Urethritis is a common pathology that does not pose a danger to life, but which causes a lot of discomfort and significantly worsens the quality of life. With inadequate therapy leads to serious complications. Modern treatment of the disease is complex.
Along with the prescribed therapeutic measures, as an addition to them, as adjuvants, treatment of urethritis at home with traditional medicine is acceptable.
General principles for the treatment of urethritis at home
For the treatment of urethritis at home, oral medications and local procedures are used. A prerequisite for effective treatment in this way is a number of properties that the plants used must have:
• anti-inflammatory;
• antimicrobial;
• diuretics;
• antispasmodic;
• enveloping.
The use of herbal preparations for external use leads to a more rapid removal of the inflammatory process.
Therapy is selected taking into account the cause of the disease and is aimed at eliminating it and raising the overall immune status. The duration of such treatment is approximately a month. Some herbal dosage forms give a quick effect: a sufficient intake for 15 days. Then, two-month courses are repeated throughout the year with a break of two weeks between them. In the chronic course of urethritis, treatment can last several years. During such additional courses, the use of both single plants and the collection of several herbs is alternated.
In this case, it is important to take drugs prescribed by a urologist, and in women - also by a gynecologist. Mandatory antibiotic therapy is required, which should be carried out especially carefully, in compliance with the multiplicity and the prescribed dosage.
Due to the anatomical features of the urethra, women get sick less often than men. Often this disease proceeds against the background of cystitis. Therefore, it is important to correctly establish the diagnosis in order to choose the right tactics of therapy and to avoid the protracted course of the process and the development of complications.
For women, treatment of urethritis at home is indicated and necessary for a speedy recovery. For this purpose, widespread and effective methods are used: douching, applications, sitting baths.
Local therapy - baths
For procedures, a comfortable temperature of the solution is necessary so as not to cause a burn and swelling of the mucosa. As a rule, this is 37-420 C. Pregnancy and oncological diseases include contraindications.
For treatment, chamomile, oak bark, sage, and horsetail are most often used. These plants are used both individually and in the form of collections of medicinal herbs.
Chamomile
Chamomile pharmacy is widely used in many recipes of traditional medicine because of its antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory and healing effects. It is used for douching and for sitz baths. To this end, a decoction is prepared: the flowers are filled with hot water (2 tablespoons per 200 ml of water) and boiled for 20 minutes. After filtering and cooling the resulting solution, it is brought to its original volume - up to 200 ml - by adding boiled water. The duration of the sedentary baths is 15 - 20 minutes - it takes the cooling time of the solution.
Oak bark
Oak bark, in addition to anti-inflammatory, has strong astringent properties. It is applied topically as an infusion: crushed bark (1 teaspoon) is poured with boiling water (200 ml) and infused for 3 hours. The infusion is filtered and used for baths 3 times a day for 5 minutes.
Collection
Oak bark is effectively used as part of plant harvest. In addition to it, sage and field horsetail are used. The listed components are crushed, mixed in equal proportions. From the resulting mixture, 2.5 tablespoons of plants are taken, poured with boiling water (in the amount of 1 liter) and heated for 15 minutes in a water bath. The infusion is filtered and used locally for the procedure (bath).
Recipes for internal use
With local therapeutic effects, a disinfecting and healing effect is achieved. These methods are successfully combined with the ingestion of various dosage forms prepared at home.
The use of medicinal plants is also based on their anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial and immunostimulating properties. Such an effect on the body is exerted by parsley, lingonberries, currants, bearberry, carrots. They are widely used in the treatment of inflammation of the urethra for oral use in the form of teas, infusions, tinctures and decoctions.
A useful and at the same time pleasant method of treating urethritis at home is to take juices from these plants and berries. Store juices are not like: they contain preservatives and various additives. For therapeutic purposes, it is recommended to use freshly prepared juice, which is wrung out immediately before drinking it. Sugar is not added. In such a product, the maximum number of medicinal elements that affect the inflammatory process is preserved. Proven time and experience are the juices of lingonberries, cranberries, carrots. Useful cocktail of these juices. To obtain it, freshly squeezed juice is mixed in equal proportions (½ cup each). It is recommended to drink it 40 minutes before breakfast. The course lasts 20 days.
It has a good anti-inflammatory effect on urethritis. infusion made from currant leaves: 2 tablespoons of the crushed plant is poured with boiling water (200 ml) and left to infuse for an hour. For therapeutic purposes, you need to drink 1 glass 2 times a day before meals.
Have a unique therapeutic effect parsley leaves. To treat inflammation of the urethra, parsley infusion in milk is used. A finely chopped plant is poured with milk (in the ratio: 6 tablespoons of the plant per 1/2 cup of milk) and heated on a small fire. Take a warm strained infusion every 2 hours for 2 tablespoons with a break for a night's sleep. In this case, the diuretic and anti-inflammatory properties of parsley are used. Therapy continues until the symptoms disappear.
The proven experience and time is a decoction from the collection of herbs. In equal proportions, the crushed leaves of bearberry, birch, corn stigmas, licorice root are taken. Use 1 tablespoon of the collection for 1 cup of boiling water: boil on low heat for 15 minutes. The resulting broth is insisted, cooled, strained, drunk on an empty stomach three times a day.
Quickly cure the symptoms of the disease, remove pain and burning will help lime tea. It is prepared in the following proportions: 3 tablespoons of linden flowers are poured with boiling water (1 liter), covered tightly with a lid and the hour is infused. It is drunk like tea. Its effect will increase significantly when added to tea before consuming linden honey.
Oat herb tincture improves the general condition and reduces inflammatory manifestations. To prepare it, carefully grind 200 g of herb, pour 0.5 l of vodka. Keep tincture in a dark, cool place for 3 weeks. Every day, a container with herbal tincture should be shaken. Filter the infusion after 20 days and take 30 drops before meals. Treatment continues until all symptoms of the disease disappear.
Diet during treatment
During the entire period of the disease, you need to drink a lot of fluids and follow a certain diet. It is important to exclude the use of alcohol, spicy, smoked, pickled food, bitter onions at the treatment stage, which provoke an exacerbation of the inflammatory process. It is necessary to exclude carbonated drinks, chocolate, beans. Strong tea and coffee are not recommended. It is necessary to use medicinal plants and vegetables for food, from which tinctures and decoctions are prepared: parsley, celery, carrots, beets, black radish. Effective cranberries and cranberries, fennel fruits.
A variety of methods for treating urethritis using traditional medicine recipes are effective and time-tested. But, despite this, before starting such therapy, a specialist consultation is needed. This will help to avoid the development of complications or the transition of the disease into a chronic or more severe form.
