What are the medicinal values ​​of urine

The medicinal value of urine may be unfamiliar to most people. Urine is a kind of excrement we usually excrete from the body. Many people may feel disgusted and avoid it when they hear that urine can be used as medicine. However, they do not know that urine actually has special medicinal value. It not only has good effects on various diseases, but what are the medicinal values ​​of urine?

【Functions and indications】Nourishes yin and reduces fire, stops bleeding and eliminates blood stasis. It is used to treat fever due to yin deficiency, coughing up blood due to overwork, vomiting blood, epistaxis, postpartum blood stasis, fainting, bruises, and pain caused by blood stasis.

① "Bie Lu": "Treats cold and heat, headaches, and warms the qi."

② "Tang Materia Medica": "It is used to treat sudden blood attack on the heart, blood stasis caused by beating, decoct and take it, one liter per dose. It is also used to treat abdominal distension, and those who have not been cured by other medicines will have blood and meat pieces. It is also used to treat chronic cough, shortness of breath and loss of voice."

③ "Compendium of Materia Medica": "It can improve eyesight, improve voice, moisturize skin, benefit the large intestine, eliminate the old and bring in the new, and cure cough, pulmonary tuberculosis, and diseases."

④ "Rihuazi Materia Medica": "It can stop thirst, cough, moisten the heart and lungs, treat blood stagnation, blood stasis, and fatigue. Sprinkle it on the skin to treat chapped skin and moisturize people. For snake and dog bites, pour hot urine on the affected area. For difficult labor and retained placenta, take one liter, boil it with one part ginger and one part green onion for three or two boils, drink it while it is hot, and it will be discharged. For vomiting blood and nosebleed, add one part ginger, squeeze the juice, and drink it while it is hot to cure it."

It can relieve thirst, cough, moisten the heart and lungs, treat blood stasis, madness, blood stasis, lack of circulation and fatigue.

⑤ "Compendium of Materia Medica" says: "It can reduce internal heat the fastest."

⑥ "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Kills insects, detoxifies, treats malaria and sunstroke."

⑦ "Changsha Yaojie": "clears the heart and relieves fire, reduces fever and relieves restlessness."

⑧ "Medical Collection": "It can clear the three burners, reduce heat and remove blood stasis, nourish the heart and blood, and reduce and eliminate kidney evil."

[Usage and Dosage] For internal use: Take 1 to 2 cups of fresh medicine and drink it warm, or mix it with decoctions.

[Selected prescription] ① Treat bone steaming fever: boil five liters of urine of a three-year-old child to obtain one liter, mix it with three spoons of honey, take two bowls each time, and take it again every half a day. (Meng Shen's "Effective Prescription")

Treat bone steaming fever: boil five liters of urine from a three-year-old child to extract one liter

② Treat pulmonary emphysema, intermittent fever and chills, cheeks, and shortness of breath: take the urine of a boy every evening, remove a small amount at the beginning and end, and the urine can be five liang. Take the best licorice, cut it according to the length of the patient's middle finger joint, roast it until hot, break it into four pieces, put it in the urine, cover it in a clean place and expose it overnight, remove the licorice at dawn the next day, and take it all at once, one dose a day. The boy should not eat the five pungent vegetables. Avoid seaweed, cabbage and hot noodles. (Yao Sengtan's Collection of Proven Prescriptions)

③Treat postpartum blood loss, fainting, and depression: 3 liang of red lanhua (fresh is better), half a liter of ash-free sake, and half a liter of boy’s urine. Boil it and take a large cup of it, remove the dregs, and drink it after it cools down a little. (Jinxiaofang)

④ Treat heart and abdominal pain caused by blood clots caused by fetal injury: Take two liters of boy’s urine daily to cure the disease. (Collection of proven recipes for lactation)

⑤To treat heart attacks caused by injuries and blood stasis: boil one liter of human urine and take it once a day. (Tang Materia Medica)

⑥ Treat Shaoyin disease with diarrhea and weak pulse, and use Baitong Decoction. If the diarrhea does not stop, the patient has convulsions and no pulse, and has dry retching and restlessness: four stalks of green onion, one liang of dried ginger, one piece of aconite (raw, peeled, broken into eight pieces), five he of human urine, and one he of pig bile. Take the above five ingredients, add three liters of water, boil and take one liter, remove the dregs, add pig bile and human urine, mix well, divide into portions and take warm. If you don’t have bile, this soup can also be used. (Bai Tong plus pig bile soup from Treatise on Febrile Diseases)

According to the Compendium of Materia Medica, the medicinal value of urine is not only for the treatment of various diseases, but also has a good effect on postpartum blood dizziness, difficulty urinating, chest tightness and other diseases. In particular, children's urine, taken three times a day, has good nutritional value for the treatment of angina pectoris, postpartum depression, and postpartum blood stagnation.