Success Healing Overactive Bladder with Kidney Herbs

This article is for informational purposes. I am not a physician. Please see your qualified medical care practitioner for issues pertaining to your health.

For the first time in a very long time, I am not dealing with bladder control issues - which America calls Overactive Bladder (OAB), and, another thing, an electrolyte imbalance, signified by muscle twitching (muscle fasiculations). Here are a few things I have learned in the journey from urinating nearly clear urine every 15 to 30 minutes to --- NOW -- normal yellow urine every 2 to 3 hours and the ability to hold my bladder all night (both formerly impossible):

TWO NORMAL URINALYSIS TESTS BUT WHAT DOES LOW SPECIFIC GRAVITY MEAN?

However, if a physician runs a urinalysis test on you, they may not always know how to interpret it correctly. If low specific gravity comes back, even on TWO different urinalysis tests, instead of accepting that they said that the test was "Normal" you will want to get other opinions, and you should get a copy of the test results, or it may be completely missed. Kidneys clogging up and needing cleansing can produce low specific gravity, which can result in volumes of dilute urine (polyuria) and urinating during the night (nocturia), all resulting in excessive thirst trying to rehydrate the body (polydipsia). [There are herbal cleanses that can increase kidney function - you can search Google for herbal kidney cleanses, but you should stay under medical direction while doing anything that pertains to kidneys. Kidneys control electrolyte balance and if your electrolytes go out of order you are in serious trouble physicially, maybe even emotionally and physically and it can be life-threatening to have an electrolyte disorder. Look up qualified alternative practitioners.]

Tests for urinalysis can show low specific gravity but as it was, two different results for me did not produce a diagnosis when it came to urinalysis. Kidney failure and diabetes insipidus can both cause a decline in specific gravity. Specific gravity is the measure of how concentrated the urine is, and declines when the kidney filtering mechanisms, called the glomeruli, get clogged up with mineral salts, fibers, parasites, and other contaminants. The kind of Diabetes Insipidus that means the kidney nephrons are impaired is called Nephrogenic. That was my kind. After cleansing, my kidneys were able to conserve urine and make it more yellow instead of urinating it out before it was circulated properly, so I did have enough anti-diuretic hormone vasopressin.

WHAT TESTS SHOULD BE RUN IF YOU SUSPECT CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE OR DIABETES INSIPIDUS

It is critically important that your doctor also run a blood test for creatinine, bilirubin, and Blood Urea Nitrogen [BUN].These are toxins that build up in the blood if the kidneys are impaired. Your doctor should also run an electrolytes panel. The kidneys are the controller of the electrolytes, the minerals which carry electrical charge. Another critically important test to run is Glomerular Filteration Rate (GFR), which is a measure of how well the kidneys are filtering blood plasma. However, if these do come back abnormal, they may end up recommending dialysis. Chinese herbalism philosophy believes that the kidneys are the root of the essence and chi of the body and has herbs equipped to deal with fluid imbalances.

HERBAL CLEANSES AND CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE OR DIABETES INSIPIDUS

Herbal cleanses target excretion of urea, break up kidney stones, provide antifungal and antiseptic power to the kidneys and bladder both. What I did with herbs to break up kidney stones also is done with Western medicine but in a different way: lithotripsy is an ultrasonic way of breaking up kidney stones. Contaminants and stones in the kidneys can severely impair them. Remember, it is said that the human body is 80% water. The kidneys are the processing plant for this water. The blood stream cannot handle a massive overload of toxins.

Protein, which is necessary for building of tissue, mental health, muscles, and many other essential human functions, breaks down into ammonia, and then into urea. This is toxic and must be dealt with by excretion. The kidneys are the eliminatory organ which must ultimately excrete this.

My solution to an overactive bladder was herbal cleanses, especially herbs for dissolving kidney and bladder stones, and lots of parsley, which is a kidney cleaner and diuretic.