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| where else. We are not sterile; rather we are in balance, first within, then without. |
| True, the urethra is a private concern, found in a private place and heavily weighted with sexual and excretory tension. Nonetheless, cystitis, like hemorrhoids, reminds us firmly and painfully of some of our more homely physical attributes. It might not hurt, therefore, to start off by visualizing the simple imperatives. |
| We urinate fluids that aid in metabolic balance through a surface orifice in close proximity to another excretory orifice. Good urine maintains normal flora and repels flora from the other orifice. Health is not being "clean and spotless" (we are not, after all, surgical devices). Health is balance. Prevention of cystitis needs to begin by finding out what agents are preventing balance. |
| In general, it is always preferable to stop doing something that may aggravate a condition such as cystitis (and see if it helps) rather than to journey blindly through a series of therapeutic approaches. If you are doing things that help sustain a discomfort, it is unlikely that treating it therapeutically, without lifestyle changes, will have anything more than short-term benefitjust as the asthmatic will need stronger and more invasive treatment as long as he continues to smoke or live in a polluted environment. Nearly all of us have been brainwashed into believing that the answer to a problem is best dealt with by going out and getting some new stuff. One rarely steps back and attempts self-evaluation to try and figure out what we are going that may be contributing to physical problems. We, as a society, tend to presume that we need to do some more stuff, rather than less stuff; we are consummate consumers. |
| What follows are some factors to consider that may be pertinent to one person and not to another. Each factor is a potential aggravation to cystitis that should be considered as just that: potential. |
| A person with frequent bladder infections may be eating |
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