Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Do everything you can to protect your gall bladder. Along those lines, one of the most important things you need to do is physically massage your internal organs through body movement. A lot of people are surprised to hear this, but your internal organs need to be massaged just like your muscles and skin.
Massage therapy is something that I recommend everyone pursue to enhance his or her health. Massage moves lymph fluid around the body. It stimulates the skin. It even stimulates the brain indirectly and helps create an immunostimulating relaxation response in virtually everyone. |
Ron Garner
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 Call Bladder
The gall bladder is a muscular sac about three inches long located on the under surface of the liver. Its purpose is storing bile which is ready for use. When bile is needed, the gall bladder contracts, forcing the bile into the common bile duct, which carries it to the small intestine to aid in digestion. People who have had their gall bladders removed are at a distinct digestive disadvantage.
Pancreas
The pancreas is a relatively flat organ about 7 inches (18 cm) long and 1V2 inches (4 cm) wide. It is situated across the middle of the abdomen just behind the stomach. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| If you want honest answers on gall bladder pain, go visit a naturopath.
As always, I strongly recommend that people who are considering this surgery look at naturopathic options, because removing a functional organ from your digestive tract is never a health-enhancing solution. It's just something that's too easy for conventional medicine to do. They do hundreds of thousands of these surgeries a year. They don’t consider it a big deal so the patients don’t think it’s a big deal either!
But it really is a big deal. It's sort of like saying, "Well, doctor, my tongue hurts. |
| I'm sorry to say that these are the predictable side effects of having a gall bladder removed. And chances are your doctor or surgeon probably didn't explain this fully to you. Surgeons have a habit of making everything sound really simple, up until the day you have the procedure done. Then, you start experiencing all sorts of rather serious side effects, and they say, "Oh yeah! That could happen as well."
Hopefully, in this experience, you've learned a lesson. And that lesson is, don’t have body parts removed by overzealous surgeons. I don’t know how to state it any simpler than that. |
Byron J. Richards, CCN
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 Little attention is given to why a person forms stones, how to clean up a gall bladder that makes stones, what happens to the overall natural balance of a person with a poorly functioning gall bladder, or what happens to natural balance in a person without a gall bladder.
It is easier and more cost effective to take out the gall bladder and send the person on his way with little advice about what to do now. While it is true the person may need such an operation, it is also common that there are other options.
Surgery should only be performed when truly needed. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| That's why people who have had gall bladder removal surgery usually suffer the classic signs of EFA deficiencies: poor nervous system function, irritability, learning difficulties, heart disease, poor blood sugar control, and so on.
Doctors and surgeons flat out aren't telling patients this all-important information. It's downright criminal, if you ask me. This basic education should be required by law. It's flat-out evil to remove an essential organ from a patient's body and neglect to tell them about the long-term adjustments they need to make in order to compensate for that missing organ. |
| At the same time, I know that a lot of people are experiencing extreme pain when it comes to passing gall bladder stones. So obviously, those people are looking at surgical procedures as a more immediate technique for getting rid of the pain.
Let's look at some information about gallstones because it is something that affects somewhere around 18 million people in the United States, and maybe even as many as 1 in every 12 people. And yet most people don't know they have them. |
| And above all, they need to avoid all fried foods and any snack foods containing hydrogenated oils or trans fatty acids due to the role of the gall bladder plays in neutralizing excess dietary cholesterol. |
Marshall Editions
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 Treating the gall bladder and bile duct: There are two categories of herbs that are used in cases of jaundice stemming from problems with the gall bladder or bile duct system: choleretics and cholagogues. Choleretics are plants that cause the liver cells to make more bile and cholegogues are plants that cause the release of bile that has already been formed. Both of these categories of herbs increase the flow of bile that may help to clean out the bile duct system or gallbladder. Examples of choleretics are dandelion root and Culver's root. |
Ron Garner
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| When bile is needed, the gall bladder contracts, forcing the bile into the common bile duct, which carries it to the small intestine to aid in digestion. People who have had their gall bladders removed are at a distinct digestive disadvantage.
Pancreas
The pancreas is a relatively flat organ about 7 inches (18 cm) long and 1V2 inches (4 cm) wide. It is situated across the middle of the abdomen just behind the stomach. It produces pancreatic enzymes that break down carbohydrates, fats, and proteins. |
Marshall Editions
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| Treating the gall bladder and bile duct: There are two categories of herbs that are used in cases of jaundice stemming from problems with the gall bladder or bile duct system: choleretics and cholagogues. Choleretics are plants that cause the liver cells to make more bile and cholegogues are plants that cause the release of bile that has already been formed. Both of these categories of herbs increase the flow of bile that may help to clean out the bile duct system or gallbladder. Examples of choleretics are dandelion root and Culver's root. |
Byron J. Richards, CCN
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| Unless the person takes charge, they are caught up in the automatic gall bladder removal production line. Since estrogen imbalance fuels gall bladder problems, as a source of the problem, 90% of gall bladder operations are performed on women. The female reproductive system is another favorite surgical target. A basic rule of natural health is to try as much as possible to keep all body parts.
MALFUNCTIONING NATURAL BALANCE
It is currently inconvenient for Western medicine to think of homeostasis in any other terms than as an always operational and healthy system. |
Marshall Editions
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| Both of these plants also act as antispasmodics and may relieve spasms in the gall bladder that are sometimes associated with gallstones. The internal use of essential oils can have significant toxicity, so should only be carried out for short periods of time and under the care of a medical herbalist.
DIAGNOSIS
Gastric flu is an inflammation of the digestive tract, usually caused by a virus passed on through person-to-person contact. |
KC Craichy
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 Consider a liver and gall bladder flush once or twice a year. I use a product from American Botanical Pharmacy (www.herbdoc.com/p34.asp) called L-GB. There are many brands available in your local health food store as well as digestive cleaning formulas and supplements from Renew Life, Inc. (www.renewlife.com). These are not recommended if you have stones in your liver, gall bladder, or kidneys. Most people do these types of cleanses on their own, but they really should be done under the supervision or guidance of an experienced health practitioner. |
Ray D. Strand
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 When women who want to avoid osteoporosis consider synthetic Hormonal Replacement Therapy in light of these new clinical studies, perhaps the good does not outweigh the bad—especially when you consider the well-known increased risk of developing blood clots in the legs and gall bladder disease in those patients taking HRT. Several new drugs have arrived on the market for osteoporosis, such as Fosomax, Actonel, Evista, and Calcitonin, which have the ability to actually increase bone density. |
Marshall Editions
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| Surgery: Gallstones that are symptomatic are treated surgically by a cholecystectomy (removal of the gall bladder). The operation generally requires a short recovery period, particularly when performed through a laparascope. This involves inserting a | scope into the abdomen and operating through it rather than cutting through the abdominal wall.
Dissolving the stones: Those who are too high risk for surgery, can take a medication that dissolves the gallstones. |
David Wolfe
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 This will flush out "gravel" from the gall bladder and bile ducts, that will be eliminated out in the stool (usually on the morning of day five), The "stones" will be ovoid in shape, and may range in size from smaller than a bell pepper seed to as large as a Brazil nut. True stones consist of foreign cholesterol (from meat and dairy) and starch (some stones may simply be saponified oil). Most people on a toxic diet have anywhere from 300-1500 "stones" of various sizes in their gall bladder and bile ducts. |
Byron J. Richards, CCN
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| Since estrogen imbalance fuels gall bladder problems, as a source of the problem, 90% of gall bladder operations are performed on women. The female reproductive system is another favorite surgical target. A basic rule of natural health is to try as much as possible to keep all body parts.
MALFUNCTIONING NATURAL BALANCE
It is currently inconvenient for Western medicine to think of homeostasis in any other terms than as an always operational and healthy system. However, what if a malfunction of the homeostatic system is the cause of a health problem? |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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 It includes the esophagus, stomach, small intestine, pancreas, gall bladder, liver, and large intestine. Most of the mechanical and chemical breakdown of food to make it absorbable occurs in the gastrointestinal tract, which consists of the stomach (gaster in Greek) and the intestine.
The whole digestive system starts to work as soon as a bite of food enters the mouth. The process of chewing mashes the food into smaller, more manageable pieces. Meanwhile, an enzyme called amylase, contained in saliva, begins the chemical breakdown of carbohydrates into simple sugars. |
Byron J. Richards, CCN
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| Since estrogen imbalance fuels gall bladder problems, as a source of the problem, 90% of gall bladder operations are performed on women. The female reproductive system is another favorite surgical target. A basic rule of natural health is to try as much as possible to keep all body parts.
MALFUNCTIONING NATURAL BALANCE
It is currently inconvenient for Western medicine to think of homeostasis in any other terms than as an always operational and healthy system. However, what if a malfunction of the homeostatic system is the cause of a health problem? |
Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D.
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 INDICATIONS AND USAGE
¦ Infections of the urinary tract
¦ Kidney and bladder stones
¦ Liver and gall bladder complaints
The herb is also used to flush the efferent urinary tract and to treat and prevent renal gravel. In folk medicine, it is used for bladder and kidney disorders, gallstones, gout and rheumatism.
CONTRAINDICATIONS
Irrigation therapy is contraindicated in the presence of edema resulting from reduced cardiac or renal activity. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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| The food is further prepared for absorption by digestive enzymes from the pancreas and intestinal lining and by bile from the gall bladder and liver. Billions of specialized cells line the small intestine and absorb the end-products of digestion, including ainino acids from protein, sugar from carbohydrates, fatty acids from fats, and cholesterol, vitamins, and minerals. What's left over—water, undigested fibers, some minerals, bile, and waste products—is shuttled to the large intestine. |
Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D.
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| INDICATIONS AND USAGE
Cornflowers and their preparations are used for fever, menstrual disorders, vaginal Candida, as a laxative, tonic, bitter, also as a diuretic and an expectorant, as well as a stimulant for liver and gall bladder function, also used in the preparation of eye washes for eye inflammation and conjunctivitis, eczema of the scalp, and coughs.
Efficacy in the claimed applications is not documented.
PRECAUTIONS AND ADVERSE REACTIONS
Health risks or side effects following the proper administration of designated therapeutic dosages are not recorded. |
Rainer W. Bussmann and Douglas Sharon
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 Familia / Family: ASTERACEAE
Partes usadas / Plant part used: Toda la planta, fresca - Whole plant, fresh
Administracion / Administration: Oral
Preparacion / Preparation: Chancar y extraer el jugo, 1 cucha-rada para cada polio - Mince and extract juice, 1 tbsp for every chicken
Usos / Uses: Buche inflamado en polios - Inflammed gall bladder in chickens
Diente de Leon
Taraxacum officinale Wigg. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 He also found that patients with low-blood-sugar symptoms had been wrongly treated for such diverse conditions as hysteria, brain tumor, coronary thrombosis, epilepsy, mental disorders, gall bladder disease, appendicitis, asthma, allergies, ulcers, and alcoholism.
"Dr. Harris pointed out that the cure for low blood glucose or hyper in-sulinism . . . was something so simple that nobody—not even the medical practitioners—could make any money out of it," William Dufty recounts in Sugar Blues.
"The remedy was self-government of the body. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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 With more persons now having the surgery, the "total number of gall bladder related deaths in the population either stayed the same or, in some regions, increased by over 10%." A JAMA editorial concluded: "It is important that physicians and patients not be tempted into doing surgery just because the surgery now seems easier and because the patient has some symptoms that 'might be related' to gallstones."32
Preventive surgery raises serious health policy issues that are significant for our book. The question has been well put: Will "a pound of prevention lead to an ounce of cure? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Gall bladder pain: removal of the gall bladder.
Pain in the reproductive organs: removal of the uterus (a hysterectomy, which is still commonly performed).
Pain in the abdomen: removal of the appendix (appendectomy).
Headache: surgical removal of muscles of the head.
What's wrong with this picture?
As any sane person can tell, there is something seriously wrong with the idea of cutting away essential organs from a patient's body and calling it medicine. If the whole thing sounds barbaric, that's because it is: and it seemingly belongs in 16th century medicine, not modern day science. |
Mark Sircus
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 Claudia French RN, LPHA
In addition to the risk of disease, the side-effects associated with HRT include mood changes, nausea, breakthrough vaginal bleeding and bloating, breast tenderness, concerns about breast,3,4 and ovarian cancer,5 gall bladder disease, and thromboembolic events.
Strong Medline warnings for estrogen now state: "Estrogen increases the risk that you will develop endometrial cancer (cancer of the lining of the uterus [womb]). The longer you take estrogen, the greater the risk that you will develop endometrial cancer. |
Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD
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 Other diseases that seem to be occurring more frequently because of the human inability to synthesize vitamin C or get adequate amounts of it from diet (without supplementation) include arthritis, gall bladder disease, aortic aneurysm, and angina.
Vitamin B-3 Deficiency
The same principles hold true for vitamin B-3 (niacin). That is, pre-agricultural humans formerly ate a diet that provided them with an adequate intake of niacin. To save energy for other purposes, their ability to synthesize niacin from the amino acid tryptophan was very largely, but not entirely, lost. |
Sophie D. Coe and Michael D. Coe
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 Thus, as was the case with chocolate, coffee travelled as a medicine once it arrived in Europe, where it was classified by the medical establishment as "hot and dry" (and was therefore connected with the gall bladder and the choleric temperament).
The very first coffee drinker in England is supposed to have been a Cretan student in Balliol College, Oxford, who was brewing it in his chambers in 1647, soon after the end of the Civil War. For medicine or for recreation, or for both? We are not told. |
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