Chinese Herbal Medicine and Kidney Stones

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Published: October 12, 2009

Kidney stone pain or ureteric colic is perhaps the most feared symptom of urolithiasis. People who experience it at its worst will do anything that they have been told will help in the passing kidney stones. Because of this fact there are many questionable products on the market which claim to pass kidney stones [...]

Green tea and Kidney Cancer News

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Published: October 11, 2009

An abstract from the Journal Oncology Reports. has brought Green Tea back into the news yet again.
EGCG (epigallocatechin gallate), the major antioxidant found in green tea, has been shown to inhibit the growth of many tumor cells even inducing the tumor cells to spontaneously die by a process known as apoptosis. EGCG can inhibit one [...]

Herbal Preparations to Dissolve Kidney Stones.

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Published: September 25, 2009

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There is an ongoing study investigating the effectiveness and safety of 9 east indian herbs regarding their ability to dissolve kidney stones.
The herbal preparation being studied is known as Cystone. The components of Cystone are as follows.
Didymocarpus pedicellata
Based on the data obtained this herb has been used by traditional herbal practitioners. [...]

Colon Cleanse and The Kidney….to cleanse or not to cleanse?

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Published: September 21, 2009

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The notion that the normal operation of the Gut results in pounds of un-excreted toxic materials, that accumulate over the lifetime of a human being is the basis of the colon cleansing industry that has sprung up nearly simultaneosusly world wide.
The theory behind colon cleansing hails back to the era of the [...]

Herbal corner: Is green tea beneficial in kidney disease?

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Published: August 7, 2009

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Many herbal preparations have been marketed to patients with all manner of diseases ranging from the common cold to incurable cancer. Green tea however has been the focus of much main stream research recently with several studies of its efficacy being published. It has been shown to be effective in weight [...]

Herbal corner: Herbal medicine can be dangerous

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Published: August 7, 2009

While herbal medicine has been on the rise and some herbal remedies do have medicinal effect, we must be cautious about the use of herbs for which we have very limited data or of products that claim to be mixtures of multiple herbs with no method to actually confirm the constituents.
In 1993 investigators published in [...]