#urophagia

Apparently. Islam is into camel piss, as documented authentically in the hadith, while Hindus are into cow piss. The bible talks about it too:

Proverbs 5:15

Drink water from your own cistern,   running water from your own well.

Isaiah 36:12 / 2 Kings 18:27 

But the commander replied, “Was it only to your master and you that my master sent me to say these things, and not to the people sitting on the wall—who, like you, will have to eat their own excrement and drink their own urine?”

In the case of Hinduism, this is presumably associated with cows being “sacred” - a particularly bizarre notion given that cows do not exist as a natural species in the wild; they’re a creation of human selection and breeding, just as we developed dogs from wolves. There’s nothing divine about them - we made them.

To be fair, religion isn’t needed here, as urine and even feces features extensively in superstition. From Chinese medicine to lunatics in prosperous, developed countries drinking their own piss today.

Which appears to be, at least partly, deliberate contrarian hipsterism. Because “Big Pharma.” And because “it’s natural.” Never mind that it’s waste products your body is trying to get rid of. Drinking it is like emptying your garbage into your sandwich maker.

And, of course, things that are “natural” are never toxic or poisonous or anything. Never mind that even if it wasn’t ineffective - and it is - not to mention, gross, who knows what the hell is even in it from one time to the next? Pharmaceutical medications and vaccines are produced consistently, tested, their batches tracked, and subject to approvals and controls. Your own urine probably has more formaldehyde in it than any vaccine, since your body produces it. And its contents will depend on what your body is trying to get rid of, and how well it’s functioning.

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Urine_therapy

http://skepdic.com/urine.html

Many advocates claim that urine is a panacea. There is practically nothing it won't cure. Urine is said to be effective against the flu, the common cold, broken bones, toothache, dry skin, psoriasis and all other skin problems. It is said to deter aging and is helpful with AIDS, allergies,  animal  and snake bites,  asthma, heart disease, hypertension, burns, cancer, chemical intoxication, chicken pox, enteritis, constipation, and pneumonia. Urine is said to be effective against dysentery, edema, eczema, eye irritation, fatigue, fever, gonorrhea, gout, bloody urine, smallpox, immunological disorders, infections, infertility, baldness, insomnia, jaundice, hepatitis, Kaposi's sarcoma, leprosy, lymphatic disorder,  urticaria, morning sickness, hangover, obesity, papilloma virus,  parasitoses, gastric ulcer,  rheumatism, birthmarks, stroke, congestion, lumbago, typhus, gastritis, depression, cold sore, tuberculosis, tetanus, Parkinson's disease, foot fungus, and diabetes and other endocrine related diseases. Some enthusiasts see urine therapy as a divine manifestation of cosmic intelligence. They use urine to unleash their kundalini, sending it straight into the third eye, bringing instant enlightenment.

With such wondrous properties, it is amazing that science bothered developing medicine when it had the key to good health already in the bottle, so to speak.

I genuinely do not know why piss holds such a fascination in superstition, religion and pseudoscientific idiocy. It’s almost like some people never got over the primitive fascination with not having the faintest idea of how their bodies work. Their body produced it, so it must be important.

Or maybe it’s just that they assume since everything that comes out of their mouth is pure gold, the same must be true at the other end.

The “psychological fixation on urine in supernaturalism” would probably be a fascinating research topic. But one someone else can do that. At this point, I’ve had my fill.

Pun intended.