By Satur P. Apoyon
DAVAO CITY, Oct. 18 (PNA) -– Does urine posses any medicinal value?
Some believe so, basing upon alleged olden Chinese practice.
As a matter of fact, there was a group of Davaoenos in the l990s who recycled their urine for rejuvenation and cure of their various abdominal ailments.
Rudy de Leon, a businessman friend of the Davao Press, was one of the group that included a few Filipino-Chinese or Tsinoys.
Rudy would say everytime he met this writer that he felt good after sometime drinking his own urine.
A sort of urine therapy upon waking up in the morning.
Later, I never heard about Rudy.
I would like to conclude that their group must have dissipated along the way.
But for people who have some notion that urine can cure sore eyes and other optical menace, they keep pestering some assurances from the Davao Medical Society and the Department of Health (DOH).
Over and over Dr. Salvador Estrera, DOH assistant regional director, admonish urine believers as sore eyes antidote that there has been no basis to uphold any curative property of the human liquid waste.
On Thursday, Dr. Cyrus Trocio, a retired colleague of Dr. Estrera, reinforced the position of his former supervisor against the unfounded belief on the efficacy of urine as an eye cleanser or medicine.
Dr. Trocio even warned urine might bring in complications or create additional ailment in the optical realm of one’s eyes. (PNA)
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