Confederate Medicinal Urine Cocktails Are Going Mainstream
The controversial practice is making a comeback thanks to COVID.
Once popular in the Antebellum South, autourophagia, or consuming one’s own urine, is going mainstream again, and it will soon be the number one COVID remedy among white supremacists and modern-day secessionists.
Various cultures and animal populations throughout history have taken to drinking pee, and a small but committed minority in the US is bringing back the practice, which hasn’t been this popular in North America since the Civil War.
Confederate generals were expected to produce and distribute their own personalized urine tonics to their soldiers, and rivalries could develop among different generals’ troops over who had the best recipe.
Robert E. Lee’s Special Urine Cocktail was a family recipe. Each member of the family would contribute what they could into a large earthen vessel. Then they added one bottle of good strong whiskey, a handful of bay leaves, and a grain of skunk musk, possibly to mask the urine smell. One hearty swig three times a day was believed to provide infallible…
