Category: Divination
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“Shivambu”, which literally means ‘beneficial water’, refers to auto or self-urine therapy
From the article 'One teaspoon twice a day — Indians opting for ‘urine therapy’ to ‘cure’ cancer, Covid' by Tina Das
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“Elixir of long life”
The relevance of urine examination has been reported since the ancient times. Urine was connected to religious traditions attracting the interest of the people as “the elixir of long life”. Indeed, it seems that urine was not considered as a waste product but rather as a distilled product selected from the body. Many different sources…
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Liquid Gold: The Lore and Logic of Using Urine to Grow Plants
I was looking for J. Rosenhek History of medicine: liquid gold Doctor’s Rev: Med Move, 23 (2005) but found this instead. Check out the table of contents at amazon. Featuring a short history of urine use—from ritual to medicinal and even culinary—and many whimsical illustrations, this great bathroom reader is an ideal gift for irreverent gardeners, homeowners, campers,…
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Laboratory medicine began 6000 years ago with the analysis of human urine
Laboratory medicine began 6000 years ago with the analysis of human urine, which was called uroscopy until the 17th century and today is termed urinalysis. Today physicians use urine to diagnose selective conditions but from ancient times until the Victorian era, urine was used as the primary diagnostic tool. Physicians spoke of urine as a ‘divine…
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Looking at the urine: the renaissance of an unbroken tradition
The wacky world of wee-wee wizardry! Welcome to the realm of urinalysis, where brave souls peer into the golden depths of human excretion and occasionally… gulp… take a sip! Picture this: You’re a lab technician, armed with nothing but a microscope and an iron stomach. Your mission? To boldly go where no sane person has…
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Belomancy, also bolomancy, is the ancient art of divination by use of arrows
The word is built upon Ancient Greek: βέλος, romanized: belos, lit. ‘arrow, dart’, and μαντεία, manteia, ‘divination’. Belomancy was anciently practiced at least by Babylonians, Greeks, Arabs and Scythians. The arrows were typically marked with occult symbols and had to have feathers for every method. In one method, different possible answers to a given question were written and tied to each arrow. For example, three arrows would be marked with…
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Dowsing, doodlebugging and water witching
Dowsing is a type of divination employed in attempts to locate ground water, buried metals or ores, gemstones, oil, claimed radiations (radiesthesia), gravesites, malign “earth vibrations” and many other objects and materials without the use of a scientific apparatus. It is also known as divining (especially in water divining), doodlebugging (particularly in the United States, in searching for petroleum or treasure) or (when searching for water) water finding, or water witching (in the United States). Radiesthesia describes a…
