I have a question about the use of diuretics?!

No,no, no bad idea. You use a diuretic for certain situations, as someone else posted. You can also use it if you are bloated before your period. You don't use it to avoid the porta pottys. You absolutely must stay hydrated or you can cause your body a lot of harm, feel REALLY bad or even die if you don't drink enough liquids. Make sure you take some Lysol Spray To Go, antibacterial hand sanitizer, and Kleenex that comes in the little travel packs with you and that will at least prepare you a little bit for when you must use the porta potty.

Absolutely not. If you dehydrate yourself before going to the desert, you could die. Diuretics are used for treating conditions such as Congestive Heart Failure, in which excessive water buildup is putting pressure on the heart and lungs, not to help people avoid porta potties.

It's not like you can pee ahead of time. Urine is your bodies used-up waste material - and you can't excrete waste that your body is still using.....does that make sense?

Give up the idea - have a fun time on the trip though.

DIABETES mellitus is described in ayurveda under the heading of prameha. The word prameha is derived from the root ‘‘Miha sechane’’ meaning watering. In reference to disease of human beings, it may have a meaning of passing urine, qualified by prefix ‘‘pra’’ meaning excess in both frequency and quantity. The name prameha is self explanatory, which means ‘‘Prabhutha Mutratha’’ (excessive urination) and avilanmutratha (Turbid urine).

The causes (hetu), the symptoms (purvaroopa or roopa), the pathogenesis (Samprapti) and the treatment (chikitsa) of prameha are astonishingly similar to diabetes mellitus.

The aetiology, samprapti and the principles of management (chikitsa) described in ayurvedic texts resemble with the allopathic system concepts almost in toto. The description of two types of prameha from the view of managing the disease is strikingly the same: Lean diabetic and obese diabetic are classified in ayurveda on very similar grounds. On the same pattern we find the classification as

* Sahaja prameha (congenital)
* Apathyanimitthaja prameha (Due to over eating and wrong eating habits).

When the pathology of prameha is discussed in Madhava Nidana, Madhavakara, who followed a specific pattern, has kept this (metabolic) disorder before Medoroga (obesity) and after the Ashmari (Urinary calculi). The chapter of prameha consists of prameha pidika (boils) at the end as the complications of prameha. Twenty types of pramehas were explained, out of which four are vataja, six are pittaja and ten are kaphaja.

Single Drugs

Nimba (Azadirachta Indica): The leaves are particularly useful. They stimulate liver, lower the glucosuria and also reduce the clotting nature of blood therefore useful in diabetic vasculopathies.

Karavellaka (Momordia charantia): It contains alkaloid of memordicine. The fruit on oral administration leads to hypoglycaemia and hypocholesteremia.

Jambu (Eugenia Jambolana): Useful in reduction of hyperglycaemia and glycosuria. Its clinically proved as it lowers serum urea and cholesterol.

Madhunashini (Gymnema sylvestre): It is useful in controls hyperglycaemia, metabolism in liver, kidney and muscle, paralysis of sweet perception is due to excess copper content in leafs.

Combination of drugs

Jambavasava: Jambu twak is the main ingredient in jambavasava and jambu twak containing bitasitosterol, which is known to be hypoglycaemic and hypocholesteraemic.
Nishamalaki: This is a simple preparation and is very effective in glucose control and acts as a super oxide scavenger. As both haridra and amalaki exert such quality. Moreover, it is used as a rasayana therapy.