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An interesting story in the Testimonials page at
http://www.sensiblehealth.com
is the case of a man that passed big
kidney stones just by taking the GCG tincture, with pictures shown of the stones and their sizes. Rather than being slowly dissolved these stones were simply pushed out while still huge. Whether they're the calcified type or not I can't tell but the pictures are there for anyone to see. Either crushed, softened or dissolved, the crucial point the story makes is that with GCG the process was pretty much painless. But remember there are several types of kidney stones, at least seven of them. The ones he passed were the painful, more urgent ones.
There's this herbal extract by Jon Barron called KGP Formula (www.baselinenutritionals.com) that includes stone-breakers Chanca piedra and Peppermint along with kidney cleansing herbs. The one testimonial on his site is from a woman who suffered acute kidney pain for years and for whom nothing had worked before taking the KGP. It's claimed that it resolves all types of stones in kidneys, gallbladder and pancreas, and it's used prior to
Liver Flushes and referred to as the kidney flush. Can a small bottle of herbal extract that only lasts 5 days really double as both stone softener and kidney cleanse?...maybe these two processes are one and the same? Even the tincture form of GCG isn't supposed to be much of a kidney cleanser in the way the GCG tea is. Maybe extracts are stronger than tinctures. My guess is that any substance able to address calcified
kidney stones will have the same action in the gallbladder or elsewhere.