Gall Bladder

What are different home remedies for gall bladder disorder?

Introduction
- The gallbladder is a sac located under the liver.
- It stores and concentrates bile produced in the liver.
- Bile aids in the digestion of fats.
- Then it is released from the gallbladder into the upper small intestine (duodenum) in response to food, especially fats.

HOME REMEDIES FOR TREATING GALL BLADDER DISORDERS ARE:

1. Twice a day for two days, take 1,000 milligrams of Alfalfa in tablet or capsule form with a glass of warm water.
2. Peppermint capsules are used in Europe to cleanse the gallbladder.
3. Turmeric can reduce your risk of further problems of gall.
4. Drink 1 tablespoon of apple cider vinegar in a glass of apple juice.
5. Other beneficial herbs include
• barberry root bark,
• catnip,
• cramp bark,
• dandelion,
• fennel,
• ginger root,
• horsetail,
• parsley,
• wild yam.

1. Gall Bladder treatment using Beet
- Fresh juice of beets and the juices of carrot and cucumber in quantities of 100 ml each.
- These are one of the finest cleansers of the gall-bladder.
- This combined juice is beneficial in the treatment and should be taken twice daily.

2. Gall Bladder Disorder Treatment Using Pear
- The fruit or its juice should be taken as it exercises a special healing effect on all gall-bladder disorders.

3. Gall Bladder Treatment Using Chicory
- The flowers, seeds, and roots of chicory or the endive plant are considered valuable in gall-bladder disorders.
- A decoction of about 30-60 ml of the flowers, seeds, or roots can be used three times daily.
- Chicory can be included for use as a tea or even consumed as a juice.
- Add around 30 mg of the chicory powder to a glass or 100 ml of water and set it to boil.
- Strain the solution and drink it twice a day.
- Keep this up for a month.

4. Gall Bladder Treatment Using Dandelion
- About 125 ml each of the juices of dandelion and watercress should be taken twice daily.
- Dandelion tea is quite popular as an herbal remedy.
- Dandelion stimulates and encourages bile production, which can be helpful for gallstones.

5. Gall Bladder Treatment Using Olive and Sunflower Oil
- Raw, natural, unrefined vegetable oils of olive or sunflower are used.
- The procedure is to take 30 ml of vegetable oil, preferably olive oil, first thing in the morning and follow it immediately with 120 ml of grapefruit juice or lemon juice.
- This treatment should be taken every morning for several days, even weeks.
- A mixture of the oil with honey and lemon juice, a spoonful or two of this mixture around twenty minutes or so before your meals.

6. Gall Bladder Disorder Diet
- The patient should fast for two or three days until the acute condition is cleared.
- Nothing but water should be taken during this period.
- After the fast, the patient should take fruit and vegetable juices for a few days.
- Carrots, beets, grapefruit, pears, lemons or grapes may be taken in the form of juice.
- The patient should adopt a well balanced diet.
- Emphasis should be on raw and cooked vegetables, fruit and vegetable juices, and a moderate amount of fruits and seeds.
- Yogurt, cottage cheese, and a tablespoon of olive oil twice a day should also be included in the diet.
- The patient should avoid meat, eggs, animal fats, processed and denatured foods, fried and greasy foods, refined carbohydrates, and alcohol, products made with sugar and coffee, as well as spices, condiments, and pickles.

7. Other Gallbladder Treatments
- Application of Hot Packs or Fomentation to the Upper Abdominal Area.
- Warm-Water Enema, Physical Exercise.

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How is a gall bladder disorder treated? – Part 2

Treatment:
Acute pain from gallstones and gallbladder disease is usually treated in the hospital, where diagnostic procedures are performed.

Approaches to Gallstone Treatment:
- Expectant management (“wait and see”)
- Nonsurgical removal of the stones
- Surgical removal of the gallbladder

Treatment for Acute Cholecystitis (Gallbladder Inflammation)
The first step if there are signs of acute cholecystitis is to “rest” the gallbladder in order to reduce inflammation. This involves the following treatments:

- Fasting.
- Intravenous fluids and oxygen therapy.
- Strong painkillers, such as meperidine (Demerol). Potent NSAIDs, such as ketorolac, may be useful.
- Some doctors believe morphine should be avoided for gallbladder disease.
- Intravenous antibiotics.
- These are administered if the patient shows signs of infection, including fever or an elevated white blood cell count, or in patients without such signs who do not improve after 12 – 24 hours.
- People with acute cholecystitis almost always need surgery to remove the gallbladder.
- The most common procedure now is laparoscopy.
- This is a less invasive technique than open cholecystectomy.
- Surgery may be done within hours to weeks after the acute episode.

Treatment for Gallstone-Associated Pancreatitis:
- Patients who have developed gallstone-associated pancreatitis almost always have a cholecystectomy.
- For gallstone pancreatitis, immediate surgery may be better than waiting up to 2 weeks after discharge.
- Patients who delay surgery experience a high rate of recurrent attacks before their surgery.

Treatment for Common Duct Stones:
- If noninvasive diagnostic tests reveal obstruction from common duct stones then the doctor will perform endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP).
- This technique is used along with antibiotics if infection is present in the common duct (cholangitis).
- In most cases, common duct stones are discovered during or after gallbladder removal.

Management of Common Bile Duct Stones
- In the past, when common bile duct stones were suspected, the approach was open surgery (open cholecystectomy) and surgical exploration of the common bile duct.
- This required a wide abdominal incision.
- Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) with endoscopic sphincterotomy (ES) is now the most frequently used procedure for detecting and managing common bile duct stones.
- The procedure involves the use of an endoscope (a flexible telescope containing a miniature camera and other instruments), which is passed down the throat to the bile duct entrance.
- Laparoscopic cholecystectomy also is increasingly being used for the detection and removal of common bile duct stones.
- This is an approach through the abdomen.
- It uses small incisions instead of one large incision.
- It is used in combination with ultrasound or a cholangiogram (an imaging technique in which a dye is injected into the bile duct and moving x-rays are used to view any stones).

Dissolution Therapies
- Oral drugs used to dissolve gallstones and lithotripsy (alone or in combination with other drugs) gained popularity in the 1990s.
- Oral medications have lost favor with the increased use of laparoscopy.

Oral Dissolution Therapy
- Oral dissolution therapy uses bile acids in pill form to dissolve gallstones.
- These may be used in conjunction with lithotripsy.
- Ursodiol (ursodeoxycholic acid, Actigal, UDCAl) and chenodiol (Chenix) are the standard oral bile acid dissolution drugs.
- Most doctors prefer ursodeoxycholic acid.
- This one is considered to be one of the safest common drugs.
- Long-term treatment appears to notably reduce the risk of biliary pain and acute cholecystitis.
- The treatment is only moderately effective.
- Patients most likely to benefit from oral dissolution therapy are those who have small stones.

Contact Dissolution Therapy:
- Contact dissolution therapy requires the injection of the organic solvent methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE) into the gallbladder to dissolve gallstones.
- This is a technically difficult and hazardous procedure.
- It should be performed only by experienced doctors in hospitals.
- MTBE rapidly dissolves stones — the ether remains liquid at body temperature and dissolves gallstones within 5 – 12 hours.
- Serious side effects include severe burning pain.