Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID)

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I am an acupuncturist, with 20 years experience treating a great variety of illnesses completely naturally. Someone else mentioned garlic vaginally so I thought I would add my 2 cents. Garlic has been used medically for thousands of years. It is one of natures strongest antibiotics. It was used to pack wounds in WWI and was referred to as Russian Penicillin in WWII (when antibiotics were often unavailable). During the Plague it was used to prevent doctors, "morticians"-people who collected the bodies, and even theives who were robbing bodies from getting plague. It is used in modern China to treat Menningitis in the brain. It is definitively a great way to treat yeast infections and Candida anywhere in the body. A study with HIV patients showed incredible benefits. Used for tuberculosis for hundreds of years. Raw garlic is by far the strongest antibiotic, cooked is still useful; the pills, in my experience, are almost worthless for killing bacteria or yeast. It is an incredible systemic antibiotic when taken orally; I often chop the cloves into tiny pieces and swallow them with water so my breath is not so bad. But even then, as the garlic circulates in your system, you will expire garlic and you will have garlic body odor. A clove a day is minimum (and at this dose the garlic smell is often minimal), but better 2-3 or even more. Saunas (low heat, 110 degrees Farenheit, so you don't feel exhausted afterwards) and perfume can help, as well as appologizing in advance for how you smell. Although it is an incredibly effective treatment, it may not work with your job, family, etc. I classically use it orally for myself and most of my patients, on occasion vaginally with success for yeast infections. Its irritative properties (orally or vaginally) vary greatly with each individual. A doctor told me I had PID from my symptoms, but they did not confirm any veneraeal diseases, so I took a lot of garlic, oregano oil, and Chinese herbs orally and it went away. Doctors want to throw antibiotics at you even if they suspect PID but if you don't have PID, or have Candida/Yeast problems already, the antibiotics could make those a lot worse. My patients and I have mainly used it orally. Whether you want to experiment with it vaginally is up to you; if the first clove doesn't seem to cause any irritation and especially if you feel better it is probably helping and I would do a clove a day (peel the clove, insert whole-you might look at further recipes on the internet under garlic vaginally for yeast infection as this is for what most women use it vaginally). This method will probably produce far less garlic odor from your breath and the rest of your body than doing it orally and will almost certainly get higher concentrations where the infection is. Orally it works great for so many infections so it certainly qualifies as an adjunctive treatment. As the antibiotics are among the strongest known, they are likely killing you own intestinal flora left and right, so a later or concurrent vaginal or intestinal yeast infection is quite possible. The garlic will help kill the yeast very effectively but you need massive probiotics to reimplant your intestines. Yogurt is minimally helpful but you really need to take the pills (probably 4-6 day for 2-4 months-look on the internet for brands with good reviews) as the yogurt has very few organisms and most aren't very useful at implanting anyway. Almost all prescription antibiotics leave you drained, garlic is unique among antibiotic substances (chemicals or herbs), in that it is tonifying/strengthening as it kills things, so you don't feel weaker and weaker the longer you take it. Anyway, this is just a shout out to consider at least trying the garlic orally (with food to prevent GI upset) for a day or two (maybe on a weekend). I can almost guarantee you will feel better (and prevent yeast later). I'm not saying this is a complete treatment for confirmed PID, but it is a very powerful treatment. If you wanted to try garlic as the main treatment for PID IMO, then you would probably want to do it in fairly large quantities, orally and perhaps vaginally also, for the same period of time they recommend for the antibiotics-about 2 weeks. I've done this successfully myself for systemic Candida (works as well as Diflucan-Fluconazol).