8 Natural Remedies To Prevent Kidney Stones

Ayurveda remedies for Kidney Stones

If you’ve ever encountered kidney stones, you surely remember the pain that a 2mm object can cause. It can be unbearable until the tiny stone passes through your urinary tract and out of the body.

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The even worse thing about kidney stones is, for many, kidney stones aren’t a one-time thing: it can reoccur quite often.

But the good part is preventing Kidney store formation is not very difficult, with ayurvedic home remedies you can easily keep kidney stones away. All it takes is a little determination.

So, before jumping to the remedies what cause kidney stones and why there is this pain.

What is Kidney Stone?

Kidney stones occur when some chemicals concentrate in the urinary tract that they start forming crystals. The crystals start depositing in the ureter and bladder and grow into larger masses, which often make their way through your urinary tract. These stones get stuck somewhere in the urinary tract and obstruct the flow of urine, which causes this pain.

Most stones form when calcium combines with either oxalate or phosphorous. Stones can also form from other substance like uric acid, which occurs due to our body metabolizes protein.

Home Remedies to Prevent Kidney Stones

1. Drink Water:

Drink water to Prevent Kidney Stone

First and foremost thing, you should drink a lot of water if you want a speedy, natural recovery from kidney stones. Water not only helps in keeping your body hydrated but also in flushing out toxins and other unwanted minerals out of your body These waste products are responsible for the formation of stones. The drinking sufficient water will reduce the chance of stone formation.

2. Reduce Salt (Sodium) Intake:

Salt or other foods which contain Sodium can cause water retention which can lead to dehydration. Especially adults, should keep salt intake below 2300 mg daily, which equivalent to a tablespoon of salt.

Examples of high-salt foods include: most packaged or prepared meals, chips, most ready-to-make foods like noodles or side dishes. The foods that contain other types of sodium include sodium bicarbonate, disodium phosphate, baking powder, nitrites, and sodium nitrate.

3. Limit consuming foods with oxalate

The most common type of kidney stone is caused by calcium oxalate. Oxalate binds with calcium in the urine and forms kidney stones.

Limiting oxalate intake is usually recommended for those who have a high risk of kidney stones, those with high oxalate levels.

These food are rich in oxalate, so avoid consuming these when possible: grapefruit, beets, spinach, chard, rhubarb, tea, coffee, cola, chocolate and nuts.

Some Ayurveda Remedies to Prevent Kidney Stones

Ayurvedic solutions for Kidney stones prevention has been proven to be pretty effective. Thousands of people with kidney stones have seen unprecedented improvement after trying the ayurvedic remedies for kidney stones.

Here are some of the most effective remedies you should adopt for faster relief from kidney stones:

4. Apple cider vinegar and lemon juice

Apple cider vinegar and lemon juice for kidney stone prevention

Both apple cider vinegar and lemon juice are rich in citric acid. They help in dissolving the kidney stones as well as alkalize urine. In addition to this, apple cider vinegar helps ease pain caused by kidney stones.

Add 2 teaspoons of apple cider vinegar to 6-8 ounces of warm or normal water. Drink it throughout the day. Though you shouldn’t consume more than 8-ounce of this mixture. Because more amount of apple cider vinegar can lead to low levels of potassium.

You can add honey or rock salt to lemon juice mixture to make it more palatable.

5. Coconut Water

Coconut water for prevention of Kidney Stones

Coconut water is considered to be one of the healthiest drinks and is thought to help dissolve kidney stones. It has been proven to be really effective in flushing out the kidney stones from your body through urine. It is also found effective in relieving the pain during urination.

6. Ladies’ fingers/ Okra/ Bhindi

Bhindi is rich in magnesium, and with other anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties, bhindi is quite effective in the prevention of crystallisation of chemicals in the kidney.

7. Tulsi (Basil)

Tulsi for prevention of Kidney stone

It has been found that Tulsi promotes the fluid, mineral and acid balance in the kidney. You can consume Tulsi leaves a few times a day in tea, juice or with honey. This will help in flushing kidney stones from the urinary tract.8

8. Consume sugarcane:

You can mix green cardamom or Tulsi seeds with Sugarcane juice and drink twice a day in an empty stomach.

Effective Ayurveda Treatment for Kidney Stones Removal

Small Kidney Stones can be treated easily. They might even pass through the ureter to the bladder with time. However, large Renal Stones are too large to pass through the ureter, can cause extensive damage to Kidneys. It requires intensive treatment using a combination of several powerful herbal remedies.

At aarogya clinic we have been providing an effective cure from kidney stones for our patients. Since 1993 we have successfully treated 4,000+ patients with kidney stones. If you are experiencing kidney Stone feel free to consult a doctor at our clinic.