Urinary Stones

Western Tradition

Simples

Simple Remedies

1. Lemon juice in water every morning can help. Whe.n the patients feels pain, take Lemon juice (1 oz.), Malmsey Wine (3 oz.), mix and take as a dose.
2. Madder powder in doses of 1–3 grams twice daily has been proven to be very effective.
3. Take 3 drams of Cassia Fistula daily before dinner ‘he shall never have the Gravel’. (The Secrets of Alexis, 1615)
4. When there is pain from Stones, mix 1 ounce of the juice of Green Lemons with 3 oz. of Malmsey wine and take in one dose. (The Secrets of Alexis, 1615)
5. Celery seed, Parsley seed (equal parts). Powder and take with wine.
6. Take Bean pods, burn to ashes and soak in water, then strain and drink. (Brunschwig, 1561)
7. Boil Horseradish root (1 kg) in water and use as a Sitz bath (bath to sit in). Also drink Horseradish water.
8. Take the seeds from Rosehips, dry in the sun or an oven then powder. Put 1 dram in a glass of white wine and steep 8 hours. Drink half an hour before bed including the sediment. “This produces great effects”. (Lemery)
9. Take Radish roots, cut off the top, hollow them out, then sit them in soil with the top replaced. A water will collect inside which is very effective for Strangury and Bladder Stones. (Brunschwig, 1561)
10. Ivy berries powdered in 1–2 dram doses taken with wine.
11. Take 10 spoonfuls of Rue water every morning for 15 days, it can be sweetened if needed.
12. Boil 1 kg of fresh Nettle roots in 3 ½ liters water until one-third has gone, then add 1 ½ liters white wine and boil another hour. When cool, remove the roots and press hard and add to the decoction. In the decrease of the Moon, take 3 small “pills” of butter, followed by a cup of decoction. Continue for 3 days. (Lemery)
13. Distill 2 pounds of Olive oil with Sand. Take 1 spoonful three times a day, once in the morning, once after dinner and once before bed, for 9 days. “This water dissolves the Stones in the Kidneys or Bladder”. (Lemery)

14. Take 1 dram of Chicken Gizzard skin powder with white wine.
15. Dried Goat Blood taken in a dose of 2 drams with wine before bed. It ‘breaks’ stones. Rabbit and Hare Blood was said to be equally effective.
16. Hare or Rabbit Kidney, dried and powdered in doses of 1 dram with Parsley water, Horseradish water, or wine. (Brunschwig, 1561)
17. A Rabbit or Hare burnt to ashes (1 ½ oz.), Honey (6 drams). Make an Electuary. Take as much as a Chestnut every morning.
18. “No known remedy whatsoever is more efficient in crumbling Stones than a potion of the wine called ḫundīqūn [Spiced Wine] containing two qīrāṭ [about 400mg] of burnt Scorpions”. (Rhazes)
19. “Against the formation of Stone, one may catch the worms which are found glowing at night, put them in a copper vessel, let them dry out under a hot sun, then throw away their heads, pound the rest of their bodies, and drink one of them three times, for no doubt they melt the Kidney stones”. (Rhazes)

Lapidem frangunt
Break Stones

Decoction for Stones
Dialacca Major (Mesue)
Dialacca Minor (Mesue)
Powder for Kidney Stones from Heat (Unani)
Powder for Stones
Stone–Breaking Powder (Lithontripticon) (Nicholas)
Powder of Three Peppers (Diatrionpipereon)
Troches of Winter Cherry (Trochisci Alkekengi) (Mes.)
Troches of Winter Cherry (Unani)
Pilulae Aggregative majores
Pills to Crumble Kidney Stones (Unani)
Confection of Ashes
Electuary for a Duke (Electuarium Ducis) (Nicholas)
The Queen of Colen’s Electuary
Electuary of Scorpion (Unani)
Electuary of Seeds
Electuary for Stones (Azaricon)
Diasulphur
Justinum Nicolai
Philantropos Nicolai
Nephrocatharticum Nicolai
Opopyra Magna Nicolai
Mithridate
Oil of Bitter Almond
Oil of Cherry kernels
Oil of Scorpions

For the Pain of Kidney Stones

Philonium Persicum
Requies (Nicholas)