The treatment of children's urine has been circulated among the people since ancient times. Li Shizhen said in Compendium of Materia Medica, "Urine, from corpse to water, is knowledge. The Fang family calls it reincarnation wine, reduced soup and argot. " It means that the child is pure yang, which means that the yang is endless and full of vitality. Urine is produced by the warmth of the yang in the kidney. Although it is a metabolite, it still retains the true qi. However, the ancients did not use children's urine at will, but were very particular about it: for example, children's urine consumption was below 12; Boys should avoid eating five spicy things; A man's virginity; Toilets for girls and boys; Child urine cut tail, etc.
There is obviously no scientific reason for human urine to treat diseases or tonic. First, let's see what's in human urine. Urine is basically water and contains a small amount of inorganic salts, so it is a little salty. In addition, urine may contain trace amounts of metabolites of sex hormones and adrenocortical hormones or other body components. Joseph Needham and Lu Guizhen, famous British researchers in the history of science and technology in China, once wrote that Qiu Shi, a traditional Chinese medicine, contains sex hormones, so China people use sex hormones earlier than westerners. This sounds intoxicating, but in fact it is pure speculation. A few years ago, there were many urinals in public toilets in some places to collect urine, which is said to be used to extract urokinase, a thrombolytic drug. There may be some abnormal components in patients' urine, such as protein or sugar in the urine of patients with nephropathy and diabetes. The content of the above substances in urine is very small, so it is impossible to produce any pharmacological effects.
Western medicine experts also believe that although there has been a saying of urine health care for children since ancient times, it is because of low productivity. Even if infant urine can really be used as medicine, it should be confirmed by scientific demonstration and preclinical animal pharmacological experiments (including acute toxicity, chronic toxicity, general pharmacological and pharmacodynamic experiments, etc.). ), clinical trials (including human tolerance to drugs, safety and effectiveness of drugs, etc. ) and evaluated by the relevant departments in accordance with the relevant provisions of the state. Similarly, children's urine must go through relevant experiments and approval procedures to become health care products. In short, it is not advisable to drink urine for health care.
At present, there is no practice of using children's urine as medicine, but there are some cases in which people who have spent their lives in extreme difficulties drink urine to maintain their lives in the desperate situation of lack of water and food. Although no one has scientifically verified the function of urine, it is still a fact that urine is toxic.