Taken from your message >Some folks say that apple juice is supposed to soften the stones. However, the stones are soft already. We can put on latex gloves and squeeze them and see that they are soft and waxy, so in my view there is no need for apple juice.<
The stones the doctors take from the gall bladder are usually calcified. And so these are hard ones. Unless you have been Xrayed, you may not know whether you have this kind or not.