EDITOR – This letter might horrify sensitive readers. Urea is a carbomide mineral CO(NH2)2. It is a soluble crystalline compound, an organic constituent of urine in mammals, birds, some reptiles and in blood, milk, etc. It is an ingredient in many creams or lotions.
During a garden club meeting it was mentioned as a tip to rid gardeners of moles in their gardens. We all laughed, visualizing women squatting over mole heaps in the dark not to be seen by neighbours – I also visualized passing car’s strong head lights, lighting up a squatting woman. I never learned whether it really worked?
In a book with true animal stories there was a dog that was badly injured and lost for a long time. When he was eventually found, his wounds were healed without human or medical intervention. The people there at that time presumed he was healed by licking the wounds with his own spit. But I also read that there is no healing in dog spit (can anyone perhaps prove the contrary?) So I wondered for years how his wounds healed. Urea makes sense. He might have been far from a river or had too much pain to walk to drink in a river, then licked up his own clean urine and with the same tongue licked his wounds regularly, spreading urine with its urea onto his wounds, thus became healed from all his severe wounds.
If you think about it, food gets separated from its water inside the body of mammals, birds and reptiles by their organs that also purify this water. When the urine leaves the body it could be purer and cleaner than people think. A healthy dog’s urine does not stink straight away, only as it gets older and in contact with the air, etc. A vet once said that a dog’s mouth is cleaner than humans’ mouths, except in a case of worms. I rest my case for urea.
Goofy*
Escombe
