Studies show that one in ten people will have kidney stone at some time in their lives. To prevent kidney stone formation, drink lots of fluids such as filtered water.
1. Foods to avoid for its high in oxalate content.
Oxalate when combine with calcium and iron form crystals that may be excreted in urine or form larger kidney stones that can block the kidney tubules. Examples of foods high in oxalate are peanuts, almonds, wheat bran, spinach, black tea, cashews, hazelnuts, soybeans, soy milk, instant tea, rhubarb, beets, sweet potatoes, most dried beans and chocolate.
2. Lessen the consumption on animal protein foods.
3. People with kidney stones are advised by the doctors to cut down or lessen foods with so much salt and sodium. Also limit intake of foods rich in oxalate, calcium, potassium, protein and fluid. The advise consumption of sodium is 2,000 milligrams daily.
4. Monitor your food product labels and check the content to avoid foods high in calcium. Ask your doctor what are the right foods to eat and how much can you consume in a day.
Tip: Drinking a glass of water before bed, during the night when you’re still awake and before going back to bed.
Good news is, a smoothie can help you get rid those kidney stones as well!
The citrus lemon can help break-up calcium-based kidney stones due to its citric acid.
Another is watermelon as one of the best fruit for kidney stones. A diuretic that helps you urinate more because it has the highest water content among the fruits, thereby flushing out the kidney stones. High potassium is also present believed to help in dissolving kidney stones.
Drink lots of water daily and also try drinking 1-2 juice with citrates that can help in breaking up of kidney stones.
Kidney Stone Juice
1 orange, peeled
1 apple
1 lemon
4 slices of watermelon
4 ice cubes
All ingredients must be organic. Then blend them all and that’s it.
Let’s now learn about gallstone and the drinks for a better gallstone.
The gallbladder is a small little pouch, that is shaped like a pear and sits under the liver. It’s usually empty and flat shaped after meal, while full of bile before meal.
When given the signal to release bile, it squeezes out into the small intestine through the tubes or ducts. Then this bile help in the digestion of food specifically fats. However, when removed there are no problems observed in digestion. But there might be a risk of diarrhea and fat malabsorption.
So before you decide on a surgery, you might try some home remedies that may cure gall stones and its symptoms, like abdominal pain, back shoulder pain, vomiting, nausea and indigestion.
Here are some compilation of several single and combination juices you can try to naturally flush or remove gallstones:
1. Vegetable Juice
Just mix beet, carrot and cucumber juice. Then drink it twice daily for two weeks.
2. Lemon Juice
Drink lemon water daily before eating or drinking anything. Just squeeze 4 lemons then add with water. This continuous drinking routine will help to get rid of gallstones. Added to that, drink lots of water daily.
3. Turmeric
Pour 1 tsp of turmeric mix with honey. Then drink it daily until the gallstones dissolved or flushed out.
3. Epsom Salt
Pour 1 tsp of epsom salt into a room temperature drinking water and drink it at night. This epsom salt help gallstones to move through the bile duct.
4. Citrus Fruit
Citrus fruits include pectin, which also can help in getting rid of gallstones.
5. Apple Juice and Apple Cider Vinegar
As quoted that ‘an apple a day keeps the doctor away’ is a true health fact. Apple has also the capability to dissolve gallstones when taken as juice or as apple cider vinegar. Study shows that its malic acid content help in softening gallstones. While the vinegar prevents liver to make cholesterol (also a reason for stone formation in gallstone).
Additionally it helps in subsiding the pain during the flare up of gallstones.
1 glass apple juice
1 tbsp apple cider vinegar
Preparation:
Mix the apple cider vinegar and glass of apple juice. Then drink it once daily.
This is a good natural remedy for a quick relief of the pain due to gallstone attack. If your gallstone already dissolved, still continue to eat apples, you can also have fresh uncooked apple sauce mixed with shredded beets, 2 tbsp olive oil and a little amount of lemon juice.
6. Another Lemon Juice
Same as vinegar, lemon juice also helps in stopping liver from producing cholesterol. So make sure lemon is always in your menu. A half of lemon to a glass of water can be a daily drinking habit twice or thrice in a day.
An alternative remedy using lemon juice to dissolve your gallstones.
30ml Olive oil
30ml Fresh lemon juice
5g Garlic paste
Preparation:
Mix all the ingredients and drink this mixture every morning on an empty stomach for at least 40 days.
7. Beetroot, Cucumber and Carrot Juice
Natural remedy or juice are the most commonly recommended treatment for gallstones. These juice are believed to be the best remedy for gallstone including cucumber (detoxify liver and gall bladder), beetroots (helps in strengthening and cleansing of gall bladder, liver, colon and blood) and carrots (also detoxify and provide vitamin C and other nutrients)
1 Beet root
1 Cucumber
4 Medium Carrots
Make sure to have equal amount of juices of all the three main ingredients. Just adjust the quantity or the size of the ingredients if you must.
Preparation:
Take out the juice of the three (beetroot, cucumber & carrots). Then mixed their juice, you can take it twice a day.
Optional:
You can also add celery, apple and ginger for added healthy benefit.
8. Herbal Tea
As herbals are known for its natural treatment, you can also drink a cup of St John’s Wort tea for a few times daily. You can make this by simply boiling water then adding 4 or 5 leaves.
