Fresh Urine as Remedy for Drunkenness

I have lived in Uganda all my life but certain cultural practices among Ugandans still shock me as if I were a foreigner. I just learnt recently that a remedy for drunkenness is a woman’s fresh Urine. At first I took the person talking about this for someone trying to be hilarious because the thought of having a women deliver fresh urine direct from her bladder to the mouth of a drunkard was just too bizarre.

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But then I later met a live witness to this kind of treatment who testified the effectiveness of the remedy. He narrated that a man in his village who had become a habitual alcoholic relapsed into a comma after he had spent the whole day drinking a local potent gin called Waragi without any food to energize him. Everybody was sure the drunkard would not be revived until a renowned medicine man that happened to be going to treat another patient in the neighborhood passed by to see why people had gathered over a man who seemed almost dead.

The medicine man checked the drunkard up and asked the worried relatives whether he was a married man. At this point, the wife of the drunkard stepped forward. The Medicine man then advised the desperate woman to take her husband to their bedroom and within the privacy of that room, she should deliver fresh urine directly to his mouth. The emphasis was that such a doze of urine should not be given through a medium, but directly from the woman’s bladder.

Given the fact that desperate situations call for desperate actions, the woman did exactly as directed. Within a short while, the man returned to life and asked for dinking water. By the next day, he had become strong since he had taken a lot of millet porridge. For a whole week, this man and the urine delivered directly to his mouth was the talk of the village. The news that his wife urinated into his mouth was obviously revolting, but again he could not get angry about it because that action saved his life.

From that day on, the man has remained a complete a teetotaler who literally runs away from the smell of alcohol. It is not clear whether the shunning of alcohol was the effect of the urine itself or the social repercussions of having had a woman’s urine delivered directly into his mouth. But whatever the case, this man is a decent man once again with a big sense of responsibility to his family. He spends more time with his wife and children today than he has ever done all his marriage life. Thanks to the fresh urine from his faithful wife.