or uropathy, can be traced back to ancient history--Chinese, Egyptian, Hindu and more. This type of alternative...
Although urine therapy--a branch of alternative medicine--uses the body's own urine for medicinal and cosmetic purposes, it does not come without the possibility of side effects. Ailments urine...
Urine therapy is a natural treatment method promoted by the branch of alternative medicine known as uropathy for the purported help in the treatment of many illnesses and diseases, including...
Since the First World Conference on Urine Therapy in February of 1996, the use of urine therapy to balance the body has spread from its Eastern roots to the Western world. Uropathy is a branch of...
Urine therapy, also known as shivambu, amaroli or auto-urine therapy, is the process of drinking one's urine for the purported relief of symptoms such as the flu, asthma, toothache and...