Three million Chinese drink their own urine

Beijing, June 1, 200: 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 added. Many of his
forefathers had also lived to a ripe old age thanks to urine therapy,
he said. (Reuters)