How to Cure Cystitis at Home Naturally

Cystitis, also known as interstitial cystitis (IC), or painful bladder syndrome, is one of those diagnoses that people don’t like to talk about. Unfortunately, this works to our disadvantage as patients if we're trying to figure out how to cure painful bladder syndrome. If we receive a taboo diagnosis (like cystitis or Irritable Bowel Syndrome, for example) with no known cause and no known cure (according to conventional medicine that is), then you're most likely to learn about a cure through word-of-mouth or an inspired search online (i.e. not from your doctor). A lot of people return again and again to their doctor to try to get answers and hopefully receive that magic-bullet medicine for cystitis that comes from some high-up place where scientists are working in white lab coats to create the perfect synthetic drug to overcome this disease. Unfortunately though, most of us are subconsciously aware of the fact that no one they know has ever been cured of anything by conventional medicine. Yes, people are cured of cancer. They cure their autoimmune diseases. And they find ways to help their loved ones overcome things like autism or stroke. But how often do you hear of friends, family, coworkers, or neighbors receiving a drug from a doctor of conventional medicine that heals them of a disease? At first, when you make this realization, it's scary to admit to yourself that the healthcare system is not about cures for disease, but rather simply, the treatment of symptoms to the detriment of one's overall health. But once you're no longer blind to the fact that your doctor is only schooled to know about surgeries and drugs that cover-up symptoms, you can then also begin searching for cures in other systems of medicine with your eyes wide open. There are, after all, systems of medicine that do endeavor to cure disease including, for example, Ayurveda and Traditional Chinese Medicine, to name just two. I have been writing and researching for this blog for nearly 15 years. Before that, I worked primarily in conventional healthcare settings including long-term care facilities, hospitals, psychiatric facilities, and clinics. My daughter, Lydian and I traveled all over the world between 2010 and 2017, to nearly 50 countries to see and experience how people were curing diseases using other, alternative models of medicine. We mostly searched for cures for cancer, but ended up finding a lot more than that. We completed this amazing journey just 18 months before my husband developed cancer himself. Luckily, Lydian and I were in the midst of writing The Cancer Cure Catalog 4-volume series.

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At the time when we wrote this series of books, I still didn't believe that I'd found a "cure" for cystitis, or rather, I didn't understand how the treatments I was working with at the time actually functioned to prevent painful bladder syndrome, the inflammation, the irritation, and the occasional urinary tract infection that would punctuate my general experience of this disease. Nonetheless, by the time we wrote the books above, I had a sense of how to take care of my bladder, albeit without understanding why certain treatments worked better than others. In this article, we'll talk primarily about things that can cause cystitis as well as treatments to reduce symptoms of bladder irritation without harming the bladder or any other part of the body. If you're reading this article because you or a loved one suffers from cystitis / painful bladder syndrome

The Root Cause of Cystitis

It took me many years to discover the root of my cystitis problems and it was not just one thing that was causing the inflammation and irritation. It was a combination of different problems. There was no magic pill or surgery for me and I can all but guarantee that there is no magic pill or surgery that will cure you either. That may sound like bad news, but actually, it's a statement about what cystitis actually is and why it occurs.  I say that with confidence because, if you begin by working on cystitis and you use some of the treatments I suggest here, your overall health will become better in a general way. Your bladder is essentially trying to communicate with you. It urgently needs your attention. If you give attention to your bladder and begin working with it more intentionally, you'll find that it is trying to help you overcome a general health issue and it has your best interests in mind. As you work to cure painful bladder syndrome / cystitis, you won't just get rid of inflammation and irritation in your nether-regions, you'll cure other ailments that have plagued you for years and you'll avoid developing other series diseases years down the road. If you have more than one health problem that needs attention, consider subscribing to our AlivenHealthy Living Database. This database is a tool that Lydian and I use when we gather scientific data as well as anecdotal information from other health practitioners for our health coaching clients to help them overcome several disease processes at once. The database is a searchable tool that clients use to search for links to research into cures for thousands of diseases that Lydian and I have personally researched and curated over the course of over a decade. If you aren't quite ready to schedule a health coaching session with us just yet, this app will help you treat yourself, your family, your friends, and even clients (if you're a health practitioner yourself).

Your Bladder / Your Friend

The foundational idea that we’re going to start with here is the idea that, if you are having chronic, recurrent urinary tract infections, or if you have painful bladder syndrome / cystitis, your bladder is essentially trying to communicate with you. It urgently needs your attention and if you give attention to your bladder and begin working with it more intentionally, you'll find that it is trying to help you overcome a general health issue and it has your best interests in mind. This may sound like a lot of useless “woo-woo” but, in fact, if you begin this process of healing the bladder after cystitis with an emotional commitment to listen to your bladder when it is speaking to you, your bladder will begin to be the guide, the healer, so to speak. It’s really common for people who grew up with conventional medicine as their primary model to begin the process of trying to heal with the attitude that, “after I heal my cystitis, then I’ll deal with any residual emotional issues associated with this health problem”. This is backward and unfortunately, most people who work from the physical to the emotional never totally get to the emotional component of their disease because their disease is being caused, in part, by an emotional process that affects them physically.  So I want to ask at this point, dear reader, that you take a moment and think of your bladder as a trusted friend who has been there for you to receive much of the emotional and physical waste that your body and mind produce every day. Whether your bladder is functioning well or functioning poorly doesn’t matter. This organ is in a position to receive your waste and dispose of that which no longer serves you.  Take a moment to acknowledge the value of your bladder. Now, let’s consider for a moment, how your bladder makes your mind aware of the time. Having cystitis / painful bladder syndrome is a health problem that makes you aware of the moment-to-moment of your life in a way that few other pains and syndromes can. Bladder irritation is a problem that asks for resolution with all-consuming urgency, no pun intended. So while I expect that most readers can and should acknowledge their bladder as a trusted friend, I also acknowledge that they feel like there isn’t time for frivolous contemplation. But if you have cystitis / painful bladder syndrome, you do need to take note of your baseline symptoms when you have bladder irritation. And you need to think of bladder irritation as a way that your body is communicating with you without words. Once you’ve established this idea firmly in your mind, you can begin to work with at home cystitis remedies and take note of what works and what doesn’t to relieve symptoms. Everything that we talk about here has a healing action on the body. Every treatment that we suggest has the ability to cure painful bladder syndrome / cystitis while doing no harm to other parts of the body. But before you worry about a cystitis cure, you first want to make sure that you can communicate with your bladder to calm it down when your bladder is freaking out. Your first step in this process of healing the bladder is to find out what soothes the bladder and what reduces inflammation and irritation such that you begin to feel like you have some control over your life again. Most people want to find something that’s going to cure cystitis quickly and of course, that’s the ideal scenario, but most of our health coaching clients also acknowledge that to know strategies and treatments that naturally reduce bladder irritation gives them hope and sense that yes, they can overcome painful bladder syndrome naturally. Reducing symptoms of cystitis is the first step toward getting rid of painful bladder syndrome permanently. So let’s talk about treatments that seems to help people right away to get rid of bladder irritation.

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Get Rid of Bladder Irritation Naturally

Below I’m going to detail some of the most important home remedies for cystitis that I’ve used successfully and that our health coaching clients have used successfully to overcome painful bladder syndrome symptoms:

• Salt Loading and Salt Flushing

• • • One of the most powerful ways to reduce bladder irritation quickly is to do salt loading or salt flushing using Himalayan or Celtic Sea Salt. 
    • Note that taking high doses of Himalayan or Celtic Sea Salt does not have the same effect on the body as taking common table salt in high doses. The high mineral content in the Himalayan or Celtic Sea Salt does not cause high blood pressure or water retention. 
    • I have personally taken five repeated 1 teaspoon doses Himalayan Sea Salt in water at a frequency of every 15-30 minutes with no negative health effects to get relief from severe cystitis. I also have clients who have done the same thing without negative health effects. 
    • Salt Loading and Salt Flushing is one of the most reliable ways to relieve cystitis symptoms naturally while also working to heal the root problem that is causing cystitis.
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• Dimethyl Sulfoxide (DMSO) and Castor Oil

• • • Be sure to buy the book at this link which details how to work with DMSO safely before you use DMSO for cystitis at home.
    • DMSO 99.9% can be administered at a dose of 100 drops in 8 ounces of water taken every 30 minutes for up to 2 hours to relieve cystitis. A log of the DMSO that you drink will end up in the bladder within about an hour. After taking the DMSO, allow the bladder to fill as far as possible without allowing yourself to become too uncomfortable before you pee for best results. 
    • At the same time that you administer DMSO orally in drinking water, you can also put organic, hexane-free castor oil over your lower abdomen along with a few drops of DMSO to reduce inflammation.
    • You can also administer hexane-free castor oil by itself as a castor oil pack. Click here to read more about how to do a castor oil pack.

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• Red Light Therapy 

• • • Both men and women can benefit from what has been dubbed “testicular tanning” or administering full-spectrum or red-light directly to the genitals for the treatment of bladder inflammation. Click here to read more about “testicular tanning”, but note that women can and should also administer light to the genital region to get rid of cystitis.

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• Baking Soda

• • Baking soda alkalizes the body. The kidneys use sodium bicarbonate to protect themselves while filtering blood. When you work with the baking soda protocol, you’re supporting kidney function and making the urine less acidic, which in turn, can reduce symptoms of painful bladder syndrome. 
  • Always be sure to follow the instruction precisely for doing the Baking Soda Protocol. Though aluminum-free baking soda is non-toxic, you need to be sure to get your pH above 6.5 as quickly as possible and keep it there for up to 3 weeks at a time.
  • Click here to read how to do the baking soda protocol properly.

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• Organic Coffee Enemas - 
  • Though drinking coffee acidifies the body, using coffee as an enema is alkalizing. Also, coffee enemas cause the liver and gallbladder to purge which takes stress off the kidneys and bladder. 

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Cure Cystitis - What Works and Why: A Brief Overview

Above, we’ve detailed some of the treatments that can be used to reduce symptoms of cystitis. In some cases, any one of these treatments or a combination of these treatments may work to cure painful bladder syndrome permanently. These treatments can and often do work fairly quickly to relieve symptoms of cystitis in most clients, but you may need to experiment to find treatments that work best for you. Each time you try a new treatment, ask your bladder if this new treatment is helpful or not. And take notes– literally. You need to know what reduces your symptoms, in order to figure out what will cure cystitis permanently for you. 

It’s common for people to need more than just one cystitis remedy that we talk about above. These remedies will help you reduce cystitis symptoms quickly should you have a sudden bout of painful bladder syndrome. This is where taking notes can be helpful. Knowing what helps the most and what helps the least will make it possible for you to create a protocol to treat painful bladder syndrome at home if you have a flare.

On the other hand though, you also need to know how to cure painful bladder syndrome / cystitis, not just reduce the symptoms. Again, the list items above will do no harm and for some people, these treatments will be enough to get rid of painful bladder syndrome permanently. But below we’re going to talk about treatments that take longer to manifest progress in terms of a cure but that tend to work very well, over the course of time (6 months to a year for most people) to treat cystitis naturally and permanently.  Most people who work with the painful bladder syndrome remedies that we list below will see noticeable change and a relief from their symptoms.

Painful Bladder Syndrome Cures / Cystitis Cures

• • Lugol’s Iodine Protocol
  • • • Lugol’s iodine is one of the most important nutrients that tends to cure cystitis naturally, but often, it makes symptoms worse at first. For this reason, we needed to list it as a permanent cure for cystitis, but note that people need to know how to reduce their cystitis symptoms first and foremost in order to keep the faith in regard to iodine. 
      • Note that Salt Loading and Salt Flushing is often used to off-set any worsening of symptoms caused by administering Lugol’s iodine. 
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  • D- Mannose Powder
  • • • D-Mannose powder does not necessarily relieve symptoms of inflammation or irritation in the bladder, but it does do a good job of preventing UTI from developing. Take D- Mannose at least twice daily to prevent UTI while you work to cure painful bladder irritation. 
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  • • Chlorine Dioxide Solution (CDS) / Miracle Mineral Solution (MMS)
    • • CDS / MMS can be administered with Dimethyl Sulfoxide to treat cystitis that is caused by parasite infection, bacterial infection, protozoal infection, or even viral infection. It is a broad-spectrum antibiotic that works very well with DMSO. 
      • Chlorine Dioxide Solution treatment can kick-start any cure for cystitis by making the bladder free-and-clear of pathogens should any exist. 
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    • • CDS / MMS does not hurt the gut flora the way that antibiotics from the doctor’s office hurts the gut flora. As such, it can be used regularly and often to treat even suspected urinary tract infections and it works very well to treat cystitis that is being caused by colonizing pathogens that are not showing up on your urinary tract infection test strips.
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  • Acupuncture / Traditional Chinese Medicine
  • • • One of my favorite acupuncturists was originally an editor at Architecture magazine, but switched professions due to being miraculously cured of cystitis as a result of acupuncture treatments.
      • Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine takes some time to work as a natural remedy for painful bladder syndrome / cystitis, but if you have treatments that can reduce symptoms of cystitis, you can commit to weekly appointments knowing that eventually they’ll pay off. 
  • Sauna
  • • • Intense heat and sauna sessions seem to be really helpful to people with cystitis, probably because sweating takes some of the load off the kidneys and the bladder. Instead of peeing, you’re sweating. So consider buying an at-home sauna and really heat it up and get yourself sweating for at least an hour a day.
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• • Parasite Cleanse

• • • One of the most profound changes for me occurred after I did a parasite cleanse using pyrantel pamoate, but most of our health coaching clients who have cystitis due to schistosomiasis or some other type of parasite infection experience profound changes when they begin working with the Iodine Protocol. Apparently, my husband, daughter, and I had been host to hookworms and pinworms, probably for many years. These worms primarily live in the intestines, but they crawl out of your anus at night and, in women especially, they sometimes crawl back up inside the wrong hole. Women may suffer from cystitis, menstrual irregularities, infertility, or all of these problems as a result of parasites. Doctors in the United States aren't educated about intestinal parasites and they laugh at patients who claim to have them. Meanwhile, just across the border in Mexico, anti-parasitics are sold over-the-counter. In fact, anti-parasitics are sold over-the-counter in most nations of the world outside of the U.S. Diagnostic tests are primitive and unreliable and unnecessary since most patients have parasites, particularly if they are deficiency in iodine – and most people in most areas of the world are deficient in iodine. The idea that Americans would be immune to parasites is laughable. We deworm our pets, but we don't deworm ourselves! A little bit of overseas travel brings the problem into focus...the U.S. is one of few places in the world where people bring animals into the home as pets. And we acknowledge that most of these animals have worms and need to be dewormed annually. Note however, that giving your dogs and cats a dose of iodine daily significantly reduces their parasite load. But at any rate, many patients who believe they may have parasites get tested by their doctor, but the tests come out negative (even though they do, indeed, have a parasite infection--the tests are unreliable). Many patients with diseases like IBS or Lupus just have to live with their symptoms and hope for the best, but anti-parasitics could cure them completely of their disease. Read more about why doctors don't tell patients about parasites here.

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• • Candida Cleanse

• • • As with parasites, Candida is a disease that often clears up when people begin doing the Lugol’s Iodine Protocol.
    • Click here to learn how to get rid of Candida infection, but also note that the Lugol’s iodine Protocol will prevent Candida infection from returning.

• • Diet Changes

• • • Work with The Ketogenic Diet or The Paleo Diet
      • A number of our clients have reported that switching to a keto diet or a paleo diet that includes few carbs and mostly fats and proteins can significantly reduce symptoms of cystitis / painful bladder syndrome.
    • Eliminate non-grass-fed, non-organic dairy products - dairy caused swelling in my intestines which put pressure on my bladder.
      • Seek out cows that have been exposed to as few bromide-containing insecticides and organophosphates as possible.  
    • Eliminate gluten - gluten causes swelling in the intestines which puts pressure on the bladder.
    • Eliminate trans fats - also known as trans fatty acids, they increase the acidity of urine, increase inflammation in the bladder, and they cause intestinal inflammation that puts pressure on the bladder.
    • Eliminate caffeine - caffeine is a diuretic that puts extra stress on the urinary tract. 
    • Eliminate refined sugars - instead choose raw honey, stevia, or monk fruit to sweeten food. 

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