Remedies for urinary stones

Traditional medicine calls urinary stones as: sa lam, thach lam or cat lam, including main symptoms: abdominal pain, back pain, bloody urination, difficult urination... The cause is due to damp heat in the lower burner, causing urine sediment to stagnate, small is called sa, large is called thach. Sa and thach obstruct the excretion of urine causing difficult urination, stagnation causing pain. Damp heat also causes fever, blood stasis causes bleeding.

The following article would like to introduce to readers some traditional medicine remedies that are effective in treating urinary tract stones according to each disease type.

Traditional medicine treatment is indicated for the following cases:

Stone size is less than 1cm in the ureter; on film the stone is relatively smooth; the number of stones is large and surgery or lithotripsy may not be able to remove all the stones; prevent recurrence; kidney function is normal or slightly damaged, stones are usually unilateral; the patient cannot tolerate surgery due to old age or poor health.

Low heat:

Cause: eating too much spicy, fatty, sweet food or long-term alcohol addiction causes low heat, long-term low heat causes urine sediment to accumulate into stones.

Symptoms: bloody urine, accompanied by abdominal cramps, frequent urination, painful urination, bitter mouth and dry throat, lower abdominal distension, red tongue with yellow sticky coating, and deep and rapid pulse.

Moneywort is one of the very effective herbs for treating urinary stones.

Prescription:

Recipe 1: 9g of wood-pine, 12g of sea cucumber, 15g of talc, 12g of Chinese clematis, 30g of moneywort, 9g of chicken gizzard lining, 15g of crane grass, 15g of Chinese clematis seed, 12g of Chinese clematis root, 6g of rhubarb (add later), 12g of Chinese clematis, 6g of licorice, 30g of moneywort, 15g of sea clematis, 8g of chicken gizzard lining, 10g of pagoda tree flower, 15g of crane grass.

Recipe 2: 40g of moneywort, 20g of spleen, 20g of moneywort seeds, 12g of curcuma, 12g of Alisma orientalis, 12g of Achyranthes bidentata, 8g of chicken gizzard lining. Boil and drink one dose per day, divided into 3 times.

Liver depression and stagnation:

Cause: due to mental restlessness, anger damages the liver, causing liver stagnation and stagnation of qi, stagnant qi cannot circulate and turns into fire, fire stagnation in the lower burner affects the qi transformation of the bladder, leading to difficulty urinating, pain, and incomplete urination.

Symptoms: bloody urine, painful urination, frequent urination, pain when pressing on the groin area, fullness and distention of the chest and ribs, dark tongue or blood stasis rash, thin and waxy pulse.

Prescription:

Recipe 1: 12g of gypsum tail, 12g of mulberry bark, 6g of wood ear, 12g of poria, 12g of moneywort, 12g of gardenia fruit, 16g of gypsum, 12g of moneywort, 6g of licorice.

Recipe 2: 40g of Desmodium styracifolium, 20g of Chinese clematis root, 8g of peach seed, 6g of Chinese clematis root, 12g of Achyranthes root, 8g of Chinese clematis root bark, 8g of Chinese clematis root bark, 8g of chicken gizzard lining, 16g of coix seed. Boil and drink one dose per day, divided into 3 times.

Kidney yin deficiency:

Long-term kidney stones that do not heal, damp heat causing damage to vital energy, or old age, long-term illness causing the body to be weak, or congenital deficiency, overwork, leading to kidney yin deficiency, yin deficiency and fire excess, false fire forcing blood to circulate causing hematuria.

Symptoms: continuous hematuria, full lower abdomen, weak lower back and knees, dizziness, tinnitus, fever, night sweats, red tongue with little coating, thin and rapid pulse.

Prescription: 12g of Anemarrhena rhizome, 12g of Rehmannia glutinosa, 12g of Alisma orientalis, 9g of Gentian root gizzard lining, 9g of Atractylodes Rhizome, 6g of Licorice root, 12g of Angelica sinensis, 12g of Phellodendron amurense, 6g of Cornus officinalis, 30g of Cistanche deserticola, 15g of Polygonum multiflorum, 15g of Astragalus root. Boil and drink one dose per day, divided into 3 times.

Points to note during treatment: Drink plenty of water: 1,500 - 3,000ml during treatment; Adjust urine pH to maintain at 5 - 7; Urate stones: limit meat consumption, make urine alkaline by drinking more bicarbonate; Oxalate stones: limit crab, snail, fish consumption; Phosphate stones: limit egg and milk consumption, make urine acidic by drinking oranges and lemons.

According to Health and Life