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.”

The most common conditions that cause cystitis is a frequent need to urinate by the inflammation of the bladder, causing different symptoms such as pain, the pain and burning during urination, the color of urine may be cloudy and dark and sometimes containing blood and pressure in the under the pelvis.
Often cystitis is caused by the natural bacteria in the gut that is the bacteria Escherichia coli, which cause infections. But there are other causes that promote health habits and also cold and wet environments affect vaginal flora.

Self-medication is common and increasingly frequent, causing antibiotic resistance, a major cause of recurrence of this disease.
This is where taking center stage as the Bilberry phytotherapy sources primarily to prevent urinary tract infections and where you live.
Also economically cheaper than traditional medicines for these diseases.

Blueberry or Cranberry, scientific name (Vaccinium macrocarpon), containing natural compounds, proanthocyanidins, namely polyphenols which give special properties and are found in large numbers in concentrated juice extract and standards of some phytomedicines based on this fruit.
It has been scientifically proven in many studies, this compound significantly inhibits adhesion of Escherichia coli on epithelial cells of urinary tract infection was significantly lower.
A good alternative that doctors should consider when advising patients on herbal medicines.

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.

In Greece figures as Aristotle and Hippocrates described the importance of herbal medicine. The latter, in his work Corpus Hippocraticum, linked to each disease a plant-based remedy. Erasios also referred Teofasto of botanical studies and the use of many plants.

During the Middle Ages, Municipality Dioscorides, in his Treatise on Materia Medica, listed more than 500 drugs of plant origin and the beneficial use of many of them.

Each region has different kinds of medicinal plants and applications that depend to a large extent on the cultural tradition.

Many modern medicines originate from plants used for therapeutic purposes. Among them mention may be quinine, extracted from the bark of the cinchona tree, aspirin, from willow bark and digoxin from the foxglove.

Herbal medicine uses whole plants whose extracts contain various constituents are mixed and not purified or isolated components. It ensures that herbal medicine preparations biochemical elements, working in groups, have a greater effect than when used separately and that significantly reduces toxicity.

During the nineteenth century with the development of chemistry and physics were isolated active principles of plants with great impact to the medical clinic. Thus were obtained the first chemically pure drugs: morphine and quinine.

Until then, the inaccuracy of the formulas plants had prevented the identification of aspects such as the minimum active dose, the safety margin of the substance and the median lethal dose.

In that sense, were increased risks of acute overdose or accidental poisoning in herbal medicine. So did the incidence of unexpected adverse reactions, because of any of the numerous compounds present in natural preparations.

Herbal remedies are derived from combination of herbs, flowers, leaves, bark and roots that are routinely taken as teas or tinctures, extracts in alcohol. They are also used by way of pills, capsules, ointments and compresses.

One current difficulty of herbal medicine is that many of their remedies are based on medicinal plants growing wild are endangered or scarce to be used by pharmaceutical companies.