Home Remedies for Gallstones
Gallstones are formed from foods that are high in cholesterol and often cause great pain after fatty foods are eaten. This is because when you eat fatty foods, your bile juices are stimulated to help digest it. This bile – along with cholesterol and phospholipids – is what forms gallstones if it is present in unnatural amounts. And when a diet high in fats, then much more bile than normal is secreted.
Before taking home remedies for gallstones, go to the doctor to make certain that they are the cause of your pain.
One home remedy to remove smaller gallstones is to drink lemon and pineapple or apple juice alternately with dark olive oil. About 1 pint of each should be taken, but they should not be mixed and should only be taken in small quantities starting at one quarter of a cup, and increasing it gradually. Don’t eat any food during the hours that you take this remedy. Make sure you can have the next day free to stay near to the bathroom. Your gallstones should pass in less than 24 hours.
This home remedy for gallstones will help your body flush out the smaller gallstones, but it may not help if you have larger ones.
Another home remedy for gallstones is to make an herbal tea from dried red dates, HB Abrus Frutus Losus and water. Drink several times throughout the day for any length of time, even up to three weeks.
Once the gallstones are flushed from your body you will have relief from the pain they caused, but what is to stop them building up again? Gallstones are formed from what we eat, so changing your diet is the best way to prevent any further gallstone problems. Once you’ve flushed those gallstones it is extremely beneficial to spend the next four days on a ‘clean food’ diet. This is quite simple; only eat foods in their natural state. This will give you fruit and vegetables of many kinds to choose from, so there is no excuse for going hungry.
After this, your diet should be modified to prevent more gallstones forming. Do this by:
- Cutting down on fried, fast and fatty foods.
- Reduce your intake of red meats and thus saturated fats.
- Add lots of vitamin C to your diet. This will help convert any cholesterol to bile.
- Exercise for 20 minutes every day. You’ll be much stronger and healthier.
Other home remedies for gallstones include:
- Taking alfalfa (lucerne) as a liver cleanser and to provide many nutrients that will help the body heal itself.
- Drink peppermint tea to cleanse the gallbladder.
- A sprinkling of turmeric over your evening meal will help to prevent gallstones from forming.
- Dandelion, barberry root bark, fennel, horsetail, parsley, wild yam and ginger root are all good for helping to prevent gallstones.
To relieve the pain of a gallstone attack, drink one cup of apple juice to which has been added one tablespoon of apple cider vinegar.