kidney stones - QUESTION..

[Guest guest]

I wish I knew this a few mon. ago. I was 8 mo pregnant and

had a kidney stone.. OUCH!! Talk about double PAIN!! I might try this since I had

it recently.. just to make sure they all get out..

 

 

For

the fresh Flower in the garden do you have to dry out the leaves first to make

the tea? So you just steep it and take that 3 X a day (teaspoon)?

How

do you make a Tincture from the fresh flower?

 

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> Hydrangea tincture will dissolve kidney stones or bladder crystals in

hours.

 

 

 

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If you have the plant growing in your garden you can make a tea from the leaves

- take a teaspoon 3 times a day

> regards

 

 

 

 

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[Guest guest]

I used to analyse these stones in a clinical chemistry laboratory many

years ago, one of my favourite jobs as it actually involved some

chemistry, not just feeding big machines.

 

Kidney stones, also called urinary calculi (why use an easily understood

English word when you can use the Latin for " stone " ?) can have several

different causes: most are calcium oxalate, then calcium phosphate, but

they can be made of urate, cystine, xanthine and probably other things I

have forgotten. Some form in acid urine, others in alkaline urine,

others are due to odd genetic problems. You may be able to avoid further

stones by changing your diet, avoiding certain foods etc, so I think

it's worth finding out which kind you have. If you manage to collect the

stone (a tea strainer comes in handy here) you can get it analysed

(LabCorp will do it). You can also have a 24-hour urine collection

analyses to see what might be causing the stones. There is a

conventional treatment called " extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy "

which uses cunningly targeted sound waves to break up the stone into

small fragments that can be passed - you need a general anaesthetic though.

 

Passing urinary calculi caused me the only pain that has ever made me

actually scream (not yell and curse), embarrassingly, back when I was

about 14 and had eaten a whole load of raw rhubarb (which probably

caused oxalate stones). Our lovable ancient GP come out to see me

(between attacks) and prescribed acetaminophen which was utterly

useless. Codeine or a stronger opiate would have been nice but he said I

was too young. Renal colic is supposed to be the worst pain known to man

(but not woman).

 

Odd and perhaps interesting fact I just uncovered - most animals break

down uric acid into allantoin, which is a healing substance found in

comfrey, and used in healing creams and many cosmetics. Higher primates,

including humans, have a common ancestor that lost the ability to do

this around the same time it lost the ability to make vitamin C.

Allantoin is very soluble in water but uric acid isn't, and has a

tendency to form crystals in our joints (gout), urine (urate calculi) or

skin (tophi - little crystals that appear under the skin, often around

the ears). Interestingly, uric acid acts as an antioxidant in a similar

way to vitamin C, so it is possible that the loss of the ability to

break down uric acid into allantoin was a trade-off for the loss of the

antioxidant effects of ascorbic acid. The fact that guinea pigs (and

flying foxes) also lost the ability to make vitamin C, and also don't

break down uric acid to allantoin suggests that uric acid is indeed a

metabolic substitute for ascorbic acid.

 

Paul H