Renal stone disease is a general disease of the body associated with a disorder of metabolic processes, in which concretions are found in the renal pelvis or ureters. The disease can be asymptomatic, secretive, and in other cases with severe attacks, urinary disorders, changes in urine, stone discharge and other painful symptoms. Kidney stones can come in a wide variety of structures, physical structures, and chemical compositions. They can come in a variety of colors: white, gray, yellow, brown-red, and black. The stones range in size from tiny to giant (coral). Their consistency also varies. Oxalates are the hardest, their color is dark, they consist of oxalic acid salts, the surface is uneven. With their sharp bumps, they can block and traumatize the urinary tract.
Urates are composed of crystals of uric acid and its sodium salt, and have a smooth surface, hard consistency and granularity. Their color is dark yellow to brick brown. Oxalates and urates are more common in acidic urine, and eating exclusively meat, fish foods promotes their deposition.
Phosphates are the most common kidney stones. They consist of calcium and magnesium salts of phosphoric acid, are formed by eating exclusively plant foods, and are more common in alkaline urine. Phosphates grow rapidly and are found in the infected renal pelvis. Tripelphosphates consist of phosphoric acid ammonia magnesia and are more common in alkaline urine.
Carbonates are easily crumbled, amorphous kidney stones.
Oxalates and phosphates are clearly visible on radiographs, urates are not always detected on review images because they do not retain X-rays well.
Kidney stones of organic origin are rare. Protein stones consist of protein substance, inorganic salts and bacteria, soft consistency, on radiographs are revealed if they contain an admixture of inorganic salts.
Cystine kidney stones are yellow in color, layered, and give a shadow on review images, while xanthine stones are hard and contain uric acid.
Cholesterol stones are black in color and are not detectable on radiographs.
Some people develop sulfonamide stones after using sulfonamide medications. Acetylated derivatives of sulfonamides are poorly soluble in the body, accumulating in the renal pelvis and kidneys, can cause attacks of renal colic.
Renal stone disease clinically manifests itself as acute attacks of renal colic, and there is no direct correlation between the size of the stone and the severity of pain. Light intervals between seizures are individualized. In attacks, pain occurs suddenly, acutely, localized in the lumbar region with a feeling of distention in the abdomen, bloating in the intestines. Pain is of increasing character, passing along the course of the ureter, irradiating to the groin, inner thigh and genitals. Patients are restless, assume a forced position. Symptoms of renal stone disease are accompanied by frequent urges to urinate, which is painful, sometimes there is anuria. During attacks there are often chills, fever, palpitations, nausea and vomiting, in the blood leukocytosis with a shift in the formula to the left, accelerated RPE.
After the attack in the urine is found an admixture of protein, in the sediment - red blood cells, urine becomes bloody, in some cases it contains concretions or conglomerates of salts - sand. Sometimes the following symptoms of renal stone disease: renal colic occurs with abdominal bloating - phenomena of peritonism; in these cases, the differential diagnosis is made between appendicitis, pancreatitis, acute cholecystitis and intestinal obstruction.
Characteristic localization of pain, their irradiation, hematuria, stone retreatment allow to diagnose renal colic. Outside of attacks, the described symptoms of renal stone disease and modern methods of examination help to identify a serious disease. Palpation may reveal a pyonephritic or hydronephritic kidney. Cystoscopy can detect a pinched stone, hemorrhages, small ruptures of the urethral orifice. In pyonephrosis, pus can be seen escaping from the corresponding orifice. The functional state of the kidneys is recognized by the method of determining the total renal function (residual nitrogen, blood indican, Zimnitsky's test, dilution and concentration test, etc.).). Chromocystoscopy and internal urography can determine the function of each kidney separately. The main and decisive evidence of renal stone disease is radiographic evidence.
It is not our task to cover in detail the etiology, pathogenesis and pathologoanatomical picture of this disease, complications and treatment methods accepted in therapy and surgery, which include a whole complex aimed both at eliminating attacks, evacuation of stones, and prevention of possible complications and formation of new stones. The reader can find all this in special monographs and works devoted to these issues. It should only be emphasized that kidney stones recur, can be formed again after surgical treatment, because the process of stone formation is a general disease with a violation of a number of metabolic processes in the body, and no local methods can not cure the patient. The main task should be to restore the disturbed metabolism, to restore the shaken physiological balance in the body. This, of course, applies to sick stone-formers, not to occasional stone-formers in whom surgical treatment, t. е. stone removal, can be absolutely effective and permanently relieve this severe affliction.
To prevent kidney stone disease, therapeutic exercise, long walks, sufficient movement, a varied and proper diet, vitamins and control of urinary tract infection are of great importance.
Phytotherapy for kidney stone disease along with diet and regulation of the patient's lifestyle can restore the disturbed metabolism to a great extent.
Kidney stone disease is treated with a complex of medicinal plants (collection number 5) with the mandatory addition of the following plants: basil mint, petals of red rose, chamomile apothecary. All of these ingredients are added to mixture #5 one part at a time.
Take an infusion of kidney stone disease should be taken in the first days of treatment at the rate of: 10 g of the mixture brew 750 ml of boiling water; take during the day in a warm form 4-5 times, if there are no contraindications to drinking large amounts of liquid (cardiovascular disease). It should be remembered that after each urination you need to drink this infusion in an amount of 150-200 ml necessarily warm.
After the stone has passed, the dose is reduced: 5-6 g of the mixture for 500 ml of boiling water.
In addition to the use of infusion we recommend using strawberry or strawberry juice, prepared as follows: cleaned berries well washed through a colander with boiled cold water, put in a glass jar and pour each layer of berries with a small amount of sugar (1 kg of berries - 100 g), close the glass lid and put in a cool place for a few hours. The resulting juice to take in acute pain on an empty stomach 100 ml 15-30 minutes before or after taking the infusion of herbs.
Juice can be prepared for the winter (for 1 kg of berries - 1 kg 200 g sand) and take, diluting with boiled water.
If strawberries or strawberries are not available, it is good to consume carrot juice or pumpkin steamed with honey. In kidney stone disease, the use of sugar should be minimal, it should be replaced with honey or jam.
During attacks of renal colic, we also recommend baths made from the herbs marsh wheatgrass, oregano, birch twigs, linden flowers, sage herb and chamomile - 10 g of each ingredient per bath. All the above plants brew 3-5 liters of boiling water, stew for 2-3 hours (if the attack is acute - half an hour), strain into a water-filled bath; the heart area should not be covered with the infusion. To keep the room steam-free, pour cold water into the tub first, then hot water.
The bath should be taken within 10-15 minutes after a hygienic shower. After a bath, rest in bed for at least 11/2-2 hours. Such baths have an anti-spastic and analgesic effect.
We have observed several patients who had radiologically detected kidney stones of large size (oxalate or urate) and laboratory studies - changes in the urine. Such patients were treated with phytotherapy of renal stone disease until the tests confirmed the absence of infection in the renal pelvis, after which the patients underwent surgery. The removed stone turned out to be non-infectious, the kidney functioned well, and despite the large size of the stone, kidney resection was not performed.
Summarizing, it should be noted that mixtures of medicinal plants, used by us in the form of infusions inside and in the form of baths, have anti-inflammatory, disinfectant, bacteriostatic effect, eliminate infection of the urinary tract. Their antiseptic and styptic properties have been proven (cf. special sections). Presence of essential oils in plants (birch, oregano, basil, chamomile, etc.).) promotes the expulsion of stones. Multivitamin properties of plants included in the above complex, eliminate the lack of vitamin A and other vitamins, which contributes to increased sloughing of cells of the urinary tract and the possibility of concrement formation. Diuretic properties of plants eliminate stagnation of urine (which may be caused by the formation of concrements), and the increase in diuresis does not cause irritation of the renal epithelium. In addition, increases the secretion of sweat glands, improves the gastrointestinal tract, infusion has a stimulating effect on the whole body and calming - on the central nervous system, improves the general metabolism, including mineral and acid-base. Drinking plenty of infusion thus contributes not only to relieve the pain attack and expel the stones, but also prevents the possibility of complicating infection.
Phytotherapy of renal stone disease is a pathogenetic method of treatment.
In the treatment of infusions of renal stone disease, we found the following pattern: acute attacks of pain in most patients lost their intensity in the first days of treatment, later improved their general condition, attacks became more rare and short, less intense, and urine tests confirmed the absence of protein (if there was), decreased the number of red blood cells, later - leukocytes, appeared a large number of conglomerates of salts.
If phytotherapy of renal stone began during remission, there was usually an exacerbation of pain, there were acute attacks of one or another intensity, during which stones, conglomerates of salts came off.
According to our observations, the results may be better if you start phytotherapy in the period of exacerbation of the disease..
