>>I worked with my doctor to treat gall stones. What quacks call a liver flush, which it is not, can actually help with gall stones. My MD and I scientifically proved it - if the stones are small enough, so we did ultrasound first, then the treatment and ultrasound after. The tech asked me why I bothered the second time, because they were gone. So even the tech is not scientific.

By the time the patient presents with symptoms, often the stones are large enough to block the duct requiring decisive action. The classic treatment would be cholecystectomy (gallbladder removal) but there's other options, e.g. lithotripsy that breaks the stones up with focused shock waves. Nirvana always would be an oral treatment, though it's hard to imagine one quick and effective enough to dissolve a bilestone the size of a peanut within hours. I've seen even bigger faceted stones that must have been growing for years before declaring their presence with excruciating pain, or even eroding through the side of the gall bladder to create an abdominal emergency. Anyway, the science moves along and perhaps there will be preventive treatments so people simply won't get gallstones any more.