Blooming Where I'm Planted!

I avoid western medicine when possible. I’m not neglectful of my and my family’s health, but seeing an actual MD is a last resort in our household. I am the healer in my home.

Right now I’m having a small issue with either a kidney stone or a UTI or both. I don’t have a fever or chills and if I develop either, I would go to a doctor. Just so we’re clear.

A kidney stone is painful as hell. If you’ve had a baby and can identify what contractions feel like, it’s almost like THAT. Seriously. It’s wicked painful. And it comes on slowly. You can actually FEEL the pain build in your lower abdomen, groin, lower to mid back. All those areas or any combination of them.

It will reach a point that makes you sweat… really. I had a kidney stone once before and I was actually breathing through the pain like contractions. I kid you not.

If you DO go to the doctor at this point, you will likely be told, “Okay Mr./Ms. So-And-So, you have a kidney stone. Go home, lots of water, take Advil, if you start pissing blood or don’t feel better in the next 48 hours, come on back in.” Really. That’s their solution.

Unless of course you want them to shove a tube up your urethra and into your kidney to break up the stones with sound waves… while you’re awake…

And urinary tract infections aren’t much more fun. I wouldn’t say the pain is really less… it’s just different. Less of a charlie horse cramp and MORE of a “gee it really sucks that my business is currently burning like I’ve got a lit match stuck in it” kind of pain. An intense burn that makes your body compulsively insist upon trying to urinate which is a vicious cycle because the act of urinating just intensifies the burning.

Going to the doctor for this would entail me coming home with a prescription for antibiotics that will end up making me JUST as miserable as the infection when they kill ALL the bacteria in my system, good AND bad, and set me up for a miserable yeast infection.

And to all the MEN out there who just cringed… just so you know… yeast infections ARE NOT EXCLUSIVE TO WOMEN! Men get them to. Funny thing is men get them all over. Mouth, anus, penis… so there will be NO stone (kidney or non) throwing here. The state of your body and health is YOUR responsibility.

Knowledge is power my friends.

So here’s my solution. Here is what I’m actually doing, in real life, for my problem with this, right now, even as I type this post.

Today I will be on a liquid diet. Water, organic broths, herbal tea with a little honey only… and the miracle. NO JUICES! Fruit or other.

Here’s why:

• There’s a reason you’re often not hungry while ill. It’s your body’s way of focusing it’s energy into your healing. When you eat food, much of your person energy goes immediately to your digestion. After all, your digestion is a process that lasts for a few hours and involves every single organ you possess.Fasting on a liquid diet allows your body the calories and nutrition it requires with minimal digestion and energy loss.
• Your body needs liquid most when it’s down. Staying hydrated makes all the difference in how fast you flush out an illness or infection.
• Stay away from juices, even the 100% juice, no sugar added varieties. When you have a stone or UTI, there are bacteria present. Bacteria eat sugar. By flushing your system with sugar, even natural ones, you’re basically sending your infection an engraved invitation to stay and expand.
• I am drinking a specific herbal tea. Any herbal tea would be fine. I am drinking Celestial Seasonings Sleepytime Extra with honey I add. The reason I’m drinking this tea specifically is because it has Valerian root in it and chamomile and I add the honey.In homeopathy, chamomile is used for things hot, angry, red, temper-mental, welted. If those things don’t describe how you feel with a UTI, I don’t know what does.

  Valerian root is commonly associated with help sleeping. I can’t vouch for YOUR reaction to it, but I don’t get sleepy unless I’m tired. If I drink this tea at night before bed, it helps me off to sleep. However, Valerian root is really for promoting relaxation. And drinking it @ noon simply has a relaxing, calming effect on me.

  I can use some relaxation right now :(

  The honey, raw and unfiltered, has immense healing properties in it. It’s anti bacterial, anti microbial, and anti viral. I like really HOT beverages personally, but when I use honey, I don’t add it to boiling hot water. Cooking the honey kills it.

Here’s the miracle that seals the deal. This is an amazing trick that Ash told me about, and I’ve used it once before now, and am happy to have it in my little medical bag now. I wouldn’t recommend doing it often because it would likely screw up your entire inner balance, but it’ll kick the crap out of a UTI if you do it for a day or 2.

1 TBSP Baking soda in 16oz of water. Drink it and repeat 2-3 times a day for 2 days.

In addition to the other liquid you’re drinking. Expect to feel a bit bloated. I sure do. But I’ll tell ya what… I was ON FIRE and I drank down 16oz and about 45 minutes later… the burn had subsided. As soon as it reached your bladder, it relieves some of the pain.

According to Ash (because frankly, I haven’t a clue) it creates an alkaline environment in your bladder that the bacteria cannot thrive or live in and therefore they are flushed away. True? *shrug* No clue. Does it work? Hell yeah it does. It’s amazing.

So that’s me and my day today. I sure hope your day is going well and the only thing burning for you is desire and passion! LOL

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