Natural Remedy for Gallstones

 Before going for surgery please try these natural cleansing methods. |U-Educate

What is a gallbladder cleanse?

A gallbladder cleanse is a specialized diet designed to keep a person from getting gallstones or for treating existing gallstones. Some people may also call a gallbladder cleanse a “liver flush.”

Gaare hardened deposits that can develop in the gallbladder and cause pain, nausea, and vomiting if they block one of the gallbladder’s ducts.

The gallbladder is responsible for storing the bile that the liver makes. This fluid can help you digest fat more effectively. While the gallbladder helps with digestion, you don’t need a gallbladder to live.

If a person has gallstones that cause symptoms, most doctors will recommend surgical removal of the gallbladder. But some people may try a gallbladder cleanse to avoid surgery.

However, there isn’t a specific gallbladder cleanse that all people follow. There’s little research that supports using a gallbladder cleanse as an alternative to medical treatments.

Read on for more information about how gallbladder cleanses work.

What are the claimed benefits of a gallbladder cleanse?

Some natural and alternative medicine proponents recommend a gallbladder cleanse to reduce gallstones. They claim the gallbladder cleanse causes the gallbladder to release the gallstones.

Ideally, the gallstones then pass through the stool. If this occurs, a person would have fewer gallstones remaining to cause unpleasant symptoms and could possibly then avoid surgery.

Different gallbladder cleanse types exist. There are several “recipes” and folk remedies on the internet from alternative medicine practitioners.

• Lemon juice and olive oil. This method involves not eating for 12 hours during the day and then, at 7 p.m., drinking four tablespoons of olive oil and one tablespoon of lemon juice — eight times every 15 minutes.
• Apple juice and vegetable juice. This method involves drinking only apple juice and vegetable juice until 5 p.m. After 5 p.m., drink 18 milliliters (ml) of olive oil and 9 ml of lemon juice every 15 minutes until you’ve consumed eight ounces of olive oil.

Some people may also use enemas along with drinking olive oil and lemon juice to encourage bowel movements. Enemas may contain soap suds or warm water that a person instills into the rectum. The extra water can stimulate the bowels to move.

These methods are just some of those described as a gallbladder cleanse. They typically promote passing stool and can also cause diarrhea. Most don’t involve making dietary changes for more than a night or two.