Has anyone ever heard of, or tried urine therapy? I just heard about it and at first I thought it was a joke. After I researched it I found that it cures almost any kind of disease, even cancer. It has to be urine from your own body in order to work.

Here's what Skeptic's Dictionary has to say.

while it is true that some of the constituents of urine are being used and tested for their potential or actual therapeutic value, it does not follow that drinking one's urine is therapeutic. It may be discovered that one of the chemicals in human urine is effective for fighting cancer. However, drinking one's own urine is not likely going to supply enough of any cancer-fighting substance to do any good. It is also true that some of the substances in urine are good for you. For example, if you are ingesting more vitamin C (a water soluble vitamin) than your body needs or can process, you will excrete it in your urine. It doesn't follow that drinking your urine is a good way to get vitamin C into your body. An orange or a tablet might be preferable. However, if you are urinating excess vitamin C, what do you think your body will do with the vitamin C you ingest with your urine? If you guessed that it would get rid of it, you guessed right.

Interesting though.

If you see a site full of information that mentions getting its basic facts from a single book (and not a scientific journal or study), like this site does a few times, you can bet they're misinforming you.

There was a Prime Minister of India in the 1960s or 70s that drank a glass of his own urine every day. All I can tell you is that he looked old.

Morarji Desai, a Brahmin belonging to the Anavil sub-caste, was installed as Prime Minister of India on March 24, 1977, after the lifting of Indira Nehru-Gandhi's Kautilyan emergency. He was the fourth Brahmin Prime Minister of the Indian Union in a row, after Pandit J.Nehru, Pandit Shastri and Indira Gandhi (barring the 14-day care-taker PM G.L.Nanda). He ruled up to July 28, 1979. Immediately after coming to power, he devoted all his powers to propagating Brahmanism, especially the peculiar Brahmin custom of drinking human urine. Prior to Pandit Morarji Desai, urine-drinking was confined to the Brahmins, but he devoted his life to spreading this custom amongst the general Indian population. This article provides some quotes and extracts on this peculiarly Brahmin custom and Pandit Morarji Desai's efforts to spread it. - Dalistan.org
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Cow urine touted as cure-all in India

Lotions, potions and pills flying off shopkeepers' shelves
Updated: 1:57 p.m. ET March 1, 2005
NEW DELHI - Alongside life-size posters of Hindu nationalist leaders, Indian political activists can now buy lotions, potions and pills to cure anything from cancer to hysteria to piles — all made from cow urine or dung.

A new goratna (cow products) stall at the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) souvenir shop is rapidly outselling dry political tracts, badges, flags and saffron-and-green plastic wall clocks with the face of former prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee. - MSNBC.com
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I bet it really moooves off the shelves.

Thanks Jusork, and I agree that it's very interesting. That second link really sounds like urine can cure most anything. I'm kind of baffled though that I had never heard of it before today.

Thank you too Dorian. Very interesting, indeed.

It's interesting how something can be said and it'll seem to start to make sense but one important piece of information is left out and we believe it. Just with a little change in the information.