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Urinary tract infections affect most women at some point in their lives and some small children and the elderly, is characterized by colonization of bacteria in the urinary tract cells, especially by Escherichia coli.
As a result of some research in Phytotherapy Research Center reported that the release properties of the cranberry that prevented bacteria are fixed on the mucosa of the urinary tract and produce infection.

Other investigations confirmed that this fruit is used both for prevention and treatment, along with antibiotics, urinary tract infection symptoms in women, and therefore as a natural resource and benefits of this drug has a cranberry plant, also known as “cranberry” in English, consumption they can significantly prevent the occurrence of symptoms of urinary tract disease in children.
This work is in addition being developed by the Cochrane Foundation stressed that bilberries “reduce by half the number of episodes suffered from cystitis for more than a year.”

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The phrase “this does not save or Chinese doctor” is the result of the successes in the performance of traditional herbal medicine made by Dr Cham Bom Bian of the city of Cardenas, Matanzas province, in the nineteenth century.

Herbal medicine or phytotherapy is a therapeutic practice that different preparations of plants used to treat diseases. It is considered one of the first systems of healing and continuing today.

In Egypt since the 1300s B.C. and cultivated plants collected for medicinal purposes by the papyri of the time. A builder of temples and pyramids were given garlic to keep them healthy. Some papyri, such as Smith, account for more than 400 raw materials, both animal and plant for the treatment of disease.

In Babylon the king Mardukapaolidine II (772-710 BC) built a garden for growing medicinal plants for which he became famous. Read the rest of this entry »