Re: Gold Coin Grass and results?

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##### level-1 quote by lebellue <lebellue@...> (on) 23.01.03

(at) 20:45 +0000

>Has anyone here used Gold Coin Grass and gotten some good results?

Anyone have a botanical name for this, or another common synonym? Or

theChinese name, perhaps? -- rw

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Try http://www.itmonline.org/arts/gallstones.htm#figure%201

--- In gallstones , Weisling

> >Has anyone here used Gold Coin Grass and gotten some good results?

>

> Anyone have a botanical name for this, or another common synonym?

Or

> theChinese name, perhaps? -- rw

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##### level-1 quote by Suzanne <suzanne_on_ca@...> (on)

25.01.03 (at) 01:51 +0000

>Try http://www.itmonline.org/arts/gallstones.htm#figure%201

>

Yes, thanks, it is a very good article.

And from that same article this quoted section touches on the recent

topic of lithotripsy, or shockwave therapy:

" Despite the improvements in surgical techniques and the generally

positive outcomes, many people diagnosed with gallstones would prefer

to avoid surgery and retain their gallbladder. This is to be

accomplished by dissolving the stones and/or purging the stones from

the gallbladder via the intestines. One alternative to surgery that

was tried, but later discarded, was lithotripsy. This procedure was

used for patients with large stones that involved breaking the stones

into small pieces with powerful sound waves. Unfortunately, there

were too many cases of bile duct blockage from the pieces of stone as

they were excreted to consider this procedure generally successful. "

My personal opinion is that the lithotripsy procedure was developed

and is successful for kidney stones, but when later applied to

gallstones, was less successful due to the relatively larger size of

the stones and the more spongy or low density of the stone (we know

that they float due to cholesterol and other low density products).

That is probably why you don't hear too much about this procedure.

Ray

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