And  there  has been even  less  interest  in the  interactive  effects  of  
environmental agents or of long-term behavioral patterns on health"
The seemingly enormous healing power of new synthetic drugs  appeared to make  
common sense natural approaches to medicine obsolete. Now that we had miracle  
antibiotics that could apparently cure everything and powerful pain relievers and  
new, fantastic surgical techniques, who needed outmoded, unsophisticated natural  
medical approaches like urine therapy or nutrition or homeopathy or herbs? As  the  twentieth  century  progressed,  people  didn't  treat  themselves  at  home  
anymore with time-honored natural remedies. It you got sick, instead of treating  
yourself with more rest, better food and a simple traditional natural medicine, you  
went to the doctor or the drug store to buy whatever 'miracle' drug  was popular at  
the time, or you had an operation. In our century, drug companies, and the medical researchers they hired, took the  
job of making and experimenting with medicines away from doctors and the public  
and withdrew into their laboratories. In  scientific  seclusion,  far  removed  from  the  world  of  the  doctor-patient  
relationship,  researchers  experimented  with  chemical  compounds  and  isolated  
medically active ingredients in natural substances such as previously well-known  
herbs or urine, and then formulated drugs from these elements. In the case of urine therapy, urine was used in its natural form, or as simple urea in  
numerous  clinical  tests  throughout  our  century,  but  these  studies  were  never  
36publicized,  because,  for the  most  part,  the  use  of  natural  medicines had  been  
discontinued in medical practice in favor of patented drugs and surgery. With  our  new  system  of  modem  medicine,  people  no  longer  felt  that  it  was  
necessary or important for them to know how their bodies worked or how to treat  
themselves with simple methods at home. Most consumers felt that the knowledge  
of the body and how to heal it was best left in the hands of scientists and trained  
doctors  and  surgeons  who  knew  so  much  more  than  we  did  about  how  to  
manipulate and alter the body and defeat disease. In this scenario, the use of urine therapy wasn't important to the public. No one  
talked about it or shared the information with their family and friends as they had  
in days gone by. And even though modem researchers were discovering amazing  
things  about  urine  therapy,  these  discoveries  were  kept  within  the  walls  of  
academic research and were never or rarely shared with the public. But  were  we  right  to  abandon  traditional  and  common  sense  approaches  to  
healing? Should natural healing methods like urine therapy have a place in our  
lives or should we just continue to completely surrender our personal health-care  
needs and concerns to doctors and medical researchers? Are chemical drugs and  
surgery really  the answer to all  our health problems? As most of us are aware  
today — they're not. No  matter  how  many  incredible  discoveries  medical  science  may  have  made  
during the twentieth century, millions of us are sick or even crippledby illness  
today. Our doctors don't know what to do. Our scientists continue to tell us that  
science, drugs and surgery will cure us, but they don't. As The Betrayal of Health points out, our modern miracle medicine is not the  
miracle we thought it was:
"As  the  infectious  diseases  became  less  and  less  prevalent,  and  the  chronic  
diseases advanced to the forefront of illness, cracks have begun to appear in the  
fortress of allopathic medicine. The methods that had produced the successes of  
Jenner, Pasteur, Koch, Fleming and Salk no longer seemed to be working. Further  
flaws in, and abuses of, modern  medical techniques have become all too apparent. 37The unqualified successes of earlier decades have come up against the failures of  
modern medicine. The epidemic of chronic illness in the United States, particularly  arterial disease  
and  cancer,  is the  stellar embarrassment  of  medicine and  its high-technology  
weapons. These degenerative illnesses — far from being bull's eye illnesses — are complex  
dysfunctions of bodily systems that must be approached systematically. With them, the model of specific cause/specific medical intervention simply isn't  
working. What is worse, many interventions, from prescription drugs to expensive  
surgery, cause more harm than good when they are overused or abused by doctors  
and patients. Ironically, the wonder drugs of the last century may never have worked as well as  
we  thought. Medical  historians  report  that  the  dramatic  improvements  in  
morbidity and mortality rates in the past hundred years were not exclusively, nor  
even mainly, due to doctors' intervention. The great health improvements  of the nineteenth century were not the result of  
medical interventions per se, but of basic improvements in  nutritional and living  
conditions that coincided with (and often preceded) these interventions." So even though we believed that drugs and medical science alone were  responsible 
for saving us from smallpox and typhoid and other terrible diseases, this was never  
true. The truth was that we got fewer infectious diseases in the twentieth century  
because  we had better living conditions. For the first time in history, we had  
widespread modem sanitation, clean water and more and better food distribution  
than  ever  before. In  the  modem  environment  of  civilized  nations,  infectious  
diseases disappeared because the breeding grounds for germs, such as open sewers,  
contaminated water supplies and malnourished bodies were largely eliminated. But medical science undeservedly took and received the greatest credit and public  
acclaim for these tremendous health improvements. And the medical community  
today is still trying to convince us that no matter what goes wrong with our bodies,  
the solution will always be found within the realm of drugs and surgery. 38It is true that drugs and surgery can be extremely effective  for critical care, health  
emergencies,  structural  deformities  or  accident  cases,  but  these  aggressive  
therapies should never have developed into everyday medical approaches that we  
automatically  resort  to  almost  immediately  for  every  imaginable  illness  we  
contract. Western culture made a grave error when it eliminated all natural approaches to  
health in favor of drugs and surgery. Natural healing methods that gently stimulate  
and support the immune system without dangerous side effects have advantages  
that drugs and surgery can't offer. And it wasn't that traditional natural health  
therapies, such as urine therapy, hadn't worked in the past – it was simply that  
historically they weren't always applied within the context of good nutrition and  
sanitation and proper health practices because this knowledge wasn't available in  
the centuries preceding ours. And  as  Beasely  points  out,  it  was  extremely  ironic  that  even  though  modem  
science has proven the importance and impact of such common sense factors as  
diet and relaxation on health, the medical community and consumers have almost  
completely ignored these findings. For instance, if a typical consumer today is having trouble falling asleep chances  
are the person will immediately resort to Nytol, or Sominex, or whatever sleeping  
pill he or she saw advertised and promoted by drug companies on TV, and never  
even consider or try simple natural solutions such as  taking a walk or warm bath,  
or drinking a soothing cup of tea, or eliminating the late-night snack of pepperoni  
pizza that's upsetting the stomach and causing insomnia – even though there is  
clear  scientific  evidence,  not  to  mention  common  sense,  that  indicates  that  
relaxation and dietary changes can help promote good sleep. This' same contradiction is also true for urine therapy. Medical scientists have  
proven the medical efficacy of natural urine  and urea over and over again, but the  
medical community and drug companies have completely ignored these research  
findings – unless of course, a patentable drug form of urine such as Pergonal or  
Urokinase, can be developed. 39It's unfortunate that even as most people and practicing doctors forgot about the  
use  of  natural  urine  therapy,  medical  researchers  were  discovering  incredible  
things about the medicinal value of urine. During this century, researchers sat in their laboratories and watched as simple  
urea or whole urine completely destroyed rabies and polio viruses, tuberculosis,  
typhoid, gonorrhea, dysentery bacteria and cáncer cells. They found that urine contains a huge array of incredibly valuable and medically  
important elements and they injected and orally administered urine and urea to  
thousands of patients in clinical tests. They watched as it saved the lives of cancer patients, cured and  relieved asthma,  
eczema, whooping cough, migraines, diabetes, glaucoma, rheumatoid arthritis, and  
a  host  of  other  illnesses. But  the  general  public  was  never  told  about  such  
discoveries. Doctors and consumers today are given access to urine-related drugs, but have no  
idea of the tremendous overall value and health benefits of the natural urine that  
the drug was derived from. And medical researchers see absolutely no reason why  
any of us should know about it. All we need to know, in their estimation, is that  
they've developed a drug for a disease and where or what it's derived from is of  
little or no importance. So why are many people like myself now resurrecting and using natural urine  
therapy instead of using sophisticated 'wonder' drugs and surgery? The answer is  
simple – drugs and surgery didn't work, but urine therapy did. -
Urine therapy is regaining attention today because as the twentieth century draws  
to a close, millions of people are becoming aware that the keys to good health do  
not lie in the laboratory or the operating room. Many of us now realize that when we threw out our natural medical approaches  
and methods of self-care, we eliminated crucially important elements in healing  
that can't be replaced by drugs or surgery. Unlike naturally occurring medicines,  
chemical  drugs  are  extremely  concentrated  synthetic  substances. Yes,  these  
abnormally  high  concentrations may  seem  to  produce  a  "knock-out  punch"  to  
40disease symptoms, but what good is it if the drug delivers the same knock-out  
punch to your health as a whole? We may think we're winning the battle against disease, but we all know we're  
losing the war. The AIDS epidemic and the other modern health epidemics of  
cancer, heart disease,  diabetes, chronic fatigue syndrome, debilitating allergies,  
auto-immune diseases, ulcers, etc. aren't being cured by modem medicine. And one  
of the biggest reasons for this failure is that these modem epidemics are  immune  
deficiency  diseases  which  cannot  be  treated  by  immune-suppressing  therapies  
such as drugs and surgery. In fact, every single drug or surgical technique that exists in some way weakens  
and impairs our immune system functions, so it's imposible for these methods to  
cure the immune-deficiency diseases that are now killing and maiming us. The health epidemics of today are the consequences of many environmental factors  
that strain and break down our bodies' natural immune defenses, so drugs and  
surgery which further weaken our immune systems do absolutely nothing to cure  
or help us. They seem  to temporarily win the battle against  the symptoms of  
illness, but in the end they lose the wax because they suppress and destroy the very  
thing that makes and keeps us well – our own natural body defenses. Natural urine therapy was abandoned and forgotten by the public in the twentieth  
century because we were so sure that drugs and surgery were the answers to all our  
health problems. But time has shown us our error. As we watch the often terrible and fatal consequences of decades of complete  
reliance on immune-suppressing synthetic drugs and surgical techniques unfold,  
we worriedly search the pages of history to rediscover and relearn the lost arts of  
caring for ourselves with simple, safe. and healthful natural healing. Urine therapy is a natural therapy that is not widely known today, but in reality, it  
is not a lost healing art. As the material in this book shows, urine therapy has been  
kept very much alive by modem medical science throughout the twentieth century,  
even though it has rarely been publicized. In reality,-urine therapy cannot even be accurately classed as a traditional folk-
remedy  today,  because  during  the  twentieth  century  it  has  been  used  almost  
41exclusively  by  mainstream  medical  scientists  and  researchers  and  not  by  
consumers themselves, but this is changing. So, in conclusion, it is the "surgery and drugs are all we need" philosophy of the  
present conventional medical system that is one major reason why you and your  
doctors have never heard of mine therapy. But there is another big reason why so  
many know so little about the world's least expensive and most powerful and  
effective natural medicine - very simply stated - there's no therapy. Medicine and Money
I think that most of us are under the impression that somewhere in thesequestered  
halls  of  academia,  benevolent,doctors  and  research  scientists  are  altruistically  
slaving over their petri dishes and test tubes,  feverishly searching for new medical  
methods and cures that will relieve and eradicate physical suffering and illness -  
and that as soon as they make these wondrous new discoveries they'll immediately  
release the results of their studies to a desperately expectant world of sick and  
suffering people. But as true as we want this scenario to be, it isn't the reality. The reality is that  
medical  researchers  are  not  the  ones  who  ultimately  decide  what  medical  
treatments the public receives as a result of medical research studies. The architects of today's medical system are not primarily medical researchers or  
doctors, but rather, the drug companies. Medical research requires funding and  
from the very beginning of the age of modem medicine, researchers have largely  
depended on pharmaceutical companies to supply those funds. So many times we  
hear what the companies, and not the researchers, want us to hear about research  
discoveries. The great pharmaceutical advances of the early 1900's that gave us the first new  
vaccines, penicillin, antitoxins and the 'miraculous' sulfa drugs were financed in  
large part by big pharmaceutical companies like Bayer and I.G. Farben. Now,  
while the owners of these drug companies may have had some altruistic interests,  
the lifeblood of their companies was not medicine, but money. 42Simple, inexpensive medicines like herbs, homeopathic remedies or urine therapy  
that have been shown to be just as effective, safer and much less expensive than  
chemical drug compounds may be better for the public but they're no good for drug  
company profits and are therefore not promoted and sold. It's in the  drug industry's best  interest  to ignore and invalidate medicines and  
traditional therapies that can't be patented and don't produce  big profits. And in  
simple economic terms, this is how any business survives and prospers — by  
selling and promoting the products that make the most money. Pharmaceutical  
firms by their very nature must promote profit-making medicines to keep their  
companies alive. The way our medical system works today, drug companies are the primary entities  
that  fund  research,  and  test  and  prepare  medical  treatments  for  government  
approval, and this is also true in many countries throughout the world. And it's extremely expensive for a company to conduct research for a new method  
and get it through the approval process — to do this can cost as much as an  
estimated  $150  million  per  treatment. So  a  pharmaceutical  company  has  to  
promote the medical approaches that will assure big "pay offs" in order for the  
company to survive. Unfortunately,  medicines that  keep  drug  companies  alive  and  healthy,  even  if  
they're government approved, can often make people sick — or even kill them. Drugs like DES and thalidomide may have been big profit makers but they later  
created  horrible  health  disorders  and  hideous  fetal  deformities  when  used  by  
trusting consumers. Metabolic synthetic steroids, once hailed as miracle muscle-
builders and used freely, are now killing and maiming many of their users. Aspirin  
was considered to be the ultimate miracle fever and pain reducer until it was  
discovered that it causes the Reyes syndrome that can kill children and can also  
cause severe abdominal bleeding in adults. The  fact  is  that  no  matter  how  much  research  or  how  many  amazing  or  
successful  clinical  trials  have  been  performed  by  researchers  on  safe,  
inexpensive medical approaches like urine therapy, if these therapies are not  
perceived as profitable by pharmaceutical companies, they will simply not be  
43'picked  up'  by  the  drug  companies  and  presented  for  government  approval,  
which means that the public will probably never hear about the research or  
receive the benefits of these substances, no matter how wonderful they are. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FIDA) does not generally research or test  
medical  treatments itself  —  it  depends  on  private  companies  to  do  that. And  
because  of  this fact,  the  FDA  does  not  have  firsts  hand  knowledge  of  which  
treatments are effective and safe and which aren't; they rely on the company that  
has developed the treatment to tell them which treatments should be marketed to  
consumers. As the book, The Betrayal of Health reveals:
"The drug industry is a business. In a regrettable Catch-22, the main  sources of 
information for the regulation of the pharmaceutical industry are the companies  
themselves. The  'watchdog'  of  the  drug  industry,  the  Food  and  Drug  
Administration, sets testing standards and then evaluates the test results submitted  
by the companies. In determining whether a drug is 'safe, the FDA does not perform clinical trials of  
new drugs and only rarely runs toxicity tests. As a result, the FDA must make its decisions based on information provided by the  
very  company  that  wants  to  market  the  drug. If  the  information  provided  is  
fraudulent,  the  FDA  (and  the  public)  is  unlikely  to  find  out  about  it  until  a  
significant problem occurs... Despite  the  conflict  of  interest  inherent  in  such  situations,  drug  companies  
continue to be the major fonder of research on most common diseases and their  
potential treatment. . And it is no surprise that the research focuses on finding new chemical methods of  
managing disease — or at least symptoms. Indeed, could one expect A.H. Robbins  
or SmithKline or Ciba-Geigy to fund research on therapies (such as nutrition) that  
cannot be patented and will not significantly increase their market share?" The results of this unfortunate mix of medicine and money are reflected  by the lack 
of attention given to research findings on urine and urea therapy. For example,  
44urea,  has  been  shown  to  be  a  much  safer,  simpler,  less  expensive  and  more  
effective diuretic  than the diuretic drug, Diamox (see Urea — New Use Of An Old  
Agent,  next  chapter). Yet,  in  The  Physician's  Desk  Reference,  Diamox  is  
mentioned  under  the  diuretic  category,  but  urea  isn't  —  unlike  simple  urea,  
Diamox is a patented compound drug, insuring that the company's profits from the  
drug will be maximized and protected. Another  example  of  how  money  and  medicine  don't  mix  is  the  conventional  
medical community's treatment of medicinal herbs. There are numerous research  
studies proving the effectiveness, safety and diverse medical applications of herbs,  
yet  any  conventional  doctor  you  talk  to  will  tell  you  that  herbal  medicine  is  
ridiculously unscientific and ineffective. Doctors tell you this, not because it's true, but because their medical Training is  
completely  centered  around  drug  and  surgery  treatments  promoted  by  the  
pharmaceutical industry
In the book, The Scientific Validation of Herbal Medicine, the author, Daniel  
Mowrey, lists hundreds of scientific studies that not only validate the medicinal  
effectiveness of herbs, but in many cases, prove that the natural herb or herbal  
extract can be just as effective as its synthetic counterpart. For instance, the herb Cinchona was originally used for treating malaria and has  
been clinically proven to be just as effective as the synthetic drug quinine - and the  
herb is safe and non-toxic. But even though millions of pounds of Cinchona were imported for medical use  
into the U.S. before the development of synthetic quinine, drug companies today  
would  never  consider  recommending  or  advertising  Cinchona. Why? Because  
synthetic drugs, unlike herbs or other simple medicines, can be patented and sold  
for much more profit. And unfortunately, if the drug companies do not present a natural therapy such as  
urine  therapy  to  the  FDA-for  approval  because  it's  unprofitable  for  them,  the  
therapy doesn't get approved for use. That means that neither you or your doctor  
will hear about it or use it. 45Urea is approved by the FDA and is used, as you've read, in several different  
commercial forms. But urea itself is extremely inexpensive and non-patentable so  
the truly important and often astounding medical breakthroughs using simple urea  
in research studies have never been given proper recognition, even though the  
researchers themselves have often stressed its importance and made repeated but  
unsuccessful  attempts to  bring the information to the attention of  the  medical  
community. Consumers, and especially doctors, over the last 50 years have been thoroughly  
and  completely  indoctrinated  with  the  "a  drug  a  day  keeps  disease  away"  
promotion of the drug companies, and have neglected the simpler, safer methods  
like natural urine or urea therapy. But how do we know that our doctors are right  
and that the drug companies are telling the truth when they say that the drugs we're  
taking are safe and effective and will heal the health disorders that we're taking  
them for? Chemical Drugs - How Safe and Effective Are They? Many people are afraid to try urine therapy because  it's not recommended by  
conventional doctors. And our doctors, if we ask them, will  tell us that they've  
never heard of it and if they have, they don't recommend it because it's never been  
proven safe or effective, whereas the drugs they prescribe are scientifically proven  
safe  and  effective  and  therefore  have  passed  FDA  approval  testing. Drug  
companies and researchers tell us the same things about their drugs. And like the uninformed health-care consumers that so many of us are, we believe  
them. But this information is, simply speaking, a big, fat lie. The statement that medical therapies like urine therapy or herbal medicines are  
dangerous,  unproven  or  "quackery",  and  that  only  FDA  approved  drugs  and  
therapies are safe and effective is a blatant falsehood. As you'll see after reading the research studies in the next chapter, not only does  
urine therapy have enormous scientific proof and validity  on its side, but, unlike  
drugs and surgery,  not one person has ever suffered adverse side effects or died  
46while using urine and urea medicinally in nearly 100 years of scientific scrutiny  
and use. On the other hand, of the more than edicin that are available to anyone at anytime  
off  any  drug  store  or  grocery  store  shelf,  only  1/3  of  them  have  ever  been  
demonstrated to be safe or effective and all are proven to have dangerous potential  
side effects and overdoses can even cause death. And don't take my word for it. Listen to what a large group of medical research  
scientists and doctors say about this issue in the book they wrote in 1983, entitled  
Over The Counter Pills That Don't Work. This book is a real eye opener, and will  
make you realize that just because a substance is FDA approved, available over the  
counter in the store, or doctor recommended, it has not necessarily been proven  
safe and effective:
"...Every  day,  on  television,  on  the  radio,  in  newspapers,  in  magazines,  drug 
companies spend millions of your dollars to tell you about the wonders of their  
special and 'unique' over the counter drugs..."
But fewer than ⅓ of these over the counter drug ingredients have been shown to  
be safe and effective for their intended uses. In other words, many O TC [over-the-counter] drug products which you purchase  
contain one or more ingredients which do not meet the Federal drug law standards  
for safety, effectiveness, or both. Of the more than 1.0 billion dollars Americans spend each year on OTC drugs, at  
least 3 or 4 billion dollars are wasted on grossly overpriced products or products  
with ingredients lacking evidence of safety or effectiveness. Since all drug ingredients have risks, extra ingredients which aren't effective or  
which lack evidence of effectiveness subject you to extra risks without providing  
compensating benefits. So you are not only wasting your money when you buy  
products with such ingredients, but you are also risking your health and that of  
your family. Starting 10 years ago, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) established a  
large  number  of  over  the  counter  drug  advisory  panels  –including  physicians,  
47pharmacists and other technically qualified people. They reviewed...the ingredients  
contained in approximately 300,000 brands of (OTC) drugs to determine if these  
ingredients werer safe or effective_according to the FDA's Director of OTC Drug  
Evaluation, Dr. William Gilbertson, only “about 1/3 of the ingredients reviewed by  
the panels have been shown to be safe and effective for their intended uses.” FDA  
officials under pressure from the OTC drug companies have not implemented the  
findings of their panel." The hundreds of drugs shown to be unproven for safety and effectiveness include  
well-known and widely used drugs like  NyQuil, Alka-Seltzer Bayer, Bufferin,  
Dristan, Anacin, Eticeskin, Cope, “doctor recommended” Preparation H and many  
more. The  same  doctors  and  medical  researchers  who  wrote  this  book  on  over-the-
counter drugs, also wrote a consumer book  on the dangers of prescription drugs  
entitled, Pills That Don't Work :
"You go to the doctor because you don't feel well. You are listened to  (sometimes), 
examined, tested and then the doctor usually writes one or more prescriptions for  
you. You go to the drug store to have the prescriptions filled. You go home and  
start taking the pills. Now every thing will be all right, right? Wrong. Neither you nor, in some instances, even your doctor  realices that one out of  
every eight prescriptions filled...is for a drug not considered  effective by the  
government's  own  standards . Since  all  drugs  involve  risks,  this  lack  of  
effectiveness  means  you  are  exposing  yourself  to  dangers  without  gaining  
compensating benefits. In other words, balancing the benefits versus the risks,  
these drugs are not soft..."
Health  care  consumers  today  are  witnessing  and  experiencing  firsthand  the  
collapse  of a medical system  based  on profit and saturated  with the mistaken  
assumption that man-made drugs can be guaranteed to be safe and can completely  
usurp the healing power of nature and the use of safe natural healing methods. Unfortunately, consumers in many cases are learning this error in medical thinking  
the hard way. A recent news-paper article on a new drug for the 'incurable' virus,  
hepatitis B, illustrates just how deadly this thinking can be: 
48Human Guinea Pig Says He's Lucky to Be Alive
Associated Press – Paul Melstrom of Phoenix warned the National  Institutes of 
Health that the test drug he had taken was causing serious side effects. But no one  
listened. Now, he lives with a painful nerve disorder, but still considers himself lucky. Five  
other people who tested the drug are dead. Officials at the Institutes in Bethesda, Md., the premier federal medical research  
agency, acknowledge that the test went terribly wrong . "Catastrophe" is how Dr. Jay H. Hoofnagle of the Institutes, who oversaw the  
original study, described it. The federal Food and Drug Administration, which had given approval  for the 
human trials is investigating what went wrong. And this is not an isolated incident. As The Betrayal of Health points out,  drug 
safety  testing  by  drug  companies  is  seriously  flawed,  because  of  the  
pharmaceutical industry's desire to continually pump out new, even if speculative,  
drug treatments:
"These speculative drug 'hand grenades' have done considerable damage over the  
course of pharmaceutical history. The best-known example  was the tragedy of  
thalidomide, the tranquilizer that resulted in thousands of deformed children in  
Europe and Great Britain. Yet the pharmaceutical industry continues to produce and market drugs that have  
the potential to cause a comparable tragedy..."
American  consumers  in  particular  are  at  risk  from  the  side  effects  and  
consequences  of  medical  drug  abuse,  because  we  take  so  many  medications  
habitually:
The Wall Street Journal
49Tuesday, January 11, 1994
"Americans  as  a  society  are  over  medicated,  some  experts  say,  because  of  a 
culture that no longer makes allowances for pain. Advertisements on television or  
in magazines, they say, have left the impression that there is a pill to make every  
pain or problem go away…
But consumers may nevertheless find themselves in the doctor’s office either for  
complications arising from prolonged use of over-the-counter drugs themselves or  
for failing to recognize the [underlying] presence of a more serious illness." Another problem with our reliance on synthetic drugs is that medical  scientists try 
to prove that synthetic drugs are safe and effective by doing "conclusive" double-
blind studies that are supposed to eliminate risk factors and show that a specific  
drug will work a certain way on everyone that has the disorder that the drug is  
supposed to treat. But one important thing we have to remember in caring for ourselves is that there  
is no such thing as a generalized body or a specific cause for every illness. And in reality, there is no such thing as a completely conclusive doubleblind drug  
study because no two people are exactly the same even if they happen to have the  
same disease. So the drug that works for one person might not work well at all for  
another person even though both have 'identical' disorders. As a result, no double-
blind drug study is ever going to be completely objective or ultimately prove how a  
drug will affect everyone who takes it, which is another reason why drug fatalities  
and unforeseen side effects occur. We think that we can blindly trust the FDA and our doctors, simply because they  
say we can — but blind faith can be deadly. Health care in the U.S. is in crisis today, but the problem isn't too Little money, it's  
too little attention being given to our bodies' real health needs, such as the critical  
need to support and enhance our bodies' own natural defenses against disease  
through traditional methods and common sense approaches such as good nutrition,  
a balanced lifestyle, sufficient rest, and simple, safe, natural medicines. 50I've asked doctors and medical practitioners many times about urine therapy and, if  
they've ever even heard of it, (99% of then) haven't), they invariably tell me that,  
unlike the drugs they prescribe and recommend, it's not safe, it's an old wives tale,  
and it's never been proven effective. But the truth is that urine therapy is proven and  is safe, far more so than chemical  
drugs. And  in  view  of  the  real  facts  about  drugs  and  the  drug  industry  it's  
frighteningly  obvious  that  the  real,  substantiated  risks  are  not  those  posed  by  
correctly used proven natural healing approaches like urine therapy, but by routine,  
unnecessary  surgeries  and  by  dangerous  prescription  and  over-the-counter  
chemical drugs that are marketed as freely as food, clothing and laundry soap. What's Wrong With Urine Extracts? After reading the medical research on urine people are always  impressed, but they  
often ask if it wouldn't be easier and better to use it as an extract or drug. But in  
addition to the health problems and side effects that drugs create, there are other  
reasons why urine extracts and drugs can't replace natural urine therapy. When it comes to personal health there are innumerable variables or differences in  
individual body chemistry, absorption rates, reactions, etc., and even these factors  
change within the same body, so it can be extremely difficult in many cases to find  
the exact medicine or therapy that works for each individual person. But it is this fact that each body is so different that makes whole, natural urine so  
tremendously valuable as a medicine. Scientists  have  discovered  that  urine  contains  thousands  of  elements  that  are  
specifically related to almost every function of each individual body:
"Urine has been referred to as a mirror which reflects the activities  within the 
individual's body ... urine provides information about the functions of the whole  
body." — Urinalysis in Clinical and Laboratory Practice
When you use you r own urine medicinally, yon get the protein or antibody or  
hormone, etc., in the correct concentration and structure that our own bod has  
manufacture or to respond to a health threat. 51And each of these medically important elements  is in a perfect and immensely  
complex interrelationship with thousands of other important urine components. But  
this vital relationship of natural components is completely lost when we extract  
separate urine ingredients for medical use. Medical researchers want to extract these valuable urine components so that they  
can convert them into drug products that can be mass-marketed to consumers. But commercially produced urine extracts are not comparable to your own urine  
because your urine contains elements that reflect and treat your precise health  
condition and body functions - and these elements are too complex to be duplicated  
in an extract or drug. For instance, as this next newspaper article reveals, researchers have been hying  
extract an ingredient from urine that has been proven to promote healthy sleep so  
they can use it in drug form:
FACTOR S:
Help for the Wee, Wee Hours
A MYSTERIOUS  biochemical substance that safely and naturally induces deep  
sleep has been found in human urine. Dubbed "Factor S" by the scientists at  
Harvard University and the University of Chicago, the substance has proved to be  
especially effective as a promoter of healthy sleep...
Extensive trials of the biochemical are continuing but it is expected to  take some 
years before a commercially produced version of Factor S will be available to the  
public. Now this article would have us believe that we can't utilize the benefits of Factor S  
until a commercially produced 'drug version' is made available to the public. But as  
urine therapy research shows, we can use urine in its natural form and experience  
its amazing benefits without waiting for a drug version or exposing ourselves to  
drug side effects. 52And there are important reasons why we should use natural urine therapy rather  
than urine extracts or synthetic drug forms. For instance, let's suppose that researchers do successfully produce a "Factor S"  
drug and that you're suffering from sleeplessness. You go to your doctor and are  
given the drug so you'll sleep better. But what you and the doctor don't know is  
that your insomnia is caused by an undiagnosed food allergy which isn't cured by  
taking the sleep drug. You take the drug for a few weeks, but now you're having  
side  effects headaches,  dizziness  and  drowsiness  during  the  day. So  you  stop  
taking the Factor S drug. But  as soon  as you  stop  taking the drug, your  sleeping  disorder comes back,  
because the allergy that's causing the insomnia has never been identified or treated. If you had used natural urine therapy in this scenario, rather than the
Factor S drug, you could have been treating and healing your undiagnosed allergy  
because your urine contained the exact antibody needed to overcome the food  
allergy, and at the same time, you'd have solved your sleep disorder because the  
allergy that caused it had been eliminated - all at no cost and without the danger of  
side effects. When we one component of urine or of any natural medicinal substance, we miss  
the often extraordinary  benefits of all the other  ingredients. Even some medical doctors themselves are now questioning the wisdom of using  
just  one  extracted  ingredient  of  a  natural  substance  rather  than  the  natural  
substance  itself   in  treating  disease. Dr.  Andrew  Weil,  M.D.,  is  a  nosed  and  
certified  American  physician  with  a  strong  background  on  the  use  of  natural  
medicinal plants in healing, who now utilizes natural plants in treating his own  
patients. Dr. Weil has observed in his own research and practice that it is safer and often  
more effective to use a natural plant treatment rather than a refined derivative of  
the plant. He has observed, as have many other doctors, that isolated extracts are  
generally more toxic than their natural sources and sometimes even fail to give the  
same medical benefits as the natural sources they're derived from:
53"In their enthusiasm at isolating the active principles of drug plants,  researchers 
made  a  serious  mistake. They  came  to  believe  that  all  of  a  plant's  desirable  
properties could be accounted for by a single compound...The erroneous idea that  
plants and isolated active principles are equivalent has become fixed dogma in  
pharmacology and medicine... [but] purified drugs are not the same as the plants  
they come from." — The Value of Using Whole Plants Health and Healing
Another good example of why whole urine is a more desirable medicine than urine  
extracts  is  shown  by  research  discoveries  done  on  urea,  the  principal  solid  
ingredient of urine. Researchers discovered almost one hundred years ago that concentrated urea itself  
can destroy many different strains of disease bacteria and viruses but seemed less  
effective on certain other bacterial strains, such as tuberculosis. But even though  
urea is less effective in killing TB, in the 1950's, research proved that whole urine  
has been shown to rapidly and in many cases, completely inhibit and destroy the  
TB bacteria! One of the unfortunate things about this story is that the researcher who discovered  
urine's anti-TB properties, rather than announcing that urine could essentially cure  
TB,  instead  spent  years unsuccessfully  trying to identify  and  isolate  the urine  
component that killed the TB bacteria so that a drug could be formulated from it. You might think that in this day of modem antibiotics, TB isn't a relevant issue, but  
it is:
TUBERCULOSIS ON RISE IN U.S. The Associated Press
Friday, October 8, 1993
54WASHINGTON  –  New  cases  of  tuberculosis  are  increasing  at  an  alarming  
rate...congressional analysts reported Thursday. "This is a chilling report; it is an indictment of our public-health system," said  
Rep.  Ed  Towns,  D-N.Y.,  chairman  of  the  House  Governmental  Operations  
subcommittee on human resources... The  congressional  report  said  efforts  to  combat  tuberculosis  is  complicated  
because of the emergence of strains resistant to anti-TB drugs..."
A recent article in a doctor's publication also revealed that TB has  now increased  
at an alarming rate among children, and is even causing fatalities, because the  
disease  strikes  children  much  harder  than  adults. And  doctors  are  finding  it  
extremely  difficult  to  deal  with  this  new  TB  epidemic  because  it's  easily  
misdiagnosed and is now resistant to anti-TB drugs. — American Medical News
Feb. 14, 1994 
Isolating separate elements from natural substances and refining or chemically  
copying them as synthetic drug forms isn't the miracle technique that modern  
medical  science  would  have  us  believe. Scientists  and  doctors  throughout  the  
twentieth century taught consumers that purified and refined isolated extracts were  
far more effective and just as safe as the natural substances they were derived  
from, but time has proven them wrong. Not  only  are  hundreds  of  the  drugs we  routinely  use  everyday  unproven  and  
potentially dangerous, but this continual drug-taking also interferes with our body's  
ability to develop natural immunity to disease. As the artide on TB and others like it reveal, bacteria am successfully adapting to  
our drugs, but obviously, our immune systems haven't developed immunity to the  
bacteria, because we've relentlessly overridden our natural immune responses and  
functions with chemical drugs. Now the drugs don't work – so where does that  
leave us? It leaves us, by all accounts, in serious trouble. 55A recent report from the Centers For Disease Control (CDC) stated that in U.S.  
hospitals,  a  major  disease-causing  bacterium  has  now  become  resistant  to  
antibiotics normally used to treat infected patients:
In 1992, CDC reported that more than 2 million patients annually suffer from  
infections; in 1992, 19,027 people died from infections contracted in the hospital,  
and another 58,092 died from causes to which  such infections had contributed . — Associated Press
There is no doubt that  drugs and surgery do play a part in medicine, but these  
therapies have their limitations, even in treating serious infectious diseases. Strong  
synthetic drugs have no place in the everyday health armamentarium of consumers. The only real reason why we and our doctors now unthinkingly and routinely  
overuse drugs and surgery is because they are so heavily promoted by the drug  
industry which makes billions of dollars each year from these methods. But  you  don't  have  to  throw  away  your  hard-earned  money  on  unsafe,  
inappropriate drugs and put your health at risk with chemical drugs or surgery in  
order to get well. As many doctors themselves now believe, traditional natural medical methods like  
urine therapy are completely valid should play a prominent part in our personal  
health treatments and preventive health care. Does The Doctor Really Know Best? If  you  still  feel  apprehensive  about  trying  urine  therapy  because  your  doctor 
doesn't recommend it, consider what conventional doctors really do know about  
real healing - even when they use their own conventional medical techniques. In his book, What Your Doctor Didn't Learn in Medical School...and what you can  
do about it!, Dr. Stuart M. Berger, M.D. tells about the fallacies and flaws in our  
medical school regimens and teaching practices. Dr. Berger tells about his medical apprenticeship at Tufts Medical School, Harvard  
School of Public Health and New York's prestigious University Hospital, where he  
56and  his  classmates  had  access  to  the  most  sophisticated  space-age  medical  
technologies available, including masterful surgical techniques that seem to defy  
death. "We were learning immense amounts" says Dr. Berger, "but were we  learning 
what we should? We were becoming doctors, to be sure, but were we becoming  
better healers?" Later in his life, when Dr. Berger's mother was nearly killed by a mistaken cancer  
diagnosis, he witnessed first-hand the often fatal breakdown of the medical system  
under which he and all allopathic doctors  are trained. As Dr. Berger tells.us, his  
mother's life, but for his intervention, might have been lost because of her doctors'  
mismanagement:
"She  had  come  only  days  away  from  being  pumped  full  of  the  most  lethal, 
debilitating agents - drugs quite capable of crippling or even killing her, for a  
cancer she never had... Her life could have been forfeited to delay, mismanagement, [and] the  needless 
toxic interventions of a medical system run amok. I also know that the same is true of every man, woman and child who participates  
in our medical system - and that means all of us. This sorry state of things is a  
simple fact of American medicine, one that holds true for you, for your loved ones  
and for your friends. The truth is that we are all at risk simply because of how our medical  system 
functions. Or, to put it another way, because of what our doctors didn't learn in  
medical school." Like many other conscientious doctors today, Berger urges everyone to  become 
informed consumers. Just as Berger and thousands of us have experienced — your  
life may depend on what you, not your doctors, know about medical therapies and  
your own body. Another good book on the perils of modem medicine is Medicine on  Trial by  
Charles Inlander, Lowell Levin and Ed Weiner. Lowell Levin is a professor at Yale  
University School of Medicine:
57"Twelve of the thirteen chapters in this book are devoted exclusively to  evidence of 
misconduct and mayhem perpetrated on an unsuspecting public [by the medical  
profession]. 'Serious' is too tame a word… One has to wonder why the facts  
presented in this book have not heretofore been put on public view forcefully. Why has the honorable profession of medicine kept the facts of its mistakes to  
itself? Is the profession of medicine so venal that it is willing to risk the lives of  
people whose trust it enjoys? Can the [medical] profession and its institutions be  
so  cynical  as  to  treat  patients  and  the  public  at  large  as  incapable  of  
understanding what is going on? People sense that physicians may not be the omniscient and totally dedicated care  
givers that organized medicine's image makers have been advertising. Personal  
experiences of family and friends drive home the reality of medicine's clay feet. There are growing signs that the public has had enough cover-up and outright  
deceit. People are not fools, even though they may have been fooled, or more  
likely, lulled, into believing that medical care has been on a steady course of  
progress, from one medical miracle to another. The overselling and hype about  
winning the war on cancer is an example... We have been fed a considerable  
number of public relations releases about medicine's successes, with little or no  
effort to portray its downside. Government studies now raise questions about the qualifications (or lack thereof)  
of physicians...their misdiagnoses, unnecessary or incompetent surgery, errors in  
medication, neglect and high hospital infection rates... Money, power, prestige and  
egos conspire to hold reformists [inside the medical system] to marginal, largely  
cosmetic changes." Anyone  who  is  currently  taking  any  doctor-recommended  and  supposedly  
therapeutic drug of any type also needs to read the book, The  Informed Consumer's  
Pharmacy, The Essential Guide to Prescription and Over-the-Counter Drugs by  
Ellen Hodgson Brown and Lynne Paige Walker. This book is one of the clearest,  
most comprehensive guides to therapeutic drugs available, and if you value your  
good health, you'll definitely want to read it. As the authors of The Informed Consumer's Pharmacy  comment:
58“Overdosing on drugs is the most popular form of suicide, but drugs in lesser  
amounts can kill as surely. Like time bombs, they just act more slowly. More  
Americans are killed each year by drugs than by auto accidents. The American  
Medical  Association  estimates  as  much  as  one-third  of  all  illness  may  be  
'iatrogenic' — caused by drugs and other medical therapies aimed at a cure. It has also been estimated that 70-80 percent of the people who visit doctors have  
nothing wrong with them that wouldn't be cleared up by a vacation, a raise, or  
relief from the stresses of their lives. Another 10 percent have diseases for which  
there is no cure. Only 10 percent would benefit from drugs or surgery. Yet 57  
percent or more come away with prescriptions.”
The New York Times Medical Science section on August 17, 1993, reported that  
new research findings show that as many as two-thirds of  patients who are treated  
with placebos for health complaints improve after taking the placebo — that's  
twice as many patients as originally calculated by researchers testing new drugs. A placebo is a sugar-pill or a drug that has no objective effect on the symptoms  
being treated. One doctor quoted in the article suggests that all doctors should start  
using the placebo effect to their advantage by giving patients drugs even though  
the doctor does not know what the patient's illness is, or if the patient is actually  
sick at all: "If a doctor believes in what he's doing and lets the patient know that,  
that's good medicine." Studies show that the majority of Americans today are so convinced that their  
"doctors know better" that they get better even when the drug substance they're  
given has nothing to do with treating the disorder they're suffering from. So, in essence, your doctor may have selected an unnecessary or incorrect drug for  
you to take, but you get better because psychologically you feel you should. Unfortunately, the health improvement may be imaginary, but the side effects of  
the drug that show up later won't be:
"...However drugs are produced and distributed, a separate and equally  important 
issue is how doctors prescribe them. As noted, physicians prescribe largely on the  
basis of information from drug houses. If the packaging and copy are effective and  
persistent enough, the physician will probably prescribe the product...
59[But] the disregard of contraindications for the use of drugs causes thousands of  
unnecessary illnesses every  year"
— Betrayal of Health
Every  medicine  we  use  does  not  have  to  be  synthesized  and  commercially  
produced in order to be effective and safe. And, as we've seen,  drugs and surgery  
are the last forms of medicine that we should resort to, and not the first choice, as  
they are for the majority of us today
As Hippocrates taught, nature first is the best health regimen. We all need to give  
common sense health care and non-invasive medicines an informed chance before  
we  rush  into  dangerous  chemical  or  surgical  therapies  that  can  create  more  
symptoms and problems than they relieve. And many people are learning to think for themselves and not to take their doctors  
bad advice lying down, as a recent article in The Wall Street Journal, June 16,  
1993, demonstrates:
"Al Iglehart figures his doctors pegged him for a fool. They knew his heart disease was congenital, without mysterious complications. Still, they suggested  he  undergo more  tests,  even  repeat a  $1200 one he had  
already passed. Thank you for the advice, Mr. Iglehart said. But absolutely not. 'The doctor just isn't God, and sometimes they're on autopilot,' says Mr Iglehart,  
who is 44 years old and live on Long Island, N.Y. 'There was no reason for any  
more tests. The biggest thing you can do [about medical treatments] is to be  
informed as a consumer and ask questions.' Iglehart  is  among  a  growing  group  of  defiant  health-care  patients  who  are  
questioning the costs [and effectiveness] of medical procedures..."
It isn't my intention to go into a lot of 'doctor-bashing' here, because  doctors, of 
course, play a crucial role in medicine, but they have assumed, and we have given  
them  an  impossible  role  and  responsibility  in  medicine  today. We  expect  our  
doctors to behave like mechanics, to diagnose and to fix every possible thing that  
goes wrong with us, as if our bodies were cars or machines that could be repaired  
simply by pouring in some synthetic substance or replacing a part. 60But our bodies aren't machines, and our doctors should be relieved of their role as  
mechanics that we run to every time we feel sick. Our bodies are immensely  
intricate, sensitive, individually unique, living organisms that need gentle respect  
and care, not the incessant and routine overkill of concentrated drugs and invasive  
surgery. Doctors can certainly play an important role in urine therapy, especially in acute  
illnesses where injections of urea or urine could be life saving, as is dearly seen in  
one of the research studies in which jntravenoo,  urea saved the life of a patient  
with severe cerebral edema  caused by a brain tumor (see next chapter ). Also,  
natural  urine  therapy  could  most  ,  definitely  be  enhanced  and  augmented  by  
doctors' administrations of natural urine extracts or urea for serious illnesses. However, for most illnesses, we can treat ourselves with natural urine therapy and  
save our valuable doctors precious time and effort. Learning to Care for Our Own Health
Unfortunately, today's consumers have been exposed to the most intensive media  
advertising barrage in the history of medicine, and are now  conditioned to expect  
medicines and health therapies to deliver an instantaneous "punch" - irregardless of  
the cost, side effects or ultímate consequences of such methods. If  we  get  headaches,  rather  than  getting  more  rest  or  eliminating  the  three  
chocolate  bars  and  Coke  we  had  for  lunch,  we  'whomp'  our  bodies  with  the  
strongest headache medicine we can buy - never mind that the infinitesimally small  
type on the label lists twenty different serious side effects of the drug. Many people have complained to me over the years that they've tried homeopathy  
or herbs or other types of natural healing instead of drugs with no success. But  
when we examine their situation in depth, I invariably find that they were Wring to  
use natural therapies in the same way that they use drugs - popping a pill from a  
bottle they picked up on a health food store shelf and waiting for a quick fix, or  
drinking a cup or two of herbal tea and then deciding, "Nope, don't feel better -  
didn't work for me." 61But the problem is not the natural medicines, the problem is the approach. The simple fact is that no matter what medicines we take or health therapies we  
try,  natural  or  synthetic  if  we  don't  change  our  overall  bad  health  habits and  
lifestyles we aren't going to be healthy and we aren't going to feel good. In order for natural therapies to work, you really have to begin to get in touch with  
what the requirements of good health really are. Real and lasting physical health is  
based on much more than continually knocking out unpleasant symptoms with  
medicines or surgery. A nutritious diet, rest, relaxation, exercise, a healthy living environment and a  
balanced,  positive,  peaceful  and  happy  frame  of  mind  are  the  indispensable  
foundationss of good and lasting health. When you improve your basic health  
habits by incorporating these elements into your daily lifestyle, you enhance your  
natural immune defenses and improve your health and ability to fight disease. Natural medicines can be used, when necessary, in order to augment your healing  
if  and  when  you  do  happen  to  get  sick;  this combination  of  a  strong  natural  
immunity and gentle, immune-strengthening natural medicinals is the best possible  
solution to our health problems. Trying to achieve good health by routinely using drugs and surgery to suppress  
disease symptoms produced by unhealthy lifestyles is a dead end - literally. Just because the generally accepted modern lifestyle has conditioned us to believe  
and accept  that McDonald's  is really a place to eat  and that white sugar is a  
nutritive food, isn't going to change the fact that neither of those things is true. As  
doctors tell us:
"Today's chronic diseases - both social and medical - are really  symptoms of a  
much  more  vast  underlying  problem. They  are  the  culmination  of  years  of  
inadequate nutrition, a toxic environment, sedentary lifestyles, familial and social  
disruptions, and dependence on artificial agents (from cigarettes to cocaine) for  
happiness. Every cell in our bodies - from the brain to the immune system - is  
affected by these abuses." — Betrayal of Health
62You can't halfheartedly lay a veneer of natural medicines over your  inherently 
unhealthy and destructive lifestyle and then announce to yourself and the world  
that you tried natural medicine and "it didn't work." Everyday as a nation we consumers drink millions of gallons of those toxic brews  
called Pepsi and Coke; we ingest millions of dollars worth of junk food, food  
additives  and  sugar,  stuffing  it  all  down  at  warp  speed  as  we  madly  propel  
ourselves through overcrowded streets in cars belching carbon monoxide fumes, all  
the while breathing in the toxic aroma of the grossly polluted air. Arriving at our synthetically constructed domiciles, we subject our bodies and  
minds to relentless TV radiation and the dismal harangue of the nightly news, all  
the while "banging" our stress and sugar induced headaches, aches and pains with  
Bayer, or Excedrin, Anacin or Dristan, or whatever other 'wonder drug'  flashes  
seductively across the screen. And then we ask ourselves "Why don't I feel good - why can't my doctor fix me  
once and for all? Because of our modem lifestyle, too few of us pause to rest and treat ourbodies  
When  we  go  to  the  drugstore,  our  only  thought  is  to  find  the  fastest-acting,  
strongest drug available to relieve our discomfort and in essence, to 'shut the body  
up'. And drug companies and doctors know this - so they give us what we think we  
want, and what we erroneously assume is safe. So how do we start looking out for our own health concerns? We can start by not  
rushing to the drugstore or doctor for a quick-fix every time we don't feel well. We  
can change our lifestyles and we can learn how to gently stimulate our immune  
defenses, treat illness and relieve pain with simple natural medicines like urine  
therapy. And we can change our diets . It's not that hard to get back to simple basics - get rid  
of the frozen and boxed dinners, the instant breakfast shakes, the sodas, the sugary,  
preservative, chemical-filled desserts and start eating real foods like whole grains  
and fresh green vegetables and salads and fruit. Our environment is so filled with  
63chemical pollutants today that deliberately ingesting them in our food is an unwise  
practice and an added burden on our already overburdened immune systems. The use of basic natural foods and natural medicines, unlike synthetic drugs or  
surgery, requires a degree of self-love, self-discipline, and patience - listening to  
the body, observing the causes behind the symptoms of our illnesses, and changing  
unhealthy habits and attitudes, rather than relying on strong medical interventions  
to mask underlying disease factors by relieving symptoms. No matter how inconvenient these changes might seem now, just wait until you see  
how inconvenient cancer, heart disease  and serious chronic illness can be if you  
don't make these changes. So as you can see, there is a chain of command within our present medical system  
that has made it difficult, or nearly impossible for the research information and  
findings on simple, inexpensive urine therapy to receive recognition:
1)Getting FDA approval for medical therapies is astronomically expensive;
2)Drug companies want high-profit, patentable therapies to pay for research  
and to boost company profits;
3)Hospitals and doctors are indoctrinated and influenced by heavy promotion  
and  pressure from the pharmaceutical industry, and so prescribe and use  
only drug company endorsed medical therapies. A New Era in Medicine
Fortunately, attitudes in medicine are changing in response to the many  problems 
that  have  surfaced  with  drug  and  surgical  therapies. Recent  articles  show  the  
general trend by both consumers and the medical community towards traditional,  
more  natural  health  approaches. A  study  cited  recently  in  the  New  England 
Journal of Medicine  stated that:
In  1990,  Americans  made  425  million  visits  to  alternative  health  care  
practitioners,  while  388  million  visits  were  made  to  conventional  health  care  
providers. 64— Focus on Behavioral Health Magazine
July 9, 1993
Another article in Forbes Magazine, reports on the new trend in medicine back to  
traditional, natural forms of healing:
"New Support for Old Therapies"
"Does the doctor really know best? Not always, it would seem, if you  take into 
account  the  increasing  respectability  being  won  by  such  non-  conventional  
therapies as acupuncture, biofeedback, chiropractic and herbal medicine . In other cultures these therapies have been standard practice for ages,  but most 
physicians educated in schools approved by the American Medical Association  
and  affiliated  with  AMA  hospitals  have  long  dismissed  these  techniques  as  
quackery. Today,  however,  signs  of  a  new  approbation  for  alternative  medicine  are  
everywhere. Even  The  National  Institutes  of  Health  now  has  an  Office  of  
Alternative Medicine." — Forbes, Dec. 20, 1993
It's interesting to realize how much power we consumers have over our  own lives. As this article demonstrates, individual consumers are the ones who can ultimately  
determine the course of medicine over the next century by the choices they make  
for  medical  treatments. And  the  medical  establishment  knows  this,  as  another  
recent article reveals:
The National Institutes of Health Begins a New Era...
For the first time, it will systematically explore unconventional medical  practices, 
decide  which  are  effective  and  begin  putting  some  of  them  into  mainstream  
medicine. 65Stephen Groft, who heads the new effort, said a panel of experts will study many  
methods  long  scoffed  at  by  traditional  doctors,  including  acupuncture,  
naturopathy, homeopathy, Ayurvedic medicine, reflexology, massage therapy and  
Chinese herbal remedies." Sounds like good news,  doesn't  it? Unfortunately,  though, these  time  honored 
proven natural methods are going to have to somehow be made to fit the modern  
scientific medical model — one which has already been shown to have largely  
failed:
"Many scientists are actually excited to see that alternative methods are being  
scientifically evaluated,' Groft said. 'It is important to separate those that are  
working from those that aren't working for both patients and physicians... The task is to assess the scientific evidence already available, determine whether  
more research is worthwhile and give priority to funding." — Gannett News Service
August, 1993
Sound familiar? It's the same old strains of the same old song — we, the  scientific 
"experts" will tell you what works for you. But we've already examined where  
their 'proof' comes from and just how unreliable it is. Ironically, the agency that is  
calling for scientific evaluation of these natural health treatments is The National  
Institutes of Health that was itself responsible for the recent tests on the hepatitis  
drug that killed nearly all of the research participants. So just how valuable are the  
medical community's 'scientific' assessments? At this point in time, we need to stop examining and picking apart therapies that  
have  hundreds,  and  in  some  cases,  thousands  of  years of  practical  experience  
behind them. Rather than wasting their time and our money on the unnecessary  
contortions  of  trying  to  "scientifically"  prove  what  hundreds  of  thousands  of  
patients have already experienced over many centuries with these simple and safe  
natural techniques, the National Institutes of Health and their panel of experts'  
efforts would be infinitely better spent on deciding how to formúlate new and  
66inexpensive FDA guidelines for approving traditional medical therapies and in  
qualifying responsible health care practitioners for both conventional and natural  
medicine.
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        And  there  has been even  less  interest  in the  interactive  effects  of  
environmental agents or of long-term behavioral patterns on health"
The seemingly enormous healing power of new synthetic drugs  appeared to make  
common sense natural approaches to medicine obsolete. Now that we had miracle  
antibiotics that could apparently cure everything and powerful pain relievers and  
new, fantastic surgical techniques, who needed outmoded, unsophisticated natural  
medical approaches like urine therapy or nutrition or homeopathy or herbs. As  the  twentieth  century  progressed,  people  didn't  treat  themselves  at  home  
anymore with time-honored natural remedies. It you got sick, instead of treating  
yourself with more rest, better food and a simple traditional natural medicine, you  
went to the doctor or the drug store to buy whatever'miracle' drug  was popular at  
the time, or you had an operation. In our century, drug companies, and the medical researchers they hired, took the  
job of making and experimenting with medicines away from doctors and the public  
and withdrew into their laboratories. In  scientific  seclusion,  far  removed  from  the  world  of  the  doctor-patient  
relationship,  researchers  experimented  with  chemical  compounds  and  isolated  
medically active ingredients in natural substances such as previously well-known  
herbs or urine, and then formulated drugs from these elements. In the case of urine therapy, urine was used in its natural form, or as simple urea in  
numerous  clinical  tests  throughout  our  century,  but  these  studies  were  never  
36publicized,  because,  for the  most  part,  the  use  of  natural  medicines had  been  
discontinued in medical practice in favor of patented drugs and surgery. With  our  new  system  of  modem  medicine,  people  no  longer  felt  that  it  was  
necessary or important for them to know how their bodies worked or how to treat  
themselves with simple methods at home. Most consumers felt that the knowledge  
of the body and how to heal it was best left in the hands of scientists and trained  
doctors  and  surgeons  who  knew  so  much  more  than  we  did  about  how  to  
manipulate and alter the body and defeat disease. In this scenario, the use of urine therapy wasn't important to the public. No one  
talked about it or shared the information with their family and friends as they had  
in days gone by. And even though modem researchers were discovering amazing  
things  about  urine  therapy,  these  discoveries  were  kept  within  the  walls  of  
academic research and were never or rarely shared with the public. But  were  we  right  to  abandon  traditional  and  common  sense  approaches  to  
healing. Should natural healing methods like urine therapy have a place in our  
lives or should we just continue to completely surrender our personal health-care  
needs and concerns to doctors and medical researchers. Are chemical drugs and  
surgery really  the answer to all  our health problems. As most of us are aware  
today — they're not. No  matter  how  many  incredible  discoveries  medical  science  may  have  made  
during the twentieth century, millions of us are sick or even crippledby illness  
today. Our doctors don't know what to do. Our scientists continue to tell us that  
science, drugs and surgery will cure us, but they don't. As The Betrayal of Health points out, our modern miracle medicine is not the  
miracle we thought it was:
"As  the  infectious  diseases  became  less  and  less  prevalent,  and  the  chronic  
diseases advanced to the forefront of illness, cracks have begun to appear in the  
fortress of allopathic medicine. The methods that had produced the successes of  
Jenner, Pasteur, Koch, Fleming and Salk no longer seemed to be working. Further  
flaws in, and abuses of, modern  medical techniques have become all too apparent. 37The unqualified successes of earlier decades have come up against the failures of  
modern medicine. The epidemic of chronic illness in the United States, particularly  arterial disease  
and  cancer,  is the  stellar embarrassment  of  medicine and  its high-technology  
weapons. These degenerative illnesses — far from being bull's eye illnesses — are complex  
dysfunctions of bodily systems that must be approached systematically. With them, the model of specific cause/specific medical intervention simply isn't  
working. What is worse, many interventions, from prescription drugs to expensive  
surgery, cause more harm than good when they are overused or abused by doctors  
and patients. Ironically, the wonder drugs of the last century may never have worked as well as  
we  thought. Medical  historians  report  that  the  dramatic  improvements  in  
morbidity and mortality rates in the past hundred years were not exclusively, nor  
even mainly, due to doctors' intervention. The great health improvements  of the nineteenth century were not the result of  
medical interventions per se, but of basic improvements in  nutritional and living  
conditions that coincided with (and often preceded) these interventions. " So even though we believed that drugs and medical science alone were  responsible 
for saving us from smallpox and typhoid and other terrible diseases, this was never  
true. The truth was that we got fewer infectious diseases in the twentieth century  
because  we had better living conditions. For the first time in history, we had  
widespread modem sanitation, clean water and more and better food distribution  
than  ever  before. In  the  modem  environment  of  civilized  nations,  infectious  
diseases disappeared because the breeding grounds for germs, such as open sewers,  
contaminated water supplies and malnourished bodies were largely eliminated. But medical science undeservedly took and received the greatest credit and public  
acclaim for these tremendous health improvements. And the medical community  
today is still trying to convince us that no matter what goes wrong with our bodies,  
the solution will always be found within the realm of drugs and surgery. 38It is true that drugs and surgery can be extremely effective  for critical care, health  
emergencies,  structural  deformities  or  accident  cases,  but  these  aggressive  
therapies should never have developed into everyday medical approaches that we  
automatically  resort  to  almost  immediately  for  every  imaginable  illness  we  
contract. Western culture made a grave error when it eliminated all natural approaches to  
health in favor of drugs and surgery. Natural healing methods that gently stimulate  
and support the immune system without dangerous side effects have advantages  
that drugs and surgery can't offer. And it wasn't that traditional natural health  
therapies, such as urine therapy, hadn't worked in the past – it was simply that  
historically they weren't always applied within the context of good nutrition and  
sanitation and proper health practices because this knowledge wasn't available in  
the centuries preceding ours. And  as  Beasely  points  out,  it  was  extremely  ironic  that  even  though  modem  
science has proven the importance and impact of such common sense factors as  
diet and relaxation on health, the medical community and consumers have almost  
completely ignored these findings. For instance, if a typical consumer today is having trouble falling asleep chances  
are the person will immediately resort to Nytol, or Sominex, or whatever sleeping  
pill he or she saw advertised and promoted by drug companies on TV, and never  
even consider or try simple natural solutions such as  taking a walk or warm bath,  
or drinking a soothing cup of tea, or eliminating the late-night snack of pepperoni  
pizza that's upsetting the stomach and causing insomnia – even though there is  
clear  scientific  evidence,  not  to  mention  common  sense,  that  indicates  that  
relaxation and dietary changes can help promote good sleep. This' same contradiction is also true for urine therapy. Medical scientists have  
proven the medical efficacy of natural urine  and urea over and over again, but the  
medical community and drug companies have completely ignored these research  
findings – unless of course, a patentable drug form of urine such as Pergonal or  
Urokinase, can be developed. 39It's unfortunate that even as most people and practicing doctors forgot about the  
use  of  natural  urine  therapy,  medical  researchers  were  discovering  incredible  
things about the medicinal value of urine. During this century, researchers sat in their laboratories and watched as simple  
urea or whole urine completely destroyed rabies and polio viruses, tuberculosis,  
typhoid, gonorrhea, dysentery bacteria and cáncer cells. They found that urine contains a huge array of incredibly valuable and medically  
important elements and they injected and orally administered urine and urea to  
thousands of patients in clinical tests. They watched as it saved the lives of cancer patients, cured and  relieved asthma,  
eczema, whooping cough, migraines, diabetes, glaucoma, rheumatoid arthritis, and  
a  host  of  other  illnesses. But  the  general  public  was  never  told  about  such  
discoveries. Doctors and consumers today are given access to urine-related drugs, but have no  
idea of the tremendous overall value and health benefits of the natural urine that  
the drug was derived from. And medical researchers see absolutely no reason why  
any of us should know about it. All we need to know, in their estimation, is that  
they've developed a drug for a disease and where or what it's derived from is of  
little or no importance. So why are many people like myself now resurrecting and using natural urine  
therapy instead of using sophisticated 'wonder' drugs and surgery. The answer is  
simple – drugs and surgery didn't work, but urine therapy did. -
Urine therapy is regaining attention today because as the twentieth century draws  
to a close, millions of people are becoming aware that the keys to good health do  
not lie in the laboratory or the operating room. Many of us now realize that when we threw out our natural medical approaches  
and methods of self-care, we eliminated crucially important elements in healing  
that can't be replaced by drugs or surgery. Unlike naturally occurring medicines,  
chemical  drugs  are  extremely  concentrated  synthetic  substances. Yes,  these  
abnormally  high  concentrations may  seem  to  produce  a  "knock-out  punch"  to  
40disease symptoms, but what good is it if the drug delivers the same knock-out  
punch to your health as a whole. We may think we're winning the battle against disease, but we all know we're  
losing the war. The AIDS epidemic and the other modern health epidemics of  
cancer, heart disease,  diabetes, chronic fatigue syndrome, debilitating allergies,  
auto-immune diseases, ulcers, etc. aren't being cured by modem medicine. And one  
of the biggest reasons for this failure is that these modem epidemics are  immune  
deficiency  diseases  which  cannot  be  treated  by  immune-suppressing  therapies  
such as drugs and surgery. In fact, every single drug or surgical technique that exists in some way weakens  
and impairs our immune system functions, so it's imposible for these methods to  
cure the immune-deficiency diseases that are now killing and maiming us. The health epidemics of today are the consequences of many environmental factors  
that strain and break down our bodies' natural immune defenses, so drugs and  
surgery which further weaken our immune systems do absolutely nothing to cure  
or help us. They seem  to temporarily win the battle against  the symptoms of  
illness, but in the end they lose the wax because they suppress and destroy the very  
thing that makes and keeps us well – our own natural body defenses. Natural urine therapy was abandoned and forgotten by the public in the twentieth  
century because we were so sure that drugs and surgery were the answers to all our  
health problems. But time has shown us our error. As we watch the often terrible and fatal consequences of decades of complete  
reliance on immune-suppressing synthetic drugs and surgical techniques unfold,  
we worriedly search the pages of history to rediscover and relearn the lost arts of  
caring for ourselves with simple, safe. and healthful natural healing. Urine therapy is a natural therapy that is not widely known today, but in reality, it  
is not a lost healing art. As the material in this book shows, urine therapy has been  
kept very much alive by modem medical science throughout the twentieth century,  
even though it has rarely been publicized. In reality,-urine therapy cannot even be accurately classed as a traditional folk-
remedy  today,  because  during  the  twentieth  century  it  has  been  used  almost  
41exclusively  by  mainstream  medical  scientists  and  researchers  and  not  by  
consumers themselves, but this is changing. So, in conclusion, it is the "surgery and drugs are all we need" philosophy of the  
present conventional medical system that is one major reason why you and your  
doctors have never heard of mine therapy. But there is another big reason why so  
many know so little about the world's least expensive and most powerful and  
effective natural medicine - very simply stated - there's no therapy. Medicine and Money
I think that most of us are under the impression that somewhere in thesequestered  
halls  of  academia,  benevolent,doctors  and  research  scientists  are  altruistically  
slaving over their petri dishes and test tubes,  feverishly searching for new medical  
methods and cures that will relieve and eradicate physical suffering and illness -  
and that as soon as they make these wondrous new discoveries they'll immediately  
release the results of their studies to a desperately expectant world of sick and  
suffering people. But as true as we want this scenario to be, it isn't the reality. The reality is that  
medical  researchers  are  not  the  ones  who  ultimately  decide  what  medical  
treatments the public receives as a result of medical research studies. The architects of today's medical system are not primarily medical researchers or  
doctors, but rather, the drug companies. Medical research requires funding and  
from the very beginning of the age of modem medicine, researchers have largely  
depended on pharmaceutical companies to supply those funds. So many times we  
hear what the companies, and not the researchers, want us to hear about research  
discoveries. The great pharmaceutical advances of the early 1900's that gave us the first new  
vaccines, penicillin, antitoxins and the'miraculous' sulfa drugs were financed in  
large part by big pharmaceutical companies like Bayer and I. G. Farben. Now,  
while the owners of these drug companies may have had some altruistic interests,  
the lifeblood of their companies was not medicine, but money. 42Simple, inexpensive medicines like herbs, homeopathic remedies or urine therapy  
that have been shown to be just as effective, safer and much less expensive than  
chemical drug compounds may be better for the public but they're no good for drug  
company profits and are therefore not promoted and sold. It's in the  drug industry's best  interest  to ignore and invalidate medicines and  
traditional therapies that can't be patented and don't produce  big profits. And in  
simple economic terms, this is how any business survives and prospers — by  
selling and promoting the products that make the most money. Pharmaceutical  
firms by their very nature must promote profit-making medicines to keep their  
companies alive. The way our medical system works today, drug companies are the primary entities  
that  fund  research,  and  test  and  prepare  medical  treatments  for  government  
approval, and this is also true in many countries throughout the world. And it's extremely expensive for a company to conduct research for a new method  
and get it through the approval process — to do this can cost as much as an  
estimated  $150  million  per  treatment. So  a  pharmaceutical  company  has  to  
promote the medical approaches that will assure big "pay offs" in order for the  
company to survive. Unfortunately,  medicines that  keep  drug  companies  alive  and  healthy,  even  if  
they're government approved, can often make people sick — or even kill them. Drugs like DES and thalidomide may have been big profit makers but they later  
created  horrible  health  disorders  and  hideous  fetal  deformities  when  used  by  
trusting consumers. Metabolic synthetic steroids, once hailed as miracle muscle-
builders and used freely, are now killing and maiming many of their users. Aspirin  
was considered to be the ultimate miracle fever and pain reducer until it was  
discovered that it causes the Reyes syndrome that can kill children and can also  
cause severe abdominal bleeding in adults. The  fact  is  that  no  matter  how  much  research  or  how  many  amazing  or  
successful  clinical  trials  have  been  performed  by  researchers  on  safe,  
inexpensive medical approaches like urine therapy, if these therapies are not  
perceived as profitable by pharmaceutical companies, they will simply not be  
43'picked  up'  by  the  drug  companies  and  presented  for  government  approval,  
which means that the public will probably never hear about the research or  
receive the benefits of these substances, no matter how wonderful they are. The U. S. Food and Drug Administration (FIDA) does not generally research or test  
medical  treatments itself  —  it  depends  on  private  companies  to  do  that. And  
because  of  this fact,  the  FDA  does  not  have  firsts  hand  knowledge  of  which  
treatments are effective and safe and which aren't; they rely on the company that  
has developed the treatment to tell them which treatments should be marketed to  
consumers. As the book, The Betrayal of Health reveals:
"The drug industry is a business. In a regrettable Catch-22, the main  sources of 
information for the regulation of the pharmaceutical industry are the companies  
themselves. The  'watchdog'  of  the  drug  industry,  the  Food  and  Drug  
Administration, sets testing standards and then evaluates the test results submitted  
by the companies. In determining whether a drug is'safe, the FDA does not perform clinical trials of  
new drugs and only rarely runs toxicity tests. As a result, the FDA must make its decisions based on information provided by the  
very  company  that  wants  to  market  the  drug. If  the  information  provided  is  
fraudulent,  the  FDA  (and  the  public)  is  unlikely  to  find  out  about  it  until  a  
significant problem occurs. Despite  the  conflict  of  interest  inherent  in  such  situations,  drug  companies  
continue to be the major fonder of research on most common diseases and their  
potential treatment. And it is no surprise that the research focuses on finding new chemical methods of  
managing disease — or at least symptoms. Indeed, could one expect A. H. Robbins  
or SmithKline or Ciba-Geigy to fund research on therapies (such as nutrition) that  
cannot be patented and will not significantly increase their market share. " The results of this unfortunate mix of medicine and money are reflected  by the lack 
of attention given to research findings on urine and urea therapy. For example,  
44urea,  has  been  shown  to  be  a  much  safer,  simpler,  less  expensive  and  more  
effective diuretic  than the diuretic drug, Diamox (see Urea — New Use Of An Old  
Agent,  next  chapter). Yet,  in  The  Physician's  Desk  Reference,  Diamox  is  
mentioned  under  the  diuretic  category,  but  urea  isn't  —  unlike  simple  urea,  
Diamox is a patented compound drug, insuring that the company's profits from the  
drug will be maximized and protected. Another  example  of  how  money  and  medicine  don't  mix  is  the  conventional  
medical community's treatment of medicinal herbs. There are numerous research  
studies proving the effectiveness, safety and diverse medical applications of herbs,  
yet  any  conventional  doctor  you  talk  to  will  tell  you  that  herbal  medicine  is  
ridiculously unscientific and ineffective. Doctors tell you this, not because it's true, but because their medical Training is  
completely  centered  around  drug  and  surgery  treatments  promoted  by  the  
pharmaceutical industry
In the book, The Scientific Validation of Herbal Medicine, the author, Daniel  
Mowrey, lists hundreds of scientific studies that not only validate the medicinal  
effectiveness of herbs, but in many cases, prove that the natural herb or herbal  
extract can be just as effective as its synthetic counterpart. For instance, the herb Cinchona was originally used for treating malaria and has  
been clinically proven to be just as effective as the synthetic drug quinine - and the  
herb is safe and non-toxic. But even though millions of pounds of Cinchona were imported for medical use  
into the U.
The focus of medical research in the 20th century was on developing new synthetic drugs and surgical techniques, rather than on natural approaches to medicine.
What was the focus of medical research in the 20th century?
People stopped using natural approaches to medicine because they believed that new synthetic drugs and surgical techniques were more effective and sophisticated.
Why did people stop using natural approaches to medicine?
The author argues that chemical drugs can cause more harm than good, and that natural approaches like urine therapy are safer and more effective.
What is the author's main argument against the use of chemical drugs?
Many people are unaware of urine therapy because the medical community and drug companies have ignored its effectiveness and potential due to the lack of profit in developing and marketing natural remedies.
Why are many people unaware of urine therapy?
The author suggests that people should focus on making lifestyle changes, such as improving their diet, getting rest, and practicing self-care, rather than relying on chemical drugs and surgery.
What is the author's suggestion for improving one's health?