Homoeopathic medicines are powerful in dissolving renal calculi which is also called as KIDNEY STONE or NEPHROLITHIASIS, and helps aborting the need for surgery!
It shakes the root cause of renal calculi there by preventing its recurrence.
What is renal calculi?
kidney stones or renal calculi are the deposits made of minerals and salts that form from kidney which are usually hard. The stone may pass through the ureter or remain in the kidney. Although passing kidney stones can be extremely painful, if they are caught early enough, they typically don't result in permanent harm.
Let’s know the risk factors:
There are a number of things that can increase your chance of getting kidney stones.
- Dehydration (decreased water intake)
- Sedentary life style
- Hot climate
- Urinary tract infection
- Immobility for a prolonged period
- Prolonged catheterizations
- High mineral content in drinking water
- Gout
- Imbalance of pH in urine
- Metabolic disturbances such as Hyperparathyroidism, Hypercalcemia
- Previous history of Renal calculi
Know the different types of stones:
Finding the type of kidney stone you have can help identify its source and could provide insight on how to lower your risk of developing more kidney stones.
- Calcium oxalate (Mulberry stone)- Most common
- Calcium phosphate
- Uric acid stone
- Cysteine stone
- Struvite stone(Magnesium Ammonium phosphate- Triple phosphate)
- Xanthine stone
How can kidney stones present themselves?
You may not have any symptoms if you have a small stone that readily passes through your urinary tract or your stones not moving around.When a kidney stone causes irritation or obstruction, it begins to pain.
You may experience intense pains in your back, side(flank), lower abdomen, or groin, or blood in your urine(hematuria).
Along with pain or burning sensation on urination, you may also have urinary tract infection/obstruction,fever, chill, restlessness, nausea, vomiting and/or cloudy or foul smelling urine.
How to prevent it?
- Drinking enough water (3-4 litres/ day)
- Restrict sodium intake of 3-4 g / day
- Moderate protein intake
- Avoid foods rich in oxalates (i.e., spinach, strawberry, peanut, wheat bran)
- Avoid vitamin D SUPPLEMENTS
- Avoid milk and cheese, other diary products, calcium supplements in case of calcium stones
- Can take green tea, low fat yoghurt, banana, papaya
Does homeopathy effective for kidney stones?
Homoeopathic medicines help to dissolve and flush out the renal stones and prevent from recurrence by individualized approach and saves you from surgical procedure!
It treats by stimulating body’s vital reaction .i.e., immune response; therefore body gets healed by itself with the help of its friendly homoeopathic medicines.
Renal stones can be cured with combined use of homoeopathy with a healthy life style habits.
The common homoeopathic medicines used in the treatment are Solidago, Berberis vulgaris, Hydrangea, Nux vomica, Lycopodium, Medorrhinum etc.