Find Relief with Herbal Remedies for Urinary System Support

Almost all urinary system herbal remedies act on the kidneys, causing an increase in the amount of urine. The water with which herbal teas are prepared enhances these diuretic properties of herbs. Increasing urine volume promotes the urinary system’s functions of eliminating waste substances that the kidneys perform. Hence, they help cleanse the blood and purify the entire body.

Uric acid and urea are two of the most toxic substances our body continuously produces, and they must be eliminated through urine. Many effective herbal plants promote the elimination of metabolic waste and substances.

Plants are highly effective in increasing mineral salts’ solubility, usually in urine. These salts precipitate in the kidneys, kidney stones, or calculi when not dissolved. Some plants can dissolve kidney stones (unlike gallbladder stones).

Since many plant active components are eliminated through the urine, when they have antiseptic or antibiotic properties, they successfully combat urinary system diseases and infections from the kidneys to the urethra.

Top Urinary System Plants

Some plants improve the muscle tone of the urinary system parts and functions; thus, the cases of enuresis and urine incontinence will improve.

Agave	Arbutus	Bearberry	Buchu	Cacao
Cane/ Giant reed	Celery	Cherry tree	Copal tree	Dwarf elder
Eryngo	Golden-rod	Gromwell	Heather	Hedge garlic
Indian corn	Juniper	Kidney bean	Lovage	Madder
Parsley	Pellitory of the wall	Restharrow	Sand spurry	Sarsaparilla
Spanish carrot/ Bishop’s weed	White birch	White currant	Wild balm	Wild strawberry
Wild teasel	Winter cherry	Couch grass

Urinary Anti-Inflammatory Herbs

These herbs fight inflammation in urinary organs (kidney nephritis, cystitis in the urinary bladder, prostatitis in the prostate). Many of these herbs also have urinary antiseptic and diuretic properties.

Rusty back	Mouse-ear	Arbutus
Bearberry	Buchu	Copaiba
Restharrow	Pellitory of the wall	Madder
Goldenrod	Pumpkin	Shrub palmetto

Diuretic Herbs

These herbs increase urine production and volume in the kidneys. Diuretic plants improve water elimination and promote the elimination of diverse waste substances in the urine. They present one or several actions depending on the importance they eliminate with the most vigorous intensity.

Actions of Diuretic Plants

Depending on the waste substances they eliminate most, diuretic plants present one of several of the following medicinal actions:

• Natriuretic or sodium diuretic – When plants especially promote the elimination of sodium salts such as NaCI (common salt or sodium chlorine). These herbs are rich in potassium. Natriuretic plants are recommended for high blood pressure, edema, heart afflictions, and weight-loss treatments.
• Chlorine – When these herbs increase the elimination of water and several chlorine salts (sodium, potassium, ammonium, etc.). Herbs, with this action, are widely used diuretics.
• Uricosuric or uric diuretic – These herbs help eliminate uric acid in urine. Many uricosuric plants are depurative for gout or arthritis (rheumatism caused by uric acid).
• Ureic diuretic—These herbs especially promote the elimination of urea, one of the protein metabolic toxic wastes with uric acid. Diuretic herbs are used mainly when there is a degree of kidney insufficiency (the inability of the kidneys to eliminate urine metabolic poisonous waste).
• Oxalic and phosphaturic – These herbs especially promote the elimination of oxalates and phosphates in the urine. These salts usually cause kidney stones and calculi.

Carrot	Coffee tree	Scotch broom
Mistletoe	Cypress	Kneeholly
Horseweed	Nettle	Onion
Guaiac	Elecampane	Lungwort
Woodruff	Artichoke	Fumitory
Dandelion	Pineapple	St. Benedict thistle
Mouse-ear	Apple tree	Agave
Witch grass	Celery	Bearberry
Cane	Buchu	White birch
Heather	Wild teasel	Eryngo
Wild strawberry	Juniper	Gromwell
Restharrow	Pellitory of the wall	Parsley
Kidney bean	Winter cherry	White currant
Madder	Saxifrage	Sarsaparilla
Goldenrod	Sand spurry	Indian corn
Storkbill	Asparagus	Javan tea
Meadowsweet	Ash tree	Devil’s claw
Mountain holly	Burdock	Horsetail
Calaguala	Borage	Black poplar
Black elder

Abelmosk and other plants of the genus “Hibiscus” have beautiful flowers like this. Their seeds contain essential oil with a robust antispasmodic effect, which is beneficial to ease colic pain like those in the kidneys. They are taken infusion.

Fresh juice from borage leaves before the flowers grow is an excellent diuretic and blood depurative, eliminating many waste substances from the blood, especially concerning infectious diseases.

Kidney bean pods have diuretic properties, including natriuretic (they eliminate sodium) and uricosuric (they eliminate uric acid). They are used successfully for edema caused by kidney or heart insufficiency and liquid retention produced days before menstruation. They are also used for diabetes since they decrease blood sugar levels.

DISCLAIMER: All content on this website is presented solely for educational and informational objectives. Do not rely on the information provided as a replacement for advice, diagnosis, or treatment from a qualified medical expert. If you are pregnant, nursing, or have any preexisting medical concerns, talk to your doctor before using any herbal or natural medicines.

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