Question

This question is mixture of science and religion. Is there any scientific prove that Urine has health benefits? Meaning Drinking or applying on skin.

Answer 1

Nope. Put urine on your skin and after a while it will burn it.

Answer 2

I've been wondering about this for awhile now.
I searched in internet and i do see some benefits of it. But i can't seem to find any 'prove' idk how to exactly say it tbh.
Im finding a lot of material in Islamic websites telling all benefits, so im wondering if it IS in practice now and how good and beneficial is it?
and i'd like to know WHY?
I mean what properties tell us that its good?

Answer 3

@Abhisar @shrutipande9 @Kainui @Nurali @thomaster @aaronq

Answer 4

Its not good. You get it out of your body for a reason. :)

Answer 5

@Gabebro13 i've seen a lot of benefits of Urine
so it is not Essentially 'not' good

Answer 6

Well it depends how you use it. For example, if you use it to water plants and save money from water you can. That's good. But putting on your skin is not.

Answer 7

Its even used to treat CANCER

Answer 8

@Gabebro13 putting on skin also has benefits

Answer 9

Well not that I know of. Please explain.

Answer 10

i need explanation myself lol

Answer 11

@Yahoo! @UnkleRhaukus

Answer 12

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2440150/Drinking-pint-urine-day-keeps-young-And-delicious-Glamorous-mother-Sylvia-Chandler-63-tells-Closer-revolting-beauty-secret.html
this is pretty interesting im finding
but again
i don't understand what makes Urine so beneficial to health?

Answer 13

I want to provide some clearance.

Urine is supposed to to all kinds of wonders because of some miraculous contents it's supposed to have.

First of all, urine is a sterile liquid. That means it contains no bacteria, fungi or else. If you have nothing else, you can use it to clean your wounds. But don't hope for anything else here. This quality has actually been more important in ancient times, where you didn't have any other sterile liquid on your hands.

The main reason we urinate is to get ammonia out of our system. Excess ammonia will exploit our membranes by transporting protons from one side to the other (NH3 vs. NH4+). Each molecule of Urea contains two bound ammonia molecules.

Urea is not toxic, so you can drink your piss without hesitation. But it has no scientificly proven every-day benefits that I know of. So, mainly, it's just yucky.

As of my knowledge, all the other contents of urine are either non-beneficial or concentrated too low to have any effect at all. Some people like to mention Urokinase here....forget it, bioavailability kills your point instantly.

Answer 14

Treating cancer? I don't think that's very likely to do anything. The only thing I've ever heard of urine being useful for is that if you get stung by a jellyfish that if you pee on it, it's supposed to react with the poison to make it less painful. I'm not really sure about anything past that.

One thing to note is most things that have the suffix -ine are amines, meaning they contain nitrogen. Here are common compounds you have no doubt heard of half of.

Urine
Caffeine
Cocaine
Morphine
Codeine
Nicotine
Aniline
Acetylcholine

Of course don't take this rule too seriously, obviously Bromine isn't an amine! =P

Answer 15

yea that's bullpellet. :D

Answer 16

urine is a word has existed way before we knew anything about nitrogen contents. that's just a coincidence.

Answer 17

lol @Kainui http://www.medicinenet.com/urine_therapy/views.htm
http://all-natural.com/urine.html
http://www.eturbonews.com/36955/camel-urine-cure-cancer
http://skepdic.com/urine.html
this is what im seeing lol

Answer 18

i was particularly curious about Camel urine since i've heard some stuff about it

Answer 19

http://islamqa.info/en/83423

Answer 20

lesson 1: don't believe the things you read on the internet straight away. especially when it comes to these para-scientific issues, everyone wants to propagate his ignorant beliefs as facts.

lesson 2: if you REALLY want to know about something, go buy a book on the matter. I will not look at every quote you posted, because they are mostly telling the same bullsh't story.

the sad part is that you have to dive into real science (not the stuff that you do in school) to be able to actually tell the difference between fact and opinion on these matters. I can give you a hint, though.

lesson 3: the believability (is that a word?) of an article is proportional to the number of quotes it contains. and I mean REAL science quotes. not bible quotes. if you check for that, you get a pretty good idea. if someone doesn't back up his story with quotes, that is for a reason: usually, he has made up facts.

Answer 21

@Schleifspur i do know how to do research, and i do know what to believe and what not to believe. I obviously asked this question out of curiosity. And i didn't really ask you to read through all the links that i posted. I just showed what i saw.
Thank you for response. I will consider what you said.

Answer 22

@Schleifspur In chemistry according to modern IUPAC naming rules, the -ine suffix is used to name amines. Just because urine does/doesn't predate this naming convention isn't really a good reason to blow it off a fairly good general rule. There will always be common names for chemicals. You're basically suggesting I shouldn't remember that -oic acid implies the compound might be a carboxylic acid simply because "vinegar" doesn't follow the naming rule. Meh.

Answer 23

oh, okay, I was irritated by the way you wrote

'It's even used to treat CANCER'

that is NOT correct. well, okay, if some dude with cancer pisses on himself, he technically uses urine to treat cancer. but you won't find serious doctors that do that.

also, you seemed to believe that putting it on skin had benefits, when there is no evidence for that. that's why I thought I had to remind you of things that you apparently already knew. :-)

Answer 24

This escalated quickly...

Answer 25

@kainui no, I was calling bullsh't because you classified urine as chemical compound. because it isn't.

Answer 26

@Schleifspur the way you answered hit me pretty hard you know ~_~
i was CURIOUS
please do understand that, and yeah
because i heard some stuff and read some stuff
i wanted to find proof
but i didn't seem to find any satisfying proof
thus i asked here

Answer 27

Meh, it contains urea. Fairly harmless.

Answer 28

that's like saying 'mine' ends on 'ine' - am I dying of nitrogen toxicity? ^^

Answer 29

I have never peed urine that didn't contain urea. As far as most people are concerned, urine is just aqueous urea.

Answer 30

are you really defending yourself now? I thought the discussion was over. vinegar is also no chemical component, just so you know. acetic acid is. water also is. gasoline is not.

okay. we're getting off topic now. question answered, @somy ?

Answer 31

lol idk

Answer 32

well nevermind it i guess there is no proof ~_~

Answer 33

yup, pretty much. sorry. :-)

Answer 34

its okay :) thank you :)

Answer 35

Yeah this was getting to serious. Its just pee. Let it be

Answer 36

@Gabebro13 i get serious when it comes to curiosity lol i can't calm down till i find out

Answer 37

gross

Answer 38

lol @UnkleRhaukus ik