Cystitis is a common inflammatory process in the bladder and urethra, accompanied by painful sensations. As a rule, for its treatment, doctors prescribe pills or other traditional remedies. However, more and more patients with this diagnosis are choosing folk remedies.
Chamomile is rightfully considered the most effective remedy for treating inflammatory processes. There are many recipes and ways to use this plant. For cystitis, it perfectly relieves pain and relieves other symptoms of the disease. This herb is also widely used for preventive purposes. However, it must be remembered that failure to comply with the rules of use, as well as exceeding dosages, can lead to undesirable consequences.
What does douching with chamomile do for cystitis?
Chamomile has long been used as an effective natural remedy. The salicylic and ascorbic acids contained in the plant, as well as essential oil, especially contribute to this. Chamomile:
- acts as an anti-inflammatory agent;
- accelerates the regeneration of damaged tissues;
- strengthens local immunity;
- relieves pain and relaxes muscles.
Of course, douching alone is not enough for cystitis. But this procedure should be included in the complex of treatment measures carried out to get rid of the disease. Almost always, therapy also involves taking medications (including herbal ones).
Prevention
Recurrence of cystitis occurs after 3-6 months in 27% of women. To prevent this, you must follow your doctor’s recommendations and use medicines and folk remedies.
After treatment, it is important to avoid hypothermia, strengthen the immune system, maintain personal hygiene, drink plenty of fluids and not delay emptying the bladder. Women especially should use neutral hygiene products that do not affect the microflora.
To get rid of cystitis once and for all, you must follow your doctor’s recommendations.
For frequent relapses, a single dose of antibiotics is prescribed when symptoms appear. Most often, for prevention, it is recommended to use medicinal herbs that have minimal side effects compared to synthetic drugs.
Herbal collections with diuretic, antimicrobial, antispasmodic properties (including chamomile) provide a good preventive effect.
How to prepare a chamomile medicinal solution
Preparing a solution for douching does not present any difficulties. You will need:
- enamel vessel;
- 1 liter of boiling water;
- 2 tbsp. l. dried chamomile;
- warm towel.
It is advisable to buy chamomile flowers at a pharmacy (the cost of such collection is no more than 80-100 rubles per package). It is permissible to harvest the plant yourself, but first you need to make sure that it grows in an unpolluted area (spaces near busy roads or factories are not suitable).
Place chamomile in a container, fill it with water and put on low heat. Since the liquid used is already hot, the decoction will boil quite quickly. Then you need to remove the vessel from the stove and wrap it in a towel. In this form, the decoction must be infused and cooled - only after this the solution is considered suitable for use. True, you still have to strain it through cheesecloth first to get rid of parts of the plant.
A pure chamomile solution is good in the early stages of the development of the inflammatory process. If the disease is advanced, it is better to “strengthen” the liquid with other components, for example, calendula (you will need 0.5 tsp per 2 tbsp of chamomile).
Please note: the douching solution can also be taken orally, like regular tea. It has a positive effect on the body, promoting a speedy recovery from cystitis.
When to use
Chamomile is widely used in the treatment of a number of different diseases.
Doctors often prescribe it in the following cases:
- hyperthermia;
- inflammatory processes of the respiratory tract and throat;
- flatulence;
- diseases of the gastrointestinal tract and liver;
- sleep problems;
- skin rashes;
- inflammatory processes of the eye mucosa;
- skin rashes and acne;
- inflammation of hemorrhoids;
- increased sweating.
Douching with chamomile: how to do it for cystitis
For douching, a special medical “device” is used - an Esmarch mug (it can be freely purchased at any pharmacy for 100-200 rubles). The device is a container with a flexible tube through which the solution flows.
Before using the Esmarch mug, it is recommended to take care of hygiene. In particular, it is necessary to wipe the tip of the tube with alcohol or scald it with boiling water.
The douching procedure itself involves the following steps:
- Lie down in the bathtub with your feet on the sides. As an option, you can take a similar position in bed, although this is less convenient, since you additionally have to use a bedpan (so that liquid does not spill on the bed).
- Relax your vaginal muscles.
- Insert the tip of the mug inside and begin pouring in the solution. Do this as carefully as possible, without excessive pressure.
Useful properties of the flower
Chamomile flowers contain essential oils, vitamins, glycosides and other substances. Due to its diverse composition, the plant has many medicinal properties:
- anti-inflammatory;
- antibacterial;
- disinfectant;
- painkillers;
- diuretic;
- anesthetic;
- calming.
The essential oil contains chamazulene, a substance that has anti-inflammatory, anti-allergic, local analgesic effects, and also has a positive effect on metabolic processes. The glycoside apine, contained in the flowers of the plant, has the ability to relax smooth muscle tissue, which helps neutralize urinary spasms.
How to use chamomile?
For inflammation of the bladder, chamomile is used both internally and externally in women. In both cases, its use brings relief to patients with cystitis. How to take chamomile for cystitis will be discussed below.
External treatment of bladder inflammation
Chamomile is well known for its high therapeutic activity, which is why it is used in the treatment of the urinary tract. Need 4 tables. lie pour dried flowers into a liter of boiling water. Leave for at least an hour. Then add warm water to the solution to the required volume.
Baths
A bath with chamomile is one of the main methods of local antibacterial treatment for cystitis. The effect of the procedure has a double effect:
- Thermal , as a result of which there is an acceleration of blood circulation, an increase in metabolic processes, and an antispasmodic effect.
- A chemical that suppresses the vital activity of pathogenic microflora, relaxes smooth muscles, and relieves pain.
Baths can be carried out in several ways:
- The first option is performed using a plastic basin, the depth of which allows you to immerse the pelvic part of the body to the navel line. The container is filled with an antiseptic chamomile solution heated to forty to forty-five degrees.
- The second option is warming up in a bathtub with a more complete immersion of the body to the waist, when not only the pelvis, but also the thighs and feet are warmed up under water. In all other respects, the treatment technology remains the same.
- The third method is slightly different from the previous two. The solution must be heated to ninety degrees. Then pour the steaming liquid into a plastic bucket and sit on top so as not to touch the surface of the water with your pelvis. Throw a large terry towel, sheet or blanket over yourself, making it like a cocoon. Warm up for at least twenty minutes.
Thanks to the essential oil contained in chamomile decoction, both water and steam baths are equally effective.
Baths
Sitz baths
Baths soothe pain, dampen inflammation of the mucous membranes, warm and heal with regular use. Pour 4 tbsp into a bowl of boiling water (4-5 l). l. dry chamomile inflorescences, leave for 5 minutes. Pour the contents of the basin into a bathtub filled with water to completely cover the legs in a sitting position.
Sit in warm water for 15-20 minutes, then dry thoroughly and dress warmly (put socks on your feet). Lie down, covered with a blanket. Hypothermia after a bath with cystitis is unacceptable. Do baths daily during treatment and for another 3 days after getting rid of the symptoms of the disease.
Ingestion
When taken orally, the active components of the plant enter the bloodstream and are distributed throughout the body. They accelerate blood circulation and relieve inflammation inside the bladder, relax and eliminate spasms of smooth muscle fibers, and have an analgesic and disinfecting effect.
Infusions for illness
Chamomile infusion can be prepared in two versions:
- A hot infusion is prepared at the rate of 1-2 tablespoons of dried flowers per cup of freshly brewed boiling water. Leave for half an hour. Drink ¼ of the resulting volume four times a day.
- When preparing a cold infusion 5 table. lie pour half a liter of boiled water, cooled to room temperature, over the flowers. Leave the solution for half a day (it is advisable to do it at night), then filter and drink in small sips throughout the day.
Chamomile tea
Chamomile tea is an effective anti-inflammatory remedy for cystitis. Pour one teaspoon of dry color into a thermos and pour a cup of boiling water. When brewed, drink instead of regular tea, sweeten with honey or sugar. The only “disadvantage” of this drink is the slight bitterness it contains.
Healing decoctions
Chamomile is often brewed together with other herbs, which complement and enhance its beneficial properties. Such herbal complexes have a greater therapeutic effect for cystitis than chamomile decoctions alone.
Here is one recipe that will help you get rid of bladder pain in a short time. You need to prepare a mixture of the following ingredients:
- chamomile – 20 g;
- black currant bark – 20 g;
- black elderberry flowers – 10 g; horsetail – 10 g.
Mix everything and pour half a liter of homemade wine. Cook over low heat for ten minutes. Leave for half an hour, filter, and take 2 tablespoons. lie four times a day.
Use in pregnant women
Half of pregnant women suffer from cystitis. This is explained by the fact that a drop in general immunity causes the activity of infections that are still dormant in the body.
This situation is a direct threat not only to the health of the mother’s entire urinary system, but, first of all, to the unborn baby, as it can cause complications.
There are practically no antibiotics used for cystitis that do not violate the placental barrier. Therefore, it is very important to identify the infection in the early stages of its development. In this case, the disease can be cured with local manipulations, as well as herbal decoctions (including chamomile) or other gentle methods.
During pregnancy, chamomile can be used without fear as an external treatment in the form of baths, douches, compresses, and inhalations.
You can take loosely brewed tea with chamomile flowers, the daily amount of which should not exceed half a liter. The drink will have an anti-inflammatory and antimicrobial effect and eliminate spasms of the urinary organs.
List of most popular ingredients
What ingredients are most effective for baths for cystitis in women? This:
- soda and salt provide an excellent local disinfecting effect, help reduce burning and wash out colonies and spores of microbes from the urethral mucosa;
- chamomile infusion is one of the most popular anti-inflammatory ingredients for baths;
- other herbal infusions;
- diluted potassium permanganate;
- Bay leaf.
The duration of therapy depends on the selected ingredients. It is also optimal to simultaneously take medications to maintain the health of the bladder and kidneys: Monural, Renel, Canephron. These are medicines that contain plant extracts and have virtually no side effects. Even pregnant women can take them.
In what cases is douching done?
There are several problems of the female genital area in which douching with chamomile provides invaluable help:
- Candidiasis (thrush). A course of douching with chamomile helps to completely get rid of the main symptoms of the disease. Heavy discharge, itching, soreness, and irritation on the external genitalia no longer bother women. A decoction with chamomile gently and effectively cleanses the vaginal mucosa from fungal infections and does not cause dryness.
- Erosion of the cervix in the early stages of development. The plant contains active components that relieve pain, help regenerate damaged tissues and have a healing effect.
- Cystitis. Although cystitis is mainly treated with pharmacological drugs, complex therapy always includes douching with chamomile infusion, which effectively relieves inflammatory processes in cystitis.
- Allergic manifestations. Discomfortable phenomena - irritation, itching, redness - if allergies occur, douching with chamomile helps relieve.
This procedure is also recommended for vaginitis and polyps in the uterus.
Reviews
Arina, 38 years old, Moscow
After hypothermia, I began to have pain when urinating. The doctor diagnosed cystitis and strongly recommended drinking chamomile infusion and doing sitz baths. A week later, not a trace of the disease remained!
Marina, 42 years old, Vladivostok
After spending the night in a tent, I started going to the toilet often. On the advice of a colleague, I started drinking chamomile tea and douching. The next day it became much easier, and on the fourth day all the symptoms completely disappeared.
Alena, 26 years old, St. Petersburg
I suffer from chronic cystitis. During the period of exacerbation of the disease, I was advised to take chamomile infusion and sitz baths. They do a great job! Black tea has since been replaced with chamomile tea for prevention purposes.
Karina, 54 years old, Saransk
There was a burning sensation and pain when urinating. The doctor prescribed pills, but they did not help. Chamomile has become my salvation! She was the only one who was able to get rid of the unpleasant symptoms of cystitis.
Beneficial features
To prepare a healing decoction, you need to use chamomile inflorescences. This simple but miraculous plant contains useful components that have an anti-inflammatory, analgesic, antimicrobial, disinfectant, antiallergic and hemostatic effect. Essential oil, some hormone-like components, a rich amount of vitamins, micro- and macroelements in the plant make it a valuable assistant and natural home healer for many women.
Reference! In gynecology, chamomile has taken its rightful place due to its anti-inflammatory and soothing properties.
Contraindications
Gynecologists note that any douching composition threatens disruption in the natural microflora of the vagina. Therefore, turning this manipulation into an everyday hygiene ritual is unacceptable. It is especially harmful to douche on menstruation days. By self-medicating and carrying out the procedure during pregnancy, in the first weeks after childbirth or abortion, during acute inflammatory diseases and in some other cases, women cause significant harm to their well-being and health.
In addition, for women after 40 years of age, douching is conditionally permitted and can only be carried out with the permission of the attending physician.
Important! If any unpleasant sensations in the vagina, pain or itching occur, as well as unusual discharge, the manipulation should be stopped immediately and notified to the doctor.
