Lemon & Olive Oil: Effective Kidney Stone Home Remedy

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Posted by Sheldon (Glendale, AZ) on 09/21/2006
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Re: Lemon juice and olive oil -- THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH! I had blood in my urine and was diagnosed with 4 stones, 4mm on up to 1cm. Was referred to urologist. 2 days before going there, I drank the horrible tasting (gagging, really) concoction of 2oz lemon juice and 2oz olive oil. Within a day, my blood in urine was gone, along with almost all of the pain! Urologist said only one stone left, a big one, and will get another xray in 2 weeks to check on it. Needless to say, I will be gagging down the concoction every day until that appointment. I also noticed TODAY that my urine has gravel in it-the damned stones disintegrated! Thanks again for the cure. Beats lithotripsy, even the new one with no water/tub!

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Posted by Larry (Madison, MS) on 09/18/2006
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I had a kidney stone in the past that kept me in the hospital for 3 days drugged up the whole time before it passed. I started getting pains on Saturday morning and by Saturday night I was thinking oh brother here we go again!!!!! By 2 a.m. I was surfing the internet and paying people for "Miracle Cures". By Sunday morning I was fatigued and worn out but still trying to avoid the E.R. and make it till Monday morning to see my doctor. I gave the internet one more try looking for home remedies you didn't have to pay for and stumbled across this web page. I drank the potion at 9 pm and by 9:20 all pain had disappeared and I was one happy camper again!!!! It is now the next day and the stone has not passed but there is still no pain!! Thank you for this web page and advice. I will be trying other remedies I found here also.

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Posted by Jesse (Pinellas Park, FL) on 09/13/2006
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Greetings to all. I just wanted to comment on the Lemon Juice and Olive Oil remedy for Kidney Stones. I had, not so long ago, my first experience with kidney stones with a 5-7cm stone. As big headed as I am, I didn't know what was going on, or go to the hospital until it had already passed out of my kidney and into my ureter, which dismayed the hospital. Too late for a stint, should have been too big to pass, lucky for me it broke up into a few smaller pieces. Now, I had two major episodes during this period, one while I was at work which was...well, let's just say I've been hurt in almost any way you can think of, so home remedies aren't my thing. The first episode put me on my knee's in my workplace restroom, completely unexpected. But that didn't stop it, it continued when I went home for almost a day. Sweating, tears and agony even with medications to ease my pain. I looked up this remedy, said what the heck, every time I felt the pains in the groin area, I took the 4 ounces (2 Lemon Juice, 2 Olive Oil) while holding my nose, twice. By the morning, scared to attempt to use the restroom knowing I was in for more pain, I bit the bullet and did my business. Low and behold, even though the rest were smaller, they were plentiful (half an pencil eraser tip or less). I'm not going to say FOR SURE that this worked; however, I will say, whatever MAY help, DO IT! Even my doctor was wowed to hear that it may have helped and actually gave it some thought, the oil coats and the lemon juice helps break the stone down as well as a neutralizer. I hope this helps others and I hope you all feel better!

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Posted by Jenny (Southgate, MI) on 08/21/2006
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I was admitted to emergency on aug 5th, w/ excruciating pain and vomiting. I was told I had multiple,but passable kidney stones in both kidneys..I read eveything from natural cures to "buy my report " cures and I can't take any more! I am so full of water my eyes are floating..lol I tried this olive oil and lemon juice and it made me nauseated all day and nothing more, do i need to try again or is there any other way..? please help.. I don't want to pay $50.00 for a cure that may or may not work..PLEASE HELP.

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Posted by Jay (El Paso, TX) on 08/16/2006
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I tried this remedy and did not work for me, I have 3 stones the bigger is 7mm, I have tried a lot of stuff, I don't want the surgery because no insurance for now, so I will keep trying and will let you guys know what works for me. Thank you.

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Posted by Lanne (Winston Salem, NC) on 08/15/2006
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I found this web site today and tried the lemon juice on my husband who has had a stone for more than two weeks. The stone showed up on a CT scan last Wed. The Dr. gave him meds to relieve the pain etc. He has an appointment with the Dr. tmro and he will be taking the stone with him. As of 11:00 PM EST only 5 hours after drinking the lemon juice and olive oil he passed the stone. They were planning on putting him in the hospital and removing it. It works!! It really works!! Praise The Lord!! The stone is about 7mm.

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Posted by Lisa (USA) on 08/14/2006
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THANKS CINDI! I have have kidney stones for "ever" it seems like they mainly hurt on my right, after several times to the hospital for treatment and a lithotripsoy, it seemed endless well in Feb. I thought my kidneys were on another spell so.. off to the hospital, well.. it was my appendix. I had emergency surgery for that and my kidneys never hurt anymore so.. of course I thought it was my appendix and not my kidneys. then last week my left side starting hurting, so.. I started crying cause I didn't want that pain anymore. I read this and tried it and within 10 min. I don't hurt anymore!!! I haven't passed the stone yet but I am so convinced that I will. I was told they are 7mm.

Replied by Tim From New York
(New York, Ny Usa)
06/14/2012
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Spent the weekend in the ER with excruciating abdominal pain - the day a routine colonoscopy. CAT scan and cause turned out to be.. You guessed it.. a 4mm kidney stone.

I suspect that the colonoscopy preparation pills: OsmoPrep (Sodium Phosphate) may be related to this stone since a work colleague had the exact same issue a month ago with same pills. Beware!!

Anyway, I suffered in total agony for two days. All the docs could offer up was Oxycodone painkiller (awful and somewhat ineffective) and sit it out for a "week or so". Clearly not an option plus I have a busy job and could not be out of the office that long. Since I used to be a research scientist I decided to use the web for some ideas on remedies.

Ended up on this site. Based on reading all the posts it seems that of the 5 types of kidney stone three of the most common are dissolvable by acidifying the urine so I decided to try the Olive Oil and Lemon Juice remedy (Apple Cider vinegar was just too much for me to handle - it's like drinking paint stripper). No downside except throwing up or stopping if the pain got worse (I guess it might if you have stones that dissolve in alkaline urine)

Somewhat skeptical, but I bought the most expensive virgin olive oil I could find (which tastes OK in bulk actually) and then dosed myself with 4oz Olive Oil stirred vigorously into 4oz of pure lemon juice (bottled). Based on what I have read elsewhere I think the olive oil lipids coat the lemon juice and get it through the stomach acid and into the small intestine where it is adsorbed very rapidly - which may explain the speed of what came later...

You have to chug it down immediately after mixing before the oil and juice separate - a blender might be a good idea - and I chased it with a very large glass of water without pausing to taste the mixture. Don't stop to think about it just chug it down and think about something else.

Then - MIRACLE - pain went from a 10 (bad) to a 1 (minimal) within 10 minutes. I could not believe it. I never needed a painkiller thereafter.

I repeated the dose after a couple of hours and then a third dose just before going to bed around 4 hours after that. I guess there is some upper limit to what you can take but you probably throw up or something. Anyway, only mild discomfort in the morning.

Repeated the dose three times on day two and urinated through a plastic tea strainer throughout to watch for dissolved stone fragments as other posters recommend. At the end of day two I got a small sliver of what I assume to be a partially dissolved kidey stone about 4mm by 0.5mm in the strainer but no other solid material passed that day or later.

Day three back to work and feel as good as new. UNBELIEVABLE. My doc couldn't believe it - but they took the fragment and are going to test it to see which type of kidney stone it was. I am thinking calcium oxalate. Here are two really good sources for kidney stone information:

http://www.drhoffman.com/page.cfm/552

http://www.doctoryourself.com/kidney.html

THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR POSTING THIS REMEDY

Replied by Gavin
(Manganui, Northland, New Zealand)
06/14/2012

Thank you for your informed feedback. Its good to get it with a bit of Science attached.

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Posted by David (Sun City, FL) on 08/06/2006
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I started having lower-right back pain a couple of weeks ago. I knew it was a possible kidney stone as I had a couple of them about 15 years ago when I was in my early twenties. I quickly went to my doctor as I knew the pain would rapidly increase. The pain was almost unbearable by the time I got a pain shot. He prescribed some Percocet (pain pills) and some Ibuprofen and sent me home. I was glad to get some pain medicine because I thought I would just go home and pass the stone. That was what happened with both of my stones that I passed 15 years ago. Unfortunately, it wasn't going to be that easy this time. So for the next week I would have severe pain for about a day and a half and then the pain would stop for another day and a half and then the cycle would repeat. I tried the 'jump and bump' method of passing stones. This is where you jump 2-4 inches and land with your legs locked and it kind of jars your body to try and get the stone to drop. I probably jumped so much that I am now probably a few inches shorter. Well this didn't work. So I went back to the doctor and got an ultrasound and an IVP scan. This is where they inject you with a dye and take a bunch of x-rays. The results showed everything was normal (no stones!). The doctor was surprised that everything was ok so he scheduled me to get a CT scan thinking the pain might be something behind the kidney. That night I did some more research on 'right flank pain' and found this site. I saw the 2oz lemon juice/olive oil recipe and decided to try it. I got some lemons and squeezed them into a measuring cup and got about 1/2 cup. Since I needed to use the same amount of olive oil, that would make a whole cup of this stuff to drink. I didn't think I drink all of that and keep it down so I used a 1/4 cup of each. It actually didn't taste bad. It just makes your lips feel weird (oily). I chased it with a bottle of water. After after about 15 minutes I actually felt a tingling feeling in my right lower flank. At the time I thought it must just be my imagination. I drank this in the afternoon. The next day no stones came out. But the following morning I passed a huge stone 9-10mm that had some very sharp crystalline formations attached to it. I was so happy. I then canceled my CT scan and I can't wait to show my doctor. I am going to get my stone analyzed so I will know what type it is but I think the best thing is to drink more water every day. Many thanks to this site. I wish I had tried this a week earlier.

Replied by Kendra
(White Rock, B.c. Canada)
07/13/2010

If you can pass a 9mm one then, I can certainly pass a 7 that is stuck in my ureter. I don't want that surgery! The stent sounds horrible, and I already have an irritated bladder. I keep reading that a 7mm one won't pass, but some people say this is not true. Thanks.

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Posted by Anthony (Middle Village, NY) on 07/28/2006
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5 days while at work I had gotten a sharp pain in my lower back and left side just under my rib cage. The pain was enormous. I thought that I had gas and drank a can of ginger ale. The pain did go away for about 2 hours. Later that night I had gotten a bad attack. I stuffed myself with gas x and mylanta and suffered all night. The next morning i woke feeling like i was hit by a truck but had no pain in my back or side. My family members suggested that maybe I had a kidney stone, but i had no pain. Needless to say later night I found myself in the emergency room. The pain was unbearable. When i entered they instantly said kidney stone. Well they were right. They did a cat scan and said it was a 4 mm and it was in a good position and that i should pass it soon. Well soon felt like an eternity. The pain was so bad that i was going out of my mind. I couldn't sleep, I couldn't sit down, I couldn't lay down. Every time i drank water or cranberry juice the pain would get worse. My stomach would blow up, I would then urinate followed by a pulsating stabbing in my whole left side. Well anyone who is going through this knows what I am talking about. When I woke up with lots of blood in my urine I went to the doctors office. I told him that percasets were not working so he gave me vicadine but nothing relieved the pain. Thank God my brother stumbled across this web site. When I read all the good reviews I figured there was nothing I could lose. Last night at 1 am I felt the pain coming on strong. I then mixed 2 ounces of lemon juice and 2 ounce of olive oil. I was scared it would make the pain worse but it didn't. I drank it quickly followed by a large glass of water. I was surprised that the taste wasn't bad at all and it wasn't as thick as I anticipated. I was also loaded up on pain killers just in case. Within minutes of drinking this I felt almost a soothing of my side. I was still in much discomfort for most of the night. Finally at 6 am I fell asleep. 1 hour later at 7 am I woke and felt like I had to go to the bathroom but it also felt like something was trying to come out. I rushed to bathroom and it just slipped out. No pain.. NO PAIN... NO MORE PAIN. It was a sharp little thing mixed with some blood. The pain was gone. For anyone going through this try, it immediately 2 ounce lemon juice mixed with 2 ounces of olive oil. When you feel the pain drink it fast followed by a full glass of water. Within 6 hours my pain was gone. I don't know why the doctors don't tell you to do this. I guess they just want to make some money.

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Posted by Steven (Ocala, FL) on 07/24/2006
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I was billed $3,000 at a local emergency room to find out I had a kidney stone. The shock of such a high bill for not even two hours work which didn't even eliminate the problem was about as bad as the excruciating pain. I luckily found your site online and thought, "What the hey? It isn't poisonous, so I'll give it a try" The next day I was in even worse pain but at least I could feel that the stone was moving. The pain completely stopped, and the following day, without any pain at all, I passed the stone. End of story. So put me down in the Yes It Works column!! And thank you for sharing your cure.

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Posted by Frank (Hershey, PA) on 07/22/2006
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I passed a kidney stone 20 hours after drinking the mixture of 2 ounces each of lemon juice and olive oil followed by a large glass of water. I started having kidney stone pain at 1:00 a.m. Thursday. The pain was extremely severe all day Friday. My wife found your web site with the #1 remedy for lemon juice and olive oil. I was in so much pain I immediately tried the remedy at 8:40 pm on Friday. Within 1/2 hour my pain subsided and I had no pain on Saturday. At 4:10 pm Saturday, I passed a kidney stone the size of a small peppercorn. I have had kidney stones twice before and it took the usual week and a half to pass them. I am definitely going to use this remedy if I experience any more kidney stones in the future. THANKS FOR YOUR WEB SITE.

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Posted by Pam (Vermont) on 07/04/2006
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On 6/26/06 I was taken to hospital where I was diagnosed with a 3mm kidney stone. I was discharged and instructed to drink massive quantities of water and take Ibuprofen as needed as the stone could take anywhere from 1 day to 1 month to pass. I scheduled a follow up appointment with Urologist ("earliest appointment" 7/11). Needless to say; the pain and discomfort was unbearable. On 7/03 I found this website and decided to try the lemon juice/olive oil. I drank the mixture at 7 p.m. followed by a large glass of water. At 10 a.m. today; I passed not one, but TWO stones. Happy Independence Day!!!!! And yes; I Believe!

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Posted by Sally (Wilsonville, AL) on 06/27/2006
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I woke up Saturday morning with backache. I knew it was a kidney stone. Dealt with it for 24 hours, I called a friend of mine (Charlotte) for advice on Sunday morning, she told me about the lemon juice and olive oil remedy she had read on Earth Clinic web. I immediately went to the kitchen and drank the lemon juice and then drank the olive oil and water. 10 hours later the stone/stones dissolved and I was able to pass them. Thanks to Earth Clinic and my friend (Charlotte) for the cure!!!! God Bless you both.

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Posted by Matt (Philadelphia) on 06/22/2006
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I have had a kidney stone for about a month. (confirmed by X-ray) I mixed 2 oz of lemon juice with 2 oz olive oil. Whipped together, it didn't taste too bad at all. I repeated dose again in 24 hours. It's been 15 hours since my last dose, and the stone is still with me. I'm going to try tea brewed from a plant called Chamberbitter.

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Posted by Rob (Ewa Beach, HI) on 05/30/2006
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In the past 18 yrs, I've passed well over 100 uric acid kidney stones. I've had J stents placed in me 3 times and lithotrisy once. I pass most of my stones without incident, but there are many that are stubborn and the pain is relentless for days, weeks and months at a time. This most recent episode brought me online once again looking for a remedy. Well I ran into this site where olive oil and lemon juice is recommended and I had to give it a try because I have nothing else to lose. The jury's still out because I haven't passed the stone yet, but if it does pass within the time other have, I'll be very happy.