Taking Chinese medicine for gallstones has a certain effect of removing and dissolving stones. Generally, under the guidance of a professional Chinese medicine practitioner, you need to choose the appropriate Chinese medicine or proprietary Chinese medicine for treatment.
1. Types of gallstones suitable for Chinese medicine treatment: Chinese medicine has a certain dissolving and draining effect on gallstones, generally speaking, the effect of Chinese medicine treatment is better for smaller gallstones.
Commonly used in the treatment of gallstones of Chinese medicine prescription, such as large Chaihu Tang, small Chaihu Tang, Chaihu Shuo Liver and so on.
2. The types of gallstones that are not suitable for traditional Chinese medicine treatment: traditional Chinese medicine is relatively ineffective for patients with large gallstones, which are generally more difficult to dissolve, especially for some patients with biliary obstruction due to gallstones, the therapeutic effect of traditional Chinese medicine is relatively poor.
Therefore, for patients with large stones or biliary obstruction, surgery or extracorporeal lithotripsy can be considered first, and then assisted by traditional Chinese medicine.
It is recommended to choose drugs under the guidance of a physician.