- Before eating a meal (especially a fatty one) consider taking a supplement of bile salts derived from an ox to help supplement your possible bile deficiency
- If you are a vegetarian and cannot take ox bile, consider taking concentrated beet powder before a meal to enhance natural bile production
- Stone root supplements have anecdotally been recommended to help dissolve the stones. It is available in pills, tinctures and tea
- Eat a small amount of saturated fat to prompt the liver to produce bile. Some excellent sources are eggs, some meets, fatty fish and coconut oil
- Eat lots of vegetables and a low fat diet.
- Consider switching to a vegetarian or vegan diet
Ox and calf
Some pharmacological/medical interventions also to be considered if you have symptomatic gall stones are:
- Surgical Treatments
- Laparoscopic cholecystectomy
- simple removal of whole gallbladder
- Open cholecystectomy
- necessary if there is an infection
- Medications
- Over the counter pain medication
- Bile salt tablets
- Other
- Lithotripsy procedure
- use of ultra sound waves to break up gallstones
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