Inflammation of the bladder (a disease called cystitis) in women is often enough. There are many medications that help with this ailment. You can use both pharmaceuticals and folk remedies. One of their best "grandmother's" remedies for cystitis is the use of bearberry.
What is this plant?
Toloknyanka belongs to the family of heathers and is widespread in Siberia, the Far East and the north of the European part of Russia. In another way, it's called a bear's eye. Bearberry is a small shrub with dense dark-green leaves and red mealy berries. With a therapeutic purpose, its leaves are used, which have useful properties.
Bearberry Properties
The broth of the plant has antiseptic, anti-inflammatory, diuretic and astringent action. Therefore, with cystitis, bearberry is a common medicine. Proper use of it allows you to get rid of all the unpleasant symptoms in two weeks. Decoctions and infusions of bearberry leaves not only relieve pain, but also successfully relieve the urinary tract from infection. And the flavonoids contained in them increase diuresis, removing the ions of potassium and sodium from the body. After applying this plant, the patient's urine is colored green.
How to take bearberry in cystitis?
The best are alcoholic tincture and water infusion of leaves. After all, in this form they were not subjected to heat treatment and retained all their properties. But alcohol tincture is undesirable to use in severe forms of the disease, and infusion should be prepared for a long time. Therefore, when cystitis is most often used is broth of bearberry.
To make it, you need to take a spoonful of crushed leaves, add a glass of water and warm in a water bath for at least half an hour. After this, drain the broth and cool it. You can also prepare the next infusion: pour raw materials with boiling water and insist in a thermos. Accept bearberry leaves for cystitis on a tablespoon 4-5 times a day after meals. Sometimes with prolonged admission, there may be side effects: nausea, vomiting, or diarrhea. Therefore, you must strictly observe the proportions. You can also take the bearberry in collections with other plants, for example, with parsley seeds, celandine or birch leaves.
A patient with cystitis needs to know that taking bearberry, as well as all other folk remedies, can only be used as an auxiliary. After all, to prevent the development of complications, it is necessary to take antibiotics .