Recently my husband been diagnosed with crystals of stones in his kidney. Our family doc apart from some antibiotics, advised him to take plenty of fluids like lemonade other citrus juices and of course plentiful of water. There are a lot of advices pouring in from all my relatives knowing his plight. Hmm this made me extra work along with regular show!! One suggested about jeera water, other nimbu pani, other stem of banana (as we call vazhaithandu in tamil), and last but least green gourd juice which has to be given fresh in the morning! Thank god he is now relieved of his stones but somehow once in a week he continues with the same home treatment.

Since then I have become a regular researcher in this kind of ailments in health magazines, columns in news papers. It was in September issue from the Hindu an article of my choice cached me! Yeah none other than this kidney stones! It says a glass of orange juice a day can keep the recurrence of kidney stones away, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Centre, the U.S have discovered. Orange juice boosted the levels of citrate in the urine and reduces the crystallization of uric acid and calcium oxalate which is the most found ingredient in stones. Well, bye bye friends!! Wanna know why, got to buy oranges na!! hehehe!!