Calculus renalis Anhang
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Validation of a Functional Pyelocalyceal Renal Model for the Evaluation
of Renal Calculi Passage While Riding a Roller Coaster
[Francis Treuherz]
Kidney stones and other lumps
One day in March 2002, I was at home. Suddenly, I was in extreme agony with
pain in my back ... or my side ... or my backside. I couldn’t quite work out
where the pain was coming from or
what it was, and I hurt too much to be able to think.
Screaming my head off
I was literally writhing on the floor screaming my head off. I also
happened to be clutching my cordless phone. A friend called but I was in too
much pain to speak. She hung up after listening to
my screams for a few seconds and called an ambulance. The printer from
the Society of Homeopaths called. I couldn’t speak to him either.
He hung up and called the Society of Homeopaths office, and they called
for an ambulance. A colleague heard about my plight and called to tell me to
take Calc. 30C every 15 minutes. He hung up and called an ambulance because I
couldn’t speak and was still screaming my head off. My older son pressed the
emergency button by the front door which alerts the local fire, police, and
ambulance services.
Luckily, the ambulance service was coordinated so only one ambulance
came. A neighbor came to take care of the boys, and I ended up at the hospital
still screaming and taking Calc. 30C every
15 minutes.
About two or three hours after this all began, the pain left me as
suddenly as it had come. No hospital staff had paid me any attention until I
stopped screaming. Then a doctor came by and asked
me to pass urine into a glass bottle and we examined the results. With a
naked eye we could see the pieces of stone.
I was exhausted and shaken, and I rested for a few days. During that
time, I read up on kidney stones and their homeopathic treatment. In New, Old and Forgotten Remedies (published in
1900), E.P. Anshutz wrote about his own spectacular, long-term cure of horrible
kidney stones. “It is true, the most suitable homeopathic remedies afforded me
relief,” he wrote. “The incarceration of
calculi in the ureter especially was relieved by Nux-v. but they were
unable to put a stop to the formation of calculi; this result was only attained
by the preparation of Calculus renalis.
” Calculus renalis, a homeopathic preparation of one of Anshutz’ own
kidney stones.
I decided to take Calculus renalis 30C once daily for 3 months,
beginning in March.
A sudden blow-up
At the end of June 2002, I went to the annual Irish Homeopathic
Conference in Galway, looking as if some-one had just thumped me in the eye. A
cyst in my eyelid had become inflamed just 24 hours before I was due to travel.
I’d had this cyst for 25 years; every year or so it would gradually fill up
with pus, and after a remedy like Staphysagria, it would burst and drain, but
there was
always a small, hard lump remaining.
This time, my eyelid had blown up suddenly. It was swollen, painful, and
red. I took Apis 30C every 3 or 4 hours
for a number of doses but it only palliated, relieving the swelling a little.
Something was still there inside the underside of the lid.
I took a few doses of Staphysagria 30C and it did nothing. So I visited
an ophthalmic surgeon at the local hospital who slit the underside of the
eyelid, and out popped some fragments of stone.
I avoided her prescription of antibiotics, and it healed rapidly with
dilute Euphrasia tincture and one dose of Staphysagria 200C.
Stone-free I believe that as a result of taking Calculus renalis for 3 months, the calcified
cyst in my eyelid cracked.
There was no outlet for it though until the surgeon made a slit, and out
it popped.
Some months after this, I noticed that a couple of calcified lumps or
arthritic nodules on my knuckles had become smaller. For years, I had not been
able to wear my wedding ring because of them. Now I can wear the ring, and my
knuckles are no longer painful. I also
have not suffered another attack of kidney stones. This is not a huge length of
time to believe I am free of kidney stones,
but it is now a year and six months with not a hint of a problem in this
area.
I believe that there must be a similarity between calcifications
wherever they may occur, and Calculus renalis has the potential to address them.
Previous to my personal use of this remedy, I had prescribed it occasionally
for patients with stones in the salivary glands. There was never a crisis or
problem; the stones just got smaller and were reabsorbed.
Reminder
If you have stones, nodules, or calcifications, I suggest that you do
not use this remedy at home. Instead, please consult a qualified homeopath to
find the right constitutional remedy for you, one that will address the
totality of your symptoms.
I must not forget the effect of this on my older son, Eliezer, who
turned 10 this past October. His response at the time was heroic but he was
very upset afterwards to see his father in such pain.
He needed his constitutional remedy, and still remembers the incident
with a frisson of fear. His recent spectacular speedy recovery from mumps with
a few doses of Jaborandi 30C has confirmed
his confidence in homeopathy. My younger son Isaac, now just 5, seems
not to have grasped the significance in the same way.
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Five remedies for kidney stone pain
Kidney stones are accumulations of calcium and other salts that form in
the urine-collecting ducts of the kidneys. They may cause no symptoms, but if a
stone leaves the kidney and gets stuck in a ureter (one of a pair of tubes
carrying urine from the kidney to the bladder), renal colic can result. Some
have described this as “the worst pain anyone can experience.” It is a severe,
spasmodic pain
in the lower back that radiates to other areas, and stops once the stone
stops moving.
If you have a history of kidney stones, seek constitutional homeopathic
treatment to address the tendency to develop stones.
If you are experiencing renal colic, seek immediate professional help.
You can also try an emergency homeopathic remedy as you wait for help. The appropriate
remedy may relax the muscles in the ureter wall, allowing the stone to descend
to the bladder.
Some remedies to consider include:
Berb.: A remedy with a reputation for helping
renal colic and gallstone colic. Severe stitching, sticking pains. A bubbling
sensation, as if water were coming up through the skin.
<: night/movement; >:standing;
Canth.: Burning sensation in the bladder and
intolerable urge to urinate. Urine passed drop by drop. Pain feels like knives
stabbing in all directions.
Person may be thirsty.
Dios.: Pain > pressure/bending
backward/straightening up;
Lyc.: Right-sided pain not extending lower than
bladder.
Pain in back, > urinating. Red sediment in urine.
<: 16 h. and 20 h.
Nux-v.: Right-sided pain, stabbing toward genitals and down the right leg.
Nausea, vomiting, or urge to have a bowel movement may accompany
the pain. Person is chilly and irritable.
[Julian Winston]
Kidney stones in the family
The words “kidney stones” send chills up my spine. I passed my first
stone back in 1971 and I felt as if I was going to die. I passed my last about
a year ago. There are, according to an ultrasound, 3 more small stones left. I
do not look forward to their passing.
The stone I had in 1978 was by far the worst. It was too large to pass, and
the technology of the lithotripter (a machine that breaks apart stones with
ultrasonic vibration) was still a few years in the future. I was hospitalized,
fed painkillers, kept on an intravenous drip—all in the hope that the stone
might move. It didn’t. The stone needed surgery and a general anesthetic to be
removed. I hadn’t yet fully understood or embraced homeopathy.
A number of years later, my brother phoned me. He was passing a stone
and was in agony. The doctors could only prescribe painkillers and wait for it
to move.
Based on the meager symptoms he reported to me, I had him take Berb.
200C. He felt relief within a half-hour of taking the first dose. The next day,
Saturday, he was to go to a wedding.
He reported to me that Berberis tablets cut the pain better than the
painkillers.
Every time he got a “twinge” in his back, he took one.
By Sunday he was feeling better. On his visit to the doctor on Monday it
was found that the stone had indeed come down the ureter, and was floating
around in the bladder. The doctors went in (through the urethra) and fetched it
out.
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Look for the strange, rare, peculiar symptom
A number of years ago at the NCH Summer School then held in
Millersville, Pennsylvania, Dr. David Wember was drilling the class on the
importance of the “characteristic symptom” in homeopathic prescribing (i.e.,
the unusual, peculiar, or unique symptom which can often point to the curative
remedy). He presented a case of renal colic as an example. Renal colic is
severe, rhythmical pain in the lower back that radiates to other areas. It is
usually caused by spasmodic efforts of the ureter (the muscular tube leading
from the kidney to the bladder) to force a kidney stone downwards.
The patient, in pain, described two symptoms that were unique: the pain
was felt in the ureters on the right side; and the pain was extending to his
penis and testes.
Comparing these two rubrics in Kent’s Repertory, we find only three
remedies that are common to both symptoms:
Dioscorea, Cantharis, and Nux vomica.
The only thing that made the pain feel better, said the patient, was
bending backward over a chair.
Now most cases of renal colic would cause a person to bend double
(forward) to relieve the pain. Not this one!
Dios.: a well-known remedy for pains that are
ameliorated by bending backwards. Morrison, in his Desktop Guide, says: “The
guiding symptom is a tendency to stretch or bend backwards to relieve abdominal
pain.” A single dose of Dioscorea relieved the patient’s pain in about 15
minutes. A stone was passed three hours later.
[Dr. Vikas Sharma MD]
For those who suffer from recurrent kidney stones, homeopathic treatment
can be very effective and a safe alternative to any kind of surgical
intervention. Homeopathic medicine Berb. (medicine made from the bark from the
plant Berberry) is well known for its great action in treating stones in the
kidney and urinary tract.
Not only does Berberis help in eliminating kidney stones and relieving
the pain, its use also eradicates ones tendency to develop stones recurrently.
Although there are many other medicines in homeopathy that are found useful in
treating kidney stones but Berberis alone can treat a great variety of renal
stones and the symptoms of pain arising out of it.
Kidney stones (in medical terminology called as Renal Calculi or
Urolithiasis) are hard masses that develop in the kidney or urinary tract.
These are made up of crystals. They may contain many chemicals but usually made
up of calcium (with combination of oxalates or phosphates) and uric acid.
Men are usually more predisposed to having kidney stones and are more
likely to develop it as they enter into their 40’s. Hereditary factors also
play a strong role. Hypercalciuria (where there is excess of calcium excreted in
urine) is also genetic acquired factor which leads to frequent development of
kidney stones. It is also true that once someone develops more than one stone
he is likely to develop such stones more often.
The role of food in developing kidney stones is a debatable issue. It is
popular belief that avoiding food that is high in calcium is must in people who
are suffering from stones; in reality this is not true. On the contrary, recent
studies have shown that having food high in calcium like dairy products may
actually prevent calcium stones. Certain foods and medicines like (calcium
based antacids) are known to promote the production of stones. If one
has acidic urine avoiding foods like fish meat and poultry can help.
People who tend to develop calcium oxalate stone and show oxalates in their
urine may need to avoid or limit their intake of foods containing oxalates
like: like Beetroots, chocolate, coffee, cola, nuts, spinach, strawberries,
tea, and wheat bran
Kidney stones can cause very severe pain which is caused when the stones
obstruct the flow of urine or when they move in the ureter (ducts that carry
urine from the kidney to the bladder). Pain caused by kidney stones occurs in
the back or in the lower abdomen. It may extend to the groin area too. Passing
of blood in urine can occur when the stone moves in the urinary tract. Pain can
be very severe and may be accompanied by nausea and vomiting.
It is a well known fact that many stones tend to come out on their own
but some do require medical intervention. Even though, Berberis vulgaris is
homeopathy’s best, other medicines like Sarsaparilla, Hydrangea, and Benzoic
Acid are also used very extensively used in homeopathy for the treatment of
renal calculi. Choice of medicine in homeopathy is based upon the symptoms
presented by the patient. Lifestyle modifications like increasing fluid intake
(10 - 12 glasses of water??) and a well regulated diet is the first step in
prevention of stones.
[Winston]