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