Natural herbs to help with urinary tract infection?
Posted by pano | Under Fresh Herbs Thursday Jul 22, 2010I just started with a very uncomfortable UTI and aside from plenty of water,cranberry juice and antibiotics isn’t their some kind of natural or a certain vitamin that helps with the symptoms? I am going to thr ER this morn to get this treated so before I go I thought I would ask all the Yahoo answers audience.Thank you.
Hi:
Cranberry juice, cranberry juice and cranberry juice. Oh, did I mention cranberry juice?
If you can’t drink thousands of gallons of cranberry juice, it does come in the form of a capsule. Check the herbal suppliment isle in your local pharmacy.
Here are some other tried and tryed recipes:
Mix 1/4 tsp of baking SODA in about 1/2 glass (4 oz) of water. Drink 2 glasses of plain water the the mixture you just made. Yuk, I know but do it anyway… The baking soda helps to create a less acidic environment inside your bladder which makes it harder for the bacteria to thrive so they begin to die off.
Don’t drink drinks with a high acid content as that will defeat the purpose of the baking soda nad water mixture. Plus bacteria love to live in a place with lots of acid. the less acid you can have in your bladder, the less bacteria you will have.
Garlic is a huge wonderful medicinal herb. Garlic seems to HATE bacteria and thrives of killing them. So try this one for those bladder bacteria…
Garlic Tea:
(I hope you like garlic) peel a few fresh cloves of garlic. The kind you but pre sliced or pre chopped in a jar will not work. So peel a few cloves, smash and mash as my boys say, smash and mash those cloves smash and mash them well. drop them in a mug of hot water and let it steep for about 5 minutes. If you dont have any fresh garlic but you have garlic POWDER (NOT the salt) then add abut a tsp into the hot water and drink up but be careful not to burn yourself on the hot liquid.
And the last one I can think of is an herb called Goldenseal. Goldenseal is not so fond of Ecoli bacteria which is the most common bacteria that causes UTI’s. But Goldenseal also has a bonus to it. It will also stimulate your immune system and helps with the swelling in the urinart tract.
I just looked up in my book the usual dosage of Goldensel to take daily. My books state you can take 500 – 1,000mg of Goldenseal extract daily for up to one week. Do not take it more than 1 week.
I hope you feel better soon, take care.
Be safe and be well
I just had one of those last month. it sucked! lots of cranberry juice and the pills they will give you will make it go away within a week.
u defintitely need the ER prescribed pills to get rid of it.
and lots of cranberry juice- drink quarts of it till your sick of it!
hope this helps at all- good luck!
ASO makes cranberry tablets…a woman I used to work with swears by them