Can Moneywort treat urinary tract infection?

Centella asiatica has a good effect of clearing away heat and dampness, as well as diuresis and stone removal. Therefore, for some people with symptoms of urinary tract infection, it can help them get rid of the disease faster. In addition, Centella asiatica can also have a certain therapeutic effect on some people with jaundice and spleen deficiency diarrhea.

Pathological etiology

More than 95% of urinary tract infections are caused by a single bacteria. Among them, 90% of outpatients and about 50% of inpatients are caused by Escherichia coli, which has more than 140 serotypes. The urinary infection-causing Escherichia coli is the same type as the Escherichia coli isolated from the patient's feces, and is often seen in asymptomatic bacteriuria or uncomplicated urinary infection; Proteus, Clostridium difficile, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and fecal Streptococcus are seen in patients with reinfection, indwelling catheters, and complications of urinary infection; Candida albicans and Cryptococcus neoformans infections are often seen in patients with diabetes and those using glucocorticoids and immunosuppressants and after kidney transplantation; Staphylococcus aureus is often seen in bacteremia and sepsis caused by skin trauma and drug addicts; although viral and mycoplasma infections are rare, they have tended to increase in recent years. Various bacterial infections are seen in indwelling catheters, neurogenic bladder, stones, congenital malformations, and vaginal, intestinal, and urethral fistulas.

The indications of Compound Centella asiatica Granules are clearing away heat and dampness, promoting diuresis and removing stones, and relieving inflammation and pain. It is used for patients with urinary stones and urinary tract infection due to the syndrome of damp-heat. Therefore, it is believed that compound Centella asiatica granules can treat urinary tract infections.

The whole plant can be used for medicinal purposes, and has the functions of clearing away heat and promoting diuresis, dispelling wind and relieving pain, stopping bleeding and promoting tissue regeneration, reducing inflammation and detoxifying, and killing insects. It can cure acute and chronic hepatitis, icteric hepatitis, cholecystitis, nephritis, urinary tract infection, tonsillitis, stomatitis, carbuncle, snake bites, mastitis, dysentery, malaria, pulmonary hemorrhage, etc.

People who should not drink the juice raw should avoid it if they suffer from yin sores, various poisons, spleen deficiency and diarrhea.

Suitable for: patients with jaundice, edema, bladder stones, malaria, lung abscess, cough, hematemesis, stranguria, leucorrhea, rheumatic pain, infantile malnutrition, epilepsy, carbuncle, sore, eczema

It tastes sweet, slightly bitter and cool in nature. It enters the liver, gallbladder, kidney and bladder meridians.

Indications and functions: Houttuynia cordata is a common plant and a traditional Chinese medicinal material. Its main functions are preventing stones and promoting bile secretion and stone removal. It can be said that it has very good therapeutic and preventive effects on stones. It can promote diuresis and relieve stranguria, clear away heat and detoxify, disperse blood stasis and reduce swelling, clear away damp-heat, treat stranguria with sand, painful and difficult urination, jaundice and red urine, and carbuncles and furuncles. It is mainly used to treat liver, gallbladder and urinary system stones; stranguria due to heat, edema due to nephritis, jaundice due to damp heat, sores, carbuncles, snake bites and injuries due to falls.