Wella’s Guide to Wellness

“A kidney stone attack has classic symptoms: the most agonizing pain in the lower back just below the ribs spreading around to the front of the abdomen and often extending into the groin area.  The pain may come in waves as the stone tries to move through the tube between the kidney and the bladder (ureter).”

Sometimes there will be blood in the urine.  Often there is nausea, fever and chills, and vomiting.  The abdomen or lower back may be painful to touch.  The severity of the pain is no indicator of the size of the passing kidney stone.  Some believe the jagged edges of the stone is what is causing the pain and the bleeding to occur.

Others believe the pain is caused by the dilating or stretching of the urinary tract being blocked by the stone when it gets stuck in the ureter.  All seem to agree how incredibly painful the attack is.

Stay active and don’t go to bed except when you normally would go to sleep.  Jump on a trampoline to move the lymph and some believe activity may actually assist in passing the kidney stones.

Hop in the hottest bath water you can stand and sip an apple cider vinegar drink that I’ve outlined below.

Whilst in the midst of a painful kidney stone attack drink as much of a concentrated amount of  natural apple cider vinegar (with a mother in it from a health food store)  as you can.  We used 1/4 cup of apple cider vinegar and 1/4 cup of honey into 3 cups warm  water. This will help to begin to dissolve your kidney stones and should relieve most of the pain.

If you throw up just dilute the vinegar/honey mixture even more.  The throwing up may help relieve some of the pain.  Keep taking the 3 cups of vinegar/honey/water mixture until you’ve had 1 whole cup of apple cider vinegar.

That would require 12 cups of water total for the whole day.

After an attack is over and you pass the stone, you may want to go on a 3 day apple-juice cleanse followed by drinking olive oil  that is outlined on Gall stones and Kidney stones on this site.

(honey isn’t necessary, it just makes it taste better and gives you energy)  A diabetic would want to take as little honey as they possibly can.

You should drink as much as you can all day.  Once the crisis is over and you have passed the stone, continue drinking 1 Tablespoon of the vinegar/honey mixture  in 10 ounces of distilled water 1 hour before eating each day.  After doing this for a week you can just take 1 glassful each morning upon arising to prevent kidney stones.

In the book, Feelings, Buried Alive, Karol Truman suggests (what the chinese have believed) that our physical state is affected by our thoughts and emotions.  In her book she suggests that kidney stones are caused by “hardened anger”.  She suggests replacing these feelings with forgiveness, love, peace, calm, and mercy.  One of the best ways I have found to go to the root of these feelings and to eliminate them is through EFT.  (Emotional Freedom Technique) I’ve outlined my opinion of how to use EFT at www.digestingtruth.wordpress.com