| Urinary tract infection is a chronic disease. Sufferers | | | | of boiling vinegar, to be crushed and mixed with |
| from this type of infection tend to resort to all kinds of | | | | greater parts of milk and sugar. This then is said to be |
| medication in order to rid themselves of this affliction. In | | | | administered to the patient in low doses. |
| fact, according to the American Hospital Association, | | | | Accordingly, the effect of this concoction is burning |
| some U.S. hospitals encourage the use of alternative | | | | and scalding pain while passing urine, which is in |
| medicine in order to treat frequently recurring diseases, | | | | accordance with homeopathy's principle of treating the |
| including UTI. One of the suggested home remedies for | | | | symptoms of the disease with like symptoms. |
| urinary tract infection is called homeopathy and the use | | | | 2. Apis mellifica - is a scientific name that refers to |
| of homeopathic medicines. | | | | honeybees. The treatment using this medication is by |
| Others brand homeopathy as a form of legalized | | | | way of live honey bee stings or extracting the bee's |
| quack medicine. Based on records,homeopathy gained | | | | stinger and using it as a bee venom therapy. |
| recognition as a legal form of medication in 1938, when | | | | In some cases, a live honeybee is crushed and mixed |
| a U.S. senator who was also a homeopathic physician | | | | in water and alcohol base. Similar to Cantharis, this |
| was able to secure approval from Congress through | | | | treatment for UTI also causes burning and stinging pain |
| the 1938 Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. | | | | in passing urine. |
| Hence, homeopathic medicine has since then come up | | | | 3. Staphysagria - is a homeopathic remedy for UTI |
| with different kinds of alternative medicine and | | | | derived from the seeds of Delphinium Staphisagria, a |
| remedies for urinary tract infection, in their bid to | | | | plant which is said to be poisonous in its raw form but |
| provide the ultimate treatment in curing this chronic | | | | loses its toxicity once it is transformed as a |
| ailment. | | | | therapeutic preparation. |
| Samuel Hahnemann, a German Physician who was | | | | According to historical data, this plant was used to kill |
| the first to introduce this form of treatment in the | | | | vermin or pests like rat, cockroaches and other forms |
| medical world, believed that the treatment of diseases | | | | of parasites. It also qualifies as a homeopathic |
| should follow the "law of similars". | | | | treatment for UTI because it similarly causes painful |
| The treatment was based on the notion that in order | | | | and stinging urination. |
| to cure a person from a particular disease, the | | | | In homeopathic treatment, tonics and concoctions are |
| treatment given to the patient should be one that | | | | administered only in small portions since some of them |
| results to the same symptoms experienced by the | | | | are derived from plants and animals that possess toxic |
| patient while suffering from the disease. | | | | properties. This article is only for information purposes |
| In fact, the word homeopathy is derived from the | | | | and not at all intended as a recommendation to |
| Greek word "homoios" meaning similar and "pathos" | | | | replace the doctor's medication for urinary tract |
| meaing disease. Based on this, let us look into the | | | | infection. |
| alternative remedies for urinary tract infection | | | | Henceforth, after knowing what constitutes |
| recommended by this form of treatment: | | | | homeopathic cures, it is all the more recommended |
| 1. Cantharis - refers to a large variety of beetle | | | | that it would be best to seek your doctor's medical |
| soldiers. As homeopathic medication, the beetles are | | | | opinion and approval before taking other home |
| said to be gathered at daybreak, cooked in a steam | | | | remedies for urinary tract infection, like homeotherapy. |