Urine Therapy

Urine therapy, also called urotherapy or shivambu, is the application of human urine for purported medicinal or cosmetic purposes, including drinking one own urine or massaging it into the skin or gums. The practice appears in various traditional medical systems historically, though modern practitioners methods differ from classical applications in traditions such as ayurveda and yoga. It gained modern prominence through British naturopath John W. Armstrong, who promoted auto-urine therapy to thousands of patients in the early twentieth century and whose 1944 book The Water of Life became foundational to the movement. No scientific evidence supports any beneficial health claim of urine therapy, and the medical and scientific communities classify it as pseudoscience rather than evidence-based treatment.