Cordate houttuynia is a common plant that widely used by people. For housewife, it is a delicious food. For herbalist, cordate houttuynia is an herb that can be used to cure cold, cough and even the
cystitis. However, what's the effect of this herb on cystitis and can this disease be terminated by this herb finally?
To know the answer, it is necessary for us to analyze the symptoms of cystitis and the effect of cordate houttuynia.
According to the symptoms that show on cystitis patients, herbalists take the view that symptoms like urgency of urination, frequency of urination, painful urination and pyuria are caused by hot stranguria; Symptoms like pain on lower abdomen and tenderness on bladder pubic area are caused by heat and dampness; complications like
prostatitis are caused by Qi stranguria.
To cure the cystitis, firstly, the treatment needs the effect of relieving stranguria. And cordate houttuynia is the right herb. Secondly, to eliminate inflammation of cystitis, treatment needs the effect of clearing heat and removing toxin, and cordate houttuynia has this function too. However, symptoms like bloating, backache and rough bladder wall under microscope means the treatment also has to contain the effect like activating blood and resolving stasis, and harmonizing Qi and blood, which the cordate houttuynia does not have.
All in all, cordate houttuynia is helpful for cystitis, but cannot terminate the cystitis. Treating the cystitis, a complete herbal formula is needed. Take the
Diuretic and Anti-inflammatory Pill for example. This herbal pill contains more than 50 rare herbs like cordate houttuynia, Seaweed, Laminaria, Pangolin, Red flower, Peach Kernel, Honeysuckle, Cordate Houttuynia, Gardenia and Scutellaria Baicalensis, etc. Thus, it is a complete formula with more effects, relatively.
Diuretic and Anti-inflammatory Pill can terminate the cystitis from the root with the functions like activating blood and resolving stasis, clearing heat and resolving dampness, clearing heat and removing toxin and reliving stranguria. Moreover, the pill has no drug resistance, it can relieve you pain and symptoms constantly until the disease be cured completely.
