However, as later research in 1961 (see Dr. Schlegel),
showed, urea in higher concentrations (8%) does inhibit or destroy both :71
gram negative and gram positive bacteria. So even though specific
anti-tubercular agents other than urea are in urine, urea most likely also
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But again, if we were to use a urea extract alone in treating TB, rather
than whole urine, the important anti-tubercular element in whole urine
that Bjornesjo discovered would be eliminated from our treatment,
which indicates that a combination of whole urine and urea could offer
an extremely effective TB treatment. TITLE: STUDIES ON THE TUBER-CULOINHIBITORY PROPER- Report #15
TIES OF ASCORBIC ACID DERIVATIVES AND THEIR POSSIBLE
ROLE IN INHIBITION OF TUBERCULE BACILLI BY URINE,  1954,
by Dr. Quentin Myrvik, R. Weiser, B. Houglum, and L. Berger. From the
Department of Microbiology, University of Washington School of
110Medicine, Seattle, Washington. When Bjornesjo discovered that urine can inhibit or destroy the bacteria
that causes tuberculosis, , rather than use this information to support traditional  
urine therapy, he conducted several more intensive research
studies in an attempt to determine what exactly if was in the urine that
killed the TB bacillus so that it could be isolated and produced in drug
form but, as we said his research was unsuccessful. This particular study was another attempt by several other researchers
to find the mystery element in urine that destroyed TB bacteria and
they suggested that it might be the ascorbic acid (vitamin C) in urine:
"The idea that the ascorbic acid of urine and serum may exert tuberculostatic action  
is not new...These observations are not inconsistent
with the concept of the present writers that the tuberculostatic activity
of urine reported by Bjornesjo in some way depends  on ascorbic acid." This assumption was incorrect. It wasn't until several years later, in the
following study done in 1965, that Japanese researchers were able to
partially identify what it was in urine that stopped the growth of TB
bacteria. 97Your Own Perfect Medicine
Report #16 TITLE: ISOLATION FROM HUMAN URINE OF A POLYPEPTIDE
HAVING MARKED TUBERCULOSTATIC ACTIVITY, 1965, by
Shusuke Tsuji, et. al, From the Fifth Division of the Tuberculosis
Research Institute, Kyoto University, Japan. 111In one of the opening statements of this report, the researchers comment that: "The  
vast majority of Japanese adults are tuberculin positive..."
which is apparently why the laboratory evidence of urine's anti-TB
property was of interest to Japanese researchers and why they conducted their own  
search for the anti-TB element in urine:
"In short, although it has been a well known fact that human urine has
definite capacity to inhibit the growth of tubercule bacilli...the chemical
nature of the active substance has been obscure. In our investigations it . has become clear that at least one of the active agents is a polypeptide." Although these researchers did identify one of the active elements in
urine's tuberculostatic activity as a polypeptide (which is a chain of
amino acids), they also admitted that there are other "as yet undetermined agents"  
responsible for urine's anti-TB property. Most of us in the U.S. have no concept of the seriousness of
tuberculosis, because our plentiful food sources, excellent sanitation
and modern drugs seemed to have eliminated this formerly dreaded
disease. But only recently, this article, which was mentioned in Chapter
3, revealed that TB is a modern-day threat:
The Associated Press
Friday, October 8, 1993
WASHINGTON— New cases of tuberculosis are increasing at an
alarming rate, posing a special threat to the poor and people with the
virus that causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), congressional  
analysts reported Thursday...The congressional report said
112EFFORTS TO COMBAT TUBERCULOSIS ARE COMPLICATED
BECAUSE OF THE EMERGENCE OF STRAINS RESISTANT TO
ANTI-TB DRUGS... (my caps)
The fact that TB and other disease microorganisms are now resistant to 5
many of our chemical drugs should set off an alarm somewhere in our
consciousness. The whole point of evolution is adaptation and
survival, and as this article, and others like it reveal, disease germs are
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obviously surviving by adapting natural defenses to our chemical
drugs - but are we adapting natural defenses to the germs? How can our natural immune defenses possibly develop and adapt
normally to new and stronger strains of disease microorganisms, when
we constantly override our bodies' natural responses to disease with
unnatural drugs? For years, we've interfered with even the most basic
of our bodies' natural defenses, such as fever, by substituting chemical
drugs for critical natural immune responses to infections and disease. A crucial fact that we have overlooked in this era of modern medicine
is that the body itself has the innate natural ability to adapt and change
to new disease influences, but chemical drugs do not. We might think that medical scientists can keep coming up with newer
and stronger drugs to combat new microorganisms, but drug research
isn't routinely successful and it takes many years to develop new treatments. Many  
of us could well be victims of these new bacteria and
113viruses, such as AIDS, long before our scientists figure out what these
organisms are and how they kill us. Natural medicinal substances, like herbs or urine, or homeopathic medicines, are  
traditionally known for their ability to gently assist and support our bodies' own  
immune functions rather than overriding them
through strong chemical intervention, which is why we need to emphasize their use  
and decrease our dependence on drugs. The 'immunebashing' methods of today's  
conventional medicine may prove to be
our undoing if we continue to use them as irresponsibly as we do
today
TITLE: EFFECT OF UREA ON CEREBROSPINAL FLUID PRESSURE Report  
#17
IN HUMAN SUBJECTS, 1956, From the Joumal of the American Medical
Association. SUBJECT: REDUCTION OF CEREBROSPINAL FLUID PRESSURE
WITH UREA; USE OF UREA AS A DIURETIC AND IN MENINGITIS. This is an interesting and precedent-setting study The two university
 doctors who conducted this research were intrigued by the possibility
7 that urea, which was known to be an excellent natural diuretic, could
also be used to reduce excess fluid pressure on the brain and spinal
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such as brain tumors, hydrocephalus (water on the brain), cerebral
hemorrhage or meningitis. Excessive intracranial pressure can be extremely dangerous and, if
114severe and unrelieved, can cause death, so it is of utmost importance to
relieve this pressure or inflammation as quickly and effectively as possible without  
causing harmful side effects. Swelling and pressure in the
cerebral cavity and spinal area also create problems during brain
surgery. The researchers, in this preliminary study, laid the groundwork for the
use of urea in reducing such pressure:
"The purpose of this report is to describe findings in a preliminary
study to determine the safety and efficiency with which urea might be
used intravenously for the purpose of reducing intracranial pressure. Many (other) agents have been used for this purpose but each has some
undesirable action that limits or prohibits its use." In the study, the doctors report good results in clinical trials on patients
with excessive cranial pressure:
"...it was found that the average pressure drop produced by urea was
4.5 times greater than that caused by sucrose or dextrose (and)...the
urea effects were much longer lasting." The clinical use of urea as a diuretic is also discussed:
"Urea has, however, been used  clinically for other purposes than reduction of  
intracranial tension. It has long been recognized to be an effective diuretic agent. Salter states: 'One of the most effective diuretic
agents is urea, nature's own non-electrolytic diuretic.' For the  purpose
of promoting diuresis it is administered by the oral route, 20 gm. two to
five times daily." 115Urea's successful historical use in combination with sulfa drugs  is also
commented on in relation to treating meningitis with urea:
"LaLonde and Gardner gave urea in conjunction with sulfonamides in
the treatment of meningitis... •
It is thus evident that the clinical use of urea is not without precedent. It is a normal body metabolite that is well tolerated in large doses..."
The  success  of  this  preliminary  study  on  the  use  of  urea  in  neurosurgery  
encouraged further research. The next study was one of sever-p
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al follow-up research projects and clinical trials that established urea as
an effective agent in treating many different disorders involving excessive fluid  
pressure in the body. TITLE: UREA—NEW USE OF AN OLD AGENT, 1957. From a Report #18
Symposium on Surgery of the Head and Neck. SUBJECT: UREA TREATMENT OF EXCESS CEREBRAL AND
SPINAL PRESSURE, INOPERABLE BRAIN TUMORS, EDEMA
(FLUID PRESSURE) OF THE BRAIN, PREMENSTRUAL WATER
RETENTION,  MENINGITIS,  CHRONIC  GLAUCOMA,  HYDROCEPHALUS,  
DELIRIUM TREMENS AND EPILEPSY
116Because  of  the  encouraging  results  of  the  previous  urea  research,  doctors  
conducted this more intensive study which included extensive clinical trials using  
urea on 300 patients with a wide variety of disorders
including brain tumors, hydrocephalus (water on the brain), migraines,
glaucoma, meningitis, brain abscess, retinal detachment and premenstrual edema. Results of these trials were so successful, doctors concluded that:
"This  agent  (urea)  has  a  definite  place  in  the  therapeutic  armamentarium  of  
neurologists and neurosurgeons... The combination of urea and
10 per cent invert sugar is now used routinely in the neurosurgical service for  
intravenous administration..."
There were reports on remarkable cases in which the clinical use of urea
was literally life-saving as in the case of a woman who developed
severe swelling or edema of the brain after the surgical removal of a
small brain tumor:
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„.On the fourth postoperative day, she developed signs of increased
intracranial pressure. In the course of a few  hours, she became progressively  
lethargic and then suddenly she became unresponsive...Her
pupils became dilated and fixed, her systolic blood pressure rose...
Preparations were underway to take her to the operating room for the
removal of a bone flap. Urea was administered intravenously as an emergency measure. Within 20 minutes from the start of injection her blood pressure hadYour Ours  
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returned to normal and her pupils began to react...to light. From this
117time on, her recovery was uneventful... In this case, urea was definitely life-saving, because prior to its
administration the patient was in critical condition and her survival until surgical  
decompression could be done was unlikely... In many similar instances urea was found to be life-saving." The researchers commented on the urea treatment of another patient
who had a brain tumor surgically removed but developed another massive brain  
tumor three months later:
"...the patient received 256 ml. of 30 per cent urea. The bulging mass
"...had completely disappeared by the end of two hours . On the diuretic properties of urea, the doctors reported:
"Urea is one of the most useful nonmetabolized, nonelectrolyte
diuretics. Its diuretic property does not diminish after prolonged administration, as  
is the case with acid-producing salts." In observing its effect on relieving fluid pressure on the eyes in glaucoma and  
other ophthalmic patients, researchers stated that:
"Urea has been administered to 25 patients with acute and
chronic glaucoma, orbital tumors, retinal detachment and other
conditions. In comparing the effect of urea with Wiamoz1 on
intraocular pressure, urea was found to be more effective..."
Urea, as studies and doctors and researchers have proven, is a safe,
non-toxic, remarkably effective and inexpensive diuretic – but unfortunately, it's  
not even listed in any diuretic capacity in the Physician's
Desk Reference (PDR) which is the doctors guide to approved drug
118treatments. But Diamox, the synthetic diuretic which doctors said was less effective
than urea, is listed in the PDR – even though it's been proven  that urea
was safer and more effective than Diamox and several other synthetic
diuretics and urea is FDA approved. So why should Diamox be recommended to  
physicians rather than urea for diuretic use? Diamox is a sulfa drug and like all sulfa drugs, it can be dangerous. The Physician's Desk Reference (1992) warns that "fatalities have
occurred" with Diamox and that it can cause severe allergic reactions,The Research  
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bone marrow depression, a decrease in white blood cells, anemia, and a
host of other equally horrific side effects. On the other hand, urea is an effective, inexpensive diuretic and has no
side-effects or toxicity and it's FDA approved. But doctors don't know
this – instead they are directed to prescribe Diamox or some other 'recommended'  
form of diuretic drug treatment being pushed by the drug
companies. It's  hard  to  believe  that  the  conventional  medical  establishment  is  
complaining to patients and the media about "snake-oil" sellers
and phony medical claims that the public supposedly needs protection
from, when obviously cogent medical research like that done on urea  is
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so completely ignored. Another point to consider is that synthetic diuretics alter the
sodium/potassium (or electrolyte) balance of the body which can cause
119havoc with your health. But as the researchers pointed out, urea is a
non-electrolytic diuretic that safely reduces fluid pressure in the body
and its effects last longer than other diuretics. Most people and practicing doctors have never heard of the oral use of
urea, but it's not uncommon in medical research. The doctors in this
study and many other researchers have given large doses of urea by
mouth, as well as intravenously:
"... Urea has also been used by mouth in tablet form, or in powder dissolved in  
such [things) as unsweetened fruit juices..."
This study like so many before it, again proved that urea was a safe
medicinal agent, even in large doses, as well as being extremely simple
and effective:
Dosages. "...After urea was proved to be a safe agent which was well
tolerated in large doses, the dosage was increased until, today, in the
majority of the patients, it is 1 gram per kilogram of body weight..."
Because of the success of the preliminary clinical trials using urea on a
variety of disease conditions doctors recommended that:
"Further trials of urea are warranted in [the treatment of]:
encephalopathies (abnormal conditions of the structure of function of
tissues of the brain)... Meniere's disease (disease of the inner ear), 'prei
menstrual edema, eclampsia (the gravest form of toxemia in
pregnancy), ocular surgery, glaucoma, delirium tremens, epilepsy..."
Researchers reported that they were undertaking further extensive
120research studies on the medical applications of urea.Your r Own Perfect Medicine
Report  #19  TITLE:  BACTERICIDAL  EFFECT  OF  UREA,  1961,  by  J.U. Schlegel,
Jorge Cuellar and R.M. O'Dell, From Tulane University, School of
Medicine, Department of Surgery, Division of Urology, New Orleans,
Louisiana. This research was supported by Public Health Service
Grants and Abbott Laboratories. SUBJECT: UREA AND URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS. "c.
Drawing on earlier historical research into urea's anti-bacterial properties, Schlegel  
and his associates conducted this study to determine what
effect urea would have on bacteria commonly found in urinary tract
infections such as bladder and kidney infections:
"It has been known since 1906 that urea has a bacteriostatic effect in
altering the shape of pathogenic organisms (Peju and Rajat and
Wilson). Symmers and Kirk in 1915 used urea powder as a disinfectant in the
treatment of wounds. It has also been used locally for preventing the
spread of disease in surgery. Foshay (1935) used urea locally in otitis
(ear infections) with good results. McKay and Schroeder (1936) experimented with the use of urea on
polio and rabies viruses and found that the viruses were weakened and
finally destroyed by urea. Holder and Mackay (1943) used urea locally
to stimulate new tissue in wounds and to remove dead tissue...
121Weinstein and McDonald (1945) showed the bactericidal effect of urea
on microorganisms„.11 was shown to be effective against typhoid,
paratyphoid and dysentery bacilli...
Based on these findings, we proceeded to study the effect of urea in
concentrations within physiological ranges on certain bacteria commonly found in  
urinary tract infections." Even though they were unable to determine the mechanism whereby
urea inhibited or killed the bacteria, Schlegel and his associates did conclude that:
"From  the  results  obtained,  it  would  appear  that  urea  had  a  bacteriostatic  or  
bactericidal effect on all organisms tested...As would be expected,
the higher concentrations of urea and longer exposure were more effective. "p
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This point is important because it demonstrates that as we increase the
urea concentrations in our urine, we increase the germ-fighting properties of our  
urine, which is an important function of the body in resisting
or defeating bacterial invasions as in bladder and kidney infections. So how do we increase our bodies' urea levels? As the following study
by Dr. Donald Kaye demonstrated, one way is by taking urea orally or
by injection, as patients in his clinical trials did; another method is by
ingesting our own urine, which, because it naturally contains urea, also
increases urea concentrations in our systems. One popular conventional medical treatment for urinary tract infections
122that does not increase urea levels, but actually dilutes urea, is the practice of force-
drinking copious amounts of water or liquids to supposedly help cure urinary tract  
infections. This practice of force-drinking
water to increase urine excretion is called water diuresis. As Schlegel, and other researchers and clinical trials demonstrated, concentrated  
urine is actually a vital natural defense against urinary tract
infections, including kidney infections, and diluting it by greatly
increased forced-water intake is apparently an erroneous practice. As Schlegel and his associates commented:
"Water diuresis results in urea concentration in urine so low
that there would be no bactericidal effect due to urea. One consequently wonders about the rationale of instituting
water diuresis by forced water intake as supportive therapy in
acute pyelonephritis [kidney infection] or other urinary tract
infections." In other words, Schlegel is saying that it isn't logical to drink large
amounts of water to combat urinary tract infections, because the water
dilutes the urine and its urea content which subsequently destroys or
greatly decreases the urine's natural anti-bacterial action which the
body uses as a natural defense against urinary tract infection. Schlegel also observed that chronic kidney infection is associated with
an inability to concentrate urine. This means that the kidney infection
may be fueled by the fact that the urine or urea in the system isn't concentrated  
enough to exert its anti-bacterial action, and consequently
123can't help fight the infection:
"This finding helps to confirm that with a loss of ability to concentrate
urine and the accompanying loss of ability to concentrate urea, as seenYour Own  
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in advanced chronic pyelonephritis [kidney infection], the anti-bacterial
concentration of urea cannot be achieved." As Schlegel comments, when the body's urea concentration is diluted
by such things as drinking large quantities of water or by kidney malfunction, the  
body loses its important natural capacity to use urea as an
anti-bacterial defense. Researchers have also discovered that acidic urine is more anti-bacterial
than non-acidic urine. But again, drinking water large amounts of
water makes urine less acidic and therefore less anti-bacterial. In the book Urinalysis in Clinical Laboratory Practice written in 1975 by
two researchers from Miles Laboratories, the researchers also observe
that  by  drinking  large  amounts  of  water,  the  natural  anti-bacterial-promoting  
acidity of urine  is destroyed:
"If a large amount of water is ingested by a human, a corresponding
diuresis or increase in urine excretion occurs. At this time, the pH of
the urine tends to become relatively fixed at a value quite close to neutrality. This  
phenomenon may be interpreted as an indication
that the normal process of urine pH adjustment does not have
an opportunity to function effectively..."
The researchers also stated that:
124"The presence of a urinary tract infection may cause the urine to
become quite definitely and persistently alkaline due to the action of
urea splitting organisms." In other words, an infection itself makes the urine less acid and therefore less anti-
bacterial than it should be, so logically, it doesn't make
sense to further dilute the urine's bacteria-fighting properties by drinking large  
amounts of water as a treatment for the infection. Cranberry juice has been suggested as a method for increasing the antibacterial  
acidity of urine, but as the next study by Dr. Donald Kaye
demonstrated, the urea concentration and not the acidity of the urine
appears to be the primary factor in urine's antibacterial activity, and
force-drinking fluids does not contribute to urea concentration in the
urine. For  women  who  have  or  have  had  urinary  tract  infections,  more  commonly  
referred to as bladder infections, you know what your doctor
invariably tells you to do — drink lots of fluids and take medication,
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But there are two major problems with this scenario. First, as we've
discussed, drinking large amounts of fluid dilutes the antibacterial
activity of your urine which makes it harder for your body to overcome
the urinary tract infection. Secondly, one of the medications which doctors invariably prescribe for
125the  pain  associated  with  bladder  infections  is  Pyridium,  (phenazopyridine  
hydrochloride). Unfortunately, Pyridium is a known carcinogen. The 1985 Handbook of Toxic and Hazardous Chemicals and Carcinogens
states that Pyridium, (also known as Bisteril, Pyridicil and Uridinal),
which has been used for 40 years as an analgesic drug to reduce the
pain of urinary tract infections, is actually a known carcinogen:
"...in female mice it significantly increased the incidence of adenomas
and carcinomas (cancer), and...In male and female rats it induced
tumors of the colon and rectum." 4.4 million prescriptions of this drug were dispensed in 1980, and it is
still routinely prescribed for the pain of urinary tract infections today. The next time you get a urinary tract infection, try urine therapy first —
it's indisputably safer, cheaper, and much more effective than water,
cranberry juice and Pyridium. And you can monitor your own
progress at home with the same dipsticks the doctors use to determine
if you have a urinary tract infection (see section on urine testing you
can do at home in Chapter 6.) The next research study was also done on the role of urine in preventing or healing  
urinary tract infections, and it also demonstrated that
urine  can  inhibit  or  kill  bacteria  when  the  urea  concentration  is  sufficiently  
elevated. TITLE: ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY OF HUMAN URINE, 1968, by Report  
#20
Dr. Donald Kaye (Associate Professor of Medicine, Cornell University
126Medical College, New York). Many researchers in the past have looked for the answer as to why
urine from one person is anti-bacterial, while a urine sample from
another individual is not. Several studies over the course of the twentieth century  
confirmed that urine can definitely be anti-bacterial and,
based on a number of these studies, researchers speculated that
increased acid levels in urine made it antibacterial (which is the reasonYour Chun  
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why cranberry juice, which acidifies the urine, is recommended for urinary tract  
infections). But, Dr. Donald Kaye disagreed that acidity was the major factor in
making urine anti-bacterial. He felt that, although acidity contributed
to urine's anti-bacterial properties, no one had yet confirmed the real
factor behind this natural activity of urine. So in 1968 he undertook a research study in order to demonstrate that
the bactericidal properties of urine were related not so much to acidity
or other factors, but more to the urea concentration in the urine. In the study, Kaye showed that it was primarily urea levels, rather than
organic acids or other factors that were responsible for the antibacterial
action of urine:
"The results of the present study provide evidence for the role of urea in
human urine as an antibacterial agent. They also suggest that within the ranges of concentration commonly
achieved in human urine, antibacterial activity is more a function of
127urea content than of organic add concentration, or ammonium concentration." Kaye demonstrated that by increasing the concentration of urea in
urine, you could directly increase the urine's ability to stop the growth
of the disease-causing bacteria:
"...These experiments demonstrated that supplementation with urea
markedly increased the inhibitory quality of the urine..."
Kaye also mentions several other researchers who had demonstrated
that concentrated urea was anti-bacterial:
"There are previous studies suggesting that urea may contribute to
antibacterial activity of urine...Schlegel, Cuellar and O'Dell found that
urea in nutrient broth...has antibacterial activity in concentrations of 1-
4 000 ml...
Neter and Clark showed that addition of urea to human urine markedly
increased antibacterial activity. Finally, Schlegel, Raffi, Flinner, and O'Dell, Brazil, and Schlegel were
able to decrease the incidence of urinanj tract infection in dogs and rats
by administering urea after introduction of bacteria into the urinary
tract. "When you re-ingest your urine, you are essentially ingesting additional
urea. And as Kaye demonstrated in his study, by orally ingesting additional urea,  
we increase the concentration of urea in the system, and
consequently increase the antibacterial action of our urine:
"Urine collected from volunteers after ingestion of urea demonstrated a
128marked increase in antibacterial activity, as compared with urine collected before  
ingestion of urea... In each subject the urea concentration was increased by at least 0.5
grams of urea nitrogen/100ml of urine after ingestion of urea. ",
There is evidence that there is a link between acidity in urine and its
antibacterial action, but, as Kaye comments:
"None of the studies made an intensive effort to elucidate the factors
that may contribute to inhibitory activity of urine and to determine the
relative importance of each factor." Kaye also demonstrates, as did Schlegel, that drinking large amounts of
water to promote urine output (diuresis) markedly decreases the
antibacterial activity of urine, which in turn decreases one of your
body's natural infection-fighting mechanisms:
"Urine...collected before diuresis was bactericidal for E. Coli strain 14,
whereas urine obtained during diuresis supported the growth of this
strain... The results of the present study and those of Roberts and Beard and
Asscher et al. suggest that antibacterial activity of human urine may be
an important factor in preventing urinary tract infection and may also
help to select (affect the reproduction of) bacterial strains when infection does  
occur." In view of all this supportive data on the antibacterial properties of
urea, it becomes dearer as to why urine therapy has long been
129observed to be extremely effective in combatting many different types
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Report  #21  TITLE:  NEUTRALIZING  ANTIBODY  TO  POLIOVIRUSES  IN  
NORMAL HUMAN URINE, 1962, by Martin Lerner, Jack Remington and
Maxwell Finland, Journal of Clinical Investigation. (From the Throndike Memorial  
Laboratory, Harvard Medical Services, Boston City
Hospital, and the Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School,
Boston Massachusetts, Journal of Clinical Investigation. SUBJECT: NATURAL ANTIBODIES FOUND IN URINE
The research in this study was based in large part on several previous
studies on the presence of important natural antibodies that have been
found in urine. Actually, there are so many research studies that have been done on the
presence of antibodies in urine that it would be impossible to discuss
them all, so we'll look at this study and one other, both of which give a
good general overview of the subject. We all know the importance of anti-bodies in fighting disease. When
we are exposed to foreign organisms which our bodies sense as threatening, our  
immune system produces a wide variety of antibodies which
attack, weaken and destroy the intruders. Most of us think that these antibodies are found only in our blood. But
130numerous research studies have proven that a wide variety of antibodies are also  
present in our urine when we are fighting disease - and
these important antibodies can be reused by the body in urine therapy. As this study in 1962 revealed, urine antibodies are extremely effective
disease-fighters and are capable of actively neutralizing or destroying
even the aggressive polio virus:
Neutralizing activity for the poliovirus was demonstrated in protein
concentrates prepared from the urine of a number of normal subjects. The biologic characteristics of the neutralizing activity in the urine
resembled those of specific antibody found in blood. This  neutralizing  substance  of  the  urine  has  the  essential  characteristics  of  
antibody. Further studies on the biochemical and
physical characterization of this and other urinary antibodies are in
progress. This report also revealed that several other types of urine anti-bodies
have been found in other research studies:"Antibodies to cholera and typhoid have  
been found in the unconcentrated urine of normal volunteers immunized with the  
corresponding
vaccine. Antibodies to diphtheria, pneumonia, leptospira and salmonella bacteria
have also been found in the urine of immunized or infected individuals." The medical community may argue that the re-use of urine antibodies
through urine therapy isn't significant because antibodies aren't always
found in urine during disease and they are not sufficiently concentrated
131enough to control or combat disease even when they are found – but
this isn't true. The researchers in this study on polio urine antibodies clearly stated
that even minute concentrations of detected or undetected antibodies
can control and fight disease:
"It is known, however, that the presence of antibody, even in
amounts which are not detectable by conventional methods,
may prevent disease and detection of virus...". In another research report published in 1967 by immunologists from
Mount Sinai Hospital in New York on the presence of polioantibody in
urine, the researchers confirmed that:
"It is clear that IGA polioantibody is present in...urine...It seems likely
that antibodies of this type may play a part in the defense against invasion of  
micro-organisms." (Demonstration of IgA Polioantibody in
Saliva, Duodenal Fluid and Urine, 1967)." In other words, as these two studies demonstrate, natural urine antibodies do not  
necessarily need to be chemically concentrated in drug
form in order to be active and effective, and, as we've seen, natural substances in  
their natural environment are safer and less toxic to use,
which means that reusing urine antibodies through urine therapy is
extremely significant. Another important aspect of reusing urine antibodies during urine therapy that I've  
mentioned before is the fact that your urine antibodies are
specific to your particular health conditions. When you reingest your
132urine, you get the benefit of your body's "custom-made" antibodies to
combat diseases you may not even know you have. The recent outbreaks of food poisoning from contaminated beef and
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therapy. Urine, as you've read, contains natural antibodies to food contaminants  
such as salmonella in infected individuals, and many people
have reported excellent success in treating food poisoning with urine
therapy. Also, concentrated urea's excellent bactericidal properties can
also contribute to treating bacterial infections such as food poisoning. In serious, hospitalized cases, the administration of the patient's urine
combined  with  injected  or  intravenous  urea  would  provide  a  combination  of  
natural antibodies, critical immune defense factors and concentrated urea levels  
that  could  prove  to  be  of  enormous  efficacy  in  treating  food  poisoning  and  
bacterial and viral infections of all kinds. As a nation, we spend an enormous amount of time and money hying
to diagnose what disorders we have and usually end up with an antibiotic or drug  
that may or may not be the right one for our 'non-specific'
illness. Urine therapy provides an alternative to this practice, because
we don't have to diagnose every condition we have in order for it to be
effective. Urine therapy is completely safe and applicable to a huge variety of
conditions, in addition to being an excellent preventative health treatment. There  
are many instances when your immune system is dealing
with a health threat long before overt symptoms appear. With urine
133therapy, however, urine antibodies, hormones, enzymes and extremely
complex nutritional elements can help combat illnesses before symptoms appear  
and even before they're detectable by conventional diagnostic studies. Report #22 TITLE USE OF EXOGENOUS AND ENDOGENOUS UREA FOR
PROTEIN SYNTHESIS IN NORMAL AND UREMIC SUBJECTS,  1963,
by Dr. Carmelo Giordano, from the Renal Laboratory, Naples
University School of Medicine. This study has to do with one of the most difficult problems in renal, or
kidney disorders, which is the patient's impaired ability to synthesize,
or in other words, break down and use protein. Protein is normally
broken down into nitrogen and other constituents by both the liver and
the kidneys, but when the kidneys malfunction because of infection,
damage, etc. and can't break down protein efficiently, protein depletion
occurs, nitrogen levels are altered in the body and the person's health is
severely threatened. However, some researchers, such as Giordano, have discovered that ca
urea, (which is produced during protein synthesis and therefore con-The Research  
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tains nitrogen), can actually play a role in helping kidney patients to
use protein more efficiently and to achieve proper nitrogen balance in
the body. The study demonstrated that:
"If urea was added to the diet, enough synthesis of nonessential amino
134acids occurred to achieve equilibrium or even positive nitrogen balance." As Giordano points out:
"With the use of a synthetic diet containing essential amino acids in
low quantity, it is shown that urea, either if given exogenously  or if
taken endogenously from waste nitrogen retained in uremia, is utilized
for the synthesis of non-essential amino acids." Utilization of urea has shown progressive clinical improvement in
uremic patients and is under study as a treatment of renal [kidney]
failure. Another report on the role of urea in kidney disease was delivered at an
international symposium in Florida in 1968, entitled Urea and the
Kidney, In the report, Mackenzie Walser, of the Johns Hopkins
University School of Medicine, stated that:
"In uremics [kidney patients] on diets containing small amounts of
protein, urea apparently provides the principal source of nitrogen for
protein synthesis. Further exploration of these findings may yield
valuable information in the treatment of renal failure." Walser also points out that:
Urea can no longer be regarded as an end-product of nitrogen
metabolism but may be used for protein synthesis. In other words, studies have shown that urea is not just a "waste" or
by-product of the body's use of protein, but is actually an important
part of our bodies' process of metabolizing protein and maintaining
135proper  nitrogen  levels  which  are  critical  to  health  and  functioning.Your  Own  
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Report #23 TITLE: CHARACTERIZATION OF ANTIBODIES IN HUMAN
URINE, 1965, by Lars A. Hanson and Eng M. Tan, (From the
Rockefeller Institute, N.Y., N.Y.). published in the Journal  of Clinical
Investigation. This study is another research project done on antibodies in human
urine and was presented by Dr. Tars A. Hanson of the Pediatric Clinic
of the Karolinska Institute in Sweden at the meeting of the
Microbiology Section of the Swedish Medical Society in Stockholm. The report stated that:
Human urine contains proteins that have been shown to be identical
with serum (blood) immunoglobulin or (antibodies). The report also revealed that:
Antibody activity in urine has been demonstrated against several
microorganisms including cholera, salmonella, diphtheria, tetanus
and polio. Many of the doctors who used urine therapy on patients early in the
twentieth century such as Duncan, and Plesch noted that the ingestion
or injection of an individual's own urine had an often amazing curative
effect on a surprisingly wide variety of bacterial and viral-related illnesses such as  
hepatitis, whooping cough, mumps, chicken pox and
influenza. 136It's interesting to see that modem medical researchers have confirmed
the presence of a variety of disease antibodies in urine that apparently
play a role in the successful dinical applications of urine therapy. There are many other references to urine antibodies in medical literature, a few  
more of which I will list here. The gammaglobulins which are mentioned in the report titles are
extremely important immune defense antibody factors:
Blood group antibodies in human urine. Prager and Bearden
Transfusion, 1965
Further studies of the gamma related proteins of normal urine. Journal of Clinical Investigation, 1962The Research Evidence and Case Studies
Characterization of antibodies  in normal human urine by gel-filtration
and antigenic analysis. M.W. Turner
Protides of the Biological Fluids, 1964
Proteins, glycoproteins and mucopolysaccharides in normal human
urine. I. Berggard
Arkiv. Kemi, 1961
An unusual micro-gamma-globulin in the serum and urine of a
patient. Franklin, Meltzer, Guggenhein and Lowenstein
137Fed. Proc., 1963
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Physiochemical and immunologic studies of gamma globulins of  nor-
- mal human urine. E.C. Franklin
Journal of Clinical investigation, 1959
j
i Significance of urinary gamma globulin in lupus nephritis. Stevens and Knowles
New England Journal of Medicine, 1962
It's extraordinary to realize that we have such easy access to these
extremely important natural antibodies and other critical immune elements of the  
blood through the simple use of urine therapy – especially
in view of the AIDS scare which makes the use of any public source of
blood-related medical treatments frightening to many people today. TITLE: NAT'UREAND COMPOSITION OF URINE FROM HEALTHY Report  
#1
SUBJECTS, 1975, by A.H. Free., H.M. Free, from Urinalysis in Clinical
Laboratory Practice, Miles Laboratories. SUBJECT: INGREDIENTS OF NORMAL HUMAN URINE
In general, most of us have no idea that urine is an extraordinary body
fluid derived from the blood that is filled with hundreds of health supporting  
ingredients – but, for that matter, this is a fact that scientists
themselves have only begun to fully understand within the last few
138decades.Your Own Perfect Medicine
As Free and Free explain:
"Literally thousands of compounds have been identified in normal.urine and the  
vast majority of these have been derived from
the blood... The understanding of the composition of the urine has gradually
evolved as the sciences of chemistry and physiology have developed.. It is now recognized that the urine contains thousands of compounds,
and as new, more sensitive analytical tools evolve, it is quite certain
that new constituents of urine will be recognized"
This' report goes on to give a detailed listing of approximately 200 constituents of  
urine, but as the researchers comment: "this table is not considered to be complete,  
but identifies [only] compounds of interest." Listing all 200 of the ingredients here would be a bit much, so I'll give a
sample of some of the ingredients in urine that are most recognizable
because many of them are the same ingredients that you see on your
vitamin supplement labels, or that you've read or heard about from
various sources. Again, we never think of urine as a nutrient, but as this analysis of
urine shows, there are numerous elements of nutritional value in urine,
along with hormones, steroids, and other critical elements that regulate
and control key processes of the body:
Alanine, total ........... 38 mg/day..... Lysine, total ............. 56 mg/day
Arginine, total ..........32 mg/day......Magnesium  - 100 mg/day
139Ascorbic acid ........... 30 mg/day......Manganese .............0.5 mg/day
Allantoin .................. 12 mg/day......Methionine, total ......10 mg/day
Amino acids, total ......2.1 g/day Nitrogen, total  ............. 15 g/day
Bicarbonate ........... 140 mg/day..... Ornithine ................ 10 mg/day
Biotin ..................... 35 mg/day......Pantothenic acid  ......... 3 mg/day
Calcium .................. 23 mg/day......Phenylalanine ........... 21 mg/day
Creatinine ............... 1.4 mg/day..... Phosphorus, organic . .9 mg/day
Cystine .................. 120 mg/day......Potassium .............. 2.5 mg/day
Dopamine ............. 0A0 mg/day......Proteins, total ........... 35 mg/day
Epinephrine ........... 0.01 mg/day..... Riboflavin .............. 0.9 mg/day
Folic acid .................. 4 mg/day..... Tryptophan, total ......28 mg/day
Glucose ................ 100 mg/day..... Tyrosine, total  ........... 50 mg/day
Glutamic Acid ......... 308 mg/day..... Urea ................... 24.5 mg/day
Glycine .................. 455 mg/day..... Vitamin B6 ............. 100 mg/day
Inositol ................... 14 mg/day..... Vitamin 812 ........... 0.03 mg/day
Iodine .................. 0.25 mg/day..... Zinc ...................... 1.4 mg/day
Iron .......................0.5 mg/dayHormonal Substances
Aldosterone, male ...... 3.5 mg/day
Aldosterone, female ... 4.2 mg/day
Androgens, female
(20-40 yrs.) ................ 14 mg/day
Androgens, male
(20-40 yrs.) ............. 18.2 mg/day
140Androsterone, female ..4.2 mg/day
Androsterone, male ....3.5 mg/day
Estradiol, female
luteal phase ................ 7 mg/day
Estriol, female
luteal phase .............. 28 mg/day
Estrone, female
luteal phase ............... 14 mg/day
17-Ketogenic adrenocoriticoids
female ................... 12.6 mg/day
17-Ketogenic adrenocoriticoids
male .................. 14.7 mg/day
Ketol steroids ......... 18.2 mg/day
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An interesting point about many of these urine ingredients is that many
of them are naturally synthesized forms of key nutritional elements. For instance, the synthesized, or "digested" forms of vitamin B6 (pyridoxine) are  
found in urine - Pyridoxal (70 mg/day) and Pyridoxamine
(100 mg/day). When you ingest B6 (pyridoxine) in your food or as a
vitamin supplement, the body breaks it down into simpler substances
that it can use, namely, pyridoxal and pyridoxamine. These two substances have tremendous nutritive value. They're essential for the  
synthesis and breakdown of amino acids, the conversion of
141tryptophan to niacin, the breakdown of glycogen to glucose, the production of  
antibodies,  the  formation  of  heme  in  hemoglobin,  the  formation  of  hormones  
important in brain function, the proper absorption of
B12, and the maintenance of the balance of sodium and potassium
which regulates body fluids. In using natural urine therapy, you are not only ingesting B6 itself, but
you are also ingesting the already synthesized forms of B6, which can
be  extremely  important  to  people  who  have  an  impaired  ability  to  utilize  B  
vitamins or other essential nutrients in their systems due to such
factors as poor digestion and assimilation, aging, the use of drugs, oral
contraceptives, antibiotics, etc. • There are many "pm-digested" nutritional products on the market
today for people whose bodies have a difficult time breaking down
more complex nutritional substances into elements that the body can
use efficiently. But urine in itself is an incredibly complex and complete
mixture of your own already pre-synthesized nutrients that no chemist
anywhere could ever duplicate. FT
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As a matter of fact, Bjomesjo, the researcher who did the studies on the
142anti-tuberculin activity of urine, did conduct experiments using an artificial urine  
concocted in the laboratory. He found, however, that
whereas natural urine did kill or stop the growth of the TB bacteria,
the artificial urine did not, because the natural anti-TB urine element
could not be synthetically duplicated. Several of the following research reports deal specifically with urine
therapy treatments of cancer, AIDS, mental disorders, skin conditions
and urea's dermatological and cosmetic uses, and these particular
reports have been grouped in sections under their appropriate category
titles to make it easier  for you to review them. URINE THERAPY AND CANCER
Report #25 TITLE H-11 FOR CANCER, by Dr. J.H. Thompson, 1943, published  
in
the British Medical Journal, (7/31/43). In the late 1930's and early 40's, many medical researchers such as Dr.
Thompson, were experimenting with an anti-cancer urine extract
referred to as H-11. Many of the hundreds of researchers who had conducted the studies on
H-11  in  cancer  treatments  over  approximately  a  12-year  period  experienced  
excellent results which unfortunately were ignored by the medical community. The  
researchers reportedly demanded that a medical
research council be set up to review their complaints, stating that their
research findings on successful H-11 cancer treatments were being
unjustly ignored by the medical establishment. A council was set up in
1431948, However, despite thousands of laboratory studies and hundreds
of cases of clinical proof demonstrating the efficacy of H-11  in treating
cancer, it was set aside by the council as an accepted medical treatment
for cancer. The clinical and laboratory findings on the use of this extract on cancer
patients was reported in the British Medical Journal by Dr. J.H. Thompson, and revealed that over 300 independent doctors and
researchers had found that H-11 was clinically effective  in inhibiting the
growth of malignant cells in humans.The Research Evidence and Case Studies
TITLE: THERAPEUTIC RESULTS OF THE USE OF AN AUTO- Report #26
URINE EXTRACT ON MALIGNANT TUMORS, 1961, by Dr. Novak,
published in the German journal, Zeitschr(ft Innere Medizine, (Journal of
o Internal Medicine). This  is  an  extremely  interesting  report  from  a  German  doctor  who  utilized  
injections of a natural urine extract prepared from each patients'
own urine to treat several different types of cancer including stomach,
colon, rectal, breast, lung, uterine, lymph node and gall bladder malignancies. The results were remarkable in the majority of the 21 cases treated, and
the report includes x-ray photos that corroborate the results. As an
example:
CASE #2: A 60 year-old woman with metastatic malignant tumors
in the epigastrium and liver was treated with the urine
extract After 4 injections, both subjective and objective
144improvement was noted, as corroborated by radiological
x-rays showing marked tumor reduction. After six
weeks, there were no obstructions noted in the upper
abdomen and the liver was normal. Two years have
passed since the treatments and there has been no further
incidence of the cancer. CASE #3: 52-year-old woman with jaundice (serum bilirubin 11
mg.%). Melon-sized  tumor  in  the  right  epi-  and  mesogastrium;  exploratory  
laparotomy revealed advanced cancer
of the gallbladder with metastases to the liver, cecum and
transverse colon. After 5 injections of the urine extract,
there was shrinkage of the tumor, reduction in size of the
liver, bilirubin dropped to 1.6 mg%. Within 10 months of
follow-up examinations, the patient exhibited no symptoms; on rare occasions,  
stomach upset occurred after
dietary irregularities.Your Own Perfect Medicine
Report #27 TITLE: PREPARATION OF R
Report #27 TITLE: PREPARATION OF REFINE FROM HUMAN URINE, by
Albert Szent-Gyorgi, et.al., 1963, published in Science Magazine. Study
supported by grants from the National Institute of Health and the
National Science Foundation and conducted at the Institute for Muscle
Research, in Massachusetts. 145SUBJECT: EFFECTS OF A URINE EXTRACT ON MALIGNANT CANCER  
TUMORS
This study was done on an anti-cancer element that has been extracted
from urine called "retire`:
"Certain fractions of the urine of children have been shown to stop the
growth of transplanted malignant cancer tumors in mice. The substance responsible  
for this action was called "refine". We have since
found a similar activity in the urine of adults of about 20-25 years." After studying the effect of refine on several different types of cancerous tumors,  
the researchers observed that:
"Smaller doses of refine inhibit growth of the tumors, while bigger ones
actually make the tumors regress." In the study, a group of mice were injected under the skin with 30 million live  
cancer cells, and developed subsequent tumors. The mice
were then treated with refine for a week and the researchers noted
that:
"The tumors of the mice treated with 6 units of refine for a week, upon
examination, were found to contain very little live cancer tissue and
consisted chiefly of dead cancer cells." Unfortunately, reline has not been publicized as an anti-cancer agent,
but this study, as do others, demonstrates that there are important anticancer factors  
in urine that have been shown to be amazingly effective
in destroying and stopping the growth of malignant cancerous tumors
and cells.r
146The Research Evidence and Case Studies
TITLE: TREATMENT OF GASTRIC CANCER WITH HUD, AN ANTI- Report  
#28
GENIC SUBSTANCE OBTAINED FROM PATIENT'S URINE, 1968, by
Dr. Momoe Soeda, Tokyo, Japan. This research report presents the remarkable results of a cancer treatment study  
utilizing a urine derivative called HUD (Human's Urine
Derivative). HUD was found in significant amounts in the urine of
cancer patients and was shown to have distinct anti-cancer properties:
"A variety of people were tested and it was found that the urine of cancer patients  
almost invariably contains a considerable amount of a natural immune defense  
substance named HUD (Human's Urine
Derivative). HUD was clinically applied to an intractable case of metastatic
(spreading) ovarian cancer in June, 1965 and we were very impressed
with its excellent effect on regression of metastatic tumors." After the HUD treatment was applied the researchers noted that
"Almost all metastases completely disappeared during a course
of 3 months after the start of HUD therapy, and the patient was
discharged under a quite favorable condition. More than 30
months have passed since she was discharged and now she is
completely well and enjoying the rest of her life." HUD therapy was also applied to several patients with gastric cancer
147after surgery in order to prevent the common post-surgical reoccurrence of the  
cancer:
"8 patients were treated with HUD immediately after operation. In 5
cases in this group, the cancer had invaded the stomach wall and
involved the lymph nodes. The postoperative prognosis for this group
of patients was very poor, and their 3-year survival rate was considered
to less than 40 percent. However, following HUD treatments, 3 years passed and 7 out of the 8
patients treated are completely well and participating in almost full
activities without any signs of recurrence. In view of these facts it is apparent that HUD is effective in suppressing the post-
operative recurrence of gastric cancer and that such effect
may presumably be due to its ability to reinforce the immune system of
the cancer patient. "Your Own Perfect Medicine
These researchers also commented on the danger and ineffectiveness of
radiation and chemotherapy in the treatment of cancer:
"Radiation therapy and anti-cancer chemotherapy have been extensively tested for  
many years to control postoperative spreading and growth
of tumor cells, however, it may be fairly said that both measures have
almost completely failed this purpose up to the present time." The researchers comment on the extreme importance of maintaining the
integrity of the immune system in treating cancer and they discuss how
radiation and chemo destroy the immunological defenses of the body,
especially plasma cells which are involved in antibody production and
148natural resistance to cancer. The report recommends that:
"Emphasis should be placed on discovering anti-cancer agents, such as
HUD which exert an inhibitory effect on malignant cells without damaging the  
body's natural immune defenses." A reinforcement of this medical opinion on the ineffectiveness of
chemotherapy is another study done in 1985 which was published in
Scientific American and stated that:
"Only 2 to 5 percent of cancer deaths are prevented by chemotherapeutic drugs,  
and their side effects are devastating." — Informed Consumers Pharmacy
As research suggests, preserving and reinforcing the immune system
during cancer treatment is critical. The researchers in this study on
HUD noted that patients with inoperable, advanced cases of gastric
cancer whose immune systems were severely damaged often did not
improve after HUD therapy. But here again is an example of how natural urine therapy could been
of more assistance than an isolated urine extract. The HUD extract is
only one infinitesimal fraction out of hundreds of immune defense factors and  
other proven anti-cancer agents which whole urine contains. So these advanced cancer patients treated with HUD received only one
single beneficial urine element when they could have been receiving
the full range of benefits that whole urine has to offer. Perhaps, ideally,
clinical treatments of cancer could incorporate natural urine therapy,
augmented by the administration of concentrated urine extracts to
149enhance healing. Many cancer patients who have successfully used natural urine therapy
to treat their cancer have reported it to be a safe and effective cancer
treatment  which  rids  the  body  of  cancerous  manifestations  while  at  theThe  
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same time greatly enhancing the immune system. But in consideration
of all of the nutrients, enzymes, antibodies and other immune defense
factors such as refine or HUD that urine contains, it's not surprising
that it has been found by many to be such an effective cancer treatment. TITLE: ANTINEOPLASTON A IN CANCER THERAPY, 1977, by
Stanislaw R. Burzynski et al, published in Physiological Chemistry and
Physics, a publication that reports fundamental new research in biochemistry and  
biophysics. Report #29
This report is one of many published by Dr. Burzynski on anti-cancer
agents which he discovered in human urine called "antineoplastons". In this and many succeeding laboratory and clinical studies on antineoplastons,  
Burzynski demonstrated remarkable success in treating various types of cancer  
with these urine extracts:
"In recent years we were able to describe a number of peptide fractions
[proteins], isolated from normal human urine, that produce remarkable
inhibition of ..various neoplastic cells [cancer tumors] without showing
significant inhibition in normal cells...In our experiments we chose
normal human urine as the most economical source for the isolation of
150antineoplastons." Burzynski's work using antineoplastons in cancer treatment, which has
been suppressed by the conventional medical establishment, brings up
the huge issue of alternative cancer therapies. This is an enormous subject and not  
one which can be examined in great detail here without
straying miles down the road from the subject of urine therapy. But the fact is, that if you have cancer, you absolutely need to read the
arguments against conventional treatments with radiation and
chemotherapy — and there are many convincing ones, such as the last
report on HUD in which medical researchers themselves discourage the
use of toxic and generally ineffective accepted cancer treatments such
as chemotherapy and radiation. In  1979,  Gary  Null,  a  famous  New  York  City  talk  show  host  and  consumer  
advocate, published a series of excellent articles on the suppression of cancer cures  
in the U.S.
One of the cancer treatments that has been suppressed involves the use
of these antineoplastons that naturally occur in urine, discovered by Dr.Your Own  
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Burzynski. Gary Null, interviewed Burzynski in October 1979 and
revealed hidden facts on Antineoplaston A:
"We can see how the cancer blackout works  by looking at the case of a
young Polish doctor named Stanislaw Burzynski. In the past few
years, this doctor has published ten papers on the positive results of a
substance called antineoplaston a  on certain types of tumors. One of
151the youngest men in his native country to hold an M.D. and a Ph.D
degree, Dr. Burzynski found life under communism difficult and decided to come  
to the United States to seek more freedom for his scientific
research...
Documented cases of spontaneous remission and prolonged cancer
arrest in humans led Dr. Burzynski to consider how the body might
fight cancer on its own. The body must have some way, he thought, to
correct errors that occur in cellular differentiation and to redirect
potential cancer cells into normal paths. The theory is, of course, that
cancer cells have lost the 'information' needed to develop into differentiated body-
organ cells. Burzynski's antineoplaston a allegedly supplies that 'information' in
the form of a protein peptide, (a chain of amino acids) – one of the best
biological information carriers – that would reprogram cancer cells into
normal growth. Although antineoplastons are found in all normal body tissues and fluids, THEY  
ARE MOST EASILY EXTRACTED FROM URINE (my
caps). They appear to "normalize" cancer cells without inhibiting the
growth of normal cells. Actually, urine therapy has been used as folk remedy for cancer
and other ailments for over 2,000 years. Even within the past 30
years, at least 45,000 injections of urine  or urine extract were
given in the United States and throughout Europe without any
toxic side effects." 152In reality, unknown to Gary Null and most of us, there have been several hundred  
thousand oral administrations and injections of urine and
urea given by doctors and researchers over the last 30 years. Null continues:
"In our search for antineoplastons, says Burzynski, 'we were able to
find peptides in normal human urine...that were active against every
type of human neoplasm (tumor) we tested, including myeloblastic
leukemia, osteosarcoma, fibrosarcoma, chondrosarcoma, cancer of the
uterine cervix, colon cancer, breast cancer, and lymphoma.' 124The Research Evidence and Case Studies
Dr. Burzynski presented his startling results to the annual meeting of
the Federation of the American Societies  for Experimental Biology...
"However, soon after this Dr. Burzynski's funding was decreased, then
it was discontinued. His work was channeled into other areas of
research, and his superiors discouraged his pursuit of cancer therapy." The article continues with details of the extraordinary results of
Burzynski's treatment in one particular case:
"Working for the past two years in the relative freedom of his own lab,
Dr. Burzynski has amassed some impressive results. For example,
there was the case of a 63-year old white male with lung cancer that
had spread to the brain. Before coming to Dr. Burzynski, the patient
had received chemotherapy and cobalt treatment, whereby a part of the
brain tumor had been reduced. However, a new tumor had sprung up
in another part of his brain, and doctors decided that nothing more
153could be done. Undaunted, the patient's family searched out Dr.
Burzynski, who examined the patient and cautiously agreed to help. After just two weeks of the antineoplaston treatment, in which the
patient was given the substance intravenously, the tumor on the left
lung decreased substantially. After six weeks it disappeared entirely. After a month both brain metastases decreased in size and, in six
weeks, also disappeared. Amazingly, the only side effects of this highly
effective treatment were chills and fever. These were attributed to the
release of toxic products into the bloodstream after the breakdown of
cancer cells. Contrast this with the deleterious effects of conventional
therapy, which in this patient's case had increased the metastasis..."
Dr. Burzynski still uses his treatment successfully in his lab in Houston
today, although he is continually assaulted by the medical society in
Houston and has been refused research grants from the American
Cancer Society and the National Cancer Institute — even though his
findings on the anticancer properties of antineoplaston A have been
confirmed in tests by prestigious research centers all over the  U.S. on
leukemia and other types of cancer, including breast cancer. Urine extracts such as H-11, refine, HUD and antineoplastons, as the
research has demonstrated, gave excellent results in treating cancer
patients, but, again, these anti-cancer elements are already available in
natural urine and can be simply, safely and easily accessed, whereas
154accessing urine extract treatments can be difficult and extremely expensive — and  
I know this from my own experience.Your Own Perfect Medicine
After several unsuccessful surgeries for endometriosis, I was told that I
would need more surgery. After my doctor told me that he was scheduling another  
operation for me, I canceled the surgery and flew to
Mexico to get an alternative treatment for cancer patients that I was
told also had possibilities for treating my case. The cancer clinics in Mexico reminded me of something out of Sartre –
shaven-headed terminal cancer patients lined up by the dozens with IV
tubes dangling from their arms, some of them with huge, ulcerated,
open cancerous lesions oozing blood. The man in the bed next to mine
had a cancerous brain tumor the size of a large grapefruit bulging from
his head. One of his eyes, nearly eaten away by the cancer, was now
just a mass of bloody, unrecognizable tissue. But as I soon discovered, the people in the clinic were the "lucky" ones. As I sat listlessly in my chair with my IV tube pumping a $10,000.00
course of "immune builders" into my body, I watched as a steady procession of  
cancer  patients  came  through  the  clinic,  asking  for  information  on  other  less  
expensive cancer treatments because they couldn't
afford the fees for the alternative clinics. The stories, most of which I could overhear, were all the same – these
cancer victims had gone through months or years of radiation and
chemo, the cancer was back, and now they were dying; they'd turned
to natural medicine as a last resort, but couldn't afford the $10,000 to
155$50,000 that the alternative clinics charged. These were hopeless, desperate people, many of them only in their
twenties and thirties – but what could they do? Conventional medicine
hadn't worked, they had no knowledge about natural therapies, no
idea about how to help themselves – it was a scenario of gruesome and
devastating personal ordeals that the American Cancer Society and the
AMA never reveal. And these people are not in the minority. It has been reported that:
"Nearly two-thirds of all cancer patients will eventually die of their
diagnosed cancer, either before or after the arbitrary five-year limit." Betrayal of Health
It's always bothered me that I didn't know about urine therapy at that
time, because I saw so many people who could have benefitted so
much from it. A young girl came into the clinic alone one day, and I
happened to talk to her. =1The Research Evidence and Case Studies
She was twenty-four and had been diagnosed with ovarian cancer
which had not responded to aggressive surgery, radiation and chemo,
and her doctors said there was nothing more they could do for her.
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        However, as later research in 1961 (see Dr. Schlegel),
showed, urea in higher concentrations (8%) does inhibit or destroy both :71
gram negative and gram positive bacteria. So even though specific
anti-tubercular agents other than urea are in urine, urea most likely also
plays a role. 96r
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But again, if we were to use a urea extract alone in treating TB, rather
than whole urine, the important anti-tubercular element in whole urine
that Bjornesjo discovered would be eliminated from our treatment,
which indicates that a combination of whole urine and urea could offer
an extremely effective TB treatment. TITLE: STUDIES ON THE TUBER-CULOINHIBITORY PROPER- Report #15
TIES OF ASCORBIC ACID DERIVATIVES AND THEIR POSSIBLE
ROLE IN INHIBITION OF TUBERCULE BACILLI BY URINE,  1954,
by Dr. Quentin Myrvik, R. Weiser, B. Houglum, and L. Berger. From the
Department of Microbiology, University of Washington School of
110Medicine, Seattle, Washington. When Bjornesjo discovered that urine can inhibit or destroy the bacteria
that causes tuberculosis,, rather than use this information to support traditional  
urine therapy, he conducted several more intensive research
studies in an attempt to determine what exactly if was in the urine that
killed the TB bacillus so that it could be isolated and produced in drug
form but, as we said his research was unsuccessful. This particular study was another attempt by several other researchers
to find the mystery element in urine that destroyed TB bacteria and
they suggested that it might be the ascorbic acid (vitamin C) in urine:
"The idea that the ascorbic acid of urine and serum may exert tuberculostatic action  
is not new. These observations are not inconsistent
with the concept of the present writers that the tuberculostatic activity
of urine reported by Bjornesjo in some way depends  on ascorbic acid. " This assumption was incorrect. It wasn't until several years later, in the
following study done in 1965, that Japanese researchers were able to
partially identify what it was in urine that stopped the growth of TB
bacteria. 97Your Own Perfect Medicine
Report #16 TITLE: ISOLATION FROM HUMAN URINE OF A POLYPEPTIDE
HAVING MARKED TUBERCULOSTATIC ACTIVITY, 1965, by
Shusuke Tsuji, et. al, From the Fifth Division of the Tuberculosis
Research Institute, Kyoto University, Japan. 111In one of the opening statements of this report, the researchers comment that: "The  
vast majority of Japanese adults are tuberculin positive. "
which is apparently why the laboratory evidence of urine's anti-TB
property was of interest to Japanese researchers and why they conducted their own  
search for the anti-TB element in urine:
"In short, although it has been a well known fact that human urine has
definite capacity to inhibit the growth of tubercule bacilli. the chemical
nature of the active substance has been obscure. In our investigations it. has become clear that at least one of the active agents is a polypeptide. " Although these researchers did identify one of the active elements in
urine's tuberculostatic activity as a polypeptide (which is a chain of
amino acids), they also admitted that there are other "as yet undetermined agents"  
responsible for urine's anti-TB property. Most of us in the U. S. have no concept of the seriousness of
tuberculosis, because our plentiful food sources, excellent sanitation
and modern drugs seemed to have eliminated this formerly dreaded
disease. But only recently, this article, which was mentioned in Chapter
3, revealed that TB is a modern-day threat:
The Associated Press
Friday, October 8, 1993
WASHINGTON— New cases of tuberculosis are increasing at an
alarming rate, posing a special threat to the poor and people with the
virus that causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), congressional  
analysts reported Thursday. The congressional report said
112EFFORTS TO COMBAT TUBERCULOSIS ARE COMPLICATED
BECAUSE OF THE EMERGENCE OF STRAINS RESISTANT TO
ANTI-TB DRUGS. (my caps)
The fact that TB and other disease microorganisms are now resistant to 5
many of our chemical drugs should set off an alarm somewhere in our
consciousness. The whole point of evolution is adaptation and
survival, and as this article, and others like it reveal, disease germs are
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obviously surviving by adapting natural defenses to our chemical
drugs - but are we adapting natural defenses to the germs. How can our natural immune defenses possibly develop and adapt
normally to new and stronger strains of disease microorganisms, when
we constantly override our bodies' natural responses to disease with
unnatural drugs. For years, we've interfered with even the most basic
of our bodies' natural defenses, such as fever, by substituting chemical
drugs for critical natural immune responses to infections and disease. A crucial fact that we have overlooked in this era of modern medicine
is that the body itself has the innate natural ability to adapt and change
to new disease influences, but chemical drugs do not. We might think that medical scientists can keep coming up with newer
and stronger drugs to combat new microorganisms, but drug research
isn't routinely successful and it takes many years to develop new treatments. Many  
of us could well be victims of these new bacteria and
113viruses, such as AIDS, long before our scientists figure out what these
organisms are and how they kill us. Natural medicinal substances, like herbs or urine, or homeopathic medicines, are  
traditionally known for their ability to gently assist and support our bodies' own  
immune functions rather than overriding them
through strong chemical intervention, which is why we need to emphasize their use  
and decrease our dependence on drugs. The 'immunebashing' methods of today's  
conventional medicine may prove to be
our undoing if we continue to use them as irresponsibly as we do
today
TITLE: EFFECT OF UREA ON CEREBROSPINAL FLUID PRESSURE Report  
#17
IN HUMAN SUBJECTS, 1956, From the Joumal of the American Medical
Association. SUBJECT: REDUCTION OF CEREBROSPINAL FLUID PRESSURE
WITH UREA; USE OF UREA AS A DIURETIC AND IN MENINGITIS. This is an interesting and precedent-setting study The two university
 doctors who conducted this research were intrigued by the possibility
7 that urea, which was known to be an excellent natural diuretic, could
also be used to reduce excess fluid pressure on the brain and spinal
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such as brain tumors, hydrocephalus (water on the brain), cerebral
hemorrhage or meningitis. Excessive intracranial pressure can be extremely dangerous and, if
114severe and unrelieved, can cause death, so it is of utmost importance to
relieve this pressure or inflammation as quickly and effectively as possible without  
causing harmful side effects. Swelling and pressure in the
cerebral cavity and spinal area also create problems during brain
surgery. The researchers, in this preliminary study, laid the groundwork for the
use of urea in reducing such pressure:
"The purpose of this report is to describe findings in a preliminary
study to determine the safety and efficiency with which urea might be
used intravenously for the purpose of reducing intracranial pressure. Many (other) agents have been used for this purpose but each has some
undesirable action that limits or prohibits its use. " In the study, the doctors report good results in clinical trials on patients
with excessive cranial pressure:
". it was found that the average pressure drop produced by urea was
4. 5 times greater than that caused by sucrose or dextrose (and). the
urea effects were much longer lasting. " The clinical use of urea as a diuretic is also discussed:
"Urea has, however, been used  clinically for other purposes than reduction of  
intracranial tension. It has long been recognized to be an effective diuretic agent. Salter states: 'One of the most effective diuretic
agents is urea, nature's own non-electrolytic diuretic. ' For the  purpose
of promoting diuresis it is administered by the oral route, 20 gm. two to
five times daily. " 115Urea's successful historical use in combination with sulfa drugs  is also
commented on in relation to treating meningitis with urea:
"LaLonde and Gardner gave urea in conjunction with sulfonamides in
the treatment of meningitis. •
It is thus evident that the clinical use of urea is not without precedent. It is a normal body metabolite that is well tolerated in large doses. "
The  success  of  this  preliminary  study  on  the  use  of  urea  in  neurosurgery  
encouraged further research. The next study was one of sever-p
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al follow-up research projects and clinical trials that established urea as
an effective agent in treating many different disorders involving excessive fluid  
pressure in the body. TITLE: UREA—NEW USE OF AN OLD AGENT, 1957. From a Report #18
Symposium on Surgery of the Head and Neck. SUBJECT: UREA TREATMENT OF EXCESS CEREBRAL AND
SPINAL PRESSURE, INOPERABLE BRAIN TUMORS, EDEMA
(FLUID PRESSURE) OF THE BRAIN, PREMENSTRUAL WATER
RETENTION,  MENINGITIS,  CHRONIC  GLAUCOMA,  HYDROCEPHALUS,  
DELIRIUM TREMENS AND EPILEPSY
116Because  of  the  encouraging  results  of  the  previous  urea  research,  doctors  
conducted this more intensive study which included extensive clinical trials using  
urea on 300 patients with a wide variety of disorders
including brain tumors, hydrocephalus (water on the brain), migraines,
glaucoma, meningitis, brain abscess, retinal detachment and premenstrual edema. Results of these trials were so successful, doctors concluded that:
"This  agent  (urea)  has  a  definite  place  in  the  therapeutic  armamentarium  of  
neurologists and neurosurgeons. The combination of urea and
10 per cent invert sugar is now used routinely in the neurosurgical service for  
intravenous administration. "
There were reports on remarkable cases in which the clinical use of urea
was literally life-saving as in the case of a woman who developed
severe swelling or edema of the brain after the surgical removal of a
small brain tumor:
"
„. On the fourth postoperative day, she developed signs of increased
intracranial pressure. In the course of a few  hours, she became progressively  
lethargic and then suddenly she became unresponsive. Her
pupils became dilated and fixed, her systolic blood pressure rose. Preparations were underway to take her to the operating room for the
removal of a bone flap. Urea was administered intravenously as an emergency measure. Within 20 minutes from the start of injection her blood pressure hadYour Ours  
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returned to normal and her pupils began to react. to light. From this
117time on, her recovery was uneventful. In this case, urea was definitely life-saving, because prior to its
administration the patient was in critical condition and her survival until surgical  
decompression could be done was unlikely. In many similar instances urea was found to be life-saving. " The researchers commented on the urea treatment of another patient
who had a brain tumor surgically removed but developed another massive brain  
tumor three months later:
". the patient received 256 ml. of 30 per cent urea. The bulging mass
". had completely disappeared by the end of two hours. On the diuretic properties of urea, the doctors reported:
"Urea is one of the most useful nonmetabolized, nonelectrolyte
diuretics. Its diuretic property does not diminish after prolonged administration, as  
is the case with acid-producing salts. " In observing its effect on relieving fluid pressure on the eyes in glaucoma and  
other ophthalmic patients, researchers stated that:
"Urea has been administered to 25 patients with acute and
chronic glaucoma, orbital tumors, retinal detachment and other
conditions. In comparing the effect of urea with Wiamoz1 on
intraocular pressure, urea was found to be more effective. "
Urea, as studies and doctors and researchers have proven, is a safe,
non-toxic, remarkably effective and inexpensive diuretic – but unfortunately, it's  
not even listed in any diuretic capacity in the Physician's
Desk Reference (PDR) which is the doctors guide to approved drug
118treatments. But Diamox, the synthetic diuretic which doctors said was less effective
than urea, is listed in the PDR – even though it's been proven  that urea
was safer and more effective than Diamox and several other synthetic
diuretics and urea is FDA approved. So why should Diamox be recommended to  
physicians rather than urea for diuretic use. Diamox is a sulfa drug and like all sulfa drugs, it can be dangerous. The Physician's Desk Reference (1992) warns that "fatalities have
occurred" with Diamox and that it can cause severe allergic reactions,The Research  
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bone marrow depression, a decrease in white blood cells, anemia, and a
host of other equally horrific side effects. On the other hand, urea is an effective, inexpensive diuretic and has no
side-effects or toxicity and it's FDA approved. But doctors don't know
this – instead they are directed to prescribe Diamox or some other'recommended'  
form of diuretic drug treatment being pushed by the drug
companies. It's  hard  to  believe  that  the  conventional  medical  establishment  is  
complaining to patients and the media about "snake-oil" sellers
and phony medical claims that the public supposedly needs protection
from, when obviously cogent medical research like that done on urea  is
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so completely ignored. Another point to consider is that synthetic diuretics alter the
sodium/potassium (or electrolyte) balance of the body which can cause
119havoc with your health. But as the researchers pointed out, urea is a
non-electrolytic diuretic that safely reduces fluid pressure in the body
and its effects last longer than other diuretics. Most people and practicing doctors have never heard of the oral use of
urea, but it's not uncommon in medical research. The doctors in this
study and many other researchers have given large doses of urea by
mouth, as well as intravenously:
". Urea has also been used by mouth in tablet form, or in powder dissolved in  
such [things) as unsweetened fruit juices. "
This study like so many before it, again proved that urea was a safe
medicinal agent, even in large doses, as well as being extremely simple
and effective:
Dosages. ". After urea was proved to be a safe agent which was well
tolerated in large doses, the dosage was increased until, today, in the
majority of the patients, it is 1 gram per kilogram of body weight. "
Because of the success of the preliminary clinical trials using urea on a
variety of disease conditions doctors recommended that:
"Further trials of urea are warranted in [the treatment of]:
encephalopathies (abnormal conditions of the structure of function of
tissues of the brain). Meniere's disease (disease of the inner ear), 'prei
menstrual edema, eclampsia (the gravest form of toxemia in
pregnancy), ocular surgery, glaucoma, delirium tremens, epilepsy. "
Researchers reported that they were undertaking further extensive
120research studies on the medical applications of urea. Your r Own Perfect Medicine
Report  #19  TITLE:  BACTERICIDAL  EFFECT  OF  UREA,  1961,  by  J. U. Schlegel,
Jorge Cuellar and R. M. O'Dell, From Tulane University, School of
Medicine, Department of Surgery, Division of Urology, New Orleans,
Louisiana. This research was supported by Public Health Service
Grants and Abbott Laboratories. SUBJECT: UREA AND URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS. "c. Drawing on earlier historical research into urea's anti-bacterial properties, Schlegel  
and his associates conducted this study to determine what
effect urea would have on bacteria commonly found in urinary tract
infections such as bladder and kidney infections:
"It has been known since 1906 that urea has a bacteriostatic effect in
altering the shape of pathogenic organisms (Peju and Rajat and
Wilson). Symmers and Kirk in 1915 used urea powder as a disinfectant in the
treatment of wounds. It has also been used locally for preventing the
spread of disease in surgery. Foshay (1935) used urea locally in otitis
(ear infections) with good results. McKay and Schroeder (1936) experimented with the use of urea on
polio and rabies viruses and found that the viruses were weakened and
finally destroyed by urea. Holder and Mackay (1943) used urea locally
to stimulate new tissue in wounds and to remove dead tissue. 121Weinstein and McDonald (1945) showed the bactericidal effect of urea
on microorganisms„. 11 was shown to be effective against typhoid,
paratyphoid and dysentery bacilli. Based on these findings, we proceeded to study the effect of urea in
concentrations within physiological ranges on certain bacteria commonly found in  
urinary tract infections. " Even though they were unable to determine the mechanism whereby
urea inhibited or killed the bacteria, Schlegel and his associates did conclude that:
"From  the  results  obtained,  it  would  appear  that  urea  had  a  bacteriostatic  or  
bactericidal effect on all organisms tested. As would be expected,
the higher concentrations of urea and longer exposure were more effective. "p
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This point is important because it demonstrates that as we increase the
urea concentrations in our urine, we increase the germ-fighting properties of our  
urine, which is an important function of the body in resisting
or defeating bacterial invasions as in bladder and kidney infections. So how do we increase our bodies' urea levels. As the following study
by Dr. Donald Kaye demonstrated, one way is by taking urea orally or
by injection, as patients in his clinical trials did; another method is by
ingesting our own urine, which, because it naturally contains urea, also
increases urea concentrations in our systems. One popular conventional medical treatment for urinary tract infections
122that does not increase urea levels, but actually dilutes urea, is the practice of force-
drinking copious amounts of water or liquids to supposedly help cure urinary tract  
infections. This practice of force-drinking
water to increase urine excretion is called water diuresis. As Schlegel, and other researchers and clinical trials demonstrated, concentrated  
urine is actually a vital natural defense against urinary tract
infections, including kidney infections, and diluting it by greatly
increased forced-water intake is apparently an erroneous practice. As Schlegel and his associates commented:
"Water diuresis results in urea concentration in urine so low
that there would be no bactericidal effect due to urea. One consequently wonders about the rationale of instituting
water diuresis by forced water intake as supportive therapy in
acute pyelonephritis [kidney infection] or other urinary tract
infections. " In other words, Schlegel is saying that it isn't logical to drink large
amounts of water to combat urinary tract infections, because the water
dilutes the urine and its urea content which subsequently destroys or
greatly decreases the urine's natural anti-bacterial action which the
body uses as a natural defense against urinary tract infection. Schlegel also observed that chronic kidney infection is associated with
an inability to concentrate urine. This means that the kidney infection
may be fueled by the fact that the urine or urea in the system isn't concentrated  
enough to exert its anti-bacterial action, and consequently
123can't help fight the infection:
"This finding helps to confirm that with a loss of ability to concentrate
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in advanced chronic pyelonephritis [kidney infection], the anti-bacterial
concentration of urea cannot be achieved. " As Schlegel comments, when the body's urea concentration is diluted
by such things as drinking large quantities of water or by kidney malfunction, the  
body loses its important natural capacity to use urea as an
anti-bacterial defense. Researchers have also discovered that acidic urine is more anti-bacterial
than non-acidic urine. But again, drinking water large amounts of
water makes urine less acidic and therefore less anti-bacterial. In the book Urinalysis in Clinical Laboratory Practice written in 1975 by
two researchers from Miles Laboratories, the researchers also observe
that  by  drinking  large  amounts  of  water,  the  natural  anti-bacterial-promoting  
acidity of urine  is destroyed:
"If a large amount of water is ingested by a human, a corresponding
diuresis or increase in urine excretion occurs. At this time, the pH of
the urine tends to become relatively fixed at a value quite close to neutrality. This  
phenomenon may be interpreted as an indication
that the normal process of urine pH adjustment does not have
an opportunity to function effectively. "
The researchers also stated that:
124"The presence of a urinary tract infection may cause the urine to
become quite definitely and persistently alkaline due to the action of
urea splitting organisms. " In other words, an infection itself makes the urine less acid and therefore less anti-
bacterial than it should be, so logically, it doesn't make
sense to further dilute the urine's bacteria-fighting properties by drinking large  
amounts of water as a treatment for the infection. Cranberry juice has been suggested as a method for increasing the antibacterial  
acidity of urine, but as the next study by Dr. Donald Kaye
demonstrated, the urea concentration and not the acidity of the urine
appears to be the primary factor in urine's antibacterial activity, and
force-drinking fluids does not contribute to urea concentration in the
urine. For  women  who  have  or  have  had  urinary  tract  infections,  more  commonly  
referred to as bladder infections, you know what your doctor
invariably tells you to do — drink lots of fluids and take medication,
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But there are two major problems with this scenario. First, as we've
discussed, drinking large amounts of fluid dilutes the antibacterial
activity of your urine which makes it harder for your body to overcome
the urinary tract infection. Secondly, one of the medications which doctors invariably prescribe for
125the  pain  associated  with  bladder  infections  is  Pyridium,  (phenazopyridine  
hydrochloride). Unfortunately, Pyridium is a known carcinogen. The 1985 Handbook of Toxic and Hazardous Chemicals and Carcinogens
states that Pyridium, (also known as Bisteril, Pyridicil and Uridinal),
which has been used for 40 years as an analgesic drug to reduce the
pain of urinary tract infections, is actually a known carcinogen:
". in female mice it significantly increased the incidence of adenomas
and carcinomas (cancer), and. In male and female rats it induced
tumors of the colon and rectum. " 4. 4 million prescriptions of this drug were dispensed in 1980, and it is
still routinely prescribed for the pain of urinary tract infections today. The next time you get a urinary tract infection, try urine therapy first —
it's indisputably safer, cheaper, and much more effective than water,
cranberry juice and Pyridium. And you can monitor your own
progress at home with the same dipsticks the doctors use to determine
if you have a urinary tract infection (see section on urine testing you
can do at home in Chapter 6. ) The next research study was also done on the role of urine in preventing or healing  
urinary tract infections, and it also demonstrated that
urine  can  inhibit  or  kill  bacteria  when  the  urea  concentration  is  sufficiently  
elevated. TITLE: ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY OF HUMAN URINE, 1968, by Report  
#20
Dr. Donald Kaye (Associate Professor of Medicine, Cornell University
126Medical College, New York). Many researchers in the past have looked for the answer as to why
urine from one person is anti-bacterial, while a urine sample from
another individual is not. Several studies over the course of the twentieth century  
confirmed that urine can definitely be anti-bacterial and,
based on a number of these studies, researchers speculated that
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why cranberry juice, which acidifies the urine, is recommended for urinary tract  
infections). But, Dr. Donald Kaye disagreed that acidity was the major factor in
making urine anti-bacterial. He felt that, although acidity contributed
to urine's anti-bacterial properties, no one had yet confirmed the real
factor behind this natural activity of urine. So in 1968 he undertook a research study in order to demonstrate that
the bactericidal properties of urine were related not so much to acidity
or other factors, but more to the urea concentration in the urine. In the study, Kaye showed that it was primarily urea levels, rather than
organic acids or other factors that were responsible for the antibacterial
action of urine:
"The results of the present study provide evidence for the role of urea in
human urine as an antibacterial agent. They also suggest that within the ranges of concentration commonly
achieved in human urine, antibacterial activity is more a function of
127urea content than of organic add concentration, or ammonium concentration. " Kaye demonstrated that by increasing the concentration of urea in
urine, you could directly increase the urine's ability to stop the growth
of the disease-causing bacteria:
". These experiments demonstrated that supplementation with urea
markedly increased the inhibitory quality of the urine. "
Kaye also mentions several other researchers who had demonstrated
that concentrated urea was anti-bacterial:
"There are previous studies suggesting that urea may contribute to
antibacterial activity of urine. Schlegel, Cuellar and O'Dell found that
urea in nutrient broth. has antibacterial activity in concentrations of 1-
4 000 ml. Neter and Clark showed that addition of urea to human urine markedly
increased antibacterial activity. Finally, Schlegel, Raffi, Flinner, and O'Dell, Brazil, and Schlegel were
able to decrease the incidence of urinanj tract infection in dogs and rats
by administering urea after introduction of bacteria into the urinary
tract. "When you re-ingest your urine, you are essentially ingesting additional
urea. And as Kaye demonstrated in his study, by orally ingesting additional urea,  
we increase the concentration of urea in the system, and
consequently increase the antibacterial action of our urine:
"Urine collected from volunteers after ingestion of urea demonstrated a
128marked increase in antibacterial activity, as compared with urine collected before  
ingestion of urea. In each subject the urea concentration was increased by at least 0. 5
grams of urea nitrogen/100ml of urine after ingestion of urea. ",
There is evidence that there is a link between acidity in urine and its
antibacterial action, but, as Kaye comments:
"None of the studies made an intensive effort to elucidate the factors
that may contribute to inhibitory activity of urine and to determine the
relative importance of each factor. " Kaye also demonstrates, as did Schlegel, that drinking large amounts of
water to promote urine output (diuresis) markedly decreases the
antibacterial activity of urine, which in turn decreases one of your
body's natural infection-fighting mechanisms:
"Urine. collected before diuresis was bactericidal for E. Coli strain 14,
whereas urine obtained during diuresis supported the growth of this
strain. The results of the present study and those of Roberts and Beard and
Asscher et al. suggest that antibacterial activity of human urine may be
an important factor in preventing urinary tract infection and may also
help to select (affect the reproduction of) bacterial strains when infection does  
occur. " In view of all this supportive data on the antibacterial properties of
urea, it becomes dearer as to why urine therapy has long been
129observed to be extremely effective in combatting many different types
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Report  #21  TITLE:  NEUTRALIZING  ANTIBODY  TO  POLIOVIRUSES  IN  
NORMAL HUMAN URINE, 1962, by Martin Lerner, Jack Remington and
Maxwell Finland, Journal of Clinical Investigation. (From the Throndike Memorial  
Laboratory, Harvard Medical Services, Boston City
Hospital, and the Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School,
Boston Massachusetts, Journal of Clinical Investigation. SUBJECT: NATURAL ANTIBODIES FOUND IN URINE
The research in this study was based in large part on several previous
studies on the presence of important natural antibodies that have been
found in urine. Actually, there are so many research studies that have been done on the
presence of antibodies in urine that it would be impossible to discuss
them all, so we'll look at this study and one other, both of which give a
good general overview of the subject. We all know the importance of anti-bodies in fighting disease. When
we are exposed to foreign organisms which our bodies sense as threatening, our  
immune system produces a wide variety of antibodies which
attack, weaken and destroy the intruders. Most of us think that these antibodies are found only in our blood. But
130numerous research studies have proven that a wide variety of antibodies are also  
present in our urine when we are fighting disease - and
these important antibodies can be reused by the body in urine therapy. As this study in 1962 revealed, urine antibodies are extremely effective
disease-fighters and are capable of actively neutralizing or destroying
even the aggressive polio virus:
Neutralizing activity for the poliovirus was demonstrated in protein
concentrates prepared from the urine of a number of normal subjects. The biologic characteristics of the neutralizing activity in the urine
resembled those of specific antibody found in blood. This  neutralizing  substance  of  the  urine  has  the  essential  characteristics  of  
antibody. Further studies on the biochemical and
physical characterization of this and other urinary antibodies are in
progress. This report also revealed that several other types of urine anti-bodies
have been found in other research studies:"Antibodies to cholera and typhoid have  
been found in the unconcentrated urine of normal volunteers immunized with the  
corresponding
vaccine. Antibodies to diphtheria, pneumonia, leptospira and salmonella bacteria
have also been found in the urine of immunized or infected individuals. " The medical community may argue that the re-use of urine antibodies
through urine therapy isn't significant because antibodies aren't always
found in urine during disease and they are not sufficiently concentrated
131enough to control or combat disease even when they are found – but
this isn't true. The researchers in this study on polio urine antibodies clearly stated
that even minute concentrations of detected or undetected antibodies
can control and fight disease:
"It is known, however, that the presence of antibody, even in
amounts which are not detectable by conventional methods,
may prevent disease and detection of virus.
The main issue is that it would eliminate the important anti-tubercular element in whole urine.
What is the main issue with using urea as a treatment for tuberculosis?
They discovered that it was not ascorbic acid, but rather a polypeptide.
What did Japanese researchers discover in 1965 about the anti-TB element in urine?
Drinking large amounts of water to dilute the urine, which can actually decrease the antibacterial activity of the urine.
What is the issue with the conventional treatment of urinary tract infections?
According to Dr. Kaye, it is the concentration of urea in the urine, not acidity.
What is the primary factor in urine's antibacterial activity, according to Dr. Donald Kaye's research?
The issue is that it is not just a single element, but rather a combination of natural immune defense factors and other factors that can be accessed through urine therapy.
What is the issue with using urine therapy for cancer treatment, according to Dr. Burzynski's work?