About Kidney Stones

Many discussion being held by many scientists and medical practitioners about potential possibility of herbs in order to prevent large kidney stones and take action for pre-develop kidney stones. Although these issues didn’t come with one conclusion, most of debaters are agreed that herbs can incredibly working well to prevent the recurrence of renal calculi. So what kind of herbs that actually effective? We have taken several options that might have relevant perspectives, both traditionally and scientifically.

According to many ancient medicines and pass-generation prescribes, herbal treatment is already proved and being used long ago to prevent kidney stones and also effective to dealing with existing stones. The basic idea of all this herb treatment is actually similar. They divided the treatment in two different treatment scenarios. When dealing with existing kidney stone, treatment is aimed at passing small stones and when dealing with existing kidney stones it is set to gradually weakening or dissolving larger stones.

One of major role kidney stone herb known as Crataeva, which is proven useful to dealing with small stones and prevent from new stones crystallization. Other antilithic herbs that also useful are golden rod and horsetail. As aquaretics herb, these herbs are effective for render more urine and dilute it. Another rich potassium herbs is Dandelion leaf which also useful in treating kidney stones.

For calcium kidney stones cases, using cascara and yellow dock might useful. These herbs have anthraquinone, which is help by binding the calcium in urine and making it hard to form calcium stones. The herb madder (Rubia tinctorum) was particularly used for this effect in Europe, but has now been banned due to concerns over carcinogenicity.

Infection can provide a focus for stone formation; hence the treatment strategies for cystitis should also be followed if infection is thought to play a role. This includes immune supporting herbs such as Echinacea root and antibacterial herbs such as cranberry and buchu. However there is some clinical evidence to suggest that cranberry may slightly increase the risk of oxalate stone formation.

Compile and re-written based on article by Kerry Bone
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