Kidney stones | Natural simple home cure

Kidney stones form when there is a blockage or an obstruction in kidney function. Kidneys filter out and discharge toxins (acid) from the blood. This acid is formed from metabolism, pollution or long standing infections. When this filtering function is obstructed, or when kidneys are overloaded, acid crystallizes and forms stones. Sometimes unhealthy drinking water (known as hard water) causes kidney stones. Many patients suffer from recurring kidney stones including gout and high blood pressure patients.

Traditional Kidney stones treatments

Treatment for small stones with minimal symptoms

● Drinking water

● Pain relievers

Treatment for larger stones and those that cause symptoms

If kidney stones cause bleeding, kidney damage or ongoing urinary tract infections they are treated with:

● Sound waves to break up stones (can cause kidney bleeding)

● Surgery to remove very large stones in the kidney

● A scope to remove stones

● Parathyroid gland surgery (When calcium stones are caused by overactive parathyroid glands)

Available traditional kidney stones treatments and procedures can be classified as medicine of the first and second degree among the seven levels of medicine. The current kidney stones procedures are expensive, have harmful side effects and they do not kidney stones from reforming in the future.

Kidney stones and alternative natural medicine

According to the natural law of duality (where expansion = yin, contraction = yang), kidney stones are a contractive illness (hard stones). Kidney stones pains are usually triggered by a passing illness or a crisis. But the underlying cause of kidney stones formation, like most illnesses, is the accumulation of faulty eating habits that violate the natural law of duality and produce imbalance and lowered immunity. Kidney stones is an illness of the third stage among the seven stages of illness. Kidney stones is directly related to the kidneys, so the lungs-pancreas should also be considered in natural treatment. Lungs-pancreas are mother-father of the kidneys in the five elements theory of natural medicine.

Kidney stones natural alternative treatment and cure

Food is best natural treatment. Foods affect kidney stones positively or adversely depending on their type. Foods that restore natural balance cure (dissolve or pass and prevent future formation) kidney stones naturally without side effects. Kidney stones is contractive, and foods that cause contraction (meat, salt, carrots, vitamin A, etc.) will make kidney stones form. Foods that cause expansion will naturally dissolve or pass kidney stones. With the right diet, kidney stones can be passed or dissolved. It also prevents kidney stones from forming in the future. It takes from a couple of days to several weeks to cure kidney stones depending on their size, number and their underlying cause.

Kidney stones additional natural alternative treatment

In Addition to the diet for passing or dissolving kidney stones, temporary home remedies such as selected compresses or special teas might be needed to ease the pain and help pass or dissolve kidney stones quickly.

Healthy mind in a healthy body

The seven conditions of good health include mental well being. Kidney stones often results in mental troubles, like psychological distress and sometimes insomnia. Improvement in kidney stones results naturally in psychological improvement. Becoming less preoccupied or overwhelmed with daily physical symptoms. This allows time to relax or meditate and be more hopeful and calm.

Kidney stones and macrobiotics

Curing (passing or dissolving) kidney stones does not require eating Japanese food

Most people believe that macrobiotics means eating exotic Japanese foods. This is a misconception. Macrobiotics is not just a diet. When we understand macrobiotics, we understand the laws of nature that govern our health and our being.

The macrobiotic diet does not work for some people. Why?

If you have kidney stones and tried macrobiotics, particularly the #7 diet, but it did not work for you, then the foods you selected are not appropriate for your kidney stones. Macrobiotics principles, used correctly, help select the foods to eat and the foods to avoid (some permanently and some temporarily) for treating and curing kidney stones. Yin foods for Yang illnesses, Yang foods for Yin illnesses.

Kidney stones and vitamin and mineral supplements

Food is best natural treatment. With a carefully designed diet for kidney stones, there is no need for vitamin and mineral supplements. Some supplements can aggravate kidney stones when taken randomly.

Vitamin A, D and calcium supplements can have adverse effects on kidney stones.