- 'Gallstones' upon analysis not gallstones by Snozberry
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The gallstone cure that wasn't
Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients, Nov, 2005 by Alan R. Gaby
A 40-year-old woman with multiple 1- to 2-mm gallstones documented by ultrasound underwent a "liver cleansing" regimen at the advice of an herbalist. The regimen consisted of free intake of apple and vegetable juice until 6 p.m., but no food, followed by consumption of 600 ml of olive oil and 300 ml of lemon juice over several hours. Early the next morning, multiple semi-solid green "stones" were passed per rectum. Analysis of the stones revealed that they contained no cholesterol, bilirubin, or calcium, but were made up of 75% fatty acids. Experimentation revealed that mixing equal volumes of oleic acid (the main component of olive oil) and lemon juice produced semi-solid white balls after the addition of a small amount of potassium hydroxide. The authors concluded that the green "stones" passed by this woman resulted from the action of gastric lipases on the triglycerides that make up olive oil, yielding long-chain carboxylic acids (mainly oleic acid). This process was followed by saponification into large insoluble micelles of potassium carboxylates (lemon juice contains a high concentration of potassium) or "soap stones." The cholesterol stones observed on ultrasound were removed surgically.
Comment: Variations of the regimen described above are frequently mentioned by herbalists and nutritionists as a method of promoting the passage of gallstones. Some patients claim to have passed numerous gallstones after undergoing a "gallbladder flush" similar to this one. None of the patients, however, had their "stones" analyzed, and none had before-and-after gallbladder sonograms to document the passage of gallstones. Thus, it appears that most or all of these patients were merely passing "soap stones." The gallbladder flush may not be entirely worthless, however; there is one case report in which treatment with olive oil and lemon juice resulted in the passage of numerous gallstones, as demonstrated by ultrasound examination (Br J Surg 1992;79:168).
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- 'Gallstones' upon analysis not gallstones by mykdude
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| After reading this I started to compare the ingredients of many "gallbladder flushes" to those of soap and I was quite amazed. I used both a soap hobbiest and chemistry site for reference. It would appear that this all natural cure is really just turning our bodies into little soap factories.
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- Re: 'Gallstones' upon analysis not gallstones by glaxony
11 y
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| Why do gall bladder flushes make the pain go away if it isn't getting rid of something that is causing you to have horrible indigestion every time you eat fatty food? I used to get such bad pain in my right side from eating fried food that I would have to lay down for a while. After doing a gall bladder flush, I can eat fried food without any pain. My primary objective is met if something makes me feel better. I don't really care if it is a soap stone cleaning out the pipes or 20 year old accumulations. But I have a feeling the testing that was performed and reported in this article was faulty, because when I cut the green balls that came out of me in half, I could see rings like a tree, where they had formed layer by layer over time. There is also no way fresh olive oil could smell like I hit an oil well and ejected ten million year old dinosaur remains.
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