>>Nope - there are often small enough stones to be passed with a little help from Epsom salts and olive oil and lime juice.
So how do they work- I had understood it's fearfully difficult to get anything back up the bile duct (into the gallbladder) without an intervention.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
