WebMD reports:
Forskolin, an herbal medicine made from the Asiatic coleus plant, may help treat urinary tract infection.
That’s according to preliminary tests done in mice.
The researchers who conducted those tests included Duke University microbiologist Soman Abraham, PhD.
They note that forskolin has been used for centuries in traditional Indian Ayurvedic medicine to treat various ailments, including painful urination.
The scientists tested forskolin in female mice with bladder infections caused by E. coli bacteria, which cause most urinary tract infections.
Twenty-four hours after the mice were infected with E. coli, the researchers injected forskolin directly into the mice’s bladders or their belly.
For comparison, the scientists injected saltwater into the bladders of other female mice with E. coli bladder infections.
One day after treatment, the mice in the forskolin group had less E. coli bacteria in their bladders than the mice that got the saltwater shot.
The forskolin group also had lower levels of inflammatory chemicals in their urine, the study shows.
“This type of treatment strategy may prove beneficial for patients with recurrent urinary tract infections,” Abraham says in a Duke University news release.
Promising but that’s data in mice. We hope to see proper clinical trials for UTI in humans. I did a Pubmed search and couldn’t find any so far but found a small single blind study involving Forskolin in asthma
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