Urinary tract infection is a chronic disease. Those who suffer from this type of infection often resort to all kinds of medications in order to get rid of this condition. In fact, according to the American Hospital Association, some US hospitals encourage the use of alternative medicine to treat recurring illnesses, including UTIs. One of the suggested home remedies for urinary tract infection is called homeopathy and the use of homeopathic medicines.
Others refer to homeopathy as a form of legalized quack medicine. According to records, homeopathy gained recognition as a legal form of medication in 1938, when a US Senator who was also a homeopathic physician was able to gain congressional approval through the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act of 1938.
Therefore, homeopathic medicine has since come up with different types of alternative medicine and remedies for urinary tract infection, in its attempt to provide the ultimate treatment to cure this chronic ailment.
Samuel Hahnemann, a German physician who was the first to introduce this form of treatment to 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 of a particular disease, the treatment given to the patient must result in the same symptoms experienced by the patient while suffering from the disease.
In fact, the word homeopathy is derived from the Greek word “homoios” which means similar and “pathos” which means disease. Based on this, let’s look at the alternative urinary tract infection remedies recommended by this form of treatment:
1. Cantharis: refers to a wide variety of beetle soldiers. As a homeopathic medicine, the beetles are said to be collected at dawn, cooked in a steam of boiling vinegar, crushed, and mixed with the bulk of milk and sugar. This is then said to be administered to the patient in low doses.
Consequently, the effect of this concoction is a burning and scalding pain on urination, which is in accordance with the homeopathic principle of treating disease symptoms with similar symptoms.
2. Apis mellifica – is a scientific name that refers to bees. Treatment with this medicine is by stinging live bees or removing the sting from the bee and using it as bee venom therapy.
In some cases, a live honey bee is ground up and mixed in water and an alcohol base. Like Cantharis, this UTI treatment also causes burning and stinging pain when urinating.
3. Staphysagria – is a homeopathic remedy for UTI derived from the seeds of Delphinium Staphisagria, a plant that is said to be poisonous in its raw form but loses its toxicity once it is processed into a therapeutic preparation.
According to historical data, this plant was used to kill vermin or pests such as rats, cockroaches, and other forms of parasites. It also qualifies as a homeopathic treatment for UTIs because it similarly causes painful, throbbing urination.
In homeopathic treatment, tonics and concoctions are given only in small portions, as some of them are derived from plants and animals that possess toxic properties. This article is for informational purposes only and is in no way intended to be a recommendation to replace your doctor’s medication for urinary tract infection.
From now on, after knowing what homeopathic cures constitute, it is further recommended that it would be better to seek your doctor’s opinion and approval before taking other home remedies for urinary tract infection such as homeotherapy.
