Home Health Care : Gallstones

Gallstones are stones made of calcium and/or bile salts that forms in the gallbladder or bile ducts.

• For acute gall-bladder inflammation, fast on strictly water for 2-3 days until the acute condition improves. After the fast, take beet, carrot, grapefruit, lemon and grape juice for a few days. Adopt an adequate lacto-vegetarian diet, consisting of raw and cooked vegetables, vegetable juices, and moderate amounts of fruit and seeds. Also take yogurt, cottage cheese and a tablespoon of olive oil 2x daily as it stimulates bile and lipase production. Take small meals at frequent intervals rather than three large ones. The recommended foods to take would be on rising in the morning: a glass of warm water mixed with lemon juice and honey or fresh fruit juice which can also be taken mid-morning. For breakfast: Fresh fruit, 1-2 slices of whole meal toast and 1 cup skimmed powder milk. For lunch: Big salad with lemon or vegetable oil dressing or vegetable soup and for dinner: lightly cooked vegetables, baked potato, brown rice or whole heat bread and a glass of buttermilk.
• Avoid all meats, eggs, citrus fruits, animal fats, processed and denatured fats, refined carbohydrates, fried foods, sugar and its products, alcohol, soft drinks, ice-cream, coffee.
• Other measures to take: Apply regular hot and cold towel over the abdomen to improve the circulation of the liver and gall-bladder and flow of bile, or apply a hot pack or towel to the abdominal area to relieve pain from gallstone colic. Exercise regularly to prevent stones from indigestion due to a lazy gall-bladder.
• Drink 4 glasses of apple juice or eat 4-5 apples for the first 5 days to soften the gallstone. Eat normally, just add these quantities of apples to the diet. Don't take any dinner on the 6th day, instead take 1 teaspoon of epsom salt (magnesium sulphate) with a glass of warm water at 6pm. Repeat at 8pm. This opens the gallbladder ducts. At 10pm, take ½ cup olive oil or sesame oil with ½ cup fresh lemon juice. The oil lubricates the stones, so the next morning it will be easier to pass the green stones in the stools.
• Drink ½ cup apple cider vinegar 5x in a day. On the next three consecutive days, take a mixture of ½ cup each apple cider and olive oil 5x a day. The gallstone should pass out the day after this routine is completed (5th day).
• To reduce the pain of gallstones trying to get out of the gallbladder, pour and spread equally onto a handkerchief or cloth 3 tablespoons warm castor oil. Use this as a compress above the gallbladder (above the navel line and below the ribs on the right side of the abdomen).
• Take ½ teaspoon blackseed with 1 teaspoon honey and 1 glass warm water every morning before breakfast.
• Avoid turmeric.

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