Urine therapy is satanic –Akindipe, natural healer By BASHIR UMAR, Abuja Monday, December 8, 2008 While many unorthodox healers have hailed the potency of urine therapy, one of their own, Dr. Ayodele Akindipe, has described it as most abhorable indulgence with very harmful effects. Akindipe’s consternation with the practice is worsened by the fact that many Nigerians have become addicted to drinking their urines, thanks to the curious gospel that has been spreading like a wide fire in recent years. Akindipe, who is a natural healer, told Daily Sun that the level of urine consumption in the country is a manifestation of crass depravity, abject poverty and desperation. "I think it is getting to a level of addiction, just like alcohol consumption," he said, wondering why normal people should turn round to drink their own waste products of metabolism when lunatic persons and animals would not consume their own. Noting that urine may soon become a costly commodity sold in supermarkets, he said that the consumption as a form of medication had become so rampant that "if adequate care is not taken, we will end up having mad people lining the streets to beg for people’s urine. That is if urine does not become a costly commodity in our super markets across the country." Akindipe said he got to know of the level at which people consume urine in the course of his practice. During the past months, he said, he was shocked and dismayed to find out that urine therapy has become the vogue for patients who came to his office with the ailments like cancer, diabetics, hepatitis, measles, kidney and heart problems. Such patients, he said, shamelessly told him that the only therapy they had been using was human urine, either their own or that collected from others. Describing the prescription of urine-drinking as a satanic, Akindipe who is the Registrar of the Federal College of Complementary and Alternative Medicine of Nigeria, said some people even quoted the Bible to support their resort to urine as a cure-all for diseases, including those that modern orthodox medicine has no answer for. "These people will tell you that they were told that urine is medicinal …to their ailments and they must have visited numerous clinics of both traditional and orthodox medicines, just like they must have consulted several churches, several mosques, chatted with priests, imams, pastors and babalawos, all without solutions. So, it is in urine that they find the solutions, just because some satanic people say it is medicinal?" he queried. Insisting that no human being is supposed to take own urine, he said that scientifically speaking, the urine is the by-product of water taken by the person. "When you breath out, you release carbon-dioxide which you don’t need and don’t consume. The by-product of the food you eat is your faeces," he concluded. According to him, nature has made it that anything that "comes out of you has made an abomination to your body. The same thing goes with the smelly gas we release, our body-sweat and so on. How can urine be useful to the body then?" Although he noted that the by-products are useful to other things, he said it is barbaric to consume them, hence people run away from their faeces. When human beings consume their urine directly, he pointed out, they will alter the circle. Mad people who indulge in such practices, he said, are spared because they really don’t truly belong to our own sphere. "Crazy persons are even lower than animals, and the normal person taking urine is lower than the mad people who can never take it," he said. Akindipe said most of those who had reported to him that they are in the habit of taking their own urine come from Lagos, Ibadan, Port Harcourt and Enugu, with a few coming from Abuja and other parts of the North. Such people would normally be people who have such ailments as cancer, diabetics, measles, hepatitis and kidney and heart problems. "They will tell you they have been taking the urine, which I think is a mad-drug, for five, seven, nine, 10 years or more and yet they are never cured, and can never be cured with it. Only cow urine is known to be used in the cure of psyche problems. Even then, it is not drunk, it is merely rubbed on the body of the patient because, according to him, cow urine wards off evil spirits. The bad thing about urine, he said, is that it could cause trouble even to the innocent people. He explained: "For instance, most of the people being disturbed by evil spirits are those who unknowingly urinated on the spirits’ domains, may be under the trees, in the bush, caves, holes and such other places. That is why it is not good to urinate just anywhere." Describing the contents of urine as very scary, he said most of it is harmful to man and the spirits. For this reason, Muslims don’t pray with clothes stained with urine, while Christians also shun urine infection of any object or place meant for worship. Accordin Join discussion...