Kidney Stone Prevention – It’s Not What You Think

How to Make a Decoction

I’ve used Quebra pedra with patients who get kidney stones dozens of times in the past. I recommended to them that they use the stone-breaker herb as kidney stone prevention. The procedure is that every month, they brew up the tea and make a decoction of it, and then drink a quart of it over the next two days. Simply repeat the process once every month.

A decoction is where you start out with say 2 quarts of water in the stainless steel pot, add the herb, and then cover the pot, simmering on low heat for as long as it takes to reduce the liquid to half. By reducing the liquid to half, you end up making the herb doubly potent.

However, can you see why there may be a better kidney stone prevention method than using the stone-breaker herb every month?

The Fallacy of Using an Herb for Kidney Stones

The herb would be used as symptomatic relief, and even though it does work nearly 100% of the time, it is not looking at the underlying cause of the body forming the kidney stones. This is where the calcium content of the diet must be analyzed. Is the person getting too much calcium or too little calcium? If the person continues their diet low in calcium, they will most assuredly form another stone.

The rest of the minerals and vitamins in the diet also need to be evaluated. Calcium is not absorbed if there’s not enough magnesium or vitamin D, and its malabsorption may possibly head right for the kidneys to form stones.

What type of kidney stone prevention will you do? Would you go the distance and get evaluated for your vitamin and mineral levels? Or will you just have the stone-breaking herb around your house for times where you can feel another stone coming on?

Author

This article was written for Insights-on-Health.com in Nov 2013 by Dr Donna Schwontkowski. Reversing health disorders is easier when principles of natural healing are used. Dr Donna is a retired chiropractor with a bachelor’s and master’s degree in nutrition and a master’s in herbology. She has over 25 years experience working with thousands of patients to reverse their health conditions. Read more about her here.

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