urolithiasis or kidney stone - can it be treated with herbal medicines?

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Urinary stone disease has afflicted humankind since antiquity and can persist, with serious medical consequences, throughout a patient's lifetime. In addition, the incidence of kidney stones has been increased in western societies in the last five decades, in association with economic development. Most calculi in the urinary system arise from a common component of urine, e.g. calcium oxalate (CaOx), representing up to 80% of analyzed stones Currently, open renal surgery for nephrolithiasis is unusual and used only rarely since the introduction of extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy (ESWL), which has revolutionized urological practice and almost become the standard procedure for eliminating kidney stones. However, in addition to the traumatic effects of shock waves, persistent residual stone fragments, and the possibility of infection, suggest that ESWL may cause acute renal injury, a decrease in renal function and an increase in stone recurrence A number of vegetable drugs have been used in India and elsewhere which claim efficient cure of urinary stones (Mukharjee et al., 1984). In the indigenous system of medicine, the aqueous extract of roots of Moringa oleifera is reported to be useful in the treatment of urinary stones