Parsley tea is a helpful treatment which has been a used traditionally to treat urinary tract infection, kidney stones. The Cherokee Indians learned of its medicinal value from the settlers, drank parsley tea for kidney and bladder pain, and dropsy (edema, or water retention).
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Culpepper's Complete Herbal & English Physician book states: "that using the whole plant is best, including the root, and when it is fresh gathered. A strong infusion cleanses the kidneys and the urinary passages in a short time. It's also good in jaundice,and has helped in some prostate problems.
It is also helpful for gas, in both the stomach and the bowels."
It is best to use fresh parsley, including the stems. If you can get the roots as well it will make the treatment even more potent and helpful. Drink 4 cups per day for 7 days to cure urinary tract infection. Your symptoms will greatly decrease after 3 days, but continue for 4 more days.
If pregnant, parsley oil, juice, and seeds should be avoided because they are uterine stimulants, but the tea recommended below is quite safe to drink.
Do not continue drinking 4 cups of tea for past 7 days, since it is diuretic, meaning it makes your body lose water along with important minerals. Ensure you are getting plenty of minerals by having at least 1 teaspoon of ocean sea salt (that contains over 84 minerals) per day.
Ensure your drinking water and water used for cooking is from a natural source like "true" spring water or regular tap water filtered by a charcoal filter like Brita or PUR brands that filter out chlorine and other contaminants but not all of the natural minerals from Nature.
Do not drink distilled or reverse osmosis water since all of the natural minerals are removed and they can leach minerals from the body.
How to make Parsley Tea
Boil 4 cups of non-chlorinated water.
Remove the water from the heat.
Mince (cut up finely) 4 heaping teaspoons of fresh parsley (including stems, & roots if you can get them).
Steep 20 minutes and then strain it.
Drink hot or cold and it may be reheated without harming it. It will keep in the refrigerator for about 5 days.
Drink 4 cups throughout the course of one day, for 7 days only.
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