Child's urine refers to the first urination of a child under the age of ten in the early morning.

Use of Child's Urine

It is usually used as a medicine or to increase the efficacy of medicines. Tongzi urine is salty, cold, non-toxic, and enters the bladder, liver and lung meridians. It can be used for headache, sore throat, abdominal pain, fever, hemorrhoids, cough caused by wind-cold or wind-heat. Its effect is rapid in lowering fire, and it can be used as a medicine for any evidence of fire-heat. All kinds of bleeding caused by fire-heat within, compelling the blood to move uncontrollably, can also be added to the child's urine.

Ancient records

In the Compendium of Materia Medica, it is recorded that; human urine (child's urine) has a salty odor, cold, and non-toxic. The main treatment of cold and heat headache, warm gas. The child male is especially good. Indeed, many ancient doctors used children's urine as a medicine guide or directly as medicine for people to treat diseases. Yuan dynasty famous doctor Zhu Zhenheng medical case has this record: "urine (child urine) to lower the fire very quickly. Commonly see an old woman, over 80 years old, looks like 40. When asked why, she was taught to take human urine.

Forty years ago, and old and healthy without other diseases. Where the yin deficiency fire moving, hot steam like a prairie, taking medication does not help, non-urine can not be removed." In ancient medical cases there are many similar records, such as the use of child urine to treat headache, sore throat, abdominal pain, fever, lung impotence cough, hemorrhoids and other evidence. The use of direct drinking, decoction drinking, and medicine with the decoction service, for wine service, send medicine drink, etc., there are also the ancients in case of acute abdominal disease and fainting heatstroke, let the child sat in the abdomen and drowned in the umbilicus of the practice.

Principle of cure

For the principle of child urine cure Li Shizhen in the "Materia Medica", said: "urine, from the body from the water, will also be. Fangjia called the wheel of wine, return to the original soup, cryptic also." The meaning is that the child is pure yang body, representing the infinite vitality of yang, yuan qi filled with the whole body, urine is the kidneys in the yang qi warmth produced, although it is already a metabolite, but still retains the true essence of the qi.

But the ancients did not use child urine arbitrarily, or very careful, such as child urine with children under 12 years of age; children should avoid eating five hot spicy things; men with children with women; women with children with men, children's urine decapitated, and so on. Modern did not re-use the practice of medicinal use of child urine, but there are some extreme difficulties spent in the lack of water and food cuts in the desperate situation of self-drinking urine life-sustaining instances, its basic non-toxicity of this is still a long history of experience in the use of.