The formation of gallstones is either due to liver stagnation or dampness and heat, resulting in weakened motility of the gallbladder and biliary tract, poor bile excretion and accumulation of concentrated bile, or gallbladder infection, causing the formation of a core of gallbladder mucosa and detached epithelium, with bile deposited around this core, or excessive cholesterol secretion and reduced bile acids, and is also directly related to dietary habits and life rhythm. It belongs to the category of “biliary distension” and “hypochondriac pain” in Chinese medicine.
1.Common symptoms
Damp-heat type of liver and gallbladder: right upper abdomen distension and pain, burning behind the sternum, chest tightness and dullness, nausea and vomiting, red eyes or yellow eyes and body, yellow urine, red tongue, yellow greasy coating, smooth and counted pulse.
Liver stagnation and qi stagnation type: right upper abdomen distension and pain, indefinite movement, posterior sternum distension and pain, pain often increases or decreases due to changes in emotion, chest tightness and discomfort, reduced diet, frequent belching, thin white fur, string pulse.
Qi stagnation and blood stasis type: stabbing pain in the right upper abdomen with a fixed location, worse at night, or stabbing pain behind the sternum, loss of appetite, stomach gas rebellion, dry mouth and tongue, purple and dull tongue or petechiae, yellow and dry moss, string pulse.
2.Medicinal meal
Compound money and walnuts rabbit ding.
Composition: 100 grams of rabbit meat, 50 grams of walnut meat, 30 grams of money grass, 30 grams of corn oil, the appropriate amount of seasoning.
Preparation: money grass decoction to remove the dregs of juice spare; walnut meat broken into small pieces and fried spare; rabbit meat cut into diced meat spare. Corn oil heat, stir-fry rabbit meat dice for a few minutes, add soy sauce, money grass juice, onion, ginger pieces boil, cook until the meat is cooked, remove the onion, ginger pieces that is. Serve with meals.
Efficacy: money grass is sweet, slightly bitter, cool, diuresis, detoxification, dissipate blood stasis and swelling, mainly for the treatment of liver, gallbladder and urinary tract stones. Walnuts contain pyruvic acid, which has the effect of preventing the mucin in food from combining with calcium and bilirubin in bile, and also promoting the dissolution of bilirubin stones. Rabbit meat contains little fat, does not increase cholesterol, and can increase the body’s immune function. Both of them can prevent gallstone disease formed by recurrent attacks of cholecystitis.
Sliced chicken gizzard with wood fungus.
Ingredients: 10 grams of black fungus, 50 grams of chicken gizzard (with inner wall), 5 grams of ginger, 20 grams of corn oil.
Preparation: Soak black fungus in warm water; wash and cut ginger into ginger dice; wash and cut chicken gizzard into slices. Heat the corn oil in a pot, stir-fry the chicken gizzard slices to change color, then stir-fry the fungus until it is cooked, then stir-fry the ginger, soy sauce and chicken seasoning. Serve with meal.
Efficacy: Black fungus contains fermentin and phytoalkaloids, which can promote the secretion of digestive glands, lubricate the bile ducts and help to discharge stones; corn oil has a beneficial effect on bile; ginger can dissolve stones; chicken gizzard is sweet and cold, which can eliminate food and strengthen the stomach, and chicken inner gold can dissolve hard food and eliminate food while transporting the spleen. This remedy has the effect of stone dissolution and stone drainage and is suitable for gallstone disease.
Spinach with fresh ginger juice.
Composition: 5 grams of fresh ginger juice, 250 grams of spinach, l5 grams of sesame oil, 2 grams of chicken essence.
Preparation: Wash fresh ginger and use a juicer to extract 5 grams of ginger juice; blanch the spinach in a pot of boiling water to keep it green, pick it up and plate it. Drizzle the ginger juice on the spinach, add 2 grams of salt or 5 grams of soy sauce, put chicken essence and mix well, drizzle with sesame oil is ready. Serve with a meal.
Efficacy: Ginger contains gingerols and gingerol, which reduces the content of mucin in bile, prevents bile concentration and bile salt deposition, and lowers cholesterol, so patients with cholesterol stones should eat ginger often. Spinach is rich in vitamin C and fiber, which can promote bile secretion and relax the biliary sphincter, helping to facilitate bile and stone removal. Sesame oil also has a beneficial effect on bile. This formula is mainly used to treat gallstone disease (cholesterol stones).
Gold rutabaga tea.
Composition: 100 grams of fresh rutabaga (dried 30 grams), 25 grams of money grass, jasmine 6 grams.
Preparation: take the rhizome, money grass, add water to boil, low fire and then fry for 20 minutes, remove the slag to take the decoction, Sheng into a thermos flask. Jasmine flowers into the tea cup, brewed into the decoction of rutabaga, cover and simmer for 5 minutes that drink on behalf of tea.
Effect: This tea has a litholytic effect on gallstones large or sediment-like stones, can be gradually dissolved. The rhizome contains asparagine and coixin, which can dissolve gallstones. With the fragrance of jasmine flowers, it can dredge the liver and gallbladder to facilitate the discharge of stones.
Milk and sesame soup.
Ingredients: 200 grams of fresh milk, 10 grams of chicken ginger powder, 5 grams of sesame paste, 20 grams of flour, 10 grams of sugar.
Method: Mix the flour and chicken gold powder into a paste; add 50 ml of water to the pot, add the milk and bring to a boil, gradually add the powder paste and keep stirring, then add the sesame paste and bring to a boil, add sugar and that’s it. Eat for breakfast.
Efficacy: This formula can prevent gallstone disease. Milk can stimulate the contraction of the gallbladder, so that the gallbladder empties, reducing the formation of stones. Sesame paste has a beneficial effect on the gallbladder and lubricating the bile ducts, which can promote the discharge of small stones. For those who do not eat breakfast for a long time, bile accumulation in the gallbladder is not discharged in time, easy to form gallstones, it is appropriate to replace breakfast with this soup, can prevent the occurrence of gallstones.
Potato and lemon juice.
Composition: 250 grams of fresh potatoes, 100 grams of fresh lemons, 20 grams of honey, honey in the right amount.
Preparation: honeysuckle decoction spare; take fresh potatoes (not sprouted without green skin) washed, peeled, chopped, put in a juicer to extract juice spare; take fresh lemon squeeze juice spare; three blended, add honey seasoning is ready.
Efficacy: This recipe has the effect of dredging the liver and gallbladder, dissolving the stone and anti-inflammatory, and is effective for gallstone disease. Potatoes contain natural anti-inflammatory ingredients, and lemon contains limonene, which can dissolve gallstones and unblock bile ducts.
Dandelion soup.
Ingredients: Dandelion 30g, Money Grass 30g, Citrus aurantium 15g, Raw Rhubarb Powder 3g, Chicken Neijin Powder 15g, Ginger 5g, Jujube 10, Honey appropriate amount.
Preparation: Decoct five flavors of dandelion, hedgehog, money grass, jujube and ginger in water, remove the residue and take the decoction. Take 100 ml of the decoction each time, add honey to taste, and serve 5 grams of hen’s inner gold powder and 1 gram of raw rhubarb powder three times a day after meals.
Effect: This formula has the effect of clearing heat and detoxification, and promoting bile and stone removal. Dandelion and raw rhubarb are antibacterial and anti-inflammatory to treat biliary tract infections; rhubarb with moneywort and hen’s nest can also facilitate bile and stone removal. It is suitable for those who have recurrent gallbladder infection and gallstone disease, especially those who have poor results with western antibacterial drugs.
Three gold stew with lean meat.
Ingredients: 40 grams of fresh money grass (20 grams of dried), 30 grams of fresh honeysuckle (15 grams of dried), 50 grams of chicken internal gold (available in Chinese medicine stores), 200 grams of lean pork, and the right amount of yellow wine.
Method: Wash and cut the meat into small pieces, money grass, honeysuckle wrapped in gauze soaked in cold water, add chicken gold, yellow wine boiling fire, change the fire simmering meat rotten, discard the dregs of the medicine, eat meat and drink soup. Daily divided into 2 times to take.
Efficacy: money grass, sweet, slightly bitter, cool, diuretic and laxative, clear heat and detoxification, dissipate blood stasis and swelling, the main treatment of liver and gallbladder and urinary stones; honeysuckle is sweet and cold and aromatic, sweet and cold to clear heat without hurting the stomach, aromatic and transparent and can dispel evil. Honeysuckle can not only dispel wind-heat, but also good at clearing blood poisoning, used for various febrile diseases. The combination of the two clears the bile and detoxifies the blood, and helps relieve bile and stones, which is suitable for gallbladder stones of liver and gallbladder damp-heat type.
Erjin Drink.
Composition: 25 grams of money grass, 15 grams of honeysuckle, l5 grams of inoceramus, 30 grams of corn beard, 30 grams of rhizome, appropriate amount of rock sugar.
Method: Add the above ingredients and decoction of water about 300 ml, add appropriate amount of rock sugar to taste, and take it all in one day.
Effects: Yin Chen is bitter, pungent and slightly cold, clearing heat, relieving dampness and subduing yellowness; Rutabaga is sweet and cold, clearing heat and generating fluid, relieving irritation, stopping vomiting and diuretic; Corn Husk is sweet and flat, diuretic and draining heat, calming the liver and gallbladder. The combination of these medicines clears heat and stimulates bile, which is suitable for gallbladder stones of liver and bile damp-heat type.