Is green tea an effective method to relieve UTI?

Green tea has become more and more popular among people’s daily drinks. It is reported that green tea is even more popular than coffee both at home and abroad. For people pay more attention to their healthy life style nowadays. Most people think drinking green tea is healthier than coffee, because green tea is not only useful for keeping a fit, but also effective on relieving some diseases. So recently UTI patients also think green tea could relieve their disease. However, there is no evidence showing green tea could relieve UTI effective so far. As a result, whether green tea is an effective method to relieve UTI becomes a question in many people’s minds.

 

As it is known to all, that green tea has many functions, such as rejuvenating brain function, burning fat, moderating the risk of cancer, even dealing with diabetes, and so on. Regarding to the question above, the answer is yes. Green tea could relieve UTI to some extent. Green tea could relieve UTI through its functions of restraining and killing bacteria, and diuresis and eliminating fatigue.  

 

Restrain and kill bacteria

Presence of catechins in green tea and outcomes with other biological impacts are helpful to restrain bacteria and virus. Tea polyphenols have strong convergence effect, it has obvious effects on restraining and killing the pathogenic bacteria and virus. Thus it could diminish inflammations and anti-diarrhea. There are a number of medical units in our country applying tea preparation in treatment of acute and chronic dysentery, amoebic dysentery, influenza, the cure rate is over 90.

 

Diuresis and eliminate fatigue

Green tea is helpful for diuresis and refreshing. The caffeine in green tea can stimulate the kidney, promote urine out of body quickly, improve kidney’s leach rate, and reduce residence time of harmful material in the kidney. What’s more, the caffeine could eliminate excess lactic acid in the urine, and help the body eliminate fatigue as soon as possible.

 

Although green tea could relieve UTI to some extent by restraining and killing bacteria, and diuresis and eliminating fatigue, it is just a method to alleviate UTI, not a treatment for UTI. If you have infected with UTI, you shouldn’t rely on drinking green tea to cure it. There is an effective medicine, which tea could cure UTI completely as safe as. This medicine named diuretic and anti-inflammatory pill.