Wee wee wee all the way home
Date Thursday, March 28, 2024 - 04:16 AM PST
Topic Entertainment


This last week has featured a great deal about urine. You heard me, piss. First, I was propositioned for water sports. I don't wanna pee on anyone, but that is beside the point. Second, a friend showed me video from a modern swiss spa. You guessed it. They were pissing on this girl. Finally, yesterday on our local rock station the answer to a trivia question was piss. The romans used to have a tax on piss. It seems that fate wants me to do a piece on piss. So this is it.
Urine seems, in the past to have been a fantastic medicinal ingredient. The uses for it have been around almost as long as we have, evidently.

In India, the holy writings call urine “the nectar of the gods” and “the fountain of youth.” These writings have inspired many to drink the stuff. As a matter of fact, they still practice this today.

The chines believe that any medicinal herb, when mixed with urine can more than double the potency of these medicines. This mixture is applied to open wounds or taken orally.

The Egyptians drank it, stared at it (urinalysis), bathed in it and rubbed it on themselves. All of these uses, again, were medicinal. An early pregnancy test requires that you soak barley seeds in the urine of the woman. If it sprouted, she is pregnant. I am not sure as to the accuracy of this test, but they used it.

Romans used urine so widely that they actually taxed it. Ulcer sufferers were convinced that imbibing the fluid would cure their ills. Taking showers in urine was also a popular skin treatment. The ammonia in urine is excellent at getting wool white as well.

During the middle ages, the substance become even more diverse in its usage. In Germany, the urine of a young man, when boiled with honey, is used to treat a plethora of eye maladies. In england, warm urine was rubbed into their hands and legs to prevent the shakes after a night of drinking. Mixing it with saffron and gargling with it was used as a cure for throat inflammation. The trench felt that drinking our first piss of the day on an empty stomach was a cure for swelling and jaundice as well.

In the 19th century, most of the enlightened medical practitioners of the time felt that urine was a miracle drug. And some of todays modern practitioners feel that the cures for most of what ails us is in the toilet.

Here are a few interesting facts that modern science has provided us with

1)Contrary to popular belief – Urine is not a toxic waste product.

2)Most of urine (95% in fact) is water. 2.5% is urea (the waste product). 2.5% is enzymes, minerals and hormones.

3)Urea can be poisonous in large amounts – but - in small amounts (such as what is contained in urine) will actually purify the body, clear up excess mucus and is goo for the skin.

4)Urine contains antibodies. You read that right, antibodies. When re ingested, these antibodies can help fight off illness.

5)Urine is COMPLETELY sterile and has an antiseptic effect.

So... after reading all that... are you ready for a nice tall glass?

Me Neither.

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