Cysto-Pyelonephritis Nosode

The attenuations of this nosode are prepared from urine from a patient with an urinary tract infection having simultaneous inflammation of the bladder, the renal pelvis and the kidney.

In the last few decades, cases of chronic urinary tract infections of this kind have shown a considerable increase. It has turned out that the complicated irritative and inflammatory symptoms – mostly of bacterial origin – of the urinary tract can sel- dom be finally cured with antibiotics and anti-bacterial medicines in normal use, but tend to recur. Thus the patients who are treated with such drugs, in spite of months of medication and the associated dangers of damaging side-effects (which almost invariably appear), cannot attain a cure.

Especially in cases in which one kidney may have been destroyed by consecutive hydronephroses, there will be a threat to life. These patients can be helped by keep- ing to a strict diet which excludes all pork (sausage, all kinds of ham and bacon, and also liver-sausage etc., even of calves’ liver, since all kinds of sausage, apart from those guaranteed to be free of pork, contain pork to some extent). This, along with suitable remedies such as Hepar Sulphuris and Mercurius Solubilis, and not least with Cysto-pyelonephritis Nosode.

Admittedly, courses of treatment lasting for weeks are necessary, which must then extend further over months on a reduced dosage; and the ban on pork must be ad- hered to strictly for years to come, since pork offers an ideal substrate for the bacte- ria in the urinary system, being a pyogenic substance. The simple inflammatory or purulent illnesses of the urinary tract also constitute a serious threat of disease, as is shown by the following.

From a developmental point of view, the kidneys and urinary tract are a part of the mesoderm. Thus diseases of the urinary system should always be regarded seriously, since they usually occur either when there is a high toxic level in the organism, the physiological excretion being insufficient to cope with it, or else they may be the re- sult of serious toxic damage. Here one must take into account the possibility of rein- toxication, e.g. the suppression of excretion via the skin, since skin and kidneys dis- play certain relationships in the way in which substances may act on them. Toxins which are excreted via the skin are also excreted via the kidneys, and vice-versa. (E.g. uric acid crystals on the skin in uraemia.)

In particular the suppression of sweat in the axillae and on the feet is responsible for kidney disease, including formation of calculi. The body then tries to eliminate the suppressed homotoxins through another channel, i.e. the kidneys.

This signifies an overload for the kidneys, which are highly susceptible to toxic factors; on the other hand ubiquitous bacteria find a favourable soil in which to grow in the urine, which is loaded with homotoxins. Thus urinary tract infections must be seen as infectious diseases developing on homotoxic terrain. Here the bacteria are of only secondary importance.

The essential therapeutic factor consists in removing the homotoxic terrain, re-

opening the blocked excretory outlets (and this means strictly forbidding any use of anti-perspirants etc.), and the use of suitable anti-inflammatory remedies. (Argentum Nitricum, Cantharis, Mercurius Solubilis, Hepar Sulph., Arsenicum Album, etc.).

The Cysto-pyelonephritis Nosode can also be used in other kidney diseases such as hydronephrosis, nephrolithiasis, and may also be tried in acute glomerulo- nephritis, hypertrophy of the prostate, etc.