by Siew Cheng Hoe

Created on: October 24, 2009

Have you suffered from the pains of kidney stones? Do you want to fight kidney stones with herbs and diet?

More people are suffering from kidney stones due to unhealthy diet and sedentary lifestyle. Even though kidney stones are not serious illness, kidney stones can lead to complications and affect the function of the kidney.

Kidney stones are due to accumulation and crystallization of certain minerals and substances from your food intake.

As long as you can dilute the concentration of minerals in the body, you can avoid kidney stones. Even if you have small kidney stones, you can dissolve the small kidney stones through herbs and diet.

The easiest way of getting rid of small kidney stones is to flush it out from your body. You can achieve this by using medication or through simple medical procedures. However, the best way to get rid of small kidney stones is to do it the natural way.

One way to get rid of kidney stones naturally is to drink tea. Everyone knows the health benefits of drinking tea. You can probably list many benefits of drinking tea. You can include removal of kidney stones as a benefit of drinking tea in your list.

Tea can help you to flush out waste products so that they do not harden into kidney stones. Kidney stones are not diamonds. You do not need, and you do not want kidney stones in the body.

Many victims of kidney stones readily agree that tea helps them to dissolve the kidney stones. Tea is able to dissolve excess uric acid from your body, and thus, preventing the formation kidney stones.

You can make it a habit to drink a cup of tea every day. You can drink tea with Chinese herbs such as plantain leaf, meadowsweet, Joe-pye weed, sarsaparilla, corn silk, wild yam root, hydrangea root, yarrow leaf and cramp bark. However, you have to seek the advice of your doctor if you are under medication for other health conditions.

The next effective way of dissolving kidney stones is by drinking diuretic tea. You can drink dandelion or corn silk tea.

You can combine dandelion or corn silk tea with other herbs such as nettle leaf, fennel seed, and oat straw. You can boil a large pot of tea, keep it in the fridge, and drink a glass of it every day. However, seek medical advice if you are on medication for other health conditions.

The easiest way to avoid kidney stones is to drink enough water, plain water, to flush out excessive minerals. You should avoid soft drinks if you have small kidney stones.

You can drink lemonade, lime juice and juice of critic fruits to dissolve the small kidney stones. Critic acids are good for dissolving the kidney stones.

You have to moderate the intake of calcium, protein and salt from your diet. Calcium, salt, and protein are the three building blocks of kidney stones. It does not mean that you have to give up consumption of calcium, salt and protein. You have to consume less, especially if you have a few tiny kidney stones causing back pain.

You need to exercise enough to loosen the small kidney stones from the body, on top of using herbs and diet. A lack of physical exercise can increase the productivity of kidney stones in the body.

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