Lemon & Olive Oil: Effective Kidney Stone Home Remedy

Last night I drank it. So far today I have noticed little discomfort... Less than yesterday. After straining my pee I noticed a little grit, like a grain or two of sand, but almost microscopic. It's worth mentioning that I ran out of antibiotics yesterday and the antibiotics were almost like a pain killer... So that's good. I will update again tomorrow.

Day three: with the urulogist appointment fast approaching I am amping up the oo/lj combo. Results from last night were similar to the first night: some grit in my pee but no major activity. Today, with no meds, I am relatively pain free... Some minor discomfort but not the level I'd expect from having 6 stones out of my kidneys in ureter. Having to be at work for 11 hours a day, I can't always strain my pee so I don't know if I've passed any or not. Usually I know when they pass though, but without knowing for sure, I'd say I haven't passed anything yet.

Went to the urulogist and guess what: one stone left. I didn't even know I had passed the other ones. I guess that's a "yea". At the urulogist I asked him about lemon juice and olive oil and he answered begrudgingly, "... Lemon juice: yes. Olive oil: I can't say."

Can't say or won't say! It works. The only thing you have to lose are the stones.

Also, someone mentioned to keep it to 2oz of lj, and I will 2nd that notion. I tried two lemons of juice (about 4oz). That made me sick. Keep it at 2 & 2. Great site guys.

ok, my husband has his first stone. He is in tremendous pain and I would do anything to help him. I found this site and had him, reluctantly, drink lemon and olive oil. I actually saw him fall asleep for the first time since the er visit. His pain pills are running low and I cant see him in pain anymore. How often is the treatment recommended or is it a single dose treatment? any duration between doses?days, weeks, months?

My daughter Just told me she is passing stones and she is still in pain so I say, use it till you lose it! I think the dissolving stones are clogging her urethra. I would do a tonic myself weekly if I showed signs of susceptability. Red meat, milk and cheese. Anything high in Uric acid and our bodies sometimes produce uric acids for some reason.

I really appreciated this helpful information. I experienced a kidney stone on Christmas Eve and never had one before. (I have high tolerance for pain and this was high on the painOmeter!! ). By the next morning I searched and found the olive oil and lemon juice remedy. Within the hour I did experience some relief and was grateful. I started to thing about the Chemical implications and why the oil (to lubricate) and the lemon juice (to breakdown the stone) was a good combo. Then I saw the Apple cider vinegar which made perfect sense being a better acidic approach to breaking down the stone. I went and got a bottle and took a few swigs. By Christmas day I was much improved and in very little pain. Thanks again for the help!"

05/04/2011: Terra from Citrus Heights, CA replies: "My dad just had a spinal surgery done was released from the hospital after a few days feeling great. A day after being home he had severe left side pain, so we went back to ER and sure enough it is a kidney stone. I made him the lemon juice and olive oil remedy to drink and within the next 24 hours it came out. This was very helpful beings he just had the surgery and needed to recover from that as well. Definitely going to remember this one, Thank you so much!

I am so happy I found this site! I have had numerous kidney stones over the years and always ended up in the hospital to pass them. I felt that old familiar pain yesterday and decided to try to find relief at home and I found this site. I tried the olive oil and lemon juice remedy, except I decided to just use four ozs of lemon juice instead and leave out the olive oil since I didn't have any. I slugged down the lemon juice and then followed it up with 2 more doses of 2 ozs of lemon juice in a cup of hot water with a small amount of sugar (hot lemonade!!! ) and within an hour my pain was down by half. I continued drinking hot lemonade and this morning I can't even tell I passed a kidney stone. It's just amazing. You saved me a lot of time, money and agony of going to the hospital. I hate hospitals! Thanks so much!

Hi there from Malaysia. I am 33 male. I started experiencing lower left back pain one month ago. The pain occurs just above the buttocks and not higher up where the kidneys are. And the pain only occurs when I bend over to the front right. Earlier I brushed it off as muscle pain. But now after 1 month, the pain is still there and spreaded to both left and right kidney areas.

I went for a checkup, did blood test and urine, doc says both are fine. Done KUB X-ray and ultrasound found out my right kidney is a mild hydronephrosis (swelling due to backup or obstruction of urine in ureter). This worries me more since we cannot see a dilated right ureter in the X-ray. The left kidney seems ok and left ureter is dilated as normal. I'm due for a CT scan end of this month.

Meanwhile I found this website and tried both the ACV (2 oz 2 oz of wter), and the 2 oz lemon juice mixed with 2 oz of olive oil. Nothing seems to come out when peeing. But I do notice that 10 minutes after gulping the ACV, the pain on the left seems to be reduced by quite a lot. Does ACV has some kind of anaesthetic characteristics??

Anyway, to describe my problem further, the pain that I have, is not as "giving birth". It is just a mild and dull but needle pricking sharp kind of pain. It seems to be worse when I am lying down esp when I go to sleep at night. I for sure will wake up 3-4 times each night because of the sharp pain, and I will try to adjust my sleeping position to ease it. I also experience numbness at both left and right pinky and ring fingers if I put my arms under the pillow (Ulnar?).

I am beginning to think that my problem is nerve related but due to the hydronephrosis I have I am pretty confused and depressed with all this, that I shed 4kg in the 1 month. I used to be 82kg 1 month ago and now I am 78kg. Does anyone have this kind of problem, do share.... Thanks.

I am so grateful for this advise. I took a shot of the mixture yesterday and already this morning peices of the stone are coming out. I'm not in near as much pain as I was before. I also read the article about the "Jump and Bump". Worth trying too. It's not this OR that, it's this AND that! To our health!

This question is for Emir from Malaysia; Emir, what did you find out about your mild hydronephrosis; my 15 yrs. old son was diagnosed with it last summer but the doctors didn't do anything for him; just sent him home from the hospital with tylenol for pain; he's not in pain now, but I wonder about the implications of this if left untreated???

Alina from Dacula, Hi, I haven't found out anything about my mild hydronephrosis to my kidney yet till today. Tomorrow will be going for a CT-scan (first CT-scan). Ever since I was diagnosed with hydronephrosis, doc gave me Ural (urine alkalinizer) 1 sachet 3 times a day after meal because he fears for Uric Acid stones that are invisible in both Ultrasound and KUB X-Rays. I would suggest you take your son to do a normal CT-scan in case of stones. Not sure how expensive it is over there, but here it is about usd200 for a normal ctscan of the abdomen. For my case it is weird because I feel no pain at all if I am sitting down or in vertical position. Just when I lie down to sleep, for a long time (>1 hour), then the pain starts, and it is more of a dull pain, with occassional needle pricking pain at the flank area randomly. To be honest I am scared of what the outcome of tomorrow's ct scan.... Really stressed now.. And boy do I regret for not drinking more plain water everyday instead of just coffee and sugary water and sodas.... :(

Just to update on my case. CT scan came back normal. No stone was seen.

Doc said not to worry, everything's fine and suggests that it probably is my muscle/nerves.

Bah. I am taking it 50%, because I still have a dull bilateral flank pain.

So, I just need to relax and monitor how things are in the future.

This sucks really.

Thank you for posting the lemon olive oil remedy. Just took it and hope it will work for me. Praying for healing for all who suffer from kidney stones.

I am going to try this too. Not sure what is going on with me but for about 5 months, I have been having discomfort and a fullness sensation on/off just below and under my left ribs that radiates to my back around where my kidneys are. Sometimes the discomfort is sharp. It seems most uncomfortable when I wake up and does get better after I wake up. I have not had a fever, no vomiting, no diarrhea and no blood in the urine. All labs including BUN/creatinine have come back negative except I did test positive for mono. I do not have an enlarged spleen though which is usually classic for mono.

I also tested positive from an ultrasound for what my doctor describes to me as what they thought was a small stone on each kidney. She told me to wait 6-8 weeks and see if I feel better. I am halfway done with the wait and do not feel any better at all. My stomach has been upset on/off too and I feel pressure on my bladder on occasion with the urgency to urinate a significant amount in the morning when I wake up.

Does anyone else with kidney stones have any of these symptoms? I am trying the lemon juice tonight. However will pick up some olive oil tomorrow. (oh, and I have not been constipated at all but also did give myself a bowel regimen just in case and it did not take away my symptoms). Will let you know how the lemon juice works.

I will be 65 in August and had my first kidney stone when I was 25. I have had regular surgery once (100 stones removed from left kidney) and lithotripsy six times (3 times on each side). I have a half dozen stones in each kidney right now with the largest being about the size of a nickle in my right kidney. It is not coming out, in fact, all of them are too large to pass. I have been drinking about a gallon of distilled water daily and my wife cooks with distilled water. Kidney stone formation is down by 60% since we began this about ten years ago. My stones are calcium oxalate formed around uric acid molecules. I was totally off all calcium for 20 years until my doctor said to forget that because there was a study out that said diet makes no difference in people like me who have a hereditary issue. My father had them terribly bad, too.

I think I will try the lemon juice and olive oil thing for a while to see if it makes a difference. I am really tired of passing stones. Once after double lithotriply (both kidneys at the same time) I passed 143 stones during one urination episode and over 800 before they were all out from that one lithotrisy procedure. I have passed thousands of them and the largest was larger than a wooden kitchen match head. It was the largest stone my urologist had ever seen passed. Hopefully the lemon juice will help dissolve them. I honestly think the distilled water helps both because of the high ph and because there are no minerals in it.

I'm so glad I decided to give this remedy a try! I was up last night with kidney stone pain. I knew that's what it was as I've had them in the past, and one time I even had to have surgery with basket removal to remove a large one. I am currently BFing my daughter, so the thought of Rx pain meds or surgery was not appealing to me. I ran across this site and the olive oil lemon juice remedy and thought I would give it a try. So... At 4AM I drank 1T OO and 2T cold lemon juice and approx 32 oz water. It was awful tasting, but by 530AM I was asleep with no pain. I'm not sure what it's doing to the stone, but I'm just so happy the pain is gone :). I'll try it again with 2T OO/2T LJ tonight. Thanks again for posting this remedy. I'm so happy I decided to try it!

I always know that I have kidney stones back to several years ago and just a day after the Valentines day, my left testicles start to get pain and it goes around my back and then to my left legs, I know this kind of pain is different from the "normal" pain and this is the "Stone Pain" instead of taking medication. I took the Lemon & Olive Oil remedy. 2 teaspoon of Lemon juice, and 3 teaspoon of Olive oil, down with a large glass of distilled water approx 1Litre. 45 Mins later I gotta pee, and guess what the stone with a size of the seeds of a papaya came out, and immediately the pains are gone (actually up to 20 mins after that 1L of water the pain is starting to go away). This is really working! Whoever shared this info Thank you very very much! Muakkkkk!

In response to Penguin from Akron, Ohio. Sounds to me like you have Gall Stones and not Kidney stones. I suffered from the same symptoms for three years before finally having to have emergency surgery. Get your doctor to have a sono done on your gallbladder the next time you have symptoms.

My wife had a kidney stone and was willing to try anything to avoide surgery. She tried the olive oil and lemon juice for a couple of days. Her pain came and went during a two week period. She was scheduled for surgery to remove it. The morning of surgery they did an ultasound and discovered that the stone was no longer present, and was spared the surgery.

Hi everyone - just diagnosed this week with a centimenter and a half (13mm??) stone. The pain has diminished great and I feel pretty good. Surgery is scheduled for May 2nd and I'd love to try and dissolve this by then. Anyone have any suggestions? Could the Lemon Juice dissolve something that fast? If the pain has gone away would I still go into surgery? Thanks Ed

After two trips to the Emergency room in 3 days for Kidney Stone pain and after a week on Vicodin to manage the pain, and then being scheduled for surgery to remove a stone, I found and tried the 3 oz. Lemon Juice and 3 oz Olive Oil treatment, followed by water in one of many online searches I did for relief.

WOW! It's been 2 days, now, with no pain, no Vicodan and I passed a 2mm stone. My urine flow has more than doubled, so, it is likely that the 7mm x 5mm stone that was blocking my ureter is dissolving, breaking up and passing.

Thank you to all for saving me from unnecessary surgery.

Hi, about a week ago I started waking up with dull flank pain on the right side. It subsides after getting up and I have little to no pain throughout the day, but when I go to bed, I wake up 5-6 hours later with significant flank pain. I have no visible signs of blood in the urine, urine is pale yellow with no foul odor, I have no fever. I drink tons of H20 from my santevia filter. I am not debilitated from normal activity at all........ Hell I started the insanity workout this week. I am concerned though that I have this pain that is only present in the early morning hours after I lay down for 5 hours. Does this sound familiar to anyone?

I have been having kidney stones since I was a teenager. About every 6 years I get a large one that gives me problems while all along I pass the small ones. I have had lithotripsy, stents, cystoscopies, laser to break up one that got stuck in scar tissue from passing so many stones.

I just had litho twice on the same stone a month apart that was a 1/2 inch that the first litho could not fully breakup. I have a stent in now that is there to widen the ureter with scar tissue so that I can pass some of the stones that are remaining. The stent is a minor irritation but I have been passing small stones and dust almost daily for the past few weeks. The stent is to come out today in the office and I will schedule litho for an 8mm stone in my right kidney.

I am going to try the OO and lemon juice combo and see if it can break up the stone before my next litho. I am 62 now and tired of all these stones. I hope it works.

For kidney stones I have used gravel root extract that you buy in whole foods or health food store. Meat protein and dairy products are very hard on the kidneys so you might want to watch consumption of these products. I have a kink in my kidney which causes me problems. If I eat walnuts or other kinds of nuts other than almonds I have problems. Good luck just wanted to mention what has worked for me.

Hi iam having 5mm thick kidney stone. I'm having severe backache. Can I use lemon juice and olive oil as a remedy? And how much I ahve to use per day. I'm feeding my 7 motnhs old baby. Can I use this remedy even if i'm feeding her. Pls reply to me I am very much worried about my pain and as i'm feeding my baby that is the main reason why i'm asking you.

Kanti, I've never heard of not being able to ingest lemon juice or olive oil when breastfeeding. So, I can't think of a reason why you couldn't.

My story: I have suffered with kidney stones since I was 16 yrs old. I had my first surgery for a 9mm last yr I recently found out there was more in both kidneys. I came across your site and decided what did I have to lose but hopefully some stones. I couldn't bring myself to drink 2 oz of each so decided to try 1 oz of each once a day along with the water afterwards and throughout the day low and behold the second day I passed 7 stones of good size the biggest being around 3mm with no pain also passed all kinds of small sand like ones. I'm still facing surgery as they want to know why there was so much blood in my urine but I will continue doing this on a monthly basis to keep the stones at bay. I can't thank you enough for having a site like this.

I was told the blood in my urine is from the crystal that make up the stone. These crystal cut up the bladder causing bladder infections. Calcium citrate and a low to medium oxalate diet can also help prevent them from forming to often. Research low oxalate diet.

Can I eat food before lemon and olive oil treatment? And is it imperative that I drink apple juice before this treatment, I am not able to have any juices due to the sugar content (allergy).

Also I have a problem where it takes awhile before I can fully empty bladder each time I go to the bathroom... wondering if that maybe a concern when stones are passing out.

Thank you for a great site!

I had to use this remedy over the other day and I have to say I feel so much better. I was in the hospital 1 time and then to my Dr.when the pain got so bad she said to return to the er, reluctant as the first trip they diagnosed me with pheumonia when I clearly told them I might have a kidney stone, they didn't do a urine test to check for it. I did not want another run around so I tried this remedy as a last resort before a return to the er. I usually never go there, but the pain was very bad. I tried this and within a few hours the pain began to subside and by time dose 2 kicked in I could breath without pain and am sure everyting will be fine. I estimated it at 1/4 cup of each my oil wasn't extra virgin, so I'm not sure if it really matters what kind of olive oil as long as it's pure. The lemon I used was pure lemon out of the bottle.

Thank god for you and natural cures, otherwise I would have been through a long list of anitbiotics I do not believe in unless absolutely necessary.

About ten days ago I started having severe pain in my right kidney; I immediately thought it could be a kidney stone, so I went to the clinic. From the general X-rays they couldn't see anything (being this a Prime Care, they couldn't do detailed x-rays), but they found traces of blood in my urine, so they confirmed my hypothesis it could be a kidney stone. So I came home and I dealt with the pain.

Two days ago I found out about this site, and the oil and lemon cure, so I started immediately. I took 2 oz of oil and 2 lemons the first morning; during the day I felt the pain was easing, but yesterday evening the pain was still severe. This morning I tried with 3 lemons and 3 oz oil, and I'm waiting to see how it goes. I don't have insurance, and I work outdoors, but I can't really work effectively in this condition, especially in the heat (dehydration is the first cause of kidney stones). I'll keep you posted...

I'm a 49 yr old male who is very active. running/working out, etc... about 4 months ago i noticed VERY dark urine only after running... my doctor thought it was runners hematuria... but since it never went away after running... i got an ultrasound, cat scan and kub xray... all comfirm that i have 2 small stones and one large one - ie 1cm... can the lemon juice olive oil remedy help passing the large stone?....i'm afraid it will get everything moving and the stone will then get stuck..ie pain/surgery... i havent had any pain for yet with this stone since it's still in the kidney... so i'm afraid to do anything that will let it move... but i also feel that eventhually this stone will move on its own and i'm in for pain... so is it ok to do this remedy when you have large stones?

MHILLQT, There are at least a jullion testimonies on this site concerning this procedure. Either accept what Earth Clinic folks say or go to your doctor. This procedure is not original with this site. It has been used for thousands of years per Hulda Clark.

to Mhillqt from New York, Ny. I have no direct experience with a particularly large stone but I have had a couple of painfull kidney stone attacks over the years.

I found that drinking about 2 litres of pure unsweetened apple juice a day for 2 consecutive days alkylized my system enough to shrink the stone size so that they could pass painlessly through my system. I could then use whatever method I wanted to flush my kidneys and be back to normal.

This has proven effective on three different occasions when I let my diet drift to too much animal protein and fat for a prolonged period.
Jay

thanks Robert....i was just questioning if this works for LARGE stones?

If so.....should i do 2 oz lemon juice, 2 oz of olive oil and 8 oz of water....if so...how often? Also, how do you know your stone is moving...you can feel it? Is it painful when it moves? OR do i do 8oz lemon juice and 32 oz of water...if so how often? thanks

BUT if its a large 1.2 CM stone... isnt it possible that it will break down but not enough and get stuck... is this method ok for large stones or are you asking for more trouble by breaking the stone down but not small enough...ie so it gets stuck? I have URO appt tomorrow....so need to decide.....btw...i drank 8oz lemon juice/2oz of olive oil and 32 oz of water on sunday... now feel more pulsation in abdominal.....more pain... so i didnt continue due to fear that i would make it worse... advice please?

After reading the reviews I am excited to read about the lemon juice and olive oil remedy however I have the same concerns as Mhillqt. I am a petite lady, only 5'0" with a 12mm kidney stone! I am also afraid that if I start using the remedy that it may pass, reaking havoc to my ureter. Has anyone used this to pass large stones? Any answers would be helpful since I have already had lithotripsy and scheduled to do it again in 2 weeks since the stones did not pass the first time.

Two thumbs up for the lemon juice and olive oil remedy for calcium stones (previous stones analyzed were confirmed to be calcium. ) I did add a squirt of honey and about 2 oz. Of cranberry juice to the mixture, just to be able to swallow it. Next day I had strange "worm-like" movement sensations from kidney all the way down to bladder with no pain. Hurray! I think I will drink the concoction weekly to ward off new formations as I must take calcium supplements for my osteoporosis. THANK YOU EARTH CLINIC! For saving me the pain and also thousands of dollars in doctor and hospital bills!!!

my brother is suffering a severe kidney stones problem 2days ago. I want to try the Lemons, olive oil treatment but my question is can i use calamansi instead of lemon? because Lemon in my country phil. is expensive but we have alot calamansi. thank you.