Treatment Chart & Prevention Plan for Kidney Stones
Fasting Therapy for Kidney Stones: A fast on carrot or orange juice and water should be adopted for 3 to 5 days. The juice should be diluted with water on 50: 50 basis should be taken every 2 hours from 7 am to 7 pm. The bowels should be clean with warm water enema during the period of fasting. An all fruit diet for further 3 to 5 days, 3 meals a day. Juice fruits such as apple, papaya, grapes, orange, and pineapple should be taken at 5 hourly intervals. Fruit and milk diet for further 5 days. In this regimen, fresh milk, preferably goat’s milk may be added to fruit diet as mentioned above. After an exclusive fresh fruit and milk diet, gradually adopt a well balanced low protein diet on the following lines, with emphasis on alkaline raw foods, fruits, vegetables and sprouted seeds. Short juice fast followed by all fruit diet and fruit and milk diet should be repeated at intervals of 2 months.
Wheat Grass Juice Therapy:Wheat grass juice therapy has produced encouraging result in the treatment of renal diseases, like stone inflammation of kidney and bladder, should be taken early in the morning or on empty stomach or 3 times a day according to degree of diseases density. For further detail please refer page no.
Diet Chart for Kidney Stone:
A. Upon Arising : 25 black raising soaked overnight in water along with water in which they are soaked as well as water kept over night in a copper vessel.
B. Breakfast:Milk with honey and fresh fruits such as papaya, banana, grapes, pear, peaches and pineapple.
C. Lunch:A bowl of freshly prepared steamed vegetables such as carrot, cabbage, cauliflower, beans, 2 or 3 whole wheat chapattis, unsalted fresh butter and a glass of butter milk.
D Mid Afternoon: A glass of carrot juice or coconut water
E Dinner: A large bowl of fresh green vegetable salad , use all available vegetables such as carrot , cabbage, cucumber, tomatoes , radish , red beets, and onion with lemon juice dressing and moong sprouts.
F Bed Time:A glass of milk sweetened with honey.
Types of Stones | Avoid | Used More |
Calcium Phosphate or Carbonate stone | Milk, cocoa, chocolate , coffee, tea ,egg, meat , jaifal, almond, beet , spinach | Bajra, barely, wheat, karela, green chilly, mango, orange. |
Oxalates stone | Cheswnut, spinach, beet, tomato, fig, strawberry, coco, chicken, sitafal, coffee, cauliflower, ladyfinger. | Banana, karela, egg, carrot, guava |
Uric acid stone | Meat, tea coffee, egg, pulse. | Milk ,curd ,sabodana , ghee potato |
Avoid: Tea, coffee, alcoholic beverages, flesh foods, salt , all condiments , highly flavored dishes, sugar , white flour products, denatured cereals and tinned bottled and frozen foods as well as foods containing oxalic acid such as spinach , beet , beans, brinjial , ladyfinger , cholai, strawberries , lime ,alma, almond , peanut.
Food Especially Beneficial: Garlic, cucumber, French beans, carrot, banana, papaya, watermelon, pineapple, barely, radish, mango, sugar cane, pomegranate.
Selective Home Remedies for Kidney Stones :( Grind Your Stone)
1. Basil (Tulsi): Basil has the strengthening effect on the kidney. In case of kidney stones, basil juice and honey should be taken daily for 6 months. It has been found that stones can be expelled from the urinary tract by this treatment.
2. Apple for renal & gall stones: Drink 1 liter apple juice a day for 7 days. On the 7 th day at night a cup of olive oil, before going to bed. Sleep on your left side and by next morning all the stones will pass into stools. If needed a purgative does could be taken.
3. Grape for renal & gall stones: Same effect can be obtained by taking grape dose (olive oil + Epsom salt) in the night. The stone will pass it through the stool by next morning.
4. Pomegranate (Anar): The seeds of our and sweet pomegranate are a useful medicine for kidney stones. The seeds of both sour and sweet pomegranates are useful medicine for kidney stones. A tablespoon of the seeds, ground into a fine paste, can be given along with a cup of horse gram (kulthi) soup to dissolve gravel in kidneys. Two tablespoons of horse gram should be used for preparing the cup of soup.
5. Bottles Gourd (Lauki/ Dodhi): A glass of fresh juice prepared by grating the whole fruit should be mixed with a teaspoon of lime juice. It should be given once daily in the treatment of burning sensation in urinary passage due to high acidity of urine. It serves as an alkaline mixture.
6. Sugar Cane (Gana): useful in scanty urination. It keeps urinary flow clear and helps the kidney to perform their function properly. It is also valuable in burning due to acidity; enlarge prostate, cystitis and nephritis. For better result it should be mixed with lime juice and coconut water and ginger.
7. Beet: Beetroot juice in combination with juice of carrot and cucumber is one of the finest cleansing materials for kidney and bladder. It is highly beneficial in all disorder relating to these two organs.
8. Alove (Ghiguvara): Juice paste or powder in dose of 1 tablespoon 2 times a day. Useful in dissolving kidney stone and urinary problems.
9. Kidney Beans:Kidney beans, also known as dried French beans or Rajmah, are regarded as a very effective home remedy for kidney problems, including kidney stones. The method prescribed to prepare the medicine is to remove the beans from inside the pods, then slice the pods and put about sixty grams in four litre of hot water, boiling them slowly for six hours. This liquid should be strained through fine muslin and then allowed to cool for about eight hours. Thereafter the fluid should be poured through another piece of muslin without stirring. A glass of this decoction should be given to the patient every two hours throughout the day for one day and, thereafter, it may be taken several times a week. This decoction would not work if it was more than twenty-four hours old. The pods could be kept for longer periods but once they were boiled, the therapeutic factor would disappear after one day.
10. Coconut water: take 1 glass on empty stomach in morning and 1 glass in afternoon daily for a month.
11. Watermelon: Watermelon contains the highest concentration of water amongst all fruits. It is also rich in potassium salts. It is one of the safest and best diuretics which can be used with beneficial result in kidney stones.
