Natural Gallbladder Flush

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I've read in numeous places that if you drink a half a cup of olive oil and some lemon juice you will eject any gallstones you might have in your gallbladder.

Alternatively I've read that when you do this, the "stones" you get when you go to the bathroom are actually just the oil and citrus and how they look as they are digested.

Can anyone gather any credible information on whether this method is actually effective at cleansing gallstones?

"Hating everyone protects me from elitism."

I read your piece on the subject in the articles section.

Does everybody have these stones? I have no symptoms , but I hate the idea of something like that inside my body.

If so, I would be willing to take the medicine to flush them out.

"When I was a child I flew! Then as an adult- I watched others soar."

ah the wonderful world of wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallstone

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These attacks are intensely painful, similar to that of a kidneystone attack. One way to alleviate the abdominal pain is to drink a full glass of water at the start of an attack to regulate the bile in the gallbladder, but this does not work in all cases.[citation needed] Another way is to take magnesium followed by a bitter liquid such as coffee or swedish bitters an hour later.[citation needed] Bitter flavors stimulate bile flow[citation needed]. A study has found lower rates of gallstones in coffee drinkers.[4]

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A regimen called a "gallbladder flush" or "liver flush" is a popular remedy in alternative medicine. In this treatment, often self-administered, the patient drinks four glasses of apple cider and eats five apples per day for five days, then fasts briefly, takes magnesium, and then drinks large quantities of lemon or grapefruit juice mixed with olive oil or other oil before bed; the next morning, they painlessly pass a number of green and brown pebbles purported to be stones flushed from the biliary system. A New Zealand hospital analyzed stones from a typical gallbladder flush and found them to be composed of fatty acids similar to those in olive oil, with no detectable cholesterol or bile salts [6]. The hospital letter to patients concluded The gallbladder flush may not be entirely worthless, however; there is one case report in which treatment with olive oil and lemon juice resulted in the passage of numerous gallstones, as demonstrated by ultrasound examination (Br J Surg 1992;79:168).

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