Andrews Clinic of Natural Therapies

Urine Testing

Apart from the standard billilab stick testing of urine, the urine itself can tell us a lot about you as a person and how you are functioning.

By taking slides of your urine along with other laboratory tests we can see if there are any metabolic waste products, some of which can be detrimental to your health.

A lot of people don't drink water, they will drink anything else but water.

Water is a substance that your body uses for nutrition, oxygen, and detoxifying, but yet people still want it as tea, coffee, fizzy drinks.

It is NOT the same, no matter what you think other beverages may be, water is water.

Some people even say they don't like water, which in its self is a disaster waiting to happen.

If you don't water a plant what does it do ?

It will start to die off and shrivel, guess what's happening to you if your hydration rate is low.

If 'things' are not hydrated, then rather like the plant or its leaves they become DRY.

If something is dry, and you keep using it, what will this start to cause ?

A friction, with friction comes heat, with heat comes inflammation, starting to get the 'gist' of where I'm going.

If a medical term finishes with 'itis' this means inflammation of whatever the name is before the itis.

Here are some terms that you may have heard of :

Cystitis

Nephritis

Pyelonephritis

All to do with the 'water works', come to think of it why do we call our urinary systems water works ?

Why not tea works, coffee works or fizzy drinks works, are you starting to get the 'idea' ?

This is also why as a clinic we do urine testing, to see if the patient is functioning as they should be.

As practitioners we could massage and manipulate you add infinitum but if your 'water works' are the root cause then we will not get anywhere,

 every action has a reaction.

Crystals from a patient who was continuously manipulated by a number of practitioners with no effects other than feeling a lot worse after 22 treatments, followed by 10 treatments of formulae acupuncture, I wonder why ?

See ICM comment - research questions competency of practitioners :

A recent case history of a gentleman who was over here on vacation from Canada and staying with relatives, who have received treatment from us previously.

The gentleman had very little mobility in his arms, unable to elevate because of shoulder pain, his hands were also 'stiff'.

His back and knees were also a problem, but his main complaint was the difficulty in walking without considerable pain.

He had seen a doctor and had blood tests, which found that he was low on iron, so he was given 300mg per day, which is a high dose.

He was also given very strong pain killers, which were when we checked supposed to be taken for 4 weeks with 2 weeks off.

He had taken these for 2 months without a break, he did not know or had not been advised about his medication.

On examination most of his joints showed osteoarthritis (remember 'itis'), the joints were also swollen, BUT the most worrying parts were his ankles and feet, they had what is known as pitted oedema.

Which is a condition were the kidneys are not functioning as they should do, so water is not being filtered out through the kidneys as it should be normally.

The medication he was given, can also cause this problem unbeknown to him and is another reason why he should have been monitored by his physician.

He really didn't drink water or alcohol, but liked his tea and drank lots of this beverage.

Urine testing / analysis revealed high metabolic wastes and uric acidity.

He was asked to stop his pain medication as it wasn't a life saving 'a must have medication', he was treated with acupuncture and given a kidney herbal remedy for 1 week and asked to drink a lot more water.

Also to elevate his legs, when resting as much as possible.

If his ankles did not reduce in swelling then he should see a GP.

He returned 1 week later, shoulders, arms and hands a lot more mobility.

Knees were also a lot better with mobility but still some discomfort.

His ankles / feet were 80% better with very little pitted oedema (swelling), he was treated again with acupuncture and commented on his knees feeling better as he left the clinic.

He was given an appointment in 2 weeks time with herbal remedy and again asked to keep his water intake up.

So water is important, remember the shrivelling leaves etc.

Water is your body's main lubricant, nothing more, nothing less than plain simple water from most peoples perspective.

Incidentally the pain medication he was taking cost him $170-00 or there about, that's a lot of water !!

For further information and science on drinking alkalised water and its benefits with recommended reading see on the links page.

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