KIDNEY STONES (RENAL CALCULUS)

Calculus – *commonly called a stone, any abnormal secretion within the animal body. A calculus is usually composed of mineral salts.

Renal Calculus, or kidney stones (Homeopathy for Kidney Stone) – Calculus in the kidney.

Symptoms – *Blockage of flow of urine from kidney if the ureter is blocked by the stone; sudden, severe, and paroxysmal renal colic; urethral stricture; various degrees of inflammation.

Prognosis – *Serious if allowed to continue untreated.

Allopathic treatment – *Relief of pain, force fluids unless passage is completely blocked by the calculus. Medicines that are designed to relax smooth muscle help in passing the stone and relieving pain. If the stone is preventing urine flow or if the stone continues to grow and cause infection, surgery must be performed.

*Tabers Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary Edition 14, 1981 F.A. Davis Co. USA

Symptoms:

• Pain in Kidney region
• Pain in bladder region
• Pain on urination, before urination, at the end of the flow
• Dysuria
• Sediment in urine
• Fever
• Decreased urine output (in blockage)
• Nausea with the pain
• Kidney inflammation on CAT scan
• Blood in the urine
• Perspiration

Some Rubrics for Kidney stones:

• Kidney, pain
• Kidney, pain, colic
• Kidney, pain, ureters
• Kidney, pain, cutting
• Kidney, pain, ureters
• Kidney, inflammation
• Kidney, inflammation, pyleon, calculus
• Urine, sediment, renal calculi
• Bladder, dysuria, painful
• Bladder, dysuria, perspiration during
• Bladder, pain
• Bladder, stones in bladder

MAIN REMEDIES

Belladonna – SUDDEN, EXCRUCIATING PAINS, ESPECIALLY OF THE RIGHT KIDNEY.

Unbearable pains but patient must lie still

< JAR, cough, sneeze,

urine-bloody or clots of bloody

Generals: Red, flushed face and cold hands and feet.

Pupils dilated

Berberis – SHARP, STITCHNG OR SHOOTING PAINS mainly from the left kidney.

PAINS RADIATE IN DIFFERENT PLACES OR ALL THROUGH THE BODY.

Painful urges to urinate during the colic

<JAR <MOTION menses, especially the beginning of menses. Sitting stooping walking

>being still, standing, splinting the painful side.

Radiating pains DOWN URETER, BLADDER, URETHRA, TESTES, THIGHS, legs, & calves

Urine: dark and with sediments

Bubbling sensation in region of kidney’s

Kidney colic from kidney stones

Burning soreness in kidney region

Dysuria, frequent urination

Urine with thick mucus and bright-red, turbid, yellow, mealy, sandy or slimy sediment

Nux Vomica – KIDNEY COLIC WITH STRONG URGES FOR STOOL OR URINATION

<right side Lying motion walking anger overwork

>warm applications lying on the back

Radiate to testes penis rectum with desire for stool

Generals: chilly and even with shivers during the attack nausea and vomiting

Mentals: RESTLESS AND UNUSUALLY IRRITABLE

Irritable bladder from spasmodic sphincter

Ineffectual urging and spasmodic

Kidney colic R

Irritable patient can’t bear noises odors or light. Angry and impatient

Lycopodium – RIGHT-SIDED KIDNEY STONES with marked distension and aversion to tight clothing

<4-8 PM comes with chills

>after urination

Urine -RED SEDIMENT

Pain in back before urination ceases after flow, slow in coming, must strain

Heavy red sediment

Urine scanty, cries before urinating.

Kidney colic in ureter to bladder

Urine milky, hematuria

Urine burning hot

Cantharis – kidney stones complicated by inflammation or infection. Severe, sharp or burning pains with urination. Tenesmus; feels that if he could just urinate a few more drops he would be relieved.

<URGING TO URINATE. DURING URINATION

> squeezing the glans of the penis

Generals: frenzied feeling, cries out with the unbearable burning

Constant desire to urinate

Urine is passed drop by drop

Urine burning scalding with cutting pains and intolerable urging

Fearful tenesmus or dribbling

Kidney colic

Other remedies to look at:

*Many other homeopathic medicine for kidney stone will come up especially when the case is individualized to each individual patient.

• Sulphur
• Colocynthis
• Calc Carb
• Kali Carb
• Lachesis
• Sepia
• Medorrhinum
• Sarsaparilla

*Kidney stones may be something that could come up acutely following a constitutional remedy. This would be something that needed to come up and be expelled from the body. If the indicated acute remedy does not palliate a low dose of the constitutional may help. Although allopathic treatment may be the best alternative until the stone passes and then continue to monitor the constitutional treatment repeating the constitutional remedy when indicated.