Herbal remedies for cystitis

No matter how effective some medicines may be, doctors always give preference to complex treatment. This is quite understandable, because with the right selection of drugs can achieve a stronger therapeutic effect and at the same time ensure the prevention of complications.

For example, the anti-inflammatory effect is characteristic of antibiotics, NSAIDs and corticosteroids. But in the case of infection without antimicrobial agents can not do without, and the antibiotics themselves provide anti-inflammatory effect only in terms of destroying the provoking factor. In this case, the body will need time for the inflammation to subside, and during this period, another infection may join and the disease gradually turns into a chronic form.

But what does herbalism have to do with it? The fact that the herbs used for cystitis, although they have several properties, not all of them are expressed to the same extent. In addition, the joint use of different herbs with different effects with the right combination provides potentiation of action, which enhances the therapeutic effect.

This explains this point: both traditional and folk medicine in relation to the therapy of inflammatory bladder disease tends to use not so much individual herbs, but their collections. So in the acute form of cystitis you can use such mixtures of herbs:

• Grass hernia and plantain leaf (10 g each) asparagus pharmacy, melissa, Tatarnik prickly (20 g each), stalnick (30 g), oregano (50 g).

Take 1 tbsp. Mixture of plants, brew boiling water (0.5 liters) and leave at room temperature until the composition cools completely. Infusion before use will need to be filtered. Take the medicine should be taken for an hour 2 tbsp. At intervals of 2 hours.

• Watercress (aka zheruha), iris and wormwood (10 g each), gravewort (aka garmala), lycopodium and podmarnik (20 g each), bearberry (30 g).

Prepare the infusion by analogy with the previous recipe. A single dose - half a cup.

• Toloknyanka, plantain, chamomile. The plants are taken in equal parts. For 750 g of boiling water you need to take 4.5 tbsp. Collection of herbs. We incubate the infusion for 3 hours at room temperature. Take it half a cup at a time, until we do not use the entire volume. At the same time, you should drink the infusion within 2-3 hours. To improve the taste and enhance the antimicrobial properties, you can add a spoonful of honey to the infusion. The effect lasts for 24 hours.
• Ground parts of motherwort and horsetail, St. John's wort in the form of grass with inflorescences, flowers of tricolor violet. All plants take in equal amounts. For a glass of boiling water we use 1 tbsp. Collection. Infusion is made first on a water bath (10 minutes), then put in a warm place for half an hour. The composition should be drunk in the amount of 2-3 glasses a day for acute inflammatory processes in the kidneys and bladder.

Treatment of the chronic form of cystitis has its own peculiarities, and therefore a different selection of herbs:

• Collection of nettle leaves, St. John's wort and bearberry herbs, plantain leaves and rosehip berries is quite suitable for this purpose. Plants take in equal proportions. For 750 ml of water it is recommended to use 3 tbsp. Collection. The composition is boiled for 5 minutes and insist for another quarter of an hour. The strained composition should be drunk during the day for 3-4 receptions. It should be taken half an hour before meals.

Decoction is recommended to use courses for six months or more.

• Chamomile, calendula, yarrow, corn stalks. 4 tbsp. Of the collection pour ½ liter of boiling water and insist for 2 hours. Take 150-160 ml three times a day for half an hour before meals.

The course of treatment is 10 days. Repeat the course monthly for half a year.

• Juniper, birch leaves, bearberry, bearberry, horsetail. For half a liter of boiling water take 2 tbsp. Herbal collection, leave in a thermos for 8 hours. Take 50-70 ml no more than 5 times a day before meals. The course of treatment is about 2 months, after which you need to take a 2-week break and repeat the treatment.

There are also collections that can be taken with any form of bladder inflammation:

• Lingonberries, nettle, chamomile, chamomile, marshmallow, pyzhma. For a glass of boiling water take 1 tbsp. Collection, insist in a thermos for 4 hours. Drink instead of tea in small portions three times a day after meals.

In acute cystitis, it is recommended to take herbs in different amounts, except for cranberry leaf. It should be taken 4 times more than the other components of the collection.

• Basil, St. John's wort, hops, goldenseal (2 parts each), highlander (4 parts). For 2 liters of boiling water take 4 tbsp. Collection, insist for an hour, strain and take 1 cup up to 7 times a day.

This recipe is useful in purulent forms of the disease.

For those who intend to compile a collection of herbs for cystitis on their own, you can these tips:

• The collection should include 3 or more herbs that have useful effects in inflammation of the bladder, adding a plant with tonic and immunostimulating effect.
• Spasmolytic effect, very important for relieving pain in acute cystitis, have such herbs: chamomile, St. John's wort, lapchatka, pyzhma, immortelle, wheatgrass and some others.
• When compiling a collection, you need to consider the tolerance of different herbs by the body and the toxicity of the plants.
• It is better to use familiar herbs, taking into account their contraindications.

It is clear that treatment with home collections is a certain risk, which should be realized, because far from always we do not always have the necessary knowledge about herbs and the consequences of their use, the possibilities of combining, etc.

Collections of herbs can be compiled independently or purchased ready-made. Herbal complexes for the treatment of cystitis can be found less often than those used for inflammatory pathologies of the kidneys, but they are usually interchangeable. Kidney collection for cystitis is recommended even by doctors.

For example, in inflammation of any parts of the urinary system can be recommended diuretic renal collection: bearberry leaves, juniper fruit and licorice root. The actions of the collection: diuretic, anti-inflammatory, antispasmodic (analgesic, because the pain of cystitis is spasmodic in nature), antimicrobial.

Diuretic collection used as follows: a glass of boiling water take 1 tbsp. Collection, half an hour insist and take strained 1 tbsp. 20 minutes before meals. Frequency of intake - 3 times a day.

Let's pay attention to kidney phyto teas. Here is the composition of one of them: St. John's wort, ergot, corn stalks, lingonberry, goldenseal, aire, mint, calendula, nettle, horsetail. This multi-component collection contains most of the herbs used in the treatment of acute and chronic cystitis, and therefore may well be used in this disease, after all, the urinary system - it is a complex of interconnected organs, so the complex treatment gives a more stable result.