Bearberry

Clinical Notes. Best acute Take break after taking for 1 week For Prostatitis: combine w/ demulcent and anti-spasmodic herbs if indicated Take separately from thiamine, metal ion supplements or alkaloid-containing meds and herbs May combine with cranberry Sitz bath for leucorrhea, vaginitis

Action and Therapy. Uva Ursi is a true diuretic acting directly upon the renal epithelium. Owing to the presence of arbutin it is decidedly antiseptic and retards putrescent changes in the urine, and acts as a mild disinfectant of the urinary passages.

Therapy. It is curative in ulceration of the bladder wall, in cystitis, in pyelitis and in pyelonephritis. It is of much benefit also in the general treatment of gonorrhea. It has been prescribed with much confidence in diabetes, in which condition its influence is more general than specific. It exercises a soothing influence upon the urinary apparatus, and for that reason, is a common constituent of very many prescriptions for diseased conditions of these organs.

Properties and Uses. These leaves are principally astringent, with which they combine mild tonic and soothing properties. They increase the flow of urine; and while their powers are more or less expended upon all mucous membranes, they particularly show their influence upon the urino-genital structures.