How to Relieve Kidney Stone Pain

If you have kidney stones, you will get tired easily when walking, and it is more likely to occur in the middle of the night, with back pain and abdominal pain, as if a sharp knife is constantly stirring in the abdominal cavity. Patients often suffer from unbearable pain, cold sweats, pale faces, and cannot get enough sleep, which makes their physical condition worse and their mood depressed. If things go on like this, the condition will only get worse. Below we will introduce you to several methods to relieve kidney stone pain. We hope that they can help kidney stone patients get rid of the pain and give peace of mind to the patients' families.

① Clearing heat, promoting dampness and promoting Qi circulation: Commonly used drugs for clearing heat and promoting dampness include Centella asiatica, Plantago seed, Lycopodiella cava, Talcum, Alisma orientalis, Akebia trifoliata, Smilax glabra, Kochia scoparia, and Glehnia littoralis; mild penetrating and promoting dampness drugs include Poria cocos, Poria cocos, Adzuki bean, and Coix seed. The medicines that promote qi and relieve depression include: costus root, lindera strychnifolia, magnolia bark, green tangerine peel, cyperus rotundus, aurantium immaturum, radish seed, etc. It is mainly used for small stones that are not incarcerated and have a diameter of less than 0.8 cm. It can increase the natural stone excretion rate, reduce the surgical rate, and improve renal function.

② Qi stagnation and blood stasis removal: The prescription is composed of blood stasis-removing, Qi-activating and hard-hard softening drugs such as Trillium, Curcuma, Prunus persica, and Citrus aurantium. It can cause partial loss of phosphate, make the oxalic acid granules crystallize into round and blunt forms, and break up the structure. Chinese patent medicine composed of Centella asiatica, Glehnia littoralis, Poria cocos, and Corn Silk can also reduce the proportion of large crystals in the urine of patients with upper urinary tract calcium stones, increase the inhibitory activity of urine on the growth and aggregation of calcium oxalate crystals, and prevent the formation of calcium stones and reduce the recurrence of urinary stones.

③Breaking up blood and qi and adding qi-invigorating drugs can promote the movement and excretion of stones and relieve obstruction : relieve stone-obstructive hydronephrosis and reduce the surgical rate. For moderate hydronephrosis, as long as there is no serious infection and progressive worsening, non-surgical methods based on traditional Chinese medicine can be used to actively treat it. After stone excretion, taking kidney-tonifying, blood-activating and qi-invigorating medicines can help restore kidney function. In addition, Chinese medicine methods such as clearing heat and dampness, resolving blood stasis and promoting qi, clearing heat and detoxifying, and tonifying the kidney and replenishing qi are used before and after lithotripsy.

④Some Chinese patent medicines are also very popular: such as Paishi Granules (including sugar-free type) and Milin Capsules, etc.

In traditional Chinese medicine theory, kidney stones, ureteral stones and bladder stones are all classified as "stone stranguria" in traditional Chinese medicine. The treatment methods mainly focus on clearing away dampness and heat, relieving stranguria and expelling stones. Common stone-removing medicines mainly include stone-removing granules and other prepared Chinese patent medicines, the main ingredients of which mostly include: Pyrola, Fructus Lycopodii, Dianthus Superbus, Talcum, Plantago, Lysimachia scabra, Lygodium japonicus, Gallus domestica, Paeonia lactiflora, Licorice, etc. If there is blood in the urine, you can add small thistle, raw rehmannia, lotus root nodes, etc. to cool the blood and stop the bleeding.

The above article tells us in detail how to quickly relieve pain from kidney stones. Therefore, patients with kidney stones should eat some easily digestible foods and try to increase their natural stone excretion rate. This can reduce the rate of surgery and slowly improve their kidney function.