tomc
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Herbs

I love the hunt. It was to guess where the deer was headed back when my legs worked better. In recent years it has been to trial my way through the biome to see what could be trained to fit inna bonsai pot.

This weeks 'hunt' has been to find the herbs used in a tea for kidney infections. The easy ones I think I have a lead on are:

Birch leaves dried
Stinging nettle leaves dried
'Berry' Dog rose

The harder finds, which I still think I have pretty good leads on are:
Equisetum Hymale, greater horsetail fern. (dried plants)
Arctostaphylos Uva Ursi, bearbery (dried leaves)

The dogs, that I am not having much luck finding at all: :(
Hernaria hirsuta, rupturewort (a native of only Malta ?)
Ononis Repens, restharrow ???

Its these last two I'm needing help finding.

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Tomc,

Richter's have Restharrow seeds (link)

Mountain Valley Growers have Rupturewort plants (link)

Steve

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Actually drink plenty of water, that helps with kidney infections too.

Be careful if you are taking antibiotics for UTI, you want to make sure you are taking it correctly some antibiotics will interact with over the counter and home remedies that may cause undesired side effects or change the efficacy of the drug. Some need to be taken with food, since they are upsetting and other you need to avoid certain foods , like milk or take them on an empty stomach.

Cranberry juice used to be recommend to prevent UTI's in women, but it doesn't work for everybody and can interact with people on warfarin. It does not help you get over an infection, it was mostly to make the environment more inhospitable.



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