SOME herbs typically hibernate from reminiscence solely to pop up in emergencies akin to one among my pure well being chat group members bumped into final week. Her husband, 45, got here down with calcium oxalate kidney stones and was discovering it tough to go urine. This might harm the urine pipe or tube, the urethra, trigger an an infection there, make urine construct up within the bladder, make germs proliferate within the bladder and trigger infections there, aside from inflicting urine again up within the ureters, the pipes which deliver urine from the kidneys, infect them and, finally if satisfactory care isn’t taken, make urine, poisons and germs invade the kidneys, infect and harm them.
Stones happen not solely within the urinary system. They come up additionally within the gall bladder, and are referred to as gall bladder stones. Stones within the gall bladder or within the kidneys or urinary bladder is probably not troublesome if they don’t seem to be greater than the passages in these organs can tolerate. They’re current as grains in many people, and might develop greater and extra harmful in sure circumstances. Within the urinary system, they’ll harm the kidneys and trigger kidney failure and, by extension, dying. In excessive circumstances within the liver, gall bladder harm and surgical elimination of the gall bladder could develop into obligatory. This will result in “vegetable” existence as a result of bile secretions could now not be sufficient or concentrated sufficient for the capabilities bile salts are to carry out within the digestive system. These embrace, however aren’t restricted to, the digestion of fat and the excretion of fat-soluble wastes and poisons which can accumulate within the tract and re-absorbed into the bloodstream.
I like to start out from the ache this situation could cause…such ache is severe sufficient to fling some victims on the bottom, roll them up and down and trigger severe vomitting. THE DOCTORS BOOK OF HOME REMEDIES stories the expertise of Main Norman Ellis, a retired officer of the U.S. Air Drive who lived in Colorado in Springs. He says:
“I used to assume I might bear any type of ache; I used to have my enamel drilled with out anaesthetic, however once I had my kidney stone, I cried.”
About 92 per cent of kidney stones are stated to be brought on by Calcium/Oxalate stones. Which means calcium salt and oxalic acid, that are presupposed to be dissolvable and suspended in answer within the bloodstream aren’t, and are steadily forming into crystals, a few of them as tiny as grains of sand. Sometime, these grains will get greater, trigger damage on this organ or block passages, inhibit blood circulation and the motion of different fluid, notably urine. The place they trigger a puncture, bleeding could come up, which is why blood is usually seen within the urine or picked up in laboratory checks. The punctures created by these stones could develop into breeding grounds for germs and members of the yeast household, notably candida, which can in the future wreck deadly havoc.
Causes
It’s not sufficient to take medicine to dissolve kidney stones and stick with it with subsisting way of life as if nothing introduced these stones about. The causes of kidney stones must be studied and prevented. Listed below are a few of them…
Dehydration
Some individuals don’t drink sufficient water on a regular basis, particularly in sizzling climate. Extreme perspiration takes plenty of water out of the bloodstream, making the calculating blood concentrated. Some individuals will say they drink about three liters of water on a regular basis. However do they know in the event that they maintain the water? Water is held in three principal reservoirs within the physique…contained in the cells, across the cells and within the bloodstream. Potassium helps to carry water within the cells, Sodium across the cells. Potassium and Sodium, like Chloride and bicarbonate, are evaporated via the pores and skin in sizzling climate, leaving insufficient quantities behind within the system, with the implication that the reservoirs can not thereby maintain optimum reserves of water. This means that, in sizzling climate, potassium wealthy meals akin to vegetables and fruit and tubers akin to yam, potatoes and cocoyam must be eaten. Everyone knows the risks of utilizing Sodium chloride (desk salt) because the salt-of-choice to carry water within the physique. It’s refined and harmful. Overloading the system with harmful Sodium which chases Potassium out of the physique and threatens to enter into the cells, destroying the pure order of the physique’s fluid and salt landscaping. Reasonably, pure salt or sea salt, that’s unrefined salt, is advocated for use as a dietary complement or, as Dr. F. Batmanghelidj suggests, a sure quantum is to be taken with each sixth glass of water drunk in in the future. Dr. Batmanghelidj, we should always bear in mind, modified the paradigm of drugs in respect of the significance of water consumption to well being. Hitherto, medication, at all times attempting to make itself incomprehensible, in order to create a cult or membership of execs whose data is inaccessible to one and all, outlined water as virtually ineffective within the scheme of issues. However Dr. Batmanghelidj broke down the fortress along with his two books, YOUR BODY’S MANY CRIES FOR WATER and YOU’RE NOT SICK, YOU’RE ONLY THIRTY and the third he was writing earlier than his dying, DEHYDRATION, STRESS AND CANCER.
A contemporary desirous about dehydration and kidney stones formation is that, as a solvent, there’s not sufficient water to dilute the urine, thereby breaking the clumping of these salts which kind stones. Usually, will we not see our urine deeply colored, indicating dehydration? Some medical doctors recommend that we drink between eight and 12 glasses of water on a regular basis. One other downside we encounter once we do that, nevertheless, is that we could also be loading extra Calcium into our our bodies, if the water is difficult, because the bottling firm doesn’t comply with worldwide conference and state on the bottle the mineral composition of the water it’s giving us to drink.
Calcium
Many individuals eat low-cost Calcium. Most inexpensive calcium dietary supplements aren’t readily absorbed, are deposited in organs somewhat than in bones and enamel or float about, forming stones in the appropriate circumstances. Folks recognized with calcium oxalate stones ought to scale back their calcium consumption. The sources of calcium to be careful for embrace butter, milk and different dairy merchandise akin to cheese, egg. As for Calcium Oxalate stones, the 2 offender are Calcium and Oxalate. A number of the wealthy sources within the weight loss plan are Inexperienced peppers, Spinach, Beans, Chocolate, tea, Beets, Celery, Grapes, Pear, Okra, Rhubarb, Hibiscus.
Many well being authorities recommend a number of residence treatments which can assist the sufferer from calcium/oxalate kidney stones keep away from the surgeon’s knife. Amongst these are…Lemon juice, Pomegranate juice, Wheatgrass, Horsetail, Dandelion root juice, Kidney beans broth, Apple cider vinegar, Basil leaves, Celery juice, Asparagus, Chanka piedra, Urva ursi and Magnesium.
After I stated earlier that some herbs have been keen on hibernating from reminiscence, I had HORSETAIL in thoughts. Herb within the remedy of kidney stones and different illnesses was offered to my technology of herbalists by that illustrious nice Austrian herbalist now of blessed reminiscence, MARIA TREBEN, in her unforgettable e book, HELP THROUGH GOD’S PHARMACY, household companion. Maria Treben says:
“In common medication, Horsetail was a lot esteemed in outdated occasions, particularly for its blood-staunching results abd, its success in kidney and bladder bother. However with time, its values have been forgotten. It was none apart from our nice and common herbalist ABBE KNEIPP who put the Horsetail again to its essential place. He declares it as ‘uniquely irreplaceable and beneficial’ for bleeding, splitting of blood, bladder and kidney issues, gravel and stones. ‘For outdated troubles’, he says, ‘foul wounds, even cancer-like growths and ulcerated legs, Horsetail is of nice worth. It clears up and burns away every little thing unhealthy, so to talk. Usually, the moist heat plant is positioned into moist cloths and utilized to the affected half. The Swiss Abbe Kneipp says that each one individuals from a sure age on ought to drink a cup of Horsetail tea on a regular basis all yr spherical and all ache brought on by rheumatism, gout and nerves would disappear and each individual would have a wholesome outdated age. He tells of an 86-year-old man who was relieved from stones which had brought on him plenty of ache, by Horsetail steam tub and who nonetheless lived for a few years.”
Maria Treben typically prescribed Horsetail Sitz baths for kidney stones and different kidney troubles. For a sitz tub, the tub tub is crammed with giant quantum of a prescribed herb and the bathtub crammed with sufficient sizzling water to immerse the bather as much as the kidney space when seated. In Nigeria, such an quantity of herb could be costly if straightforward to supply. And, in any case, many individuals wouldn’t have tub tubs at residence. For many who have, Horsetail tinctures could also be used for sitz baths or homeopathic tinctures could also be taken orally. I’ve heard of a inventive adaptation wherein a tincture or the important oil of horsetail suspended in olive oil is used as therapeutic massage and Scorching water bottle is utilized on the kidney space to additional drive within the treatment.
Vitamin C
Some medical doctors consider that an excessive amount of Vitamin C consumption, say something past three or 4 grammes (3,000mg-4,000mg) on a regular basis could improve the speed of oxalate manufacturing in predisposed individual and induce formation of calcium oxalate stone. An excessive amount of vitamin C, it’s stated, due to this fact, could cause calcium-oxalate stones to kind. However different faculties of thought problem this view. On the forefront are the disciples of Dr. Linus Pauling, who gained the Nobel Prize two occasions for his research on Vitamin C which recommend some individuals, akin to HIV or most cancers victims, could even want as much as 12,000mg on a regular basis. He died at over 100 years. Scientists like him level at Magnesium deficiency and minerals deficiency as the explanation Calcium isn’t correctly deposited within the bones and is present in incorrect formations, akin to Calcium/Oxalate stones.
Magnesium deficiency
Calcium and Magnesium mix on the charge of about ratio 2:1 in bone matrix. Due to this fact if there’s a Magnesium deficiency, free Calcium will exist which can discover different “marriage” companions, this time oxalic acid, in Calcium/Oxalate stones. To the credit score of magnesium, it’s stated to stimulate the manufacturing of CALCITONIN, a hormone of the parafollicular cells of the thyroid gland within the neck area. Calcitonin, someday referred to as thyrocalcitonin, helps to take away extra Calcium from the bloodstream and places it again into the bones. There are various methods wherein the bones lose Calcium to the bloodstream. A technique is thru a course of referred to as CATABOLISM. The physique is perennially concerned in break-ups (catabolism) and build-ups or up constructing (anabolism). Osteoclast cells break down bones, releasing their Calcium into the bloodstream. Magnesium helps the manufacturing of thyrocalcitonin, which inhibits the actions of Osteoclast cells, thereby holding Calcium within the bones. Secondly, magnesium has been discovered to forestall the kidneys from reabsorbing Calcium thereby decreasing calcium ranges within the bloodstream. In the usage of Magnesium to forestall or to deal with Calcium Oxalate stones within the kidneys, the appropriate sorts of Magnesium repay in the long run, even when they’re dearer. Magnesium citrate is a positive guess. Even then, there are lots of grades of this, relying on proprietary formulations. Citrate is thought to bind with oxalate crystals and prevents them from binding to Calcium. The timing of the consumption of Magnesium would look like essential to its skills to lower Calcium-Oxalate stone formation. In some research, individuals who took Magnesium together with oxalate-rich meals had much less stone formation as a result of the Magnesium dragged the oxalate out via the gut and stool by combining with it. Since many individuals in Nigeria commonly eat pumpkin depart (ugwu) and will not appear to develop kidney stones, this may occasionally provide an evidence for the paradox. I consider it’s as a result of these individuals eat plenty of crayfish within the pumpkin leaf vegetable weight loss plan. Crayfish gives Calcium. I consider even the oxalate in okra is “detonated” by the calcium (that slimy stuff) in okra. Some research have truly proven that low Calcium consumption could predispose individuals to a excessive Calcium-oxalate stone danger. This is able to be as a result of, by way of the timing of dietary consumption of Calcium and Oxalic acid, there’s not sufficient Calcium within the meal or weight loss plan to mix with oxalate and drag it out of the physique via the stool. Due to this fact, it might seem there’s have to eat Calcium, Magnesium and Oxalate within the weight loss plan on the similar time if Oxalic acid is to not pose a hazard within the kidneys. A examine of 78,000 ladies with no kidney stone illness discovered that they consumed a excessive quantity of dietary Calcium complement. Decrease dangers of Calcium oxalate stone was discovered, additionally, in a examine of 98,000 youthful ladies who took Calcium dietary supplements.
House treatments
As said earlier, there are lots of recepies from the Mom Nature that must be saved within the natural first help field at residence. A few of them are…
Lemon Juice
Lemon juice incorporates citrate, which, as said earlier, helps to forestall kidney stones from forming by binding to Oxalate. A lemon could also be frozen and grated, peel, rind and fruit sac, and diluted with heat water and sipped all through the day.
Basil Juice
The Yoruba of South-western Nigeria name it Efinrin. The Igbo name it Nchianwu. The Efik name it Ntong. The juice incorporates acetic acid. This acid helps to interrupt down kidney stones and scale back ache. It’s good for reducing uric acid ranges and for stopping abdomen and gut spasms. The reducing of uric acid ranges could assist to forestall the chance of kidney stone formation. Grandma will need to have been guided to make use of it in her cooking!
Apple Cider Vinegar
An all-rounder for wholesome scalp, hair, eyes, nail, pores and skin and digestion among the many advantages ascribed to it by outdated herbalist CYRIL SCOTT, Apple cider vinegar (ACV) gives citric acid for the dissolution of kidney stones. It acidifies the abdomen for wholesome digestion and alkalizes the blood and urine.
Celery Juice
Alkaline forming this juice is a detoxifier of the blood. It helps to clear away toxins which can pave the best way for kidney stone formation. Salty however wealthy in Vitamin A, B1, B2, B6 and Vitamin C, Potassium, Folic acid, Calcium, Magnesium, Iron, Phosphorus, Sodium and amino acids, it aids kidney perform and breaks kidney stones. It helps the breaking of gall bladder stones as nicely.
Dandelion
I choose the usage of the basis to the leaves. The foundation stimulates bile manufacturing within the liver, eliminates waste and toxins, improves digestion and urinary output. A standard kidney herb, Dandelion is potassium-rich as is, arguably, nature’s main diuretic and kidney cleanser. It’s a higher diuretic than pharmaceutical diuretics as a result of it offers the physique Potassium whereas a few of these different ones leach potassium from the physique.
Wheatgrass
We belittle this herb and others prefer it with a mere point out as a kidney cleanser and urinary circulation enhancer which promotes the passage of stones. This column has featured extra of its traits in www.olufemikusa.com.
Kidney bean broth
When beans are cooked, the broth must be strained and drunk all through the day. It’s reported to enhance urinary and kidney well being, dissolve and flush out stones. Crimson kidney bean pod as tea or meals complement goes past this to even reduce excessive blood sugar and ldl cholesterol and heal respiratory illnesses.
