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Q: Is there any chinese medicine that can cure UTIs?
9 years 7 weeks ago in Health & Safety - Shanghai
Bathe in a boiling hotpot (火锅) whilst simultaneously inserting several baozi (包子) into ones anal orifice.
Like all TCM, this is 100% guaranteed NOT to work.
.Bathe in a boiling hotpot (火锅) whilst simultaneously inserting several baozi (包子) into ones anal orifice.
Like all TCM, this is 100% guaranteed NOT to work.
I know someone with recurrent urinary tract infections (I guess this what you call UTIs). Various hospitals, various doctors, roughly the same prescription : a dose of antibiotics. Sometime with additional expensive stuffs without clear labels nor explanations of what it does and why it's described, just "It's TCM".
My observation : So in China, it seems that they use antibiotics for UTIs. The additional TCM can't be accounted for, because it's not even labelled and it's not prescribed in a consistent manner (give X for diagnostic Y). Think "medicine", not "<human group> medicine". There's science and there's feel-good fluff.
Bacterial infections are cured by antibiotics. China has plenty of those.
Everyone knows that a jar of gypsy tears is the best cure for what ails ya!
Lime juice or cranberry juice. Anything high in vitimin C. Thats the traditional western cure.
@ScotsAlan 
Also, cut out things like caffeine, alcohol, spicy food, nicotine, carbonated drinks and artificial sweetness.
Did I just look for this information online myself? Well done me !
you know the internet is a great thing, you can find out so much by yourself if you have the energy to type on a keyboard. (unless of course you want to find out dangerous information like quick and easy, non-medical remedies for common problems)
ScotsAlan:
I did not have to Bing it sorrel. My ex-wife used to get cystitis. The hot pee where you need to go but cant. Lots of high vit C liquids works. No need for medicine, Chinese or otherwise :-)
Stop inserting objects into your urinary tract might help...
Firstly, prevention is better than the cure. In future, wear a condom when you shag a hooker. No brainer there.
It is probably an NSU. Try antibiotics and wash your whistle.
I would say stick with western medicine like antibiotics.
Dr Won Hung Lo prescribes immediate IV drip or visit ancestors soon!
TCM doesn't pass the common sense test. Think about it.
So my answer would be the same as the others.
Special mention of Sorrel's answer...thanks for that, Sorrel. My daily chuckle taken care of just in the nick of time.
These things (daily chuckles) are becoming something of a rare commodity for me of late.
I feel like saying "fuk China!", but I won't.
