Changing lifestyles, physical activities, lack of exercises, habits, late nights, extensive use of vehicle and family history can be among the reasons why the number of people suffering from kidney stones is on the rise. Homoeopathy is an effective therapy to cure kidney stone without surgery. According to Dr Nilesh Kataria, a well known homoeopathy expert, more than one thousand patients have been cured in the last ten years by use of homoeopathy treatment.

Kataria did a research to use homoeopathy for the treatment of kidney stone and found out that some medicines, which are not directly mentioned as cure of kidney stone in homoeopathy, can be effective in the treatment of kidney stone. Kataria has now developed his own treatment based on the medical history of each patient, his current health condition and the type of kidney stone. People in the age group of 15-45 are more prone to kidney stone problem, he says.

Non-vegeterians and vegetarians who consume excessive amounts of roots, spinach, cabbage, tomatoes, cucumbers or fruits such as guava or figs which have multiple seeds are more prone to this health condition. Also, people who suffer from acidity and are under medication for that are susceptible to kidney stone problem. People who live in tropical regions or those who drink less water or drink water with high mineral content too are easy targets for the problem. Of course all those who are in this condition don't suffer from kidney stone. As each person is different from the other, we have to study individual cases deeply before arriving at a conclusion.

About 80 per cent of the kidney stones are calcium, they can be treated by homoeopathic medicines. The rest of the stones can be Struvite (Triple Phosphate), Urates and Cystine out of these, the harder stones like urates less than 5 mm can be treated by homoeopathic medicines. Harder stones more than 5mm may require surgery

Sonography is used to detect kidney stone. If however a patient is suffering from gastronomic problems, the stones cannot be detected even in Sonography. A stone like urate can not be detected even in an X-ray. In such circumstances, we resort to intravenous Pylography — insertion of a dye in the kidney and taking X-ray images of the dye at different stages .