Can drinking goji berry tea help prevent kidney stones?

Drinking goji berry tea can help prevent kidney stones, according to research by a doctor in the urology department of the Second Military Medical University.

Although there are many causes of kidney stones, this doctor concluded through analysis that goji berries have an antioxidant effect and can effectively reduce damage to renal tubular epithelial cells, thereby preventing the formation of calcium oxalate kidney stones.

This is because studies have shown that damage to renal tubular epithelial cells is the earliest underlying lesion in stone formation.

Through animal experiments, this doctor verified his view: an appropriate amount of goji berry polysaccharides (the main active component in goji berries) can reduce the formation of calcium oxalate kidney stones. Moreover, whether brewed or decocted, it can inhibit the formation of kidney stones.

At the same time, a botanist at South-Central Minzu University also discovered in daily life an interesting phenomenon in which goji berry water might treat kidney stones, and wrote about it in his blog.

This botanist said that his father had been drinking goji berry water for a long time. By chance, she discovered that the inner wall of the thermos her father used to brew goji berry water had not a trace of scale, while the inner wall of another thermos filled with ordinary boiled water was covered with scale. So she used goji berry water to soak the bottle with thick scale, and after one or two days, scale chunks large and small gradually fell off, and after several soakings, the wall was completely clean.

Therefore, this botanist speculated that some substances in goji berries may combine with calcium to form soluble substances, breaking down the scale. Based on this reasoning, goji berry water should also be able to dissolve kidney stones. In this botanist's blog, there was also this @#@163@#@: a stone patient had once tried this method. After persisting in drinking goji berry water for one month, he felt the stone was not as painful. Later, when he went to the hospital for an ultrasound, the doctor told him that his stone needed no treatment and that drinking more water would be enough.