Patient's question:
How is kidney stone treated? Does drinking lemon water have a curative effect?Doctor's answer:
Drink plenty of water: Increase urine volume to flush the urinary tract, promote the downward movement of stones, and dilute urine to reduce crystal precipitation.Herbal medicine treatment: Treatment based on syndrome differentiation, addressing both root and symptoms. Regular jumping activities or inverted postures and tapping exercises for renal caliceal stones also facilitate stone expulsion.
Recommendations: Drink at least 2000-3000 ml of water daily, including a 500 ml intake before bed and an additional 200 ml after urinating upon waking. Increase physical activity, such as jumping, to make stone expulsion easier. Appropriately adjust your diet to prevent the recurrence of stones.
Calcium stone patients should reduce the intake of high-calcium foods like milk, while oxalate stone patients should limit spinach, potatoes, beans, and strong tea. Phosphate stone patients should follow a low-phosphate and low-calcium diet and take ammonium chloride orally to acidify urine. Urate stone patients should reduce the consumption of purine-rich foods like animal organs, meat, and beans, and take sodium bicarbonate orally to alkalize urine, which also aids in dissolving urate stones.