Witnessed by: TCM
Human urine (Homo sapiens), of the Hominidae (Mammalia) family. A healthy boy, the classically specified source; native range: the midstream urine of a healthy boy, taken fresh. Globally recognized as tong bian (童便), ren niao (人尿) in Chinese, and human urine, boy's urine in English. The part used is the fresh midstream urine, the first and last of the stream discarded. A clear, pale straw fluid, salty, faintly warm from the body, with a light ammoniacal smell that sharpens as it stands.
In this cross-tradition database, we analyze how this substance operates across world medicine systems — tracking its traditional tastes, temperatures, tissue affinities, post-digestive effects, and planetary correspondences across Ayurveda, Unani, and Western herbalism.
HUMAN URINE
IDENTITY
Name
- Common
- human urine
- Scientific name
- Homo sapiens Linnaeus
- Family
- Hominidae (Mammalia)
Form
- Part used
- the fresh midstream urine, the first and last of the stream discarded
PROPERTIES
Nature
Taste
how the plant declares itself on the tongue
- TCM
- salty (鹹)
Temperature
- TCM
- cold (寒)
PRACTICE
Virtue
Actions
- TCM
- nourishes yin and directs fire downward, stops bleeding and disperses blood stasis; and serves as the cold escort in a hot formula (熱因寒用), so that a body repelling treatment will take it
Cautions
- Contraindications
- cold patterns of the Spleen and Stomach without heat
- Toxicity
- no intrinsic toxicity recorded. It is an unscreened human body fluid taken raw, and the classical specification of a healthy child is the only safeguard the sources offer
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