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IT MAY not be your preferred beverage but urine is said to have numerous "health benefits" - and is being consumed by the gallon in China

 

The latest health craze sweeping China is people drinking their own urine [CEN]

For a nation of people who consume tiger parts, shark fins and cobra blood in the pursuit of good health it is perhaps no surprise that the latest health craze sweeping China is urine drinking.

This weird waste treatment is gaining popularity across the country, with as many as 100,000 people swearing it keeps them healthy.

Five years ago urine treatment disciples on mainland China and in the city of Hong Kong founded the China Urine Treatment Association.

There are 1,000 members in the association, but 10 times as many practitioners.

Bao Yafu, 79, a retired engineer in the city of Wuhan in central China's Hubei province, is the chairman of the association and has been drinking urine for 22 years.

One drinker says he also uses his own urine to wash his face [CEN]

At first, he felt "gross" but later claimed he became accustomed to it due to its "health benefits".

Bao drinks three cups of his own urine every day and even uses it to wash his face.

"I have never caught a cold in the past 22 years," he said.

"My eyes become brighter and there are no age spots on my face."

Bao said that he had a medical check-up last year, which found his bone mineral density is as good as that of a man 40 years his junior.

Many urine treatment fans, who are mainly older people, said their health improves the more pee they consume.

According to them, drinking urine can make the body stronger and cure lots of small health problems, such as stomach complaints, rhinitis and skin ailments.

"Drinking urine can't cure all diseases and one still has to take medicine after falling ill, but drinking urine is definitely good to the heath," said one urine treatment fan.

In China it is said the urine of a young male goat is healthy for the body and, according to traditional Chinese medicine, human urine can also be used because of some "useful elements" in it.

However, local doctors said the urine treatment is not scientific, and consuming your own wee is not advised.