Your Own Perfect Medicine Chapter 3

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WHY NOBODY KNOWS ANYTHING ABOUT THE MOST RESEARCHED NATURAL SUBSTANCE IN MEDICINE

One of the questions that I’m most asked about urine therapy is: “If it’s so wonderful and there’s so much scientific evidence supporting it, why don’t my doctors and the public know about it and why isn’t it more widely used?”

Historically, the medical use of urine was qyute well known throughout the world. There are many reports that date back thousands of years, (see Chapter Five), which extol the virtues of urine both as a diagnostic tool and as a medicinal treatment for a wide variety of diseases, wounds and skin disorders.

And yet today, even after nearly 100 years of consistent and authoritative modem medical research showing urine or urea to be one of the simplest, cheapest, most effective medicinal substances in existence, the vast majority of us, including even our own doctors, still mistakenly believe that urine is nothing more than a body waste or a medical diagnostic tool.

About all that consumers today know about urine in medicine is that you hand a sample of it to the doctor’s nurse when you go for an office visit so they can test it for whatever it is that they test it for. And it’s pretty much the same for the doctors.

So how have we and our doctors, who are supposed to know about these things, completely missed thousands of years of historical references and almost a century’s worth of definitive modern research discoveries on the medical use of urine?

To really understand why the extensive medical use of urine is largely unknown and unpublicized today, we have to look more closely at the background and the history of modern medicine.

Before the advent of modem medicines, there were few man-made drugs, and even fewer doctors to administer them -and, for most people, no money for to pay the doctors even when they were available. So people generally treated their illnesses with prayer and such common sense approaches as good food, rest and whatever substances they found in nature that were traditionally known to have medicinal qualities - things like simple herbs, plants, minerals, urine, etc.

This natural approach to healing had recognizable benefits and even well-known and historically respected doctors such as Hippocrates taught that the body’s own natural defenses should be supported and emphasized in healing and that gentle, natural medical approaches should always be used first before resorting to stronger interventions.

But throughout the known history of man and medicine, there has always been a type of “tagstaKm” going on between those who felt that nature was the best healer, and others who were convinced that man could intellectually devise healing techniques that would put Mother Nature to shame.

One of the most potent arguments on the side of those who favored science over nature were the various historical plagues of infectious diseases such as smallpox, typhoid, dysentery and the dreaded bubonic or “black plague” that would intermittently strike and wipe out millions of people in record time. Traditional medical approaches seemed of little use against such plagues, and westerners in particular began to search science for methods of overcoming these diseases.

During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, science did discover man- made synthetic drugs like penicillin that seemed to prevent these killer plagues and other dangerous illnesses, and the age of modem synthetic medicine began. By the time the second half of the twentieth century had rolled around, mankind’s scientific advances in medicine had produced a wide variety of sophisticated drugs and technology that seemed to make traditional health approaches obsolete.

Apparently, mankind and technology had finally won the battle against nature. In some ways, it appeared that humanity had even overcome its dependence on God; as Robert Koch, who first discovered microbes commented, “In the nineteenth century, man lost his fear of God and gained a fear of microbes.” And perhaps this is true, because, unlike our great-grandparents and other ancestors back to the beginning of time, most modern societies today depend much more on drugs and medical science than on God, or the medicines that nature provides for healing disease or correcting health disorders. This is largely because today’s medical community has conditioned us to believe that medical science, drugs and surgery are all that are needed to keep humanity healthy, happy and disease-free.

Medical science, not God and prayer, is now offered as our hope for increased longevity and a type of immortality, as scientists experiment with such things as cryogenics (freezing the body so that it can be ‘resurrected’ by future scientists), and surgical organ transplants that seem as though they could possibly extend our physical lives indefinitely. When infertility occurs, we can now turn, not to nature, or spiritual, or even psychological understanding, which often seem to fail to give us what we want, but to the mechanical manipulations of medical science which allow us to simply ‘detour’ around frustrating and ‘unfair’ natural impediments.

In view of all of the apparent advances and advantages of twentieth century medical science, the simpler, traditional and more natural approaches to medicine like urine therapy have appeared to be pseless and ineffective to us, and we were right to have abandoned them in favor of ‘objective’ scientific medicine — or so we thought.

The book, The Betrayal of Health, published in 1991 by Dr. Joseph Beasely, M.D., a medical doctor and former Harvard University administrator and dean of the School of Public Health at Tulane University, simply and eloquently tells the story of the development of modern medicine and its unfortunate, unforeseen consequences:

“From the earliest days of medical science there have been two distinct but complementary approaches to health — the pursuit of well-being (the naturalistic school) and the cure of disease (the allopathic school).

Hippocrates combined both approaches in his practice and medical teachings — stressing that the physician must be skilled in Nature and understand the patient in relation to his or her food, drink, and occupation, as well as the effect each of these factors has on the others.

Health was an equilibrium between the mind and body and the external world, disease a disruption of this natural harmony.

Treatment involved creating the conditions in which the body could maintain and cure itself through its internal healing mechanisms. When disease did manifest itself, specific intervention would be applied, but natural cures such as dietary changes were preferred over drugs.”

But as Dr. Beasley points out, this balanced; natural approach to medicine did not survive the twentieth century avalanche of enthusiasm for sophisticated synthetic drugs and surgery that seemingly freed us from the scourges of infectious disease epidemics and other serious illnesses:

“The modern approach to illness and health developed over centuries of battles against a host of diseases. During most of those years, medicine was not particularly effective. Plagues and contagions wiped out entire populations as medical practitioners labored in vain to find a cure.

These centuries of medical failure made the relatively recent century of medical success all the more impressive.”

As Dr. Beasley states, the medical community and the public became so sure that science could find a specific drug cure for every illness that everyone totally

ignored the importance of factors like natural medicines, nutrition, environment and mental health in creating and maintaining good health:

“The discovery and destruction of the germs responsible for disease led doctors (and their patients) to place their faith in the scientific [medical] model that had so miraculously saved humanity from its most ancient enemies.

But in the process of developing modern medical methods, medicine has abandoned (or forgotten) some of its most ancient and worthwhile traditions.

The complex interactions of nutrition were neglected even as they were being discovered. And there has been even less interest in the interactive effects of environmental agents or of long-term behavioral patterns on health”

The seemingly enormous healing power of new synthetic drugs appeared to make common sense natural approaches to medicine obsolete. Now that we had miracle antibiotics that could apparently cure everything and powerful pain relievers and new, fantastic surgical techniques, who needed outmoded, unsophisticated natural medical approaches like urine therapy or nutrition or homeopathy or herbs?

As the twentieth century progressed, people didn’t treat themselves at home anymore with time-honored natural remedies. It you got sick, instead of treating yourself with more rest, better food and a simple traditional natural medicine, you went to the doctor or the drug store to buy whatever ‘miracle’ drug was popular at the time, or you had an operation.

In our century, drug companies, and the medical researchers they hired, took the job of making and experimenting with medicines away from doctors and the public and withdrew into their laboratories.

In scientific seclusion, far removed from the world of the doctor-patient relationship, researchers experimented with chemical compounds and isolated medically active ingredients in natural substances such as previously well-known herbs or urine, and then formulated drugs from these elements.

In the case of urine therapy, urine was used in its natural form, or as simple urea in numerous clinical tests throughout our century, but these studies were never publicized, because, for the most part, the use of natural medicines had been discontinued in medical practice in favor of patented drugs and surgery.

With our new system of modem medicine, people no longer felt that it was necessary or important for them to know how their bodies worked or how to treat themselves with simple methods at home. Most consumers felt that the knowledge of the body and how to heal it was best left in the hands of scientists and trained doctors and surgeons who knew so much more than we did about how to manipulate and alter the body and defeat disease.

In this scenario, the use of urine therapy wasn’t important to the public. No one talked about it or shared the information with their family and friends as they had in days gone by. And even though modem researchers were discovering amazing things about urine therapy, these discoveries were kept within the walls of academic research and were never or rarely shared with the public.

But were we right to abandon traditional and common sense approaches to healing? Should natural healing methods like urine therapy have a place in our lives or should we just continue to completely surrender our personal health-care needs and concerns to doctors and medical researchers? Are chemical drugs and surgery really the answer to all our health problems? As most of us are aware today — they’re not.

No matter how many incredible discoveries medical science may have made during the twentieth century, millions of us are sick or even crippledby illness today. Our doctors don’t know what to do. Our scientists continue to tell us that science, drugs and surgery will cure us, but they don’t.

As The Betrayal of Health points out, our modern miracle medicine is not the miracle we thought it was:

“As the infectious diseases became less and less prevalent, and the chronic diseases advanced to the forefront of illness, cracks have begun to appear in the fortress of allopathic medicine. The methods that had produced the successes of Jenner, Pasteur, Koch, Fleming and Salk no longer seemed to be working. Further flaws in, and abuses of, modern medical techniques have become all too apparent.

The unqualified successes of earlier decades have come up against the failures of modern medicine.

The epidemic of chronic illness in the United States, particularly arterial disease and cancer, is the stellar embarrassment of medicine and its high-technology weapons.

These degenerative illnesses — far from being bull’s eye illnesses — are complex dysfunctions of bodily systems that must be approached systematically.

With them, the model of specific cause/specific medical intervention simply isn’t working. What is worse, many interventions, from prescription drugs to expensive surgery, cause more harm than good when they are overused or abused by doctors and patients.

Ironically, the wonder drugs of the last century may never have worked as well as we thought. Medical historians report that the dramatic improvements in morbidity and mortality rates in the past hundred years were not exclusively, nor even mainly, due to doctors’ intervention.

The great health improvements of the nineteenth century were not the result of medical interventions per se, but of basic improvements in nutritional and living conditions that coincided with (and often preceded) these interventions.”

So even though we believed that drugs and medical science alone were responsible for saving us from smallpox and typhoid and other terrible diseases, this was never true. The truth was that we got fewer infectious diseases in the twentieth century because we had better living conditions. For the first time in history, we had widespread modem sanitation, clean water and more and better food distribution than ever before. In the modem environment of civilized nations, infectious diseases disappeared because the breeding grounds for germs, such as open sewers, contaminated water supplies and malnourished bodies were largely eliminated.

But medical science undeservedly took and received the greatest credit and public acclaim for these tremendous health improvements. And the medical community today is still trying to convince us that no matter what goes wrong with our bodies, the solution will always be found within the realm of drugs and surgery.

It is true that drugs and surgery can be extremely effective for critical care, health emergencies, structural deformities or accident cases, but these aggressive therapies should never have developed into everyday medical approaches that we automatically resort to almost immediately for every imaginable illness we contract.

Western culture made a grave error when it eliminated all natural approaches to health in favor of drugs and surgery. Natural healing methods that gently stimulate and support the immune system without dangerous side effects have advantages that drugs and surgery can’t offer. And it wasn’t that traditional natural health therapies, such as urine therapy, hadn’t worked in the past – it was simply that historically they weren’t always applied within the context of good nutrition and sanitation and proper health practices because this knowledge wasn’t available in the centuries preceding ours.

And as Beasely points out, it was extremely ironic that even though modem science has proven the importance and impact of such common sense factors as diet and relaxation on health, the medical community and consumers have almost completely ignored these findings.

For instance, if a typical consumer today is having trouble falling asleep chances are the person will immediately resort to Nytol, or Sominex, or whatever sleeping pill he or she saw advertised and promoted by drug companies on TV, and never even consider or try simple natural solutions such as taking a walk or warm bath, or drinking a soothing cup of tea, or eliminating the late-night snack of pepperoni pizza that’s upsetting the stomach and causing insomnia – even though there is clear scientific evidence, not to mention common sense, that indicates that relaxation and dietary changes can help promote good sleep.

This’ same contradiction is also true for urine therapy. Medical scientists have proven the medical efficacy of natural urine and urea over and over again, but the medical community and drug companies have completely ignored these research findings – unless of course, a patentable drug form of urine such as Pergonal or Urokinase, can be developed.

It’s unfortunate that even as most people and practicing doctors forgot about the use of natural urine therapy, medical researchers were discovering incredible things about the medicinal value of urine.

During this century, researchers sat in their laboratories and watched as simple urea or whole urine completely destroyed rabies and polio viruses, tuberculosis, typhoid, gonorrhea, dysentery bacteria and cáncer cells.

They found that urine contains a huge array of incredibly valuable and medically important elements and they injected and orally administered urine and urea to thousands of patients in clinical tests.

They watched as it saved the lives of cancer patients, cured and relieved asthma, eczema, whooping cough, migraines, diabetes, glaucoma, rheumatoid arthritis, and a host of other illnesses. But the general public was never told about such discoveries.

Doctors and consumers today are given access to urine-related drugs, but have no idea of the tremendous overall value and health benefits of the natural urine that the drug was derived from. And medical researchers see absolutely no reason why any of us should know about it. All we need to know, in their estimation, is that they’ve developed a drug for a disease and where or what it’s derived from is of little or no importance.

So why are many people like myself now resurrecting and using natural urine therapy instead of using sophisticated ‘wonder’ drugs and surgery? The answer is simple – drugs and surgery didn’t work, but urine therapy did. -

Urine therapy is regaining attention today because as the twentieth century draws to a close, millions of people are becoming aware that the keys to good health do not lie in the laboratory or the operating room.

Many of us now realize that when we threw out our natural medical approaches and methods of self-care, we eliminated crucially important elements in healing that can’t be replaced by drugs or surgery. Unlike naturally occurring medicines, chemical drugs are extremely concentrated synthetic substances. Yes, these abnormally high concentrations may seem to produce a “knock-out punch” to

disease symptoms, but what good is it if the drug delivers the same knock-out punch to your health as a whole?

We may think we’re winning the battle against disease, but we all know we’re losing the war. The AIDS epidemic and the other modern health epidemics of cancer, heart disease, diabetes, chronic fatigue syndrome, debilitating allergies, auto-immune diseases, ulcers, etc. aren’t being cured by modem medicine. And one of the biggest reasons for this failure is that these modem epidemics are immune deficiency diseases which cannot be treated by immune-suppressing therapies such as drugs and surgery.

In fact, every single drug or surgical technique that exists in some way weakens and impairs our immune system functions, so it’s imposible for these methods to cure the immune-deficiency diseases that are now killing and maiming us.

The health epidemics of today are the consequences of many environmental factors that strain and break down our bodies’ natural immune defenses, so drugs and surgery which further weaken our immune systems do absolutely nothing to cure or help us. They seem to temporarily win the battle against the symptoms of illness, but in the end they lose the wax because they suppress and destroy the very thing that makes and keeps us well – our own natural body defenses.

Natural urine therapy was abandoned and forgotten by the public in the twentieth century because we were so sure that drugs and surgery were the answers to all our health problems. But time has shown us our error.

As we watch the often terrible and fatal consequences of decades of complete reliance on immune-suppressing synthetic drugs and surgical techniques unfold, we worriedly search the pages of history to rediscover and relearn the lost arts of caring for ourselves with simple, safe. and healthful natural healing.

Urine therapy is a natural therapy that is not widely known today, but in reality, it is not a lost healing art. As the material in this book shows, urine therapy has been kept very much alive by modem medical science throughout the twentieth century, even though it has rarely been publicized.

In reality,-urine therapy cannot even be accurately classed as a traditional folk- remedy today, because during the twentieth century it has been used almost

exclusively by mainstream medical scientists and researchers and not by consumers themselves, but this is changing.

So, in conclusion, it is the “surgery and drugs are all we need” philosophy of the present conventional medical system that is one major reason why you and your doctors have never heard of mine therapy. But there is another big reason why so many know so little about the world’s least expensive and most powerful and effective natural medicine - very simply stated - there’s no therapy.

Medicine and Money

I think that most of us are under the impression that somewhere in thesequestered halls of academia, benevolent,doctors and research scientists are altruistically slaving over their petri dishes and test tubes, feverishly searching for new medical methods and cures that will relieve and eradicate physical suffering and illness - and that as soon as they make these wondrous new discoveries they’ll immediately release the results of their studies to a desperately expectant world of sick and suffering people.

But as true as we want this scenario to be, it isn’t the reality. The reality is that medical researchers are not the ones who ultimately decide what medical treatments the public receives as a result of medical research studies.

The architects of today’s medical system are not primarily medical researchers or doctors, but rather, the drug companies. Medical research requires funding and from the very beginning of the age of modem medicine, researchers have largely depended on pharmaceutical companies to supply those funds. So many times we hear what the companies, and not the researchers, want us to hear about research discoveries.

The great pharmaceutical advances of the early 1900’s that gave us the first new vaccines, penicillin, antitoxins and the ‘miraculous’ sulfa drugs were financed in large part by big pharmaceutical companies like Bayer and I.G. Farben. Now, while the owners of these drug companies may have had some altruistic interests, the lifeblood of their companies was not medicine, but money.

Simple, inexpensive medicines like herbs, homeopathic remedies or urine therapy that have been shown to be just as effective, safer and much less expensive than chemical drug compounds may be better for the public but they’re no good for drug company profits and are therefore not promoted and sold.

It’s in the drug industry’s best interest to ignore and invalidate medicines and traditional therapies that can’t be patented and don’t produce big profits. And in simple economic terms, this is how any business survives and prospers — by selling and promoting the products that make the most money. Pharmaceutical firms by their very nature must promote profit-making medicines to keep their companies alive.

The way our medical system works today, drug companies are the primary entities that fund research, and test and prepare medical treatments for government approval, and this is also true in many countries throughout the world.

And it’s extremely expensive for a company to conduct research for a new method and get it through the approval process — to do this can cost as much as an estimated $150 million per treatment. So a pharmaceutical company has to promote the medical approaches that will assure big “pay offs” in order for the company to survive.

Unfortunately, medicines that keep drug companies alive and healthy, even if they’re government approved, can often make people sick — or even kill them.

Drugs like DES and thalidomide may have been big profit makers but they later created horrible health disorders and hideous fetal deformities when used by trusting consumers. Metabolic synthetic steroids, once hailed as miracle muscle- builders and used freely, are now killing and maiming many of their users. Aspirin was considered to be the ultimate miracle fever and pain reducer until it was discovered that it causes the Reyes syndrome that can kill children and can also cause severe abdominal bleeding in adults.

The fact is that no matter how much research or how many amazing or successful clinical trials have been performed by researchers on safe, inexpensive medical approaches like urine therapy, if these therapies are not perceived as profitable by pharmaceutical companies, they will simply not be

‘picked up’ by the drug companies and presented for government approval, which means that the public will probably never hear about the research or receive the benefits of these substances, no matter how wonderful they are.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FIDA) does not generally research or test medical treatments itself — it depends on private companies to do that. And because of this fact, the FDA does not have firsts hand knowledge of which treatments are effective and safe and which aren’t; they rely on the company that has developed the treatment to tell them which treatments should be marketed to consumers.

As the book, The Betrayal of Health reveals:

“The drug industry is a business. In a regrettable Catch-22, the main sources of information for the regulation of the pharmaceutical industry are the companies themselves. The ‘watchdog’ of the drug industry, the Food and Drug Administration, sets testing standards and then evaluates the test results submitted by the companies.

In determining whether a drug is ‘safe, the FDA does not perform clinical trials of new drugs and only rarely runs toxicity tests.

As a result, the FDA must make its decisions based on information provided by the very company that wants to market the drug. If the information provided is fraudulent, the FDA (and the public) is unlikely to find out about it until a significant problem occurs…

Despite the conflict of interest inherent in such situations, drug companies continue to be the major fonder of research on most common diseases and their potential treatment. .

And it is no surprise that the research focuses on finding new chemical methods of managing disease — or at least symptoms. Indeed, could one expect A.H. Robbins or SmithKline or Ciba-Geigy to fund research on therapies (such as nutrition) that cannot be patented and will not significantly increase their market share?”

The results of this unfortunate mix of medicine and money are reflected by the lack of attention given to research findings on urine and urea therapy. For example,

urea, has been shown to be a much safer, simpler, less expensive and more effective diuretic than the diuretic drug, Diamox (see Urea — New Use Of An Old Agent, next chapter). Yet, in The Physician’s Desk Reference, Diamox is mentioned under the diuretic category, but urea isn’t — unlike simple urea, Diamox is a patented compound drug, insuring that the company’s profits from the drug will be maximized and protected.

Another example of how money and medicine don’t mix is the conventional medical community’s treatment of medicinal herbs. There are numerous research studies proving the effectiveness, safety and diverse medical applications of herbs, yet any conventional doctor you talk to will tell you that herbal medicine is ridiculously unscientific and ineffective.

Doctors tell you this, not because it’s true, but because their medical Training is completely centered around drug and surgery treatments promoted by the pharmaceutical industry

In the book, The Scientific Validation of Herbal Medicine, the author, Daniel Mowrey, lists hundreds of scientific studies that not only validate the medicinal effectiveness of herbs, but in many cases, prove that the natural herb or herbal extract can be just as effective as its synthetic counterpart.

For instance, the herb Cinchona was originally used for treating malaria and has been clinically proven to be just as effective as the synthetic drug quinine - and the herb is safe and non-toxic.

But even though millions of pounds of Cinchona were imported for medical use into the U.S. before the development of synthetic quinine, drug companies today would never consider recommending or advertising Cinchona. Why? Because synthetic drugs, unlike herbs or other simple medicines, can be patented and sold for much more profit.

And unfortunately, if the drug companies do not present a natural therapy such as urine therapy to the FDA-for approval because it’s unprofitable for them, the therapy doesn’t get approved for use. That means that neither you or your doctor will hear about it or use it.

Urea is approved by the FDA and is used, as you’ve read, in several different commercial forms. But urea itself is extremely inexpensive and non-patentable so the truly important and often astounding medical breakthroughs using simple urea in research studies have never been given proper recognition, even though the researchers themselves have often stressed its importance and made repeated but unsuccessful attempts to bring the information to the attention of the medical community.

Consumers, and especially doctors, over the last 50 years have been thoroughly and completely indoctrinated with the “a drug a day keeps disease away” promotion of the drug companies, and have neglected the simpler, safer methods like natural urine or urea therapy. But how do we know that our doctors are right and that the drug companies are telling the truth when they say that the drugs we’re taking are safe and effective and will heal the health disorders that we’re taking them for?

Chemical Drugs How Safe and Effective Are They?

Many people are afraid to try urine therapy because it’s not recommended by conventional doctors. And our doctors, if we ask them, will tell us that they’ve never heard of it and if they have, they don’t recommend it because it’s never been proven safe or effective, whereas the drugs they prescribe are scientifically proven safe and effective and therefore have passed FDA approval testing. Drug companies and researchers tell us the same things about their drugs.

And like the uninformed health-care consumers that so many of us are, we believe them. But this information is, simply speaking, a big, fat lie.

The statement that medical therapies like urine therapy or herbal medicines are dangerous, unproven or “quackery”, and that only FDA approved drugs and therapies are safe and effective is a blatant falsehood.

As you’ll see after reading the research studies in the next chapter, not only does urine therapy have enormous scientific proof and validity on its side, but, unlike drugs and surgery, not one person has ever suffered adverse side effects or died while using urine and urea medicinally in nearly 100 years of scientific scrutiny and use.

On the other hand, of the more than edicin that are available to anyone at anytime off any drug store or grocery store shelf, only 1/3 of them have ever been demonstrated to be safe or effective and all are proven to have dangerous potential side effects and overdoses can even cause death.

And don’t take my word for it. Listen to what a large group of medical research scientists and doctors say about this issue in the book they wrote in 1983, entitled Over The Counter Pills That Don’t Work. This book is a real eye opener, and will make you realize that just because a substance is FDA approved, available over the counter in the store, or doctor recommended, it has not necessarily been proven safe and effective:

“…Every day, on television, on the radio, in newspapers, in magazines, drug companies spend millions of your dollars to tell you about the wonders of their special and ‘unique’ over the counter drugs…”

But fewer than ⅓ of these over the counter drug ingredients have been shown to be safe and effective for their intended uses.

In other words, many OTC [over-the-counter] drug products which you purchase contain one or more ingredients which do not meet the Federal drug law standards for safety, effectiveness, or both.

Of the more than 1.0 billion dollars Americans spend each year on OTC drugs, at least 3 or 4 billion dollars are wasted on grossly overpriced products or products with ingredients lacking evidence of safety or effectiveness.

Since all drug ingredients have risks, extra ingredients which aren’t effective or which lack evidence of effectiveness subject you to extra risks without providing compensating benefits. So you are not only wasting your money when you buy products with such ingredients, but you are also risking your health and that of your family.

Starting 10 years ago, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) established a large number of over the counter drug advisory panels –including physicians,

pharmacists and other technically qualified people. They reviewed…the ingredients contained in approximately 300,000 brands of (OTC) drugs to determine if these ingredients werer safe or effective_according to the FDA’s Director of OTC Drug Evaluation, Dr. William Gilbertson, only “about 1/3 of the ingredients reviewed by the panels have been shown to be safe and effective for their intended uses.” FDA officials under pressure from the OTC drug companies have not implemented the findings of their panel.”

The hundreds of drugs shown to be unproven for safety and effectiveness include well-known and widely used drugs like NyQuil, Alka-Seltzer Bayer, Bufferin, Dristan, Anacin, Eticeskin, Cope, “doctor recommended” Preparation H and many more.

The same doctors and medical researchers who wrote this book on over-the- counter drugs, also wrote a consumer book on the dangers of prescription drugs entitled, Pills That Don’t Work:

“You go to the doctor because you don’t feel well. You are listened to (sometimes), examined, tested and then the doctor usually writes one or more prescriptions for you. You go to the drug store to have the prescriptions filled. You go home and start taking the pills. Now every thing will be all right, right? Wrong.

Neither you nor, in some instances, even your doctor realices that one out of every eight prescriptions filled…is for a drug not considered effective by the government’s own standards.

Since all drugs involve risks, this lack of effectiveness means you are exposing yourself to dangers without gaining compensating benefits. In other words, balancing the benefits versus the risks, these drugs are not soft…”

Health care consumers today are witnessing and experiencing firsthand the collapse of a medical system based on profit and saturated with the mistaken assumption that man-made drugs can be guaranteed to be safe and can completely usurp the healing power of nature and the use of safe natural healing methods.

Unfortunately, consumers in many cases are learning this error in medical thinking the hard way. A recent news-paper article on a new drug for the ‘incurable’ virus, hepatitis B, illustrates just how deadly this thinking can be:

Human Guinea Pig Says He’s Lucky to Be Alive

Associated Press – Paul Melstrom of Phoenix warned the National Institutes of Health that the test drug he had taken was causing serious side effects. But no one listened.

Now, he lives with a painful nerve disorder, but still considers himself lucky. Five other people who tested the drug are dead.

Officials at the Institutes in Bethesda, Md., the premier federal medical research agency, acknowledge that the test went terribly wrong.

“Catastrophe” is how Dr. Jay H. Hoofnagle of the Institutes, who oversaw the original study, described it.

The federal Food and Drug Administration, which had given approval for the human trials is investigating what went wrong.

And this is not an isolated incident. As The Betrayal of Health points out, drug safety testing by drug companies is seriously flawed, because of the pharmaceutical industry’s desire to continually pump out new, even if speculative, drug treatments:

“These speculative drug ‘hand grenades’ have done considerable damage over the course of pharmaceutical history. The best-known example was the tragedy of thalidomide, the tranquilizer that resulted in thousands of deformed children in Europe and Great Britain.

Yet the pharmaceutical industry continues to produce and market drugs that have the potential to cause a comparable tragedy…”

American consumers in particular are at risk from the side effects and consequences of medical drug abuse, because we take so many medications habitually:

The Wall street Journal

Tuesday, January 11, 1994

“Americans as a society are over medicated, some experts say, because of a culture that no longer makes allowances for pain. Advertisements on television or in magazines, they say, have left the impression that there is a pill to make every pain or problem go away…

But consumers may nevertheless find themselves in the doctor’s office either for complications arising from prolonged use of over-the-counter drugs themselves or for failing to recognize the [underlying] presence of a more serious illness.”

Another problem with our reliance on synthetic drugs is that medical scientists try to prove that synthetic drugs are safe and effective by doing “conclusive” double- blind studies that are supposed to eliminate risk factors and show that a specific drug will work a certain way on everyone that has the disorder that the drug is supposed to treat.

But one important thing we have to remember in caring for ourselves is that there is no such thing as a generalized body or a specific cause for every illness.

And in reality, there is no such thing as a completely conclusive doubleblind drug study because no two people are exactly the same even if they happen to have the same disease. So the drug that works for one person might not work well at all for another person even though both have ‘identical’ disorders. As a result, no double- blind drug study is ever going to be completely objective or ultimately prove how a drug will affect everyone who takes it, which is another reason why drug fatalities and unforeseen side effects occur.

We think that we can blindly trust the FDA and our doctors, simply because they say we can — but blind faith can be deadly.

Health care in the U.S. is in crisis today, but the problem isn’t too Little money, it’s too little attention being given to our bodies’ real health needs, such as the critical need to support and enhance our bodies’ own natural defenses against disease through traditional methods and common sense approaches such as good nutrition, a balanced lifestyle, sufficient rest, and simple, safe, natural medicines.

I’ve asked doctors and medical practitioners many times about urine therapy and, if they’ve ever even heard of it, (99% of then) haven’t), they invariably tell me that, unlike the drugs they prescribe and recommend, it’s not safe, it’s an old wives tale, and it’s never been proven effective.

But the truth is that urine therapy is proven and is safe, far more so than chemical drugs. And in view of the real facts about drugs and the drug industry it’s frighteningly obvious that the real, substantiated risks are not those posed by correctly used proven natural healing approaches like urine therapy, but by routine, unnecessary surgeries and by dangerous prescription and over-the-counter chemical drugs that are marketed as freely as food, clothing and laundry soap.

What’s Wrong With Urine Extracts?

After reading the medical research on urine people are always impressed, but they often ask if it wouldn’t be easier and better to use it as an extract or drug. But in addition to the health problems and side effects that drugs create, there are other reasons why urine extracts and drugs can’t replace natural urine therapy.

When it comes to personal health there are innumerable variables or differences in individual body chemistry, absorption rates, reactions, etc., and even these factors change within the same body, so it can be extremely difficult in many cases to find the exact medicine or therapy that works for each individual person.

But it is this fact that each body is so different that makes whole, natural urine so tremendously valuable as a medicine.

Scientists have discovered that urine contains thousands of elements that are specifically related to almost every function of each individual body:

“Urine has been referred to as a mirror which reflects the activities within the individual’s body … urine provides information about the functions of the whole body.”

— Urinalysis in Clinical and Laboratory Practice

When you use your own urine medicinally, yon get the protein or antibody or hormone, etc., in the correct concentration and structure that our own bod has manufacture or to respond to a health threat.

And each of these medically important elements is in a perfect and immensely complex interrelationship with thousands of other important urine components. But this vital relationship of natural components is completely lost when we extract separate urine ingredients for medical use.

Medical researchers want to extract these valuable urine components so that they can convert them into drug products that can be mass-marketed to consumers.

But commercially produced urine extracts are not comparable to your own urine because your urine contains elements that reflect and treat your precise health condition and body functions - and these elements are too complex to be duplicated in an extract or drug.

For instance, as this next newspaper article reveals, researchers have been hying extract an ingredient from urine that has been proven to promote healthy sleep so they can use it in drug form:

FACTOR S:

Help for the Wee, Wee Hours

A MYSTERIOUS biochemical substance that safely and naturally induces deep sleep has been found in human urine. Dubbed “Factor S” by the scientists at Harvard University and the University of Chicago, the substance has proved to be especially effective as a promoter of healthy sleep…

Extensive trials of the biochemical are continuing but it is expected to take some years before a commercially produced version of Factor S will be available to the public.

Now this article would have us believe that we can’t utilize the benefits of Factor S until a commercially produced ‘drug version’ is made available to the public. But as urine therapy research shows, we can use urine in its natural form and experience its amazing benefits without waiting for a drug version or exposing ourselves to drug side effects.

And there are important reasons why we should use natural urine therapy rather than urine extracts or synthetic drug forms.

For instance, let’s suppose that researchers do successfully produce a “Factor S” drug and that you’re suffering from sleeplessness. You go to your doctor and are given the drug so you’ll sleep better. But what you and the doctor don’t know is that your insomnia is caused by an undiagnosed food allergy which isn’t cured by taking the sleep drug. You take the drug for a few weeks, but now you’re having side effects headaches, dizziness and drowsiness during the day. So you stop taking the Factor S drug.

But as soon as you stop taking the drug, your sleeping disorder comes back, because the allergy that’s causing the insomnia has never been identified or treated.

If you had used natural urine therapy in this scenario, rather than the

Factor S drug, you could have been treating and healing your undiagnosed allergy because your urine contained the exact antibody needed to overcome the food allergy, and at the same time, you’d have solved your sleep disorder because the allergy that caused it had been eliminated - all at no cost and without the danger of side effects.

When we one component of urine or of any natural medicinal substance, we miss the often extraordinary benefits of all the other ingredients.

Even some medical doctors themselves are now questioning the wisdom of using just one extracted ingredient of a natural substance rather than the natural substance itself in treating disease. Dr. Andrew Weil, M.D., is a nosed and certified American physician with a strong background on the use of natural medicinal plants in healing, who now utilizes natural plants in treating his own patients.

Dr. Weil has observed in his own research and practice that it is safer and often more effective to use a natural plant treatment rather than a refined derivative of the plant. He has observed, as have many other doctors, that isolated extracts are generally more toxic than their natural sources and sometimes even fail to give the same medical benefits as the natural sources they’re derived from:

“In their enthusiasm at isolating the active principles of drug plants, researchers made a serious mistake. They came to believe that all of a plant’s desirable properties could be accounted for by a single compound…The erroneous idea that plants and isolated active principles are equivalent has become fixed dogma in pharmacology and medicine… [but] purified drugs are not the same as the plants they come from.”

— The Value of Using Whole Plants Health and Healing

Another good example of why whole urine is a more desirable medicine than urine extracts is shown by research discoveries done on urea, the principal solid ingredient of urine.

Researchers discovered almost one hundred years ago that concentrated urea itself can destroy many different strains of disease bacteria and viruses but seemed less effective on certain other bacterial strains, such as tuberculosis. But even though urea is less effective in killing TB, in the 1950’s, research proved that whole urine has been shown to rapidly and in many cases, completely inhibit and destroy the TB bacteria!

One of the unfortunate things about this story is that the researcher who discovered urine’s anti-TB properties, rather than announcing that urine could essentially cure TB, instead spent years unsuccessfully trying to identify and isolate the urine component that killed the TB bacteria so that a drug could be formulated from it.

You might think that in this day of modem antibiotics, TB isn’t a relevant issue, but it is:

TUBERCULOSIS ON RISE IN U.S.

The Associated Press Friday, October 8, 1993

WASHINGTON – New cases of tuberculosis are increasing at an alarming rate…congressional analysts reported Thursday.

“This is a chilling report; it is an indictment of our public-health system,” said Rep. Ed Towns, D-N.Y., chairman of the House Governmental Operations subcommittee on human resources…

The congressional report said efforts to combat tuberculosis is complicated because of the emergence of strains resistant to anti-TB drugs…”

A recent article in a doctor’s publication also revealed that TB has now increased at an alarming rate among children, and is even causing fatalities, because the disease strikes children much harder than adults. And doctors are finding it extremely difficult to deal with this new TB epidemic because it’s easily misdiagnosed and is now resistant to anti-TB drugs.

— American Medical News Feb. 14, 1994

Isolating separate elements from natural substances and refining or chemically copying them as synthetic drug forms isn’t the miracle technique that modern medical science would have us believe. Scientists and doctors throughout the twentieth century taught consumers that purified and refined isolated extracts were far more effective and just as safe as the natural substances they were derived from, but time has proven them wrong.

Not only are hundreds of the drugs we routinely use everyday unproven and potentially dangerous, but this continual drug-taking also interferes with our body’s ability to develop natural immunity to disease.

As the artide on TB and others like it reveal, bacteria am successfully adapting to our drugs, but obviously, our immune systems haven’t developed immunity to the bacteria, because we’ve relentlessly overridden our natural immune responses and functions with chemical drugs. Now the drugs don’t work – so where does that leave us? It leaves us, by all accounts, in serious trouble.

A recent report from the Centers For Disease Control (CDC) stated that in U.S. hospitals, a major disease-causing bacterium has now become resistant to antibiotics normally used to treat infected patients:

In 1992, CDC reported that more than 2 million patients annually suffer from infections; in 1992, 19,027 people died from infections contracted in the hospital, and another 58,092 died from causes to which such infections had contributed.

— Associated Press

There is no doubt that drugs and surgery do play a part in medicine, but these therapies have their limitations, even in treating serious infectious diseases. Strong synthetic drugs have no place in the everyday health armamentarium of consumers. The only real reason why we and our doctors now unthinkingly and routinely overuse drugs and surgery is because they are so heavily promoted by the drug industry which makes billions of dollars each year from these methods.

But you don’t have to throw away your hard-earned money on unsafe, inappropriate drugs and put your health at risk with chemical drugs or surgery in order to get well.

As many doctors themselves now believe, traditional natural medical methods like urine therapy are completely valid should play a prominent part in our personal health treatments and preventive health care.

Does The Doctor Really Know Best?

If you still feel apprehensive about trying urine therapy because your doctor doesn’t recommend it, consider what conventional doctors really do know about real healing - even when they use their own conventional medical techniques.

In his book, What Your Doctor Didn’t Learn in Medical School…and what you can do about it!, Dr. Stuart M. Berger, M.D. tells about the fallacies and flaws in our medical school regimens and teaching practices.

Dr. Berger tells about his medical apprenticeship at Tufts Medical School, Harvard School of Public Health and New York’s prestigious University Hospital, where he

and his classmates had access to the most sophisticated space-age medical technologies available, including masterful surgical techniques that seem to defy death.

“We were learning immense amounts” says Dr. Berger, “but were we learning what we should? We were becoming doctors, to be sure, but were we becoming better healers?”

Later in his life, when Dr. Berger’s mother was nearly killed by a mistaken cancer diagnosis, he witnessed first-hand the often fatal breakdown of the medical system under which he and all allopathic doctors are trained. As Dr. Berger tells.us, his mother’s life, but for his intervention, might have been lost because of her doctors’ mismanagement:

“She had come only days away from being pumped full of the most lethal, debilitating agents - drugs quite capable of crippling or even killing her, for a cancer she never had…

Her life could have been forfeited to delay, mismanagement, [and] the needless toxic interventions of a medical system run amok.

I also know that the same is true of every man, woman and child who participates in our medical system - and that means all of us. This sorry state of things is a simple fact of American medicine, one that holds true for you, for your loved ones and for your friends.

The truth is that we are all at risk simply because of how our medical system functions. Or, to put it another way, because of what our doctors didn’t learn in medical school.”

Like many other conscientious doctors today, Berger urges everyone to become informed consumers. Just as Berger and thousands of us have experienced — your life may depend on what you, not your doctors, know about medical therapies and your own body.

Another good book on the perils of modem medicine is Medicine on Trial by Charles Inlander, Lowell Levin and Ed Weiner. Lowell Levin is a professor at Yale University School of Medicine:

“Twelve of the thirteen chapters in this book are devoted exclusively to evidence of misconduct and mayhem perpetrated on an unsuspecting public [by the medical profession]. ‘Serious’ is too tame a word… One has to wonder why the facts presented in this book have not heretofore been put on public view forcefully.

Why has the honorable profession of medicine kept the facts of its mistakes to itself? Is the profession of medicine so venal that it is willing to risk the lives of people whose trust it enjoys? Can the [medical] profession and its institutions be so cynical as to treat patients and the public at large as incapable of understanding what is going on?

People sense that physicians may not be the omniscient and totally dedicated care givers that organized medicine’s image makers have been advertising. Personal experiences of family and friends drive home the reality of medicine’s clay feet.

There are growing signs that the public has had enough cover-up and outright deceit. People are not fools, even though they may have been fooled, or more likely, lulled, into believing that medical care has been on a steady course of progress, from one medical miracle to another. The overselling and hype about winning the war on cancer is an example… We have been fed a considerable number of public relations releases about medicine’s successes, with little or no effort to portray its downside.

Government studies now raise questions about the qualifications (or lack thereof) of physicians…their misdiagnoses, unnecessary or incompetent surgery, errors in medication, neglect and high hospital infection rates… Money, power, prestige and egos conspire to hold reformists [inside the medical system] to marginal, largely cosmetic changes.”

Anyone who is currently taking any doctor-recommended and supposedly therapeutic drug of any type also needs to read the book, The Informed Consumer’s Pharmacy, The Essential Guide to Prescription and Over-the-Counter Drugs by Ellen Hodgson Brown and Lynne Paige Walker. This book is one of the clearest, most comprehensive guides to therapeutic drugs available, and if you value your good health, you’ll definitely want to read it.

As the authors of The Informed Consumer’s Pharmacy comment:

“Overdosing on drugs is the most popular form of suicide, but drugs in lesser amounts can kill as surely. Like time bombs, they just act more slowly. More Americans are killed each year by drugs than by auto accidents. The American Medical Association estimates as much as one-third of all illness may be ‘iatrogenic’ — caused by drugs and other medical therapies aimed at a cure.

It has also been estimated that 70-80 percent of the people who visit doctors have nothing wrong with them that wouldn’t be cleared up by a vacation, a raise, or relief from the stresses of their lives. Another 10 percent have diseases for which there is no cure. Only 10 percent would benefit from drugs or surgery. Yet 57 percent or more come away with prescriptions.”

The New York Times Medical Science section on August 17, 1993, reported that new research findings show that as many as two-thirds of patients who are treated with placebos for health complaints improve after taking the placebo — that’s twice as many patients as originally calculated by researchers testing new drugs.

A placebo is a sugar-pill or a drug that has no objective effect on the symptoms being treated. One doctor quoted in the article suggests that all doctors should start using the placebo effect to their advantage by giving patients drugs even though the doctor does not know what the patient’s illness is, or if the patient is actually sick at all: “If a doctor believes in what he’s doing and lets the patient know that, that’s good medicine.”

Studies show that the majority of Americans today are so convinced that their “doctors know better” that they get better even when the drug substance they’re given has nothing to do with treating the disorder they’re suffering from.

So, in essence, your doctor may have selected an unnecessary or incorrect drug for you to take, but you get better because psychologically you feel you should.

Unfortunately, the health improvement may be imaginary, but the side effects of the drug that show up later won’t be:

“…However drugs are produced and distributed, a separate and equally important issue is how doctors prescribe them. As noted, physicians prescribe largely on the basis of information from drug houses. If the packaging and copy are effective and persistent enough, the physician will probably prescribe the product…

[But] the disregard of contraindications for the use of drugs causes thousands of unnecessary illnesses every year”

— Betrayal of Health

Every medicine we use does not have to be synthesized and commercially produced in order to be effective and safe. And, as we’ve seen, drugs and surgery are the last forms of medicine that we should resort to, and not the first choice, as they are for the majority of us today

As Hippocrates taught, nature first is the best health regimen. We all need to give common sense health care and non-invasive medicines an informed chance before we rush into dangerous chemical or surgical therapies that can create more symptoms and problems than they relieve.

And many people are learning to think for themselves and not to take their doctors bad advice lying down, as a recent article in The Wall Street Journal, June 16, 1993, demonstrates:

“Al Iglehart figures his doctors pegged him for a fool.

They knew his heart disease was congenital, without mysterious complications. Still, they suggested he undergo more tests, even repeat a $1200 one he had already passed. Thank you for the advice, Mr. Iglehart said. But absolutely not.

‘The doctor just isn’t God, and sometimes they’re on autopilot,’ says Mr Iglehart, who is 44 years old and live on Long Island, N.Y. ‘There was no reason for any more tests. The biggest thing you can do [about medical treatments] is to be informed as a consumer and ask questions.’

Iglehart is among a growing group of defiant health-care patients who are questioning the costs [and effectiveness] of medical procedures…”

It isn’t my intention to go into a lot of ‘doctor-bashing’ here, because doctors, of course, play a crucial role in medicine, but they have assumed, and we have given them an impossible role and responsibility in medicine today. We expect our doctors to behave like mechanics, to diagnose and to fix every possible thing that goes wrong with us, as if our bodies were cars or machines that could be repaired simply by pouring in some synthetic substance or replacing a part.

But our bodies aren’t machines, and our doctors should be relieved of their role as mechanics that we run to every time we feel sick. Our bodies are immensely intricate, sensitive, individually unique, living organisms that need gentle respect and care, not the incessant and routine overkill of concentrated drugs and invasive surgery.

Doctors can certainly play an important role in urine therapy, especially in acute illnesses where injections of urea or urine could be life saving, as is dearly seen in one of the research studies in which jntravenoo, urea saved the life of a patient with severe cerebral edema caused by a brain tumor (see next chapter ). Also, natural urine therapy could most , definitely be enhanced and augmented by doctors’ administrations of natural urine extracts or urea for serious illnesses.

However, for most illnesses, we can treat ourselves with natural urine therapy and save our valuable doctors precious time and effort.

Learning to Care for Our Own Health

Unfortunately, today’s consumers have been exposed to the most intensive media advertising barrage in the history of medicine, and are now conditioned to expect medicines and health therapies to deliver an instantaneous “punch” - irregardless of the cost, side effects or ultímate consequences of such methods.

If we get headaches, rather than getting more rest or eliminating the three chocolate bars and Coke we had for lunch, we ‘whomp’ our bodies with the strongest headache medicine we can buy - never mind that the infinitesimally small type on the label lists twenty different serious side effects of the drug.

Many people have complained to me over the years that they’ve tried homeopathy or herbs or other types of natural healing instead of drugs with no success. But when we examine their situation in depth, I invariably find that they were Wring to use natural therapies in the same way that they use drugs - popping a pill from a bottle they picked up on a health food store shelf and waiting for a quick fix, or drinking a cup or two of herbal tea and then deciding, “Nope, don’t feel better - didn’t work for me.”

But the problem is not the natural medicines, the problem is the approach.

The simple fact is that no matter what medicines we take or health therapies we try, natural or synthetic if we don’t change our overall bad health habits and lifestyles we aren’t going to be healthy and we aren’t going to feel good.

In order for natural therapies to work, you really have to begin to get in touch with what the requirements of good health really are. Real and lasting physical health is based on much more than continually knocking out unpleasant symptoms with medicines or surgery.

A nutritious diet, rest, relaxation, exercise, a healthy living environment and a balanced, positive, peaceful and happy frame of mind are the indispensable foundationss of good and lasting health. When you improve your basic health habits by incorporating these elements into your daily lifestyle, you enhance your natural immune defenses and improve your health and ability to fight disease.

Natural medicines can be used, when necessary, in order to augment your healing if and when you do happen to get sick; this combination of a strong natural immunity and gentle, immune-strengthening natural medicinals is the best possible solution to our health problems.

Trying to achieve good health by routinely using drugs and surgery to suppress disease symptoms produced by unhealthy lifestyles is a dead end - literally.

Just because the generally accepted modern lifestyle has conditioned us to believe and accept that McDonald’s is really a place to eat and that white sugar is a nutritive food, isn’t going to change the fact that neither of those things is true. As doctors tell us:

“Today’s chronic diseases - both social and medical - are really symptoms of a much more vast underlying problem. They are the culmination of years of inadequate nutrition, a toxic environment, sedentary lifestyles, familial and social disruptions, and dependence on artificial agents (from cigarettes to cocaine) for happiness. Every cell in our bodies - from the brain to the immune system - is affected by these abuses.”

— Betrayal of Health

You can’t halfheartedly lay a veneer of natural medicines over your inherently unhealthy and destructive lifestyle and then announce to yourself and the world that you tried natural medicine and “it didn’t work.”

Everyday as a nation we consumers drink millions of gallons of those toxic brews called Pepsi and Coke; we ingest millions of dollars worth of junk food, food additives and sugar, stuffing it all down at warp speed as we madly propel ourselves through overcrowded streets in cars belching carbon monoxide fumes, all the while breathing in the toxic aroma of the grossly polluted air.

Arriving at our synthetically constructed domiciles, we subject our bodies and minds to relentless TV radiation and the dismal harangue of the nightly news, all the while “banging” our stress and sugar induced headaches, aches and pains with Bayer, or Excedrin, Anacin or Dristan, or whatever other ‘wonder drug’ flashes seductively across the screen.

And then we ask ourselves “Why don’t I feel good - why can’t my doctor fix me once and for all?

Because of our modem lifestyle, too few of us pause to rest and treat ourbodies When we go to the drugstore, our only thought is to find the fastest-acting, strongest drug available to relieve our discomfort and in essence, to ‘shut the body up’. And drug companies and doctors know this - so they give us what we think we want, and what we erroneously assume is safe.

So how do we start looking out for our own health concerns? We can start by not rushing to the drugstore or doctor for a quick-fix every time we don’t feel well. We can change our lifestyles and we can learn how to gently stimulate our immune defenses, treat illness and relieve pain with simple natural medicines like urine therapy.

And we can change our diets. It’s not that hard to get back to simple basics - get rid of the frozen and boxed dinners, the instant breakfast shakes, the sodas, the sugary, preservative, chemical-filled desserts and start eating real foods like whole grains and fresh green vegetables and salads and fruit. Our environment is so filled with

chemical pollutants today that deliberately ingesting them in our food is an unwise practice and an added burden on our already overburdened immune systems.

The use of basic natural foods and natural medicines, unlike synthetic drugs or surgery, requires a degree of self-love, self-discipline, and patience - listening to the body, observing the causes behind the symptoms of our illnesses, and changing unhealthy habits and attitudes, rather than relying on strong medical interventions to mask underlying disease factors by relieving symptoms.

No matter how inconvenient these changes might seem now, just wait until you see how inconvenient cancer, heart disease and serious chronic illness can be if you don’t make these changes.

So as you can see, there is a chain of command within our present medical system that has made it difficult, or nearly impossible for the research information and findings on simple, inexpensive urine therapy to receive recognition:

\1) Getting FDA approval for medical therapies is astronomically expensive;

\2) Drug companies want high-profit, patentable therapies to pay for research and to boost company profits;

\3) Hospitals and doctors are indoctrinated and influenced by heavy promotion and pressure from the pharmaceutical industry, and so prescribe and use only drug company endorsed medical therapies.

A New Era in Medicine

Fortunately, attitudes in medicine are changing in response to the many problems that have surfaced with drug and surgical therapies. Recent articles show the general trend by both consumers and the medical community towards traditional, more natural health approaches. A study cited recently in the New England Journal of Medicine stated that:

In 1990, Americans made 425 million visits to alternative health care practitioners, while 388 million visits were made to conventional health care providers.

— Focus on Behavioral Health Magazine July 9, 1993

Another article in Forbes Magazine, reports on the new trend in medicine back to traditional, natural forms of healing:

“New Support for Old Therapies”

“Does the doctor really know best? Not always, it would seem, if you take into account the increasing respectability being won by such non- conventional therapies as acupuncture, biofeedback, chiropractic and herbal medicine.

In other cultures these therapies have been standard practice for ages, but most physicians educated in schools approved by the American Medical Association and affiliated with AMA hospitals have long dismissed these techniques as quackery.

Today, however, signs of a new approbation for alternative medicine are everywhere. Even The National Institutes of Health now has an Office of Alternative Medicine.”

— Forbes, Dec. 20, 1993

It’s interesting to realize how much power we consumers have over our own lives. As this article demonstrates, individual consumers are the ones who can ultimately determine the course of medicine over the next century by the choices they make for medical treatments. And the medical establishment knows this, as another recent article reveals:

The National Institutes of Health Begins a New Era…

For the first time, it will systematically explore unconventional medical practices, decide which are effective and begin putting some of them into mainstream medicine.

Stephen Groft, who heads the new effort, said a panel of experts will study many methods long scoffed at by traditional doctors, including acupuncture, naturopathy, homeopathy, Ayurvedic medicine, reflexology, massage therapy and Chinese herbal remedies.”

Sounds like good news, doesn’t it? Unfortunately, though, these time honored proven natural methods are going to have to somehow be made to fit the modern scientific medical model — one which has already been shown to have largely failed:

“Many scientists are actually excited to see that alternative methods are being scientifically evaluated,’ Groft said. ‘It is important to separate those that are working from those that aren’t working for both patients and physicians…

The task is to assess the scientific evidence already available, determine whether more research is worthwhile and give priority to funding.”

— Gannett News Service August, 1993

Sound familiar? It’s the same old strains of the same old song — we, the scientific “experts” will tell you what works for you. But we’ve already examined where their ‘proof’ comes from and just how unreliable it is. Ironically, the agency that is calling for scientific evaluation of these natural health treatments is The National Institutes of Health that was itself responsible for the recent tests on the hepatitis drug that killed nearly all of the research participants. So just how valuable are the medical community’s ‘scientific’ assessments?

At this point in time, we need to stop examining and picking apart therapies that have hundreds, and in some cases, thousands of years of practical experience behind them. Rather than wasting their time and our money on the unnecessary contortions of trying to “scientifically” prove what hundreds of thousands of patients have already experienced over many centuries with these simple and safe natural techniques, the National Institutes of Health and their panel of experts’ efforts would be infinitely better spent on deciding how to formúlate new and

inexpensive FDA guidelines for approving traditional medical therapies and in qualifying responsible health care practitioners for both conventional and natural medicine.

This simple adjustment alone could tremendously reduce health care costs and dramatically upgrade health care quality by providing and teaching effective, simple, inexpensive natural medical self-help approaches like urine therapy that can take the place of expensive and dangerous drugs and surgical therapies that should be rightly reserved for crisis and emergency care, and free up doctors’ and specialists’ precious time.

We already know that traditional natural therapies like herbal medicines, urine therapy and homeopathy work, and many are still widely used in other civilized countries. Chinese hospitals and doctors even today largely depend on their traditional natural herbal medicine and acupuncture; England has homeopathic hospitals; Germans rely heavily on their herbal medicines which are even available in their drugstores. In France, too, pharmacies carry and doctors prescribe natural homeopathic and herbal medicines in addition to synthetic drugs.

There are a wonderful variety of alternatives to invasive and synthetic medicine that have been proven to be safe and effective over centuries of use and observations, we just have to relearn the art of using them and cure ourselves of our dependency on drugs and surgery. Also, there are many more books (see Appendix) besides the ones I’ve already mentioned in this chapter which will help you to learn more about how to care for your health safely and effectively.

The challenge of achieving and maintaining good health is in creating a balanced lifestyle and in finding the combination of natural treatments and remedies that are right for you individually.

And as you’ll discover in this book, urine therapy is the most powerful, most individualized natural medicine we could ever hope for. After reading all that urine therapy has to offer, I know you’ll agree that even though man has failed to find the synthetic “magic bullet” medicine to cure every illness, Nature had already created it for us and given us an incredible, safe, cost-free and simple, natural tool to heal ourselves – our body’s own amazing, natural medicine.

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