An Overview on Kidney Stone Based on Medicinal Plants

Abstract

For thousands of years, people have prized medicinal plants as a rich source of therapeutic compounds for the treatment of a wide range of illnesses. Today, a sizable portion of the population suffers from kidney stones and urinary calculi. Stone illness has increased in incidence due to changes in lifestyle. The four main types of stones that form in the kidneysare calcium stones (75 to 85%), struvite stones (2 to 15%), uric acid stones (6 to 10%) and cystine stones (1 to 2%). The most common stone recorded in India is Calcium oxalate Kidney stones. Surgical treatment of the kidney stone is expensive and may result into reoccurance also. Since Herbal Plants are safer, more efficient, more acceptable culturallyand have fewer side effects than produced pharmaceuticals. Medicinal herbs have been used for treatment of kidney stone for millennia. Patients are recommended to follow a low-fat diet and take herbal remedies in addition to fibre from naturally occurring plants. Antiurolithiatic Herbs are used to treat Kidney Stones. The purpose of this article is to review the different types, diagnostic methods, ancient treatment of kidney stone and to emphasize the use of medicinal herbs for the treatment for Kidney Stones.