First, let's learn about the main components of urine. According to Chengdu Business Daily, the urine of healthy people contains urea (9.3g/L), chloride (1.87 g/L), sodium ion (1. 17g/L) and potassium ion (0.750) in addition to water.
So, what effect will drinking urine have on the human body? Yao Ying, deputy chief physician of Department of Nephrology, Wuhan tongji hospital, pointed out in an interview with CCTV: "The main component of urine is water. People in good health generally don't have much side effects when drinking their own urine, but if they have serious diseases, toxins may be excreted through urine after taking the medicine, and this urine is likely to cause harm to the human body. Although there are no research results yet, these metabolic wastes that have been excreted are reabsorbed, which is definitely not conducive to human health. "
In fact, whether it is Chinese medicine or western medicine, it is impossible to drink urine for health. From the perspective of Chinese medicine, Yuan Yong, deputy director of the Department of Chinese Medicine of the First Affiliated Hospital of Hainan Medical College, said in an interview with Hainan Daily that "adults drink their own urine for health and treatment, and there is no scientific basis." In the folk, urine is regarded as a folk prescription, which is mainly used for external application to treat traumatic injuries. At present, there is a traditional Chinese medicine "human white", which is made of solid substances naturally deposited in human urine. This medicine can be applied externally to the affected area to treat traumatic injuries such as falls and injuries. The east. Com also pointed out that in the era of lack of medical care and medicine in China, people really used urine as a medicine to treat traumatic injuries, promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis, and generally used urine as water when taking medicine or decocting medicine. However, in the process of inheritance of modern Chinese medicine, there is also a process of taking its essence and removing its dross. There is no way to prove its efficacy, so modern Chinese medicine has long been out of use.
From the perspective of western medicine, Professor Wu from the Department of Urology of Hunan Provincial People's Hospital said in an online interview with Huasheng that urokinase is a useful substance collected and refined from urine, but even urokinase as a medicine is separated from the urine of healthy people. Drinking urine directly will not form urokinase, but will be converted into amino acids at most, completely losing its function as an enzyme.
This article is scientifically checked by Song Ge, deputy chief physician of TCM clinic of Chinese Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, leader of reserve discipline of TCM culturology in state administration of traditional chinese medicine, doctor of TCM and postdoctoral fellow. Experts are good at fields: internal medicine of traditional Chinese medicine, gynecology of traditional Chinese medicine, pediatrics of traditional Chinese medicine, and sub-health state conditioning.