I recall seeing former Indian prime minister Morarji Desai interviewed on the USA television program "Today"--while I was having breakfast. He was quite old--in his 90's--and during the interview said he drank a glass of his own urine each day. He attributed his long life and good health to the practice. I, too, went surfing on the www tonight and found so many references to urine therapy that I think all of us will have to be aware of this. (Who knew?) Reuters news service carried an announcement of an International conference held February 96 to address the issues of "Auto Urine Therapy" (press release at http://homepage.eznet.net/%7Epatches/ws/india96.txt). For those who cannot access, let me excerpt bits: "The three-day meeting, organised by the Indian chapter of the Water of Life Foundation, brought together leading proponents of a 5,000-year-old therapy considered taboo in much of the world because it involves drinking one's own urine... Delegates came from Austria, Australia, Britain, China, Dubai, France,Germany, India, Iran, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Pakistan, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Switzerland and the United States...The conference's poster depicted a young boy urinating into a glass...Actress Sarah Miles swears it improves her health.Doctors and therapists who recommend the treatment say urine contains hormones, enzymes, vitamins and minerals that can cure diseases from heart disease to cancer. But many mainstream doctors debunk the claims, saying small doses of urine are not harmful but surely no magic medicine..." "The most widely recommended treatment combines one or more glasses of fresh urine a day, regular body massages using stale urine at least four days old and a strict diet barring alcohol, tobacco, tea, coffee and meat." There are statements recommending urine therapy for AIDS patients, and one doctor is quoted as saying: " "Most diseases ranging from the common cold to cancer and arthritis to AIDS are curable by urine therapy." One woman states she was cured by urine therapy after refusing chemotherapy to treat cancer of the lymph nodes, intestine and liver in 1988. I wonder if the patient who has been using this therapy read "Your Own Perfect Medicine" by Martha M. Christy published by FutureMed, Inc. Scottsdale, AZ. You can read a brief article by her (from the book) http://www.lightworks.com/MonthlyAspectarian/1995/October/12-1095.html in which she touts the values of urine and even quotes an analysis of the nutrients in urine. It reads rather like one of "our" treatises on human milk :-D She says "When you look at the real facts, the tragedy of the general disinformation campaign on urine is surpassed only by the irony of our unwitting, and often incredibly expensive purchases of what we all mistakenly but firmly believe to be our bodies' "useless" and "offensive" waste-product, urine." Who is lining up speakers for the next conferences? (Lets see, so far we need someone to present on milk-proof adhesives for pasties, the use of hookers in marketing of bf promotion, urine therapy...) ;-} Margery Wilson, IBCLC Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA -------------- ILCA Region I (New England States) Representative