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.

Treatment with traditional medicine is indicated for the following cases:

Stone size is less than 1cm in the ureter; stones are relatively smooth on X-ray; there are many stones that cannot be completely removed by surgery or lithotripsy; prevent recurrence; kidney function is normal or slightly damaged, stones are usually unilateral; patients cannot tolerate surgery due to old age or poor physical condition.

Low heat:

Cause: eating too much spicy, fatty, sweet food or long-term alcoholism causes low heat, long-term low heat causes urine sediment to form 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 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 gypsum, 12g of hawthorn, 30g of moneywort, 9g of chicken gizzard lining, 15g of crane grass, 15g of moneywort, 12g of cu mach, 6g of rhubarb (add later), 12g of hawthorn, 6g of licorice, 30g of moneywort, 15g of sea cucumber, 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 orientale, 12g of Achyranthes bidentata, 8g of chicken gizzard lining. Boil and drink one dose per day, divided into 3 times.

Liver stagnation and qi 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 distension of the chest and ribs, dark tongue or blood stasis rash, thin and waxy pulse.

Prescription:

Recipe 1: 12g of gypsum tail, 12g of white 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 moneywort, 20g of moneywort seeds, 8g of peach seeds, 6g of curcuma, 12g of achyranthes, 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 weakened, or congenital deficiency, overwork, leading to kidney yin deficiency, yin deficiency and excess fire, deficiency fire forcing blood to circulate causing hematuria.

Symptoms: continuous blood in urine, full lower abdomen, weak back and knees, dizziness, ringing in ears, fever, night sweats, red tongue with little coating, thin and rapid pulse.

Prescription: 12g of tri mother, 12g of rehmannia glutinosa, 12g of Alisma orientale, 9g of chicken gizzard lining, 9g of wood fiber, 6g of licorice, 12g of angelica, 12g of phellodendron, 6g of cornus, 30g of golden cicada, 15g of sea buckthorn, 15g of moneywort, 15g of astragalus. 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 intake, make urine alkaline by drinking more bicarbonate; Oxalate stones: limit crab, snail, fish intake; Phosphate stones: limit egg and milk intake, make urine acidic by drinking oranges and lemons.

According to Health and Life