Urethritis is a common disease in daily life. Generally, bacteria can live in the urethra and its surroundings without causing infection. However, when the body's resistance is lowered or there is slight damage to the urethral mucosa, or when the bacteria have strong toxicity and the ability to adhere to the urethral membrane and travel upwards, it is easy to invade the bladder and kidneys, causing infection. Below, I will recommend a home remedy using Plantago asiatica to treat urethritis.
【Specific Steps】
Plantago asiatica 1000g (approximately 150g when dried), 6 pig intestines, 50g adzuki beans, 2 honey dates, 1/3 dried tangerine peel (remove the pith), 1 piece of ginger, and 10 crushed white peppercorns.
Trim and clean the pig intestines, rinse them with salt or cornstarch, soak the Plantago asiatica and adzuki beans in water, and put all the cleaned ingredients into a clay pot. Add enough water and bring it to a boil. Simmer on high heat for 2-3 hours. Add salt for seasoning. This recipe serves 6 people.
【Analysis of Effectiveness】
Plantago asiatica has a sweet taste and a cold nature. It has the effects of clearing heat, diuresis, resolving phlegm, cooling blood, and detoxifying. It is mainly used for symptoms such as edema with reduced urine output, hot and painful urination, summer damp diarrhea, phlegm-heat cough, vomiting blood, nosebleeds, abscesses, and sores. It has good therapeutic effects on urinary blockage, short and red urination, leukorrhea, hematuria, jaundice, edema, dysentery, diarrhea, red and swollen eyes, sore throat, cough, and skin ulcers. However, it is not suitable for patients with deficiency of slippery essence and qi.
The Historical Origin of Plantago asiatica
It is said that General Ma Wu led his troops to attack the Xiongnu. Unexpectedly, the troops were defeated and trapped, with no food and water left. Many soldiers suffered from "hematuria disease" and their lives were in danger. Only three war horses survived by constantly nibbling on the unnamed grass on the roadside. The observant cart driver noticed this situation and struggled to pull the unknown grass from the roadside, chewed it and swallowed it. Unexpectedly, the disease was cured. He was extremely happy and quickly reported this to General Ma Wu. Ma Wu ordered the entire army to take it, and within a few days, the patients recovered. They finally broke through the siege. Later, Ma Wu, thinking about the miraculous survival, said with infinite emotion, "The entire army was revived, all thanks to the miraculous grass on the roadside!" Since then, people have called this wild grass Plantago asiatica.
