According to folklore, urine can cure all diseases. So, is it really so amazing that boys pee? Urine produced by boys before sexual development; From the secretary's previous records, it is found that urine does have certain pharmacological effects.
Tracing back to the history and culture of our country, there is indeed a saying that urine is a cure, or a tonic. Urine and feces of human and animals have always been regarded as drugs that can treat various intractable diseases in Chinese materia medica, and there are evidences in distant ancient times. In Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica, human urine is called reincarnation wine and Guiyuan soup, especially for a boy. Just like the ethical framework of traditional Chinese medicine, the treatment of human urine has its mysterious basis. Other human urine products used as medicines include drowning white (human white), Qiu Shi and linden. It has therapeutic effects on headache due to cold and heat, improving eyesight, nourishing voice, moistening skin, benefiting large intestine, relieving cough, relieving lung flaccidity, quenching thirst, moistening heart and lung, stopping hematemesis, stopping epistaxis, and treating dystocia, retained placenta, snake bite and dog bite. In addition, ancient Egypt and India also used animal manure to treat diseases, but it is not as rich as the records of ancient medicine in China.
However, we should also pay attention to the vague understanding of nature in ancient times. At that time, many medicines were superstitious and had no scientific basis. However, with the progress of modern science and the development of medicine, people still insist on believing these practices of the ancients, which needs us to consider.
Pediatric experts analyzed that people used to bring their children to their homes to ask for urine to treat lung diseases. At that time, anti-tuberculosis chemotherapy drugs were very difficult to obtain. Severe tuberculosis is an incurable disease, and children's urine may be a starting point for comfort. Around 1958, Chinese medicine was very prosperous, and medical magazines often reported the treatment methods of human urine or children urine. What impressed me more was the article about preventing measles by soaking eggs in urine.
According to the current medical level, it is obviously unreasonable to treat or supplement children with urine. Let's see what's in human urine first. The main component of urine is water, which 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.
According to foreign research, Joseph Needham and Lu Guizhen, famous British researchers in the history of science and technology in China, once wrote that Qiu Shi (white matter made of urine sediment) contains sex hormones, so China people used sex hormones earlier than the West. This sounds intoxicating, but in fact it is pure speculation.
There are some interesting things that are completely unreasonable. For example, in some public toilets a few years ago, many urinals were used to collect urine, which is said to be used to extract urokinase, a thrombolytic drug. It is also said that there may be some abnormal components in patients' urine, such as protein or sugar in the urine of patients with nephropathy and diabetes.