It will not be out of place to mention some of my own experiences in the field of this, rather new therapy.
Although I had cured a couple of my ailments by Nature-cure treatment twenty years before, yet during the post-care period of these years I could not stick to the ‘way of life’ that Nature-cure is, due to my professional, journalistic and social and cultural activities.
It was 1973 and I had convened an all-India Mushaira at Sindri, on behalf of the Hindi Sahitya Parishad, of which I was the General Secretary. During the collection drive for the function I had to move about in the Jharia Coalfield to collect funds from coal-merchants, etc.
I called on a coal-magnate, Mr. Mehndiratta, then President of the Lions Club of Dhanbad for his active help in my function.
During the talk, when he came to know that I was suffering from piles, he advised me to try the application of urine, washing the rectum while defecating to get cure from the piles, for he too, had piles and was similarly cured ten years before and since then never had recurrence of the trouble.
He told me that he got this idea from Armstrong’s book, “The Water of Life”.
In the meantime I used to receive letters from a poet-friend of mine, Dr. Jamuna Das ‘Prem’ Aneja, who had been admitted in Shri Poddar’s Nature-cure Ashram at Jassidih, Vidhyanath Dham, Bihar.
He was getting treatment by Nature-cure there for his heart disease. In one of his letters he informed me of a ‘miracle’, that one Mr. R. Sinha, a Bihar Government.
Agricultural Officer had been brought for treatment of cancer, which was in the last stage, and death was looking him in his face, but, however, Shri Poddar unwillingly gave him urine treatment for a week.
His death was averted and he left for his village to continue with the treatment. In another letter, Dr. Aneja informed me that one, Shri Vijay Kumar Gupta, a top advocate of Ludhiana, at 75, was suffering from acute disease of peptic ulcer, but was cured within ten days.
He had come to the Ashram for Nature-cure treatment, but Poddarji told him that he would have to undergo Nature-cure treatment for 45 days, though he could be cured in a much shorter period by urine-therapy.
Mr. Gupta having busy schedules of the court, opted for the latter treatment and cured of his peptic ulcer in a 10-day complete fast on Urine.
The advice of Mr. Mehndiratta, followed by the knowledge of these two cases, lent me courage to start with this new course of treatment. I was then having some pain in the chest beside the trouble of piles.
So, on 7th June, 1973, I took courage and drank the first morning urine. I felt much relief in pain. I also washed my rectum with urine while defecating. I continued both these treatments for five days and got perfect relief from both the troubles.
Further, encouraged at the result, I practised Urine-therapy for two months, not resorting to complete fast, but taking very light and natural diet along with drinking urine twice in the day and also massaging my body with 7-day old urine. Besides curing my chronic pyorrhoea, and piles, in the two months, I found that my appearance had also changed.
I was 55 then and my hair had partially turned grey, but now it was looking black giving me a younger look. This even surprised my wife. My colleagues and friends, too, were surprised.
This change of appearance turned me into a visible symbol of urine-therapy and people started coming to me for advice. However, I did not continue with the treatment and left massaging with urine, with the result that in the following five years my hair again started resuming their grey colour.
Later, when I was having some urine trouble, for a check up, I got myself admitted in the Hindu Rao Hospital at Delhi. The check-up showed that I was suffering from prostrate gland and that I had to be operated.
Even a date for the operation was fixed for me. I hesitated. I was also against any operation. Thus I left the hospital and seriously devoted myself to urine treatment. I drank urine daily two to four times, but found no time for massage.
Even then I cured my urine trouble, almost 90 per cent of my prostrate gland. Since then I have been continuing with the oral intake of urine, twice a day, with light and natural diet and am quite well at this age of 77 now.
Besides the above, I should not like to miss a mention of two very serious cases, that were cured on my advice by urine-therapy treatment. Both the cases bear clear testimony to the vast potential of this mode of treatment.
One is the case of Mr. M. Das, office superintendent of the National Coal Development Corporation at Giridih. He had spent out huge amount of money in the treatment of his acute diabetes and gangerene by indoor treatments at various homes and hospitals, with little relief.
At last, when admitted in the Calcutta General Hospital, he wrote a letter to his son-in-law, Shri R.B. Kanth, M.A., translator, working under me in the Public Relations Office at Sindri. He gave me the post-card to read.
I read it. It was horrible—the doctors of the hospital had decided to amputate his right foot, to save him from his impending death. His gangrene was at its worst. In Armstrong’s book the ‘Water of Life’, the first chapter is on gangrene.
I gave the book to Shri Kanth, who had it sent to his father-in-law, Mr. Das. Mr. Das read the book and getting discharge from the hospital, came down to Sindri the very next day.
The condition of Mr. Das did not permit the risk of any experiment—he was a skeleton of bones and could not even sit up straight. His medical prescription showed his blood sugar as high as 435, which, I was told was the highest in medical history.
However hopeless the case was, I advised that Mr. Das should be given urine to drink throughout the day and during night his urine be stored for massage. He was made to continue the bare diet of a chapati and milk that he was taking.
The patient was made to follow this treatment round the clock and started showing good result. His fortnightly tests showed improvement every time in his blood sugar. He could now sit up and even walk round his bed with support.
In five months of intensive treatment Mr. Das was fully cured of blood sugar and of gangrene in his foot, with no sign of it left on the foot. He was up on his feet again to resume his charge of duty at Giridih.
He left Sindri and also did Mr. Kanth who was to join on his new post of Hindi officer in the Reserve Bank of India at Delhi. A happy ending to the story, for both of them.
The other case is of bronchitis Of chronic and serious nature. The patient was a young boy of only twelve, the only son of a Sikh family. His father, Mr. M. Singh, was posted at Sindri as Additional Chief Engineer (Chemical) in the PDIL.
His son had attacks of Bronchitis, asthma-type strong attacks, right from his birth. Even treatments by specialists during all these years gave no relief to the boy. Whenever he had an attack, his parents dwindled between thoughts of life and death for their only son.
When they came to know of my recent experiment with urine-therapy, they called on me for advice. They took the urine-therapy literature from me and read it thoroughly.
It gave them a new light and hope for their son. Before experimenting with their son, both Mr. Singh and Mrs. Kaur, M.Sc. (Chemistry), used the treatment with urine on their own persons.
Imagine, a Sikh couple, not only drinking their own urine, but also massaging their bodies with old urine, from foot to the head including the bunch of hair on their heads. In ten days they had fully enjoyed the experiment, as they told me later.
They had relieved themselves of their respective ailments as well. The lady, Mrs. Kaur had some stomach trouble and one serious trouble of the eyes, which would water every time she would like to read. That had rendered reading for her difficult for several years.
She cured herself of both these troubles. With these good results, they gave full urine-therapy treatment to their son, drinking urine and massaging with it, with complete fasting for a fortnight.
This cured the boy completely of Bronchitis and he never had any attack of it thereafter and has by now completed his engineering studies. A similar complaint of bronchitis of same serious nature had been with a grand child of six in my family, who was cured in the same way with urine treatment, thus in a way confirming the course of treatment done to the son of Mr. Singh.
How urine treatment is combined with yoga practice has been illustrated in the case of a yoga instructor, Mr. Ram Narain Sharma, who is managing a yoga centre at Lord Road, Delhi.
By his treatment on his own self and that of his wife and son, by urine, he has acquired practical experience in Uro-therapy to the extent that it has turned him into a veritable institution, himself advising heart and other patients to take urine treatment for their ailments.
It began like this that he was suffering from chronic complaints of headache and constipation and also stomach pains. Coming to know of the use of urine-therapy, he took to it while continuing with yoga exercises.
He undertook a complete fast for 40 days on his own urine, on the lines of Armstrong and thus completely cured himself of all his ailments. Convinced of the efficacy of urine, for physical ailments, Mr. Sharma advocates its use along with yoga, for better results.
His faith in Uro-therapy got a boost when he cured his wife of her heart-trouble. In 1985, his wife got a heart attack. The doctors advised that she had to undergo by-pass surgery, if not, she had the risk of a paralytic attack also. Mr. Sharma, a school teacher, did not have sufficient means to bear the cost of it.
With constant persuasion, he convinced his wife, however reluctant, to take up urine treatment. Following her husband’s advice, she took urine round the clock during the first week, which brought great relief to her.
Since then she has been regularly drinking her own urine daily twice and also rubbing old urine when in the bathroom for her bath. Urine-therapy treatment has made her free from any heart pain or attack for the last 10 years and made her look 20 years younger, as her husband is pleased to observe.
But Mr. Sharma’s troubles did not end there, when his only son, Pawan Kumar, only 4 years old, developed the weakening of his left foot, also growing shorter. This was followed by an attack of polio to the young boy. Mr. Sharma could only think of urine-therapy for his son.
He seriously engaged himself in the boy’s treatment, daily giving him doses of his own urine and massaging his whole body, particularly the affected foot, with 7-day old urine. The result, though slow, was evident; the boy taking a walk round the bed.
In two months, the boy could walk on his own and was sent to school. His father, Mr. Sharma says, that the treatment has not only brought the boy on his path to recovery, and lent him greater vitality, but also improved his mental faculties wonderfully. He performs Padmasana and goes into Dhyana Yoga.
Besides curing his wife of heart disease and his son of polio, Mr. Sharma has cured patients with painful infection of backbone, rhymaticism, T.B. and prostrate gland, etc. He has combined these treatments with yoga.
His experience well establishes and supports the tradition that our yogis, of old, practised ‘Shivambu kalpa’, that is, urine-therapy along with their practice of yoga.
Lest the reader should be bored with these long histories of treatments, let me describe a laughable incident. A person of my town, Hafizabad, had a stomach trouble. He went to an old Sikh doctor, Dr. Budh Singh LMS for treatment.
The doctor gave him a bottle of mixture. The man took the mixture home and used it. The following day he again went to the doctor and requested him to give him the same kind of mixture, as it had removed his pain, so that he may not have the trouble again.
The doctor burst out with laughter, saying, “O, how can I give you the same mixture again, because what I had given you was another patient’s urine I was having with me for pathological test. I came to know of this mistake only when you had left”.
Whether it was cited as a joke, or it was a fact, it is no denying that the doctor was not feeling sorry for his mistake, for he must have known that the urine of another person even, would not harm him.
Again, that it had cured the patient of his stomach trouble, gave him so much relief to his guilty mind, that he burst out with laughter to drown his sense of guilt.
Another story of light humour is of a notorious rogue, of village Ambikapur, in the district of Sargoja. Every time, when he committed some robbery and subsequently caught and given good thrashing by the police, he would bear it boldly on his body, almost the build of a bull, which he kept nourishing by drinking his own urine.
Sometimes, he would even be beaten almost to death by the police and then left as dead. But, soon, as he would gain senses, he would urinate, drink it and get up with renewed energy.
Before dying he revealed the secret of his strength to the villagers. Since then, as a newspaper reported, the villagers of that village of Ambikapur, have also been drinking urine to keep themselves healthy and strong.
That urine is an anti-sceptic is well-known. People are often heard saying that such and such person is so ungrateful that he would not even urinate on another’s injured finger.
The well-known Vaidya of old, Shushrut and others too have described urine as an antidote to poison. Although no account of snake-bite treatment has been found in the books, yet I came across a reliable case of snake-bite, which I reported in my papers.
Once I paid a visit to one of the two manufacturing units of Ayurvedic medicines in India of the Coal Mines Welfare Organisation, located at Pathardih in Dhanbad district.
During conversation with the Vaidya, in-charge of the Unit, Mr. S. Sinha, he confirmed the system of treatment of Urine-therapy being adopted by the Ayurvedic authorities in olden days. He then cited an example of snake-bite cured with one’s urine.
A post-graduate in medicine from Patna in Ayurveda, Mr. Sinha told me that in his village a woman was bit by a poisonous snake and fell unconscious. The village Vaidya wanted to give urine treatment to the woman to cure her of snake bite.
Since the woman could not be made to urinate, he asked for the urine of the nearest female relative. For this purpose, the woman’s daughter was asked for her urine to be given to her mother, but the girl, not bearing the very thought of giving her urine, an unholy thing to her mother, fell unconscious.
However, she was brought to senses and when explained to her the noble purpose of saving her mother with her urine, she agreed and gave her urine, which was served to her mother. By repeated use, her mother was cured of the snake bite.
For the external use of auto-urine, it has been seen that urine has a magic effect on the organs of the body, when so applied. To cite a recent case, Prof. G.S. Sharma of the Delhi Engineering College, head of the department of Mathematics, had a loose tooth giving out pus and causing pain frequently.
As he was going to have his tooth extracted, a friend advised him to try urine massage on the gums, which he did and thus he saved his tooth from being extracted. Not only that the loose tooth was also firmly fixed up, he also got the cure of his pyorrhoea, from which he had been suffering for the last 20 years.
It was all achieved in a month’s time. It took him only a minute or so daily to rub his gums with his urine, pressing them gently between his thumb and the middle finger. A ‘kula’ (mouthful) with urine and then massage with it, cured him of his trouble with the tooth.
Encouraged at Prof. Sharma’s treatment, his neighbour, Mr. B.R. Mahajan, Chief Engineer, (retd.), C.P.W.D., treated the trouble of his teeth also. Two of his teeth, which were loose and causing him trouble, got fixed up tightly and were no more causing pain.
Now, at the age of eighty, he speaks out with confidence that, till his last breath, he need not have to go to his dentist.
The application of urine for the restoration of vision and for the cure of eye-diseases, is also recommended. A number of such cases have been tried at the Bharat Sewak Samaj Clinic at Ahmedabad, with successful restoration of vision and freedom from the use of spectacles.
Also, some patients suffering from glaucoma were completely cured by drops of urine taken in the eyes. The institution claims that even cataract, in its early stages, has also been cured.
In the matter of ear-troubles, too, a few drops of urine served into the ear, have cured not only the oozing of pus from the ear and even pains, but also cured many of their hard-of-hearing trouble.
Some urine-therapists claim that the use of urine for the ear, can cure even the deaf of their deafness. No doubt, mothers in our country, have been serving urine drops of the child into his ears to keep them trouble-free and clean.
To get rid of the troubles of the nose and the throat, by the external use of urine, one is advised to do ‘Jal-neti’, that is, cleaning the nose internally by taking urine, instead of water, through the nose and dropping it by the mouth.
We have explained the technique of ‘Jal-neti’ in the chapter on Yoga practices. ‘Jal-neti’ is done with slightly warm and saltish water. These two conditions are aptly fulfilled by fresh urine, which is warm, as well as, saltish and make its application for ‘Jal-neti’, rather convenient and more effective.
This practice can also remove such ailments, as headache, of the head, besides improving the sight.
Rubbing of urine on organs when swelled or paining, is also useful, however, it gives greater benefit if the whole body is rubbed along with that organ.
For serious troubles in the body, or weakness, a massage continuously for two hours with old urine can bring wonderful results, removing several bodily ailments, as well as, imparting vitality to the body and general health of the person.
It will not be out of place to mention some of my own experiences in the field of this, rather new therapy.
Although I had cured a couple of my ailments by Nature-cure treatment twenty years before, yet during the post-care period of these years I could not stick to the ‘way of life’ that Nature-cure is, due to my professional, journalistic and social and cultural activities.
It was 1973 and I had convened an all-India Mushaira at Sindri, on behalf of the Hindi Sahitya Parishad, of which I was the General Secretary. During the collection drive for the function I had to move about in the Jharia Coalfield to collect funds from coal-merchants, etc.
I called on a coal-magnate, Mr. Mehndiratta, then President of the Lions Club of Dhanbad for his active help in my function.
During the talk, when he came to know that I was suffering from piles, he advised me to try the application of urine, washing the rectum while defecating to get cure from the piles, for he too, had piles and was similarly cured ten years before and since then never had recurrence of the trouble.
He told me that he got this idea from Armstrong’s book, “The Water of Life”.
In the meantime I used to receive letters from a poet-friend of mine, Dr. Jamuna Das ‘Prem’ Aneja, who had been admitted in Shri Poddar’s Nature-cure Ashram at Jassidih, Vidhyanath Dham, Bihar.
He was getting treatment by Nature-cure there for his heart disease. In one of his letters he informed me of a ‘miracle’, that one Mr. R. Sinha, a Bihar Government.
Agricultural Officer had been brought for treatment of cancer, which was in the last stage, and death was looking him in his face, but, however, Shri Poddar unwillingly gave him urine treatment for a week.
His death was averted and he left for his village to continue with the treatment. In another letter, Dr. Aneja informed me that one, Shri Vijay Kumar Gupta, a top advocate of Ludhiana, at 75, was suffering from acute disease of peptic ulcer, but was cured within ten days.
He had come to the Ashram for Nature-cure treatment, but Poddarji told him that he would have to undergo Nature-cure treatment for 45 days, though he could be cured in a much shorter period by urine-therapy.
Mr. Gupta having busy schedules of the court, opted for the latter treatment and cured of his peptic ulcer in a 10-day complete fast on Urine.
The advice of Mr. Mehndiratta, followed by the knowledge of these two cases, lent me courage to start with this new course of treatment. I was then having some pain in the chest beside the trouble of piles.
So, on 7th June, 1973, I took courage and drank the first morning urine. I felt much relief in pain. I also washed my rectum with urine while defecating. I continued both these treatments for five days and got perfect relief from both the troubles.
Further, encouraged at the result, I practised Urine-therapy for two months, not resorting to complete fast, but taking very light and natural diet along with drinking urine twice in the day and also massaging my body with 7-day old urine. Besides curing my chronic pyorrhoea, and piles, in the two months, I found that my appearance had also changed.
I was 55 then and my hair had partially turned grey, but now it was looking black giving me a younger look. This even surprised my wife. My colleagues and friends, too, were surprised.
This change of appearance turned me into a visible symbol of urine-therapy and people started coming to me for advice. However, I did not continue with the treatment and left massaging with urine, with the result that in the following five years my hair again started resuming their grey colour.
Later, when I was having some urine trouble, for a check up, I got myself admitted in the Hindu Rao Hospital at Delhi. The check-up showed that I was suffering from prostrate gland and that I had to be operated.
Even a date for the operation was fixed for me. I hesitated. I was also against any operation. Thus I left the hospital and seriously devoted myself to urine treatment. I drank urine daily two to four times, but found no time for massage.
Even then I cured my urine trouble, almost 90 per cent of my prostrate gland. Since then I have been continuing with the oral intake of urine, twice a day, with light and natural diet and am quite well at this age of 77 now.
Besides the above, I should not like to miss a mention of two very serious cases, that were cured on my advice by urine-therapy treatment. Both the cases bear clear testimony to the vast potential of this mode of treatment.
One is the case of Mr. M. Das, office superintendent of the National Coal Development Corporation at Giridih. He had spent out huge amount of money in the treatment of his acute diabetes and gangerene by indoor treatments at various homes and hospitals, with little relief.
At last, when admitted in the Calcutta General Hospital, he wrote a letter to his son-in-law, Shri R.B. Kanth, M.A., translator, working under me in the Public Relations Office at Sindri. He gave me the post-card to read.
I read it. It was horrible—the doctors of the hospital had decided to amputate his right foot, to save him from his impending death. His gangrene was at its worst. In Armstrong’s book the ‘Water of Life’, the first chapter is on gangrene.
I gave the book to Shri Kanth, who had it sent to his father-in-law, Mr. Das. Mr. Das read the book and getting discharge from the hospital, came down to Sindri the very next day.
The condition of Mr. Das did not permit the risk of any experiment—he was a skeleton of bones and could not even sit up straight. His medical prescription showed his blood sugar as high as 435, which, I was told was the highest in medical history.
However hopeless the case was, I advised that Mr. Das should be given urine to drink throughout the day and during night his urine be stored for massage. He was made to continue the bare diet of a chapati and milk that he was taking.
The patient was made to follow this treatment round the clock and started showing good result. His fortnightly tests showed improvement every time in his blood sugar. He could now sit up and even walk round his bed with support.
In five months of intensive treatment Mr. Das was fully cured of blood sugar and of gangrene in his foot, with no sign of it left on the foot. He was up on his feet again to resume his charge of duty at Giridih.
He left Sindri and also did Mr. Kanth who was to join on his new post of Hindi officer in the Reserve Bank of India at Delhi. A happy ending to the story, for both of them.
The other case is of bronchitis Of chronic and serious nature. The patient was a young boy of only twelve, the only son of a Sikh family. His father, Mr. M. Singh, was posted at Sindri as Additional Chief Engineer (Chemical) in the PDIL.
His son had attacks of Bronchitis, asthma-type strong attacks, right from his birth. Even treatments by specialists during all these years gave no relief to the boy. Whenever he had an attack, his parents dwindled between thoughts of life and death for their only son.
When they came to know of my recent experiment with urine-therapy, they called on me for advice. They took the urine-therapy literature from me and read it thoroughly.
It gave them a new light and hope for their son. Before experimenting with their son, both Mr. Singh and Mrs. Kaur, M.Sc. (Chemistry), used the treatment with urine on their own persons.
Imagine, a Sikh couple, not only drinking their own urine, but also massaging their bodies with old urine, from foot to the head including the bunch of hair on their heads. In ten days they had fully enjoyed the experiment, as they told me later.
They had relieved themselves of their respective ailments as well. The lady, Mrs. Kaur had some stomach trouble and one serious trouble of the eyes, which would water every time she would like to read. That had rendered reading for her difficult for several years.
She cured herself of both these troubles. With these good results, they gave full urine-therapy treatment to their son, drinking urine and massaging with it, with complete fasting for a fortnight.
This cured the boy completely of Bronchitis and he never had any attack of it thereafter and has by now completed his engineering studies. A similar complaint of bronchitis of same serious nature had been with a grand child of six in my family, who was cured in the same way with urine treatment, thus in a way confirming the course of treatment done to the son of Mr. Singh.
How urine treatment is combined with yoga practice has been illustrated in the case of a yoga instructor, Mr. Ram Narain Sharma, who is managing a yoga centre at Lord Road, Delhi.
By his treatment on his own self and that of his wife and son, by urine, he has acquired practical experience in Uro-therapy to the extent that it has turned him into a veritable institution, himself advising heart and other patients to take urine treatment for their ailments.
It began like this that he was suffering from chronic complaints of headache and constipation and also stomach pains. Coming to know of the use of urine-therapy, he took to it while continuing with yoga exercises.
He undertook a complete fast for 40 days on his own urine, on the lines of Armstrong and thus completely cured himself of all his ailments. Convinced of the efficacy of urine, for physical ailments, Mr. Sharma advocates its use along with yoga, for better results.
His faith in Uro-therapy got a boost when he cured his wife of her heart-trouble. In 1985, his wife got a heart attack. The doctors advised that she had to undergo by-pass surgery, if not, she had the risk of a paralytic attack also. Mr. Sharma, a school teacher, did not have sufficient means to bear the cost of it.
With constant persuasion, he convinced his wife, however reluctant, to take up urine treatment. Following her husband’s advice, she took urine round the clock during the first week, which brought great relief to her.
Since then she has been regularly drinking her own urine daily twice and also rubbing old urine when in the bathroom for her bath. Urine-therapy treatment has made her free from any heart pain or attack for the last 10 years and made her look 20 years younger, as her husband is pleased to observe.
But Mr. Sharma’s troubles did not end there, when his only son, Pawan Kumar, only 4 years old, developed the weakening of his left foot, also growing shorter. This was followed by an attack of polio to the young boy. Mr. Sharma could only think of urine-therapy for his son.
He seriously engaged himself in the boy’s treatment, daily giving him doses of his own urine and massaging his whole body, particularly the affected foot, with 7-day old urine. The result, though slow, was evident; the boy taking a walk round the bed.
In two months, the boy could walk on his own and was sent to school. His father, Mr. Sharma says, that the treatment has not only brought the boy on his path to recovery, and lent him greater vitality, but also improved his mental faculties wonderfully. He performs Padmasana and goes into Dhyana Yoga.
Besides curing his wife of heart disease and his son of polio, Mr. Sharma has cured patients with painful infection of backbone, rhymaticism, T.B. and prostrate gland, etc. He has combined these treatments with yoga.
His experience well establishes and supports the tradition that our yogis, of old, practised ‘Shivambu kalpa’, that is, urine-therapy along with their practice of yoga.
Lest the reader should be bored with these long histories of treatments, let me describe a laughable incident. A person of my town, Hafizabad, had a stomach trouble. He went to an old Sikh doctor, Dr. Budh Singh LMS for treatment.
The doctor gave him a bottle of mixture. The man took the mixture home and used it. The following day he again went to the doctor and requested him to give him the same kind of mixture, as it had removed his pain, so that he may not have the trouble again.
The doctor burst out with laughter, saying, “O, how can I give you the same mixture again, because what I had given you was another patient’s urine I was having with me for pathological test. I came to know of this mistake only when you had left”.
Whether it was cited as a joke, or it was a fact, it is no denying that the doctor was not feeling sorry for his mistake, for he must have known that the urine of another person even, would not harm him.
Again, that it had cured the patient of his stomach trouble, gave him so much relief to his guilty mind, that he burst out with laughter to drown his sense of guilt.
Another story of light humour is of a notorious rogue, of village Ambikapur, in the district of Sargoja. Every time, when he committed some robbery and subsequently caught and given good thrashing by the police, he would bear it boldly on his body, almost the build of a bull, which he kept nourishing by drinking his own urine.
Sometimes, he would even be beaten almost to death by the police and then left as dead. But, soon, as he would gain senses, he would urinate, drink it and get up with renewed energy.
Before dying he revealed the secret of his strength to the villagers. Since then, as a newspaper reported, the villagers of that village of Ambikapur, have also been drinking urine to keep themselves healthy and strong.
That urine is an anti-sceptic is well-known. People are often heard saying that such and such person is so ungrateful that he would not even urinate on another’s injured finger.
The well-known Vaidya of old, Shushrut and others too have described urine as an antidote to poison. Although no account of snake-bite treatment has been found in the books, yet I came across a reliable case of snake-bite, which I reported in my papers.
Once I paid a visit to one of the two manufacturing units of Ayurvedic medicines in India of the Coal Mines Welfare Organisation, located at Pathardih in Dhanbad district.
During conversation with the Vaidya, in-charge of the Unit, Mr. S. Sinha, he confirmed the system of treatment of Urine-therapy being adopted by the Ayurvedic authorities in olden days. He then cited an example of snake-bite cured with one’s urine.
A post-graduate in medicine from Patna in Ayurveda, Mr. Sinha told me that in his village a woman was bit by a poisonous snake and fell unconscious. The village Vaidya wanted to give urine treatment to the woman to cure her of snake bite.
Since the woman could not be made to urinate, he asked for the urine of the nearest female relative. For this purpose, the woman’s daughter was asked for her urine to be given to her mother, but the girl, not bearing the very thought of giving her urine, an unholy thing to her mother, fell unconscious.
However, she was brought to senses and when explained to her the noble purpose of saving her mother with her urine, she agreed and gave her urine, which was served to her mother. By repeated use, her mother was cured of the snake bite.
For the external use of auto-urine, it has been seen that urine has a magic effect on the organs of the body, when so applied. To cite a recent case, Prof. G.S. Sharma of the Delhi Engineering College, head of the department of Mathematics, had a loose tooth giving out pus and causing pain frequently.
As he was going to have his tooth extracted, a friend advised him to try urine massage on the gums, which he did and thus he saved his tooth from being extracted. Not only that the loose tooth was also firmly fixed up, he also got the cure of his pyorrhoea, from which he had been suffering for the last 20 years.
It was all achieved in a month’s time. It took him only a minute or so daily to rub his gums with his urine, pressing them gently between his thumb and the middle finger. A ‘kula’ (mouthful) with urine and then massage with it, cured him of his trouble with the tooth.
Encouraged at Prof. Sharma’s treatment, his neighbour, Mr. B.R. Mahajan, Chief Engineer, (retd.), C.P.W.D., treated the trouble of his teeth also. Two of his teeth, which were loose and causing him trouble, got fixed up tightly and were no more causing pain.
Now, at the age of eighty, he speaks out with confidence that, till his last breath, he need not have to go to his dentist.
The application of urine for the restoration of vision and for the cure of eye-diseases, is also recommended. A number of such cases have been tried at the Bharat Sewak Samaj Clinic at Ahmedabad, with successful restoration of vision and freedom from the use of spectacles.
Also, some patients suffering from glaucoma were completely cured by drops of urine taken in the eyes. The institution claims that even cataract, in its early stages, has also been cured.
In the matter of ear-troubles, too, a few drops of urine served into the ear, have cured not only the oozing of pus from the ear and even pains, but also cured many of their hard-of-hearing trouble.
Some urine-therapists claim that the use of urine for the ear, can cure even the deaf of their deafness. No doubt, mothers in our country, have been serving urine drops of the child into his ears to keep them trouble-free and clean.
To get rid of the troubles of the nose and the throat, by the external use of urine, one is advised to do ‘Jal-neti’, that is, cleaning the nose internally by taking urine, instead of water, through the nose and dropping it by the mouth.
We have explained the technique of ‘Jal-neti’ in the chapter on Yoga practices. ‘Jal-neti’ is done with slightly warm and saltish water. These two conditions are aptly fulfilled by fresh urine, which is warm, as well as, saltish and make its application for ‘Jal-neti’, rather convenient and more effective.
This practice can also remove such ailments, as headache, of the head, besides improving the sight.
Rubbing of urine on organs when swelled or paining, is also useful, however, it gives greater benefit if the whole body is rubbed along with that organ.
For serious troubles in the body, or weakness, a massage continuously for two hours with old urine can bring wonderful results, removing several bodily ailments, as well as, imparting vitality to the body and general health of the person.
It will not be out of place to mention some of my own experiences in the field of this, rather new therapy.
Although I had cured a couple of my ailments by Nature-cure treatment twenty years before, yet during the post-care period of these years I could not stick to the ‘way of life’ that Nature-cure is, due to my professional, journalistic and social and cultural activities.
It was 1973 and I had convened an all-India Mushaira at Sindri, on behalf of the Hindi Sahitya Parishad, of which I was the General Secretary. During the collection drive for the function I had to move about in the Jharia Coalfield to collect funds from coal-merchants, etc.
I called on a coal-magnate, Mr. Mehndiratta, then President of the Lions Club of Dhanbad for his active help in my function.
During the talk, when he came to know that I was suffering from piles, he advised me to try the application of urine, washing the rectum while defecating to get cure from the piles, for he too, had piles and was similarly cured ten years before and since then never had recurrence of the trouble.
He told me that he got this idea from Armstrong’s book, “The Water of Life”.
In the meantime I used to receive letters from a poet-friend of mine, Dr. Jamuna Das ‘Prem’ Aneja, who had been admitted in Shri Poddar’s Nature-cure Ashram at Jassidih, Vidhyanath Dham, Bihar.
He was getting treatment by Nature-cure there for his heart disease. In one of his letters he informed me of a ‘miracle’, that one Mr. R. Sinha, a Bihar Government.
Agricultural Officer had been brought for treatment of cancer, which was in the last stage, and death was looking him in his face, but, however, Shri Poddar unwillingly gave him urine treatment for a week.
His death was averted and he left for his village to continue with the treatment. In another letter, Dr. Aneja informed me that one, Shri Vijay Kumar Gupta, a top advocate of Ludhiana, at 75, was suffering from acute disease of peptic ulcer, but was cured within ten days.
He had come to the Ashram for Nature-cure treatment, but Poddarji told him that he would have to undergo Nature-cure treatment for 45 days, though he could be cured in a much shorter period by urine-therapy.
Mr. Gupta having busy schedules of the court, opted for the latter treatment and cured of his peptic ulcer in a 10-day complete fast on Urine.
The advice of Mr. Mehndiratta, followed by the knowledge of these two cases, lent me courage to start with this new course of treatment. I was then having some pain in the chest beside the trouble of piles.
So, on 7th June, 1973, I took courage and drank the first morning urine. I felt much relief in pain. I also washed my rectum with urine while defecating. I continued both these treatments for five days and got perfect relief from both the troubles.
Further, encouraged at the result, I practised Urine-therapy for two months, not resorting to complete fast, but taking very light and natural diet along with drinking urine twice in the day and also massaging my body with 7-day old urine. Besides curing my chronic pyorrhoea, and piles, in the two months, I found that my appearance had also changed.
I was 55 then and my hair had partially turned grey, but now it was looking black giving me a younger look. This even surprised my wife. My colleagues and friends, too, were surprised.
This change of appearance turned me into a visible symbol of urine-therapy and people started coming to me for advice. However, I did not continue with the treatment and left massaging with urine, with the result that in the following five years my hair again started resuming their grey colour.
Later, when I was having some urine trouble, for a check up, I got myself admitted in the Hindu Rao Hospital at Delhi. The check-up showed that I was suffering from prostrate gland and that I had to be operated.
Even a date for the operation was fixed for me. I hesitated. I was also against any operation. Thus I left the hospital and seriously devoted myself to urine treatment. I drank urine daily two to four times, but found no time for massage.
Even then I cured my urine trouble, almost 90 per cent of my prostrate gland. Since then I have been continuing with the oral intake of urine, twice a day, with light and natural diet and am quite well at this age of 77 now.
Besides the above, I should not like to miss a mention of two very serious cases, that were cured on my advice by urine-therapy treatment. Both the cases bear clear testimony to the vast potential of this mode of treatment.
One is the case of Mr. M. Das, office superintendent of the National Coal Development Corporation at Giridih. He had spent out huge amount of money in the treatment of his acute diabetes and gangerene by indoor treatments at various homes and hospitals, with little relief.
At last, when admitted in the Calcutta General Hospital, he wrote a letter to his son-in-law, Shri R.B. Kanth, M.A., translator, working under me in the Public Relations Office at Sindri. He gave me the post-card to read.
I read it. It was horrible—the doctors of the hospital had decided to amputate his right foot, to save him from his impending death. His gangrene was at its worst. In Armstrong’s book the ‘Water of Life’, the first chapter is on gangrene.
I gave the book to Shri Kanth, who had it sent to his father-in-law, Mr. Das. Mr. Das read the book and getting discharge from the hospital, came down to Sindri the very next day.
The condition of Mr. Das did not permit the risk of any experiment—he was a skeleton of bones and could not even sit up straight. His medical prescription showed his blood sugar as high as 435, which, I was told was the highest in medical history.
However hopeless the case was, I advised that Mr. Das should be given urine to drink throughout the day and during night his urine be stored for massage. He was made to continue the bare diet of a chapati and milk that he was taking.
The patient was made to follow this treatment round the clock and started showing good result. His fortnightly tests showed improvement every time in his blood sugar. He could now sit up and even walk round his bed with support.
In five months of intensive treatment Mr. Das was fully cured of blood sugar and of gangrene in his foot, with no sign of it left on the foot. He was up on his feet again to resume his charge of duty at Giridih.
He left Sindri and also did Mr. Kanth who was to join on his new post of Hindi officer in the Reserve Bank of India at Delhi. A happy ending to the story, for both of them.
The other case is of bronchitis Of chronic and serious nature. The patient was a young boy of only twelve, the only son of a Sikh family. His father, Mr. M. Singh, was posted at Sindri as Additional Chief Engineer (Chemical) in the PDIL.
His son had attacks of Bronchitis, asthma-type strong attacks, right from his birth. Even treatments by specialists during all these years gave no relief to the boy. Whenever he had an attack, his parents dwindled between thoughts of life and death for their only son.
When they came to know of my recent experiment with urine-therapy, they called on me for advice. They took the urine-therapy literature from me and read it thoroughly.
It gave them a new light and hope for their son. Before experimenting with their son, both Mr. Singh and Mrs. Kaur, M.Sc. (Chemistry), used the treatment with urine on their own persons.
Imagine, a Sikh couple, not only drinking their own urine, but also massaging their bodies with old urine, from foot to the head including the bunch of hair on their heads. In ten days they had fully enjoyed the experiment, as they told me later.
They had relieved themselves of their respective ailments as well. The lady, Mrs. Kaur had some stomach trouble and one serious trouble of the eyes, which would water every time she would like to read. That had rendered reading for her difficult for several years.
She cured herself of both these troubles. With these good results, they gave full urine-therapy treatment to their son, drinking urine and massaging with it, with complete fasting for a fortnight.
This cured the boy completely of Bronchitis and he never had any attack of it thereafter and has by now completed his engineering studies. A similar complaint of bronchitis of same serious nature had been with a grand child of six in my family, who was cured in the same way with urine treatment, thus in a way confirming the course of treatment done to the son of Mr. Singh.
How urine treatment is combined with yoga practice has been illustrated in the case of a yoga instructor, Mr. Ram Narain Sharma, who is managing a yoga centre at Lord Road, Delhi.
By his treatment on his own self and that of his wife and son, by urine, he has acquired practical experience in Uro-therapy to the extent that it has turned him into a veritable institution, himself advising heart and other patients to take urine treatment for their ailments.
It began like this that he was suffering from chronic complaints of headache and constipation and also stomach pains. Coming to know of the use of urine-therapy, he took to it while continuing with yoga exercises.
He undertook a complete fast for 40 days on his own urine, on the lines of Armstrong and thus completely cured himself of all his ailments. Convinced of the efficacy of urine, for physical ailments, Mr. Sharma advocates its use along with yoga, for better results.
His faith in Uro-therapy got a boost when he cured his wife of her heart-trouble. In 1985, his wife got a heart attack. The doctors advised that she had to undergo by-pass surgery, if not, she had the risk of a paralytic attack also. Mr. Sharma, a school teacher, did not have sufficient means to bear the cost of it.
With constant persuasion, he convinced his wife, however reluctant, to take up urine treatment. Following her husband’s advice, she took urine round the clock during the first week, which brought great relief to her.
Since then she has been regularly drinking her own urine daily twice and also rubbing old urine when in the bathroom for her bath. Urine-therapy treatment has made her free from any heart pain or attack for the last 10 years and made her look 20 years younger, as her husband is pleased to observe.
But Mr. Sharma’s troubles did not end there, when his only son, Pawan Kumar, only 4 years old, developed the weakening of his left foot, also growing shorter. This was followed by an attack of polio to the young boy. Mr. Sharma could only think of urine-therapy for his son.
He seriously engaged himself in the boy’s treatment, daily giving him doses of his own urine and massaging his whole body, particularly the affected foot, with 7-day old urine. The result, though slow, was evident; the boy taking a walk round the bed.
In two months, the boy could walk on his own and was sent to school. His father, Mr. Sharma says, that the treatment has not only brought the boy on his path to recovery, and lent him greater vitality, but also improved his mental faculties wonderfully. He performs Padmasana and goes into Dhyana Yoga.
Besides curing his wife of heart disease and his son of polio, Mr. Sharma has cured patients with painful infection of backbone, rhymaticism, T.B. and prostrate gland, etc. He has combined these treatments with yoga.
His experience well establishes and supports the tradition that our yogis, of old, practised ‘Shivambu kalpa’, that is, urine-therapy along with their practice of yoga.
Lest the reader should be bored with these long histories of treatments, let me describe a laughable incident. A person of my town, Hafizabad, had a stomach trouble. He went to an old Sikh doctor, Dr. Budh Singh LMS for treatment.
The doctor gave him a bottle of mixture. The man took the mixture home and used it. The following day he again went to the doctor and requested him to give him the same kind of mixture, as it had removed his pain, so that he may not have the trouble again.
The doctor burst out with laughter, saying, “O, how can I give you the same mixture again, because what I had given you was another patient’s urine I was having with me for pathological test. I came to know of this mistake only when you had left”.
Whether it was cited as a joke, or it was a fact, it is no denying that the doctor was not feeling sorry for his mistake, for he must have known that the urine of another person even, would not harm him.
Again, that it had cured the patient of his stomach trouble, gave him so much relief to his guilty mind, that he burst out with laughter to drown his sense of guilt.
Another story of light humour is of a notorious rogue, of village Ambikapur, in the district of Sargoja. Every time, when he committed some robbery and subsequently caught and given good thrashing by the police, he would bear it boldly on his body, almost the build of a bull, which he kept nourishing by drinking his own urine.
Sometimes, he would even be beaten almost to death by the police and then left as dead. But, soon, as he would gain senses, he would urinate, drink it and get up with renewed energy.
Before dying he revealed the secret of his strength to the villagers. Since then, as a newspaper reported, the villagers of that village of Ambikapur, have also been drinking urine to keep themselves healthy and strong.
That urine is an anti-sceptic is well-known. People are often heard saying that such and such person is so ungrateful that he would not even urinate on another’s injured finger.
The well-known Vaidya of old, Shushrut and others too have described urine as an antidote to poison. Although no account of snake-bite treatment has been found in the books, yet I came across a reliable case of snake-bite, which I reported in my papers.
Once I paid a visit to one of the two manufacturing units of Ayurvedic medicines in India of the Coal Mines Welfare Organisation, located at Pathardih in Dhanbad district.
During conversation with the Vaidya, in-charge of the Unit, Mr. S. Sinha, he confirmed the system of treatment of Urine-therapy being adopted by the Ayurvedic authorities in olden days. He then cited an example of snake-bite cured with one’s urine.
A post-graduate in medicine from Patna in Ayurveda, Mr. Sinha told me that in his village a woman was bit by a poisonous snake and fell unconscious. The village Vaidya wanted to give urine treatment to the woman to cure her of snake bite.
Since the woman could not be made to urinate, he asked for the urine of the nearest female relative. For this purpose, the woman’s daughter was asked for her urine to be given to her mother, but the girl, not bearing the very thought of giving her urine, an unholy thing to her mother, fell unconscious.
However, she was brought to senses and when explained to her the noble purpose of saving her mother with her urine, she agreed and gave her urine, which was served to her mother. By repeated use, her mother was cured of the snake bite.
For the external use of auto-urine, it has been seen that urine has a magic effect on the organs of the body, when so applied. To cite a recent case, Prof. G.S. Sharma of the Delhi Engineering College, head of the department of Mathematics, had a loose tooth giving out pus and causing pain frequently.
As he was going to have his tooth extracted, a friend advised him to try urine massage on the gums, which he did and thus he saved his tooth from being extracted. Not only that the loose tooth was also firmly fixed up, he also got the cure of his pyorrhoea, from which he had been suffering for the last 20 years.
It was all achieved in a month’s time. It took him only a minute or so daily to rub his gums with his urine, pressing them gently between his thumb and the middle finger. A ‘kula’ (mouthful) with urine and then massage with it, cured him of his trouble with the tooth.
Encouraged at Prof. Sharma’s treatment, his neighbour, Mr. B.R. Mahajan, Chief Engineer, (retd.), C.P.W.D., treated the trouble of his teeth also. Two of his teeth, which were loose and causing him trouble, got fixed up tightly and were no more causing pain.
Now, at the age of eighty, he speaks out with confidence that, till his last breath, he need not have to go to his dentist.
The application of urine for the restoration of vision and for the cure of eye-diseases, is also recommended. A number of such cases have been tried at the Bharat Sewak Samaj Clinic at Ahmedabad, with successful restoration of vision and freedom from the use of spectacles.
Also, some patients suffering from glaucoma were completely cured by drops of urine taken in the eyes. The institution claims that even cataract, in its early stages, has also been cured.
In the matter of ear-troubles, too, a few drops of urine served into the ear, have cured not only the oozing of pus from the ear and even pains, but also cured many of their hard-of-hearing trouble.
Some urine-therapists claim that the use of urine for the ear, can cure even the deaf of their deafness. No doubt, mothers in our country, have been serving urine drops of the child into his ears to keep them trouble-free and clean.
To get rid of the troubles of the nose and the throat, by the external use of urine, one is advised to do ‘Jal-neti’, that is, cleaning the nose internally by taking urine, instead of water, through the nose and dropping it by the mouth.
We have explained the technique of ‘Jal-neti’ in the chapter on Yoga practices. ‘Jal-neti’ is done with slightly warm and saltish water. These two conditions are aptly fulfilled by fresh urine, which is warm, as well as, saltish and make its application for ‘Jal-neti’, rather convenient and more effective.
This practice can also remove such ailments, as headache, of the head, besides improving the sight.
Rubbing of urine on organs when swelled or paining, is also useful, however, it gives greater benefit if the whole body is rubbed along with that organ.
For serious troubles in the body, or weakness, a massage continuously for two hours with old urine can bring wonderful results, removing several bodily ailments, as well as, imparting vitality to the body and general health of the person.