So 2 weeks after I met my wife, when she was still just that super hot girl I was sleeping with, I found out she had kidney stones.
I helped her how I could, cooked for her, cared for her when she was crying in bed from the pain, bought her food when she couldn't work and make money, even held her hand in the hospital months later when her appointment to get them removed with the fancy Lazer and drove her home. But the nurse did her i.v. in a weird place and pierced a nerve in her wrist, giving her lasting nerve damage. They also told her it would cost her nothing, and then tried to bill her $31,000 for the procedure, before giving up and forwarding the whole amount for the procedure (like $80,000) to insurance. 80k and nerve damage, plus the excruciating pain of kidney stones, bleeding if you walk, unable to urinate without pain, and schedules so full they can't see you for three damn months. They gave her zero assistance on prevention of future kidney stones, except "don't eat spinach, but diet Coke is fine," like literally the doctor told that to us point blank with a straight face. This is the western medicine way.
Then two months later, she was getting another round of kidney stones.
Here we go again, last time it was a four month wait for the surgery, and we both had been through hell and back, her especially of course.
Her dad (I later found out) had kidney stones in the 90s before the Lazer surgery was a thing, and with no anasthesia, they gutted him like a fish to take out his kidney stones, giving him a horrible infection that left him with a swollen abdomen for a decade, but I'm sure a hospital made good money off his surgery cuz capitalism, amirite?
So after doing some research to avoid going through hell and back again, I quickly found Chanca Piedra.
Chanca Piedra means "stone breaker" in Latin, and it was impossible to get some. No alleged supplier on Amazon was legit, they'd all wait 2 weeks and then cancel and refund our order. We went through a month and a half of having Amazon suppliers fuck us over, and even went into a Walgreen's asking where it was, and the floor staff didn't know and told us to ask the pharmacy tech. The pharmacy tech said to just search on Amazon, but before we could say "thanks bye" the head pharmacist overheard our conversation and interrupted to lecture me on how Chanca Piedra doesn't work and it's not clinically tested, there's no evidence it works. I told her to politely fuck off and haven't been back to Walgreen's, and recommend you join me in the boycott.
Finally after calling small independent pharmacies in town, we found a local apothecary which had Chanca Piedra in stock, in a powder form and in a tincture, both of which cost about $20 together.
My wife had 5 out of the 5 symptoms of kidney stones, there is no doubt she had them again. I personally gave my wife the Chanca Piedra treatment for a week, 3 times a day, and as if by magic, and $20, her kidney stones were gone.
This is how western medicine works, in a nutshell.
It's at about a 4-year old level of consciousness.
"Bullet in victim? Take out bullet." The defense of western medicine is that it's good at fixing horrible accidents, like gunshots or car collisions, yet folks still die from these preventable issues all the time in my country anyway, and there's even a law preventing the study of gun violence as a disease.
Anything to actually prevent a disease or condition from forming is viewed as hogwash quackery that threatens the hospital's cash flow.
It's totally reactionary, paper and profit-driven, and constantly giving us horrible, debilitating, life-threatening side effects.
No one makes a profit when you cure your kidney stones via Chanca Piedra; no one except for you and your loved ones, and it's a profit that doesn't show up in IRS returns.
Doctors are charmers. The best sales people. But they are not here to prevent disease, or even cure diseases affordably. Doctors are here to make money, and get as much from insurance as possible. They don't care if you die, as long as they can make money off that too.
This is why there's so much push-back against Chanca Piedra, literally the only bad reviews of it are from people saying "I bought some but before I took any I talked to my doctor and he said it doesn't work, so I am returning the Chanca Piedra without trying it and giving it one star." The lunacy of automatons today is bewildering.
Kidney stones are preventable- use Chanca Piedra.
I bought my Chanca Piedra from the life savers at Lhasa Karnak in Berkeley, so big thanks to them, and if you're in a small town with no independent apothecary, give Lhasa Karnak a call and see what they recommend or if they can ship you some, if not, it may be worth a trip to Berkeley, as kidney stones are really really bad, and Berkeley is only kind of bougie. 😜
