The practice this section is built around is auto-urine therapy — drinking or applying one's own urine, known in Sanskrit as Shivambu, "the water of Shiva." It is one of the oldest and most argued-about practices in natural healing, and I have put it first among the five elements because water is where the tradition itself starts.
References to therapeutic use of urine appear across a number of old medical traditions — Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Tibetan and Indian texts all mention it in some form, generally for external use on skin and wounds rather than drinking. In its modern form, auto-urine therapy as an organised practice traces to the British naturopath John W. Armstrong, who began prescribing urine-based regimens to patients from 1918 and published The Water of Life: A Treatise on Urine Therapy in 1944, which remains the founding text of the modern movement. In India the practice has a long independent history under the name Shivambu, and gained wider public attention when former Indian Prime Minister Morarji Desai spoke publicly about drinking his own urine each morning.
The idea offered in support of the practice is that urine carries a "snapshot" of substances the body is currently processing, and that reintroducing trace amounts through the gut or skin prompts the immune system to respond to them — a kind of self-generated vaccine. This is the explanation given by practitioners; it has not been established by controlled research, and I record it here as the tradition's own account, not as a finding.
Everything on this site is a personal account and a record of traditional practice. It is shared for information and reflection. It is not medical advice, not a diagnosis, and not a treatment for any disease.
If you are unwell — and particularly if you have a serious illness such as cancer, diabetes or heart disease — please stay under the care of a qualified doctor. Nothing here should replace that care or delay it. Talk to your physician before changing anything about how you eat, fast or treat yourself.