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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." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"The allopathic 'treatment' for this, the removal of the gall bladder, often created further imbalances. It has been recognised for many years that increased levels of oestrogen can cause gall bladder problems. After experiencing initial headaches, which my doctor said would eventually go, I started to feel quite unwell in myself but unable to find a cause. I was fatigued, dizzy, had stomach cramps, etc. After six months, I was rushed to hospital with severe pancreatitis, I had another two bouts of this and then had my gall bladder removed." - Martin J. Walker, HRT Licensed to Kill and Maim: The Unheard Voices of Women Damaged by Hormone Replacement Therapy (Get the book.)

"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." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"Today one can even purify the liver, the gall bladder and each individual organ. "To cleanse the liver, it only costs $25, but a gall bladder operation costs perhaps $4000, or more. One can cleanse from parasites, fungi, heavy metals, and any old, illness-causing debris in our bodies. One can clean the gut, and it's important to know that our gut is 80% responsible for our immune system. One can clean the kidneys, and indeed the whole organism. Even modern technologies exist today that have special cleansing programs as in the case of Alzheimer." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"Bile, secreted by the liver and stored in the gall bladder, is added to the mixture via the common bile duct as needed to break down fat molecules into smaller particles. Digested food particles that have now been broken down into molecular size nutrients are absorbed through the villi in the small intestine and transported through capillaries into the portal vein and moved directly to the liver. Using more enzymes, the liver converts the nutrients into usable energy and fuel for all cells of the body." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"The liver, gall bladder, stomach, pancreas and intestines work continuously and a mono-diet gives them time to regroup. Mono-diets are not suitable for children. Nature sometimes forces a compulsory rest on us by reducing our taste for food and depressing our appetite. When we get a cold or other illness, or sometimes when we just feel run down, we don't feel like eating much. It is possible for a person to exist without food for quite a long period of time—consider hunger strikers, who can last for weeks without eating—but not fluids. Liquid is essential for sustenance and survival." - Dr Ron Roberts, Asthma Controlled Naturally: Techniques That Work (Get the book.)

"It will also help improve digestion, relieve gas and cramps, increase the flow of bile (which in turn cleans the gall bladder, bile ducts, and liver), destroy Candida albicans overgrowth, and promote a healthy intestinal flora, destroy and expel intestinal parasites, and increase gastrointestinal circulation." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.)

"Is that patient's gall bladder disease bad enough to warrant surgery or will a change in diet do the trick? Any time there's any uncertainty about what's best for a patient, a doctor's decisions can be influenced by the supply of a medical resource, like beds. Physicians will tend to put a not-so-sick patient in a bed—provided there is sufficient room in the hospital—rather than find home nursing care or keep in touch with the patient by phone to monitor how he's doing or secure a bed in a nursing home, all of which can take a lot of time and trouble." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) "Or if a patient had gall bladder surgery that required a single night at Yale—New Haven, the same surgery would have meant two nights at a Harvard hospital. Yet patients in Boston weren't any sicker than those in New Haven; they were just more likely to be hospitalized—and admitting them more often to Boston hospitals did not appear to improve their outcomes. Then Wennberg took things a step further and began asking doctors in the two cities how they made their decisions about whether or not a patient was sick enough to be admitted." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"For example, in individuals who have extreme organ or gland deficiencies (pancreatitis, pancreatic cancer, liver cancer, gall bladder failure, or the like), animal-sourced enzymes seem to fortify the glands and organs in ways that the plant-based enzymes cannot. It is what we call the "law of similar," which is the basis of homeopathy. This theory states that even though the source is animal and not human, the body recognizes it as similar." - Tom Bohager, Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes to Treat Everything from Digestive Problems and Allergies to Migraines and Arthritis (Get the book.)

"Each plant has its own personality or, in the words of the Tzutujil Mayan shaman Martin Prechtel, "lives according to its own true nature," so that Violet is soothing, cooling, and contains mucilage whereas Dandelion stimulates digestion, tones the liver, and aids the gall bladder. Violet is shy and unassuming while Dandelion is bold verging on aggressive. Spirit is alive in each of these plants but makes room for the diversity of their individual natures so that each has its own unique spirit and at the same time contains the wholeness of spirit within it." - Pam Montgomery, Plant Spirit Healing: A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness (Get the book.) "Return to their head and place your fingers on the release points that are halfway between the ear and spine along the occipital ridge at the base of the skull (acupuncture points gall bladder 19). This supports the previous counterclockwise spinning and loosens the stuck energy. This is the point at which you call in a plant spirit to help you heal this particular chakra. If you need help removing the dense energy or object that you find in the chakra, you may call in a different plant spirit for this type of help." - Pam Montgomery, Plant Spirit Healing: A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness (Get the book.)

"The condition of acidity thus may be a contributing factor to many different diseases, including piles, cancer, kidney and liver trouble, gallstones and gall bladder infections, impotency, high blood pressure and heart disease, strokes, asthma, and allergies. If the morning urine is consistently above 7.2, it is highly suggestive that the blood is too alkaline. Typical symptoms of excess alkalinity are muscle spasms, cramps, hyperreactivity, spaciness, a sense of ungroundedness, and mental imbalance." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"Increase the flow of bile to help clean the gall bladder, bile ducts, and liver. • Promote healthy intestinal flora. • Destroy and expel parasites. • Destroy Candida albicans overgrowth. • Maintain regularity. • Decrease straining. • Speed up the transit time of feces through the large intestine. • Promote the growth of beneficial bacteria colonies in the intestinal tract. Once you look at the requirements of a good intestinal program, it's easy to see that no one formula or magic pill can accomplish it all." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.)

"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?" - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"The yin organs are the more hollow organs, such as the large and small intestines, the gall bladder and the stomach. Acupuncture is a quick, painless and bloodless procedure. There is just a slight numbness or tingling sensation where the needle is inserted. The needles are very fine (0.25?.5 mm in diameter) and vary in length from 1 cm to 5 cm. The treatment can vary considerably from one consultation to another and for some complaints as many as 20 needles can be used at one time. The needles remain inserted for 25-30 minutes. The acupuncture points are generally nerve endings." - Dr Ron Roberts, Asthma Controlled Naturally: Techniques That Work (Get the book.)

"It has been recognised for many years that increased levels of oestrogen can cause gall bladder problems. After experiencing initial headaches, which my doctor said would eventually go, I started to feel quite unwell in myself but unable to find a cause. I was fatigued, dizzy, had stomach cramps, etc. After six months, I was rushed to hospital with severe pancreatitis, I had another two bouts of this and then had my gall bladder removed. The information sheets for some brands of HRT tell the user that it can create carbohydrate intolerance." - Martin J. Walker, HRT Licensed to Kill and Maim: The Unheard Voices of Women Damaged by Hormone Replacement Therapy (Get the book.)

"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." - David Wolfe, The Sunfood Diet Success System (Get the book.)

"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." - Marshall Editions, 1000 Cures for 200 Ailments: Integrated Alternative and Conventional Treatments for the Most Common Illnesses (Get the book.)

"Further analyses of the results of the Women's Health Initiative have reinforced the finding that there is a slight, arguably measurable increase in the absolute risks for stroke, cognitive impairment, venous thrombosis, and gall bladder disease. At the same time that postmenopausal women taking hrt are being pummeled by these statistically significant albeit tiny hazards, they are aggressively marketed as to putatively less-concerning phar- maceutical alternatives for meddling with osteopenia." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"The gall bladder stores bile used to break down dietary fat. s The pancreas produces digestive juices and helps control blood sugar. Superfoods for Digestion and Elimination Why: An herbal bitter which helps gastric juices flow, aloe vera contains protein, calcium, magnesium, zinc, vitamins A, C, and E, vitamin B-complex; and essential fatty acids-all valuable components of a healthy diet. This gel contains carbohydrate polymers that helps heal the stomach, ease constipation and prevent continuing diarrhea, giving regularity to the bowels." - Jan Lovejoy, Get Balanced-the Natural Way to Better Health with Superfoods (Get the book.) "They also increase bile production in the gall bladder and bile flow from the liver, essential in helping us utilize food nutrients and eliminate waste. The increase in bile flow improves fat (including cholesterol) metabolism in the body. Dandelion is a source of potassium, sodium, calcium, phosphorus and iron. The leaves are a rich source of vitamins A, B, C and D. Dandelions are also a remarkable source of natural potassium, and offer all the advantages of a balanced diuretic in a natural form." - Jan Lovejoy, Get Balanced-the Natural Way to Better Health with Superfoods (Get the book.)

"Toxins are bound into bile and secreted through the gall bladder. They then enter the digestive tract for removal. Lowering cholesterol synthesis reduces bile production, which increases the risk for a backup of toxins in the liver. In some cases, statins can reduce the flow of bile so much that serious and acute liver inflammation occurs. There is also a direct increased risk for gallstone formation. Doctors handing out statins seldom know an individual's genetic P450 function; nor do they have the tools to properly monitor drug interactions." - Byron J. Richards, Fight for Your Health: Exposing the FDA's Betrayal of America (Get the book.)

"The process of digestion begins in the mouth and continues down through the stomach, pancreas, small intestine, liver, and gall bladder. Specialized processes occur at each step along this digestive pathway. • Critical Proteins With an optimal diet in place, the process of breaking down these food materials into smaller particles and absorbing them is the responsibility of enzymes secreted in the digestive tract. Without enzymes, nothing happens. No energy can be produced, no food can be digested, and no nutrients can be absorbed." - Richard, Dr. DiCenso, Beyond Medicine, exploring a new way of thinking (Get the book.)

"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." - Marshall Editions, 1000 Cures for 200 Ailments: Integrated Alternative and Conventional Treatments for the Most Common Illnesses (Get the book.)

"Great Remedies for gall bladder Problems These five herbs are absolutely wonderful in promoting normal gall bladder function. Old Amish Herbs of St. Petersburg, Florida makes a great "Bitters" that works well for sluggish liver, indigestion, and gall bladder problems. (See Product Appendix for further information." - John Heinerman, Heinerman's Encyclopedia of Healing Herbs and Spices (Get the book.)

"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." - Marshall Editions, 1000 Cures for 200 Ailments: Integrated Alternative and Conventional Treatments for the Most Common Illnesses (Get the book.) "Diet: Chicory and corn silk are good for the gall bladder. Make a tea using corn silk (corn style and stigma) by boiling 15-30 g of corn silk for 10 minutes to make a tea. Drink it regularly throughout the day. NATUROPATHY Diet: Studies show that vegetarians have a lower risk of getting gallstones than meat eaters. If you suffer from gallstones, try to reduce the amount of PJ #?A animal products in your diet and increase the amount of vegetables you ^K^U^r eat." - Marshall Editions, 1000 Cures for 200 Ailments: Integrated Alternative and Conventional Treatments for the Most Common Illnesses (Get the book.)

"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." - Mark Sircus, Transdermal Magnesium Therapy (Get the book.)

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