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PEL renal colic occurs when a kidney stone moves from the kidney into the ureter, forming one of the ma painful ailments.
Symptoms are severe spasms, pain between the ribs and costal hip and pain in the inner thigh, a small amount of urine, vomiting, dizziness, tremors and fever.
It is important to use herbal plants antispasmodic and sedatives, which reduce the pain caused by renal colic, diuretic use plants to increase urination and possible expulsion of stones and, later, as a preventive measure will be used to prevent the plants kidney stone formation.
Among the plants that can be used internally include:
1) Dandelion
One of the plants which stimulates the production of urine and helps eliminate toxins from the blood and promote the expulsion of kidney stones. Take 3 cups a day.
2) uva ursi or Bearberry
It is quite effective in the treatment of kidney stones, bactericidal values that prevent infection. Cold maceration for 4 hours four teaspoons of crumbled dried leaves per liter of water. Drink 3 cups a day or take 20 drops of fluid extract twice a day.
3) Corn
Decoction of a couple of tablespoons of corn silk per cup of water for 20 minutes.
4) Mint
It has soothing, very useful in reducing acute pain caused by renal colic.
5) Nettle
Shown to increase urine output so you can help prevent the formation of kidney stones or favor the expulsion of the latter when young.
6) Parsley
It is one of the best diuretics and very useful to prevent stone formation, allowing the removal of grit through the urine, before forming the calculation. Squeeze the tender plant and take a couple of tablespoons a day.
For external use can use the juice of white radish, not more than 20 minutes clover, used in ointments to relieve pain. A decoction is made of flowers simmer in water until tender, liquid evaporates to form a thick paste that is combined with beeswax and stored in a tightly closed glass jar, and flower tops of rosemary infusion , which can be added to bath water to relax.
Drinking two to five liters of water daily, to dissolve the excess toxins and trying to acidify the urine, to prevent proliferation of bacteria causing the calculations, what to include in the diet, grapes and potatoes. Finally the use of turmeric for seasoning food, helps reduce the size of the stones. It seems that the asparagus, help dissolve the stones.

Scientists in Italy have good news for parents of infants with colic: a daily dose of a “good” bacteria help their children to mourn less. After 3 weeks under treatment with probiotic bacteria, a group of babies cried about half an hour per day, while a second group treated with placebo was still crying about an hour and a half daily.

At baseline, all babies crying from 5 to 6 hours per day. The exact cause of colic, which affects up to 28 percent of babies under 3 months is unknown, said Dr. Francisco Savino, Children’s Hospital Regina Margherita, Turin, Italy. In an email to Reuters Health, Savino said the cause “would be multifactorial” and include social and psychological factors, as well as allergies to certain foods such as cow’s milk.

The study’s lead author said recent research had suggested that infants with colic have a normal balance of bacteria in the gut. In the study published in Pediatrics and funded by BioGaia AB, Stockholm, a company that produces probiotic drops for infants, among other products with the bacterium L. reuteri, the researchers compared the “good bacteria” with placebo. Read the rest of this entry »