Gallstones are hard deposits in your gallbladder, a small organ that stores bile, which is a digestive fluid made in the liver. Gallstones are hard deposits in your gallbladder, a small organ that stores bile, which is a digestive fluid made in the liver. Gallstones may consist of cholesterol, salt, or bilirubin. Gallstones range in size. They can be as small as a grain of sand or as large as an apricot. Gallstones can lurk inside your gallbladder. Many people have gallstones and never know it.
80 percent of gallstones are made of cholesterol. The other 20 percent of gallstones are made of calcium salts and bilirubin. These are known as pigment stones.
Risk factors include Obesity, female sex, being age 60 or older, Use of birth control pills, hormone replacement therapy for menopause symptoms, pregnancy, Diabetes mellitus, Medications taken to lower the cholesterol level, Quick weight loss or fasting. Gallstones are also more likely if they run in your family, and they’re likelier among women, older people, and some ethnic groups, including Native Americans and Mexican-Americans.
SYMPTOMS
Most of the cases are asymptomatic and such cases are called as “silent gall stones”. Your doctor may find these stones in your gallbladder from X-rays or performing surgery on your abdomen.
Some people do have gallstone symptoms. The most common symptom of gallstones is pain in the right upper quadrant of your abdomen. The pain often radiates to your back or right shoulder or shoulder blade.
Other symptoms include:
fever
a yellowish tint in your skin or eyes, which can indicate jaundice
nausea or vomiting
clay-colored stools
HOMOEOAPTHIC TREATMENT
Gall stones are effectively treated with Homoeopathic remedies. They are spontaneously dissolved with the administration of Dynamic Homoeopathic remedies; but the dissolution is not due to the direct biochemical action of the Homoeopathic drugs but they enable or stimulate the human body to heal by its own. Sometimes a few days are enough to remove the stone when the selected remedial agent fits well to the case. Homoeopath considers the peculiarities of the genetic makeup through signs and symptoms of the individual rather than of the disease.
Of course in the final selection of the remedy it is must that the remedy should cover the pathological aspects also. It is through such a complex process Homoeopath reaches the medicine which is made easy through experience.