The urinary system removes water, salt and nitrogenous wastes. It also helps maintaining the normal concentration of electrolytes within the body fluids. It helps regulating the volume of body fluid and aids in the control of red blood cell production and blood pressure. In this way, urine maintains the balance of the three humors; vata, pitta, and kapha as well as water.
Ayurveda Urine Diagnosis - Mutra Pariksha
For Ayurvedic urine examination, collect early morning midstream urine in a clean vessel.
- Observe the color, normal urine is yellow, straw colored. Urine color can affect by the diet, supplements or herbs you take. B vitamins can make urine yellow; beetroots and other red foods can color the urine a darker hue, anthraquinone laxatives can give an orange tint to the urine. If the color is blackish-brown indicates a vata disorder; dark-yellow colored indicates pitta disorder; cloudy urine indicates a kapha disorder.
- Foods eaten can change the urine odor. For example, asparagus, cabbage, cauliflower, or garlic can give a strong smell. Urine of the vata individuals has bitter and astringent odor. Urine of the pitta individuals has pungent, rotten, and acrid odor. Urine of Kapha has sweet odor.
- Drinking coffee, tea, some herbs and diuretic drugs can increase the frequency and volume of urine. Vata has low volume, increased frequency and tendency to urinate at night. Pitta has high volume and less frequency. Kapha has high volume, normal frequency, and tendency to urinate at night.
- Temperature of the urine is cold in vata, hot in pitta, and cool in kapha.
- When there is constipation or the body has less intake of water, urine will be dark yellow.
- Red colored urine indicates a blood disorder.
Urine examination for illness
Ayurveda utilize a diagnose method using oil as an interpretation of the state of the doshas.
Using a dropper put a drop of sesame oil in to the urine sample and examining it in the sunlight.
- If the oil drop spreads immediately in the urine sample indicates the illness is probably easy to cure.
- It the oil drop moves to the middle of the urine sample and spread indicates the illness is probably difficult to cure.
- If the drop sinks to the bottom of the urine sample indicates the illness may probably impossible to cure.
- If the drop spreads in a snake-like shape with wave movements on the urine surface indicates vata disorder.
- If the drop spreads in a umbrella shape with multi-colored like a rainbow indicates pitta disorder.
- It the drop spread into pear shape on the urine surface indicates kapha disorder.
- Normal urine has uremic smell. Urine with foul odor indicates presence of toxins in the system.
- Acidic smelling urine with burning sensation indicates excess of pitta.
- Sweet smelling urine indicates possibility for diabetes.
- Gravel in the urine sample indicates the possibility for stones in the urinary tract.
- Dark yellow colored urine indicates jaundice; darkish yellow or brown colored urine indicates fewer, which is a pitta disorder.
- Tea, coffee and alcohol are the substance stimulate urination and aggravates pitta.
- Scanty urine indicates water retention in the body accumulated in the tissues. This affects the blood and increases the blood pressure; thus, urine production is important to maintain blood pressure and volume.