Juices You Can Prepare to Naturally Remove Gallstones

August 21, 2014

The gallbladder is a small little pouch that is shaped like a pear, and it is located behind the liver. Its primary duty is to save the cholesterol-rich bile that’s secreted from the liver. Bile helps the body digest fatty foods. Therefore, when that bit of fatty steak reaches the intestines, they deliver a note to send down some bile from the gallbladder. After this the fatty food becomes easier to digest and readily makes its way through the remainder of the digestive procedure.  However, before going for the surgery, you should at least try once to dissolve your gall stones with the help of various home remedies. A little precaution in your diet and other natural ingredients may dissolve gall stones that give you so much of pain all over your abdomen and even at back and shoulders. These natural remedies will not only cure the symptoms like nausea, vomiting and indigestion along with pain but will also make you get rid of your gall stones.

We compiled several single and combination juices you can try to naturally flush or remove gallstones:

1.  Lemon Juice

Drink 4 freshly squeezed lemons each day on an empty belly. Continue this therapy for a week. It can help to remove the gallstones. The elimination of the gallstones gets easier when you drink lots of water.

2. Vegetable Juice

Mix the juice of beets, carrots and cucumbers and drink it twice daily for 2 weeks.

3.  Epsom Salts

Epsom salts allow the gallstones to move readily through the bile duct. Pour one teaspoon of Epsom salts into room temperature water and drink it during the evening.

4. Turmeric

Pour honey in 1 teaspoon of turmeric and have it everyday until the gallstones go away.

5.  Citrus Fruit

Citrus fruits include pectin, which is useful in managing the issue of gallstones.

6. Herbal Tea

Natural extracts work nicely in treating gallstones. St. John’s Wort is a well known herb that you can have as tea. Drink about a cup of this tea a few times throughout your day. To make this tea simply boil water with 4 or 5 leaves.

7. Apple Juice and Apple Cider Vinegar for Gall Stones

The golden saying- an apple a day keeps the doctor away- is not so popular without any reason. With all its health benefits, apple is also capable of dissolving gall stones when taken in the forms of juice and apple cider vinegar. The malic acid present in the apples assist in softening gallstones and vinegar stops the liver from making cholesterol that are responsible for forming stones in gallbladder. Not only this fruit dissolves gall stones but also prevents the recurrence of gall stones as well as subsides the pain that you get during flare ups.

Ingredients:
• Apple Juice- 1 glass
• Apple Cider Vinegar- 1 tbsp

Do this:
• Mix apple cider vinegar in the glass of apple juice.
• Mix well.
• Drink this once everyday.

In fact, this is a very good natural remedy to quickly get relief from the pain which you get during the gall stone attack. Also, once you get rid of gall stones, you should continue to have apples. You can actually make a habit of having fresh uncooked applesauce mixed with shredded raw beets and 2 tablespoons of olive oil and a little fresh lemon juice.

8. Lemon Juice for Gallstone

Just as vinegar stops your liver from making cholesterol, lemon juice or such citrus fruit juices also do the same task. So have a lots of citrus fruits but don’t forget to take lemon juice daily. You may just add the juice of half a lemon in glass of water and have it twice or thrice a day. Alternatively, you can adopt the following Ayurvedic remedy using lemon juice to dissolve your gallstones.

Ingredients:
• Olive oil- 30 ml
• Fresh lemon juice- 30 ml
• Garlic paste- 5 g

Do this:
• Mix olive oil, lemon juice and garlic paste.
• Have this mixture every morning on an empty stomach.
Do this for at least 40 days.

 9. Beetroot, Cucumber and Carrot Juice for Gallstones

Juice therapies are what are mostly recommended by traditional natural remedies for gallstones. Among these juices, one that is made from the combination of beetroot, cucumber and carrots is highly effective for gallbladder. Beets not only strengthen and cleanse gallbladder and your liver but also help in cleansing colon and your blood. Cucumber, with its high water content, is great for detoxifying liver as well as gallbladder which is also done by carrot juice high in vitamin C and other rich nutrients.

Ingredients:
• Beet root- 1
• Cucumber- 1
• Carrots (medium)- 4

Remember, you should get equal amounts of all the three juices. So, if needed, increase or decrease the quantity of each vegetable accordingly. For example, you should get 13/ glass each of beet root juice, carrot juice and cucumber juice to get a glass of their combined juice.

Do this:
• Take out the juice of all the three vegetables- beetroot, cucumber and carrots.
• Mix them.
• Have this juice twice a day.

You may even add apples, celery and ginger while making this juice to get added benefits.