Complementary and alternative therapy;
In alternative medicine, the term urine therapy (also urotherapy, urinotherapy or uropathy) refers to various applications of human urine for medicinal or cosmetic purposes, including drinking of one's own urine and massaging one's skin with one's own urine. While there are no known scientifically proven health benefits of such therapeutic use for urine,[1][2][3][4][5] some chemical components of urine do have some well known commercial and other uses, like urea and urokinase.[3] For instance, urea in urine has been found to be antibacterial to bacteria causing urinary tract infections specifically, and ingestion of urea has been found to increase this antibacterial activity in urine itself,[6] though no evidence was found for such an effect upon the actual ingestion or application of urine.
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