Every year, medical institutions register an increasing number of men suffering from prostatitis. This delicate disease affects the male population from 25 to 55 years. Together with drug treatment, phytotherapy is widely used. It can not completely replace medical products, but it helps to alleviate many of the symptoms significantly. Nettle is one of many medicinal herbs that can remove inflammation, itching. In folk medicine, not only its leaves are used, but also the roots.
Treatment and prevention of prostatitis with the help of nettle
Nettle is an excellent natural remedy for many diseases, including prostatitis. It contains a lot of useful vitamins and microelements. In nettles, not only do the leaves have medicinal properties, seeds and plant roots are no less valuable. Treatment of prostatitis with nettle has long been popular. This plant can reduce pain when urinating, remove swelling. Nettle is a natural antibiotic and has an anti-inflammatory effect.
In folk medicine there are many recipes for infusions and broths that can help with inflammation of the prostate:
- It is necessary to take 500 ml of grape port and pour it with five tablespoons of nettle seeds. The resulting mixture must be boiled for five minutes and then filtered. The resulting broth is taken on a tablespoon three times a day.
- Fresh roots of nettle should be thoroughly rinsed and cut. The resulting raw material pour vodka in the proportion of 1 tablespoon per 500 ml of vodka. The resulting mixture should be insisted for at least three weeks in a dark place, periodically shaking. Then tincture strain and take twenty drops once a day.
- Well, nettle helps with prostatitis, if it is mixed with pine needles. To do this, cut 200 grams of the roots of the plant and mix them with 30 grams of needles. The resulting mixture must be filled with a liter of vodka and put it in a dark cool place. The filtered infusion is taken twice a day - for lunch and for the night.
- You can prepare a therapeutic powder. For this, the roots and rhizomes of the plant are ground in a coffee grinder. You can add medicinal herbs to the mixture, for example, chamomile, sage. The resulting powder is stirred with water and taken two to three times a day.
The roots of nettle are most useful in the period of its flowering. A variety of broths from the plant together with other medicinal herbs relieve pain, improve the outflow of urine, normalize the stool. With chronic prostatitis, you can use decoctions of nettle with ivy field, calendula flowers, yarrow. Honey, as a natural antibiotic, will only enhance the effect of the decoction.
For the prevention of the disease, you can use nettles to prepare medicinal baths or enemas:
- Dried seeds( a full two-liter jar) are poured with four liters of boiling water. The product should be put on a water bath and boil for 10 minutes. Then drain the contents and pour into a bath.
- To prepare medicinal solution for enema, pour 1 tablespoon of seeds with a glass of water, boil for 15 minutes. Then the solution must be cooled and used for enemas. The procedure is carried out daily for a month.
Nettle seeds can be used to make lotions:
- Fresh seeds of the plant should be poured with hot oil in a 1: 2 ratio. Leave to infuse in a darkened place for about 2 weeks. Then strain. The resulting product is applied to a gauze and laid to the crotch before bedtime for 40 minutes.
Like any medicine, nettle has contraindications. It can not be used in broths and tinctures for people suffering from cardiovascular diseases. Nettle increases blood coagulability, so it can not be used by people who are prone to blood clots.
What is prostatitis
Prostatitis is an inflammatory process that takes place in the prostate gland. Since the prostate gland is present only in men, this disease affects only the male part of the population.
When prostatitis occurs, men experience the following symptoms:
- Urination becomes painful, too frequent;
- In an intimate life there are problems, there are problems with an erection;
- There are constant aching pains in the lower abdomen, sometimes giving in the lower back or leg.
Most often, prostatitis develops in men who are low-active lifestyle - drivers, office workers. Inflammation of the prostate occurs for the following reasons:
- Frequent hypothermia;
- Infection of the infection in the genitourinary system through unprotected intercourse;
- Frequent stresses, nervous breakdowns;
- Circulatory disturbance in pelvic organs;
- Long sexual abstinence, interruption of intercourse;
Doctors warn that frequent changes in sexual partners have a negative effect on men's health. Many diseases such as chlamydia, candidiasis, Trichomonas, herpes virus bring into the genitourinary system an infection with which immunity can not cope, and the prostate gland is one of the first to suffer from viruses.
At the first symptoms of prostatitis it is necessary to urgently consult a specialist. Self-treatment will only prolong the healing process and can lead to irreversible consequences. The use of folk remedies during therapy will help to speed up the recovery process.
