Pertaining to the dissolution of stones, especially calculi such as gallstones, kidney stones, etc.
Varuna is one of the best litholytic herbs and has been used throughout the ages for the treatment of urolithiasis and crystalluria.2001, Prakash Paranjpe, Indian Medicinal Plants: Forgotten Healers:
In the clinical practice, citric acid therapy has some problems, including its taste, large volume to drink, need for hospitalisation, and unpredictable litholytic effect.2007, William C. Langley, Pancreatitis Research Advances, →ISBN, page 265:
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Chance of recurrence The follow-up of patients who have become stone-free after combined ESWL/ adjuvant litholytic therapy is still relatively short.2012, G.N. Tytgat, Chr.J Mulder, Procedures in Hepatogastroenterology, →ISBN, page 477:
Retrograde irrigation of the renal pelvis with litholytic solutions (Instrumental kidney stone chemolysis).2012, H. Fleisch, Urolithiasis Research, →ISBN, page 553:
The secondary metabolites secreted by microbial flora of caves may cause chemical reactions with the substrate, contamination of the substrate. by pigments and lithogenic processes, litholytic processes, as well as cavern enlargement or speleotherm deposition.2017, Tulasi Satyanarayana, Sunil K. Deshmukh, B.N. Johri, Developments in Fungal Biology and Applied Mycology, →ISBN, page 99:
litholytic
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Etymology From litho- + -lytic.
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A medicinal substance that has a litholytic effect.
Treatment options for symptomatic cholelithiasis include surgery, dissolution with oral bile salt litholytics or contact solvents, and current fragmentation.1993, Joseph T. DiPiro, Pharmacotherapy: A Pathophysiologic Approach, page 618:
Accordingly, citric acid, a calcium chelator, was selected as a pancreatic litholytic, and a 50-mg pancreatic stone was dissolved in vitro after 25 days ina solution of 3.9 mM/L citric acid, corresponding to a concentration of 749 μg/mL in the pancreatic juice following injection of citric acid into the canine duodenum.2007, William C. Langley, Pancreatitis Research Advances, →ISBN, page 265:
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Phyllanthus niuri (chanca piedra) herb is a traditional litholytic; its Spanish common name translates as “stone breaker.”2016, Chughtai Bilal, Healing In Urology, →ISBN: