KIDNEY & BLADDER INFECTIONS

(From the book, Natural Healing with Herbs, by Humbart Santillo BS, MH)

Principal Therapy – Blood Purification

Do a three day apple juice fast using an enema every morning adding one tablespoon of apple cider to two quarts of warm water.  Then use the cleansing diet in this book for seven days (avoid meats and sugar) with the addition of two ounces of parsley juice or liquid chlorophyll morning and night mixed in eight ounces of apple juice.

A.  Internal:  Pipsissewa tincture twenty drops and Echinacea tincture twenty drops taken together in one cup of water three to four times daily is a good remedy for kidney and bladder infections.

B. Internal:  Take Chaparral and Echinacea capsules.  Alternate them two every hour until pain stops.

C.  Internal:  Mix the following together:

            1 part plantain

            1 part slippery elm

            ½ pat ginger

            2 parts goldenseal

            1 part uva ursi

     

    Make an infusion. Drink one-half cup every one to two hours.

 

 

***  Now, when I did this cleanse for a mild bladder infection, I did the 3 day apple juice (fast) cleanse and DID NOT do the enema.  After 3 days I continued drinking the apple juice – at least 1 glass in the a.m. and one glass in the p.m., with a cup of Parsley tea.  I would also drink at least two glasses of water mixed with 5 full drops of Echinacea/Goldenseal extract & 5 full drops of Chaparral mixed with two glasses of water during the daytime.  I also would drink a cup of Dandelion Root Tea in the morning and again in the afternoon.  I also drank a glass or two of Cranberry juice sometime during the day.

 

Dandelion Root is a blood purifier.  It affects the liver, kidneys, gall bladder, stomach, pancreas, intestines and blood. ***

 

 

BLOOD PURIFICATION THERAPY is the therapy that is used to purify the blood and lymphatic system if acids and other poisons are causing disease, imbalances and irritations of glands, organs and body tissue.

 

If the blood and lymphatic system were pure, no disease would exist.  The bloodstream is the river of life during disease and health, the blood is constantly neutralizing poisons and carrying toxins to be eliminated.  Air pollution, chemical preservatives, food waste, the body’s natural cellular waste and stress can cause an accumulation of toxins in the body and result in disease at any organ, joint, or tissue site.

 

In adding blood and lymph cleansing, alternative herbs are used such as burdock root, red clover, Echinacea, chaparral, garlic, yellowdock, dandelion, etc.  Whenever there is an illness, blood purification, along with bowel cleansing (enemas, colonics) should be considered to assist blood purification therapy.  Short fast using water or vegetable broths, raw vegetable juices like carrot, celery, beet, watercress and citrus juices will help neutralize poisons in the bloodstream and will stimulate the cleansing functions of the liver, bowels and kidneys.  Deep breathing and exercise will aid in lung and skin elimination. Dry skin brushing and hydrotherapy help clean the blood and lymph and is very good for elderly people and weak individuals that cannot move around easily and be exposed to more energetic therapies.

 

Some blood cleaners are diuretics, others are hepatics (liver cleansers), others will influence other organs.  Take blood cleansing herbs between meals on an empty stomach.  If they cause nausea or stomach upset, adding some licorice root, ginger or other carminatives to the combination usually will help.  If this fails, take the herbs with meals or change the formula so it can be taken on an empty stomach.

 

The kidneys, lungs, liver, bowels and skin are the major eliminatory organs of the body.  Always consider herbs that will aid elimination through them to help purify the blood.  Stimulating hot and cold alternating fomentations over the weak organs will stimulate cleansing of these body parts.

 

Blood purification therapy is especially indicated during gout, arthritis, rheumatism, skin diseases, all toxic conditions, during fasts and periodically during cleansing and transition diets, acute and chronic illnesses, infections and low grade fevers.

 

Blood purification therapy is used to treat heat/excess, cold/deficient, internal and external problems.

 

In heat/excess the toxins in the blood and lymphatic system have to be removed.  Toxins and poisons produce heat in the body.  During cold/deficient illness an individual is feeling cold because of the organs not functioning properly.  If there is a heavy congestion in certain areas of the body, deobstruent therapy is indicated, but if the organs are receiving toxic, poor blood which is hindering the function of them, blood purification is the suitable therapy.

 

Whether the condition is internal (chronic) or external (acute) the blood needs to be purified.  It is one of the main therapies that can be used along with any other therapy needed.