Anne in TN
Deceased
Friday, June 1, 2001
Over Three Million Chinese Drink Their Own Urine
BEIJING (Reuters) - More than three million Chinese drink
their own urine in the belief it is good for their health, the
official Xinhua news agency reported on Friday.
Participants at a recent seminar on the practice in the
northeastern city of Shenyang were told that urine contains
many active ingredients which strengthen the immune system,
Xinhua said.
"Urine contains no bacterium and is more sanitary than
blood," Yang Liansheng, a professor from the Liaoning
Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine, was quoted as
saying.
Engineer Zhu Jinfu told the seminar he had been drinking his
own urine since he was 13 and had lived a healthy life for the
last 58 years, Xinhua said.
Many of his forefathers had also lived to a ripe old age thanks
to urine therapy, he said.
Over Three Million Chinese Drink Their Own Urine
BEIJING (Reuters) - More than three million Chinese drink
their own urine in the belief it is good for their health, the
official Xinhua news agency reported on Friday.
Participants at a recent seminar on the practice in the
northeastern city of Shenyang were told that urine contains
many active ingredients which strengthen the immune system,
Xinhua said.
"Urine contains no bacterium and is more sanitary than
blood," Yang Liansheng, a professor from the Liaoning
Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine, was quoted as
saying.
Engineer Zhu Jinfu told the seminar he had been drinking his
own urine since he was 13 and had lived a healthy life for the
last 58 years, Xinhua said.
Many of his forefathers had also lived to a ripe old age thanks
to urine therapy, he said.