Special Effects of Urine and Stool from TCM Perspectives (4)

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[b:ae5a7be934]Special Pharmacological Effects of Urine and Stool from a TCM Perspective[/b:ae5a7be934]

According to the TCM pharmacopoeia, human excretions have therapeutic effects. If our stool and urine are properly processed and prepared, it can be and has been used to treat specific conditions.

It is recorded that stool has a bitter taste, a cold property and is non-toxic. It is mainly used in virulent heat and delirium conditions. The Bencao Gangmu (Compendium of Materia Medica) claims its major therapeutic indications are as follows:

1.Bone heat syndrome: A syndrome due to a yin deficiency accompanied with hyperactivity of heat evils in the interior part of body. An individual presents with a hectic fever, night sweats, dyspnea (difficulty in breathing), weakness, irritability, insomnia, hot sensations in the palms and yellow or reddish urine.
2.Disease relapse due to overstrain: a condition occurring during the early stage of disease recovery when the qi (vital energy) and blood are not yet restored or the evils have not yet been expelled entirely from the body.
3.Swollen and painful conditions.
4.Carbuncles on the back: a kind of sore that usually has several openings through which pus is discharged.
According to the TCM pharmacopoeia, human excretions are cold in properties and can be used to treat special heat conditions.

Urine is salty in taste, cold in property and is non-toxic. The urine from a boy is thought to be most appropriate for therapy. The famous physician Zhu Zhenheng (1281-1358) described urine as "the fastest fire reducing agent." Its major therapeutic indications in which it may be used include:
1.Headache.
2.Spitting up of blood and fever in chronic consumptive diseases.
3.Cough and difficulty in breathing due to retention of sputum; a syndrome referring to the air passage being obstructed by phlegm and dampness evils invading the lungs.
4.Trauma which has developed blood stasis.
5.Promoting urination and defecation.
6.Promoting body fluid production and alleviating thirst. (Often we have heard of outdoor sporting persons who have drunk their own urine to prevent dehydration when water is not available.)

emmanuelgamache

Hi,

I'm glad to read about the effects of urine being detailed from a TCM point of view.

There's a practice of consuming one's early morning first urine every day for health and longetivity. I've found information about it mostly in the ayurvedic literature where they refer to it as shivambukalpa or amaroli. I've been practicing it for about two months now and have noticed several health improvements. There is also a the possibility of fasting on your own urine driking all of it from morning to dawn along with water.. and also external application of urine and urine massage, which I have also experienced. It took about 2 weeks of applying urine on psoriasis I had had on one finger for almost a year now.. Ihad tried hydrocortisol from the pharmacy and homeopathic cream and drops, but it didn't change a thing. Urine made my finger become normal again, finally!

I confirm that it also helps for headache as mention in tutor's post, taking a couple of onze of urine internally after I start feeling a headache coming and it simply goes away.. I am still to try it when I get a cold or other minor infection for it is said to greatly help to fight them.

It's interesting to read that it has cold property.. on that aspect, I have an issue with some cold related syndrome I have not clearly identified yet so it makes me wonder wether it is a good idea for me to consume it every day as the ayurvedic approach recommends it.. Are there any know source of TCM literature that could tell me more about urine properties from a TCM  perspective?

In terms of using urine, there is much that can be read, but on the use of stool, I had never heard before. It's quite a challenge to break the psychological barrier and start drinking your own urine, but even if I don't mind it anymore, I am nowhere close to considering doing the same with feces hahah I'd sure be interested to read more about it if I found the litterature.

Cheers!

Emmanuel

 

 

tutor

Hi Tutor and medboo friends
How long time!
I was reading this post and I wanted to post a replay. I think the western people forgot the human origin: nature. And the chinese thought to connect the human life with the nature. It to show different understanding. There is a saying: "When the chinese to created the gunpowder he did the fireworks to celebrates the nature, whe the western people to take the gunpowder he did the firewarm and war".
Wilson Marino

tutor

Hi Tutor and medboo friends
How long time!
I was reading this post and I wanted to post a replay. I think the western people forgot the human origin: nature. And the chinese thought to connect the human life with the nature. It to show different understanding. There is a saying: "When the chinese to created the gunpowder he did the fireworks to celebrates the nature, whe the western people to take the gunpowder he did the firewarm and war".
Wilson Marino

tutor

Hi Tutor and medboo friends
How long time!
I was reading this post and I wanted to post a replay. I think the western people forgot the human origin: nature. And the chinese thought to connect the human life with the nature. It to show different understanding. There is a saying: "When the chinese to created the gunpowder he did the fireworks to celebrates the nature, whe the western people to take the gunpowder he did the firewarm and war".
Wilson Marino

tutor

Hi Tutor and medboo friends
How long time!
I was reading this post and I wanted to post a replay. I think the western people forgot the human origin: nature. And the chinese thought to connect the human life with the nature. It to show different understanding. There is a saying: "When the chinese to created the gunpowder he did the fireworks to celebrates the nature, whe the western people to take the gunpowder he did the firewarm and war".
Wilson Marino

tutor

tutor

Dear Ed,
Yes, I myself also trust traditional Chinese medicine is quite a promising method of treatment, as you said there’re a lot of wisdom in it.
And what is the most important is it could help people!!!
Ok, just hope all the Medboo friends make more or less endeavor to promote the understanding of traditional Chinese medicine in more and more peoples’ minds so they can be helped by this ancient healing art.

Tutor

tutor

Dear Tutor:

Yes, I understand there are no "evil spirits" in TCM theory. What I meant to say is that many Westerners put everything into the same box. In many peoples minds, there is "Modern Medicine", which they know about and trust, and then there is "everything else", which they do not. So in their minds, TCM is in the same category with faith healing and every kind of fraudulent or silly idea. This is not my thinking, I am just describing how I think TCM is sometimes viewed here.

I think there is a tremendous amount of wisdom in TCM, more than just clinical medical practice, but also in it's view of life and environment. I do think it will slowly gain credence and acceptance in the course of time. Even in recent years it has become more generally accepted and I am confident it will continue to do so.

Thank you very much for your help.

Ed Austin

tutor

Dear Ed,
I just hope what you said is true!
I don’t know, but I did feel the western people look down upon our Chinese, not only on the TCM side, but about all the aspects of Chinese culture.
Ok, anyway, I do feel happy the majority of Medboo friends are very nice to us and of course believe in traditional Chinese medicine.
Only one thing I want to point out that in traditional Chinese medicine, we don’t believe diseases are caused by the invasion of the evil spirit, but rather, it is understood in TCM the invasion of the exogenous pathogenic factors could cause diseases.
If anywhere you could find the saying of the evil spirit, I think it might be due to the misunderstanding of the Chinese language. In TCM books, there’s no such an idea.

Tutor