Kidney stones disappear faster with green bean tea

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02.09.2024

If you suffer from kidney stones, a green bean infusion may help those stones leave your body faster. This is evident from a small human study from Saudi Arabia.

Kidney stones disappear faster with green bean tea

Study

In 2020, researchers from King Faisal University published a trial in Nutrients, in which sixty patients with kidney stones participated as test subjects. The trial lasted 6 weeks.

The researchers divided the subjects into 2 groups. The experimental group drank cooled green bean tea (scientific name: Phaseolus vulgaris) 3 times a week. That happened early in the morning, before breakfast.

On the days that the subjects drank green bean tea, they consumed 730-830 milliliters of fluid. It contained an infusion of 250 grams of version green beans. Below you can see how you can make this tea yourself.

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The control group did not drink green bean tea - nor water. The control group was therefore not a placebo group. This means that the positive effects in this trial may also be the effect of an increased fluid intake.

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Results
The subjects in the experimental group reported pain and nausea slightly less often at the end of the trial than when the trial started. The researchers did not see these changes in the control group.

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The number of kidney stones decreased in the experimental group. The size of the kidney stones also decreased. The latter decrease was statistically significant.

In the control group, the researchers saw a decrease in the concentration of uric acid, oxalate and calcium in the urine. Those effects were significant. Uric acid, oxalate and calcium are building blocks of kidney stones.

Conclusion
"We suggest that Phaseolus vulgaris is an effective and safe method to reduce kidney stones occurrences and help to eliminate renal calculi among patients," the researchers summarize.

Source:
Nutrients. 2022 Nov 10;14(22):4761.

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