Infectious Diseases

Several studies point out urinary tract infections as a widely common pathology worldwide. In Traditional Chinese Medicine the physiopathology of the disease is kidney yin deficiency, blood deficiency and heat retention. The objective of this study is to demonstrate the possibility of treating urinary tract infections without using antibiotics. The interpretation and analysis of recent articles regarding the treatment of urinary tract infections in Western medicine, Traditional Chinese medicine and Hippocratic medicine. This is a description and analysis of two case-reports. The first case report is a 75-year-old woman

and the second case report is a 45-year-old female patient both with symptoms of dysuria and diagnosed with urinary tract infection, with positive urine culture for bacteria. The patients presented improvement of the symptoms and urine cultures positive for bacteria before the treatment and negative after the treatment only with acupuncture, Chinese dietary counseling and apex ear bloodletting, not requiring antibiotics use in neither of the cases. Both patients presented complete improvement of urinary tract infections with one session of auricular acupuncture with apex ear bloodletting. The result for both cases appeared in a few days. It is possible to treat urinary tract infections without using antibiotics, according to these two case reports. For this aim, it is important to treat the patient through an integral pathway, focusing the treatment in the energy disturbances, the underlying cause of the symptoms.