Herb Pharm Formerly Madder/Hydrangea -Stone Breaker Compound 1oz. 64092in

This is a good price and great product. I'd moved a kidney stone in the middle of the Summer and it sort of got stuck, about half way down. The pain during any kind of exertion was quite awful. I knew I had to act fast so bought this. It says on the bottle to use about 40 drops per glass of water, three times a day. Well, this worked. The aggravating stone reduced in size very quickly and of course, moved further along its path. However, LOTS more stones then went mobile too, on both sides! Thankfully, they were much smaller and not a problem, but the pain from various hot spots was slowing me down, especially whilst double-digging my flowerbed. (You may ask, why set yourself that kind of task if you have kidney stones? Simple, since getting rid of my migraines, I am not going to slowed down by measly kidney stones, they're pathetic in comparison to the debilitating horror a full-blown 72-hour slow burning electrical shock to your head!) So that's when I decided to also take Epsom Salts in the evening, to just dissolve them even more. I think the two products work well together e.g. taking 2 applications of Stone Breaker during the day, then Epsom Salts at around 7pm. All to be taken on an empty stomach. I also increased the dose for SB by adding three half pipettes to half a glass of water. That dose seems to be much more suited to solving my particular problems. Needless to say, in under a week, I'm virtually stone free (TG and all the Angels!!). I'm really amazed at how convenient and effective this product is! Kidney stones affect more women than men, but if you ask Joe Public about them, people say men get them more often. Personally, I think that a lot of women must register kidney stone 'episodes' as either back ache or the follow-on discomfort of painful joints? If you can isolate the actual cause of your discomfort, by literally sitting very still, like I did in A&E with my first stone, and really listening to what the pain is telling you. By this I mean crucially working out from each painful stab if its a pain that travels slowly or feels as if its trying to? For certain in the past, I registered mobile kidney stones as simple backache and I think my aunt, whom I seem to take after in many respects, also complained of that vague pain. Swollen, hot feet, nausea, backache, pain on exertion and a general feeling of being unable to function properly, are the basic signs of undiagnosed, kidney stones. And also lets not forget, low adrenal output is virtually always to blame because of the bicarbonate recycling thing. Update 20/09/14: Stone Breaker had also managed to reduce my gallstones, to the point that I had some kind of gallstone attack. As I was able to recognise what was happening to me (classic strong upper abdominal cramps that come in waves), I acted promptly and did a mini-gall bladder flush. It worked well and I felt immediately better. I consider a big weekend liver flush session to be far too inconvenient for the way I live and much prefer a mini version, as it doesn't cause diarrhoea and means you only lose an hour from your routine. Update 31/01/15: After so many kidney stones, I finally realised something was seriously wrong, so I decided to back track a bit and try and work out why? After a process of elimination, I worked out that these new kidney stones could not be zapped in the same way as I had dealt with the previous lot. So I looked back over my notes and realised that in the small print of N-acetyl cysteine (NAC), it does state that if you take it for too long, as a well person that is, then it causes kidney stones because you will make too much glutathione and if glutathione oxidises because it is surplus to your needs, then it turns to kidney stones made of cysteine. Kidney stones made of cysteine are rare and usually only hereditary . As I knew no one in the family suffered from these, I worked out it had to be something I was taking? Indeed, it is recommended that if you take NAC on a regular basis, then you should increase your intake of vitamin C, to counter-act this effect. Well, I didn't increase my intake and the stones increased in size and number as a result. Luckily, if you have stones made of cysteine, its really easy to zap them with large amounts of vitamin C. I did that for about 2 or 3 days to get rid of them, and it worked! As a diagnostic tool, I suppose I can look back and say, well, I wouldn't have had those stones if I wasn't a well person, as only a well person can make too much glutathione? Which is kind of consoling? The other thing worth noting is that I'm not going to stop taking NAC, all that its going to change is that I won't take it as often. Because its such a fantastic help to your liver to detox paracetamol and because it increases glutathione. Paracetamol is something that I've taken a lot of in the past and I really need to get all of that out of my liver, for the sake of my future. The other thing that makes me continue to supplement with NAC, is that it detoxes aldehydes. My 7 years of horrendous migraines (NOW TOTALLY OVER- TG!) were due to acetaldehyde in my body as a result of Candida excreting this neurotoxin. I would like to think that every last trace of the cause of all that rampant inflammation is being eliminated.

I've been suffering for a couple of years with gallstones and attacks. My go to remedy has always been apple cider vinegar with water. I read about chanca piedra and that's why I ordered it. One day I was feeling a gallbladder attack and I was already getting my apple cider vinegar ready when I remembered this and I added it to my mixture (apple cider vinegar and apple juice). Within about 5 minutes the pains stopped. A couple of minutes later I felt something leave my gallbladder but without pain. The next day my gallbladder was feeling irritated all day. I felt like a stone was stuck somewhere. I felt like vomiting and discomfort. I added a dropper of this to apple juice and cider and it made me vomit within a handful of minutes. I can almost guarantee I vomited a stone (yes I heard it when it hit the trash can) but i felt so much better. This is such a life changing tincture. Don't think twice about it if you have gallstones and suffer from attacks. It tastes like celery, not to bad if mixed with apple juice

It definitely made a difference with my urinary tract functions. I'm not really sure how it works but I also get less bloating. The taste needs getring used to.

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This stuff actually works. From an 8mm stone to undetectable and unable to call passing it. Sure, it tastes horrible, but I'd rather gag for a second than pass a kidney stone. I won't even take a star off for that- the benefits outweigh the short displeasure.