If You Have Gallstones ...
Berg's clinical experience with thousands of patients shows that these steps help enhance bile production, relieve gallstone symptoms, and may also help to gradually dissolve gallstones, especially small ones.
1 Before or at the start of every meal, take a supplement of bile salts, which are made from purified ox bile. If you're vegetarian or vegan, there are no plant sources of bile salts, but taking concentrated beet powder can enhance your internal bile production.
2 Take supplements of stone root, an herb that helps to dissolve stones and is available in pills, tinctures, and tea form.
3 Eat some saturated fat, because it signals the liver to produce bile. Eggs, grass-fed meat, fatty fish, and coconut oil are good sources.
4 Eat seven cups of vegetables daily half greens and half brightly colored (see "Best Veggie Choices," p. 54)
5 Avoid these foods because they are thought to aggravate gallbladder conditions: I Nuts, nut butters, and peanuts I Large, heavy, fatty meals I Calcium carbonate, because it reduces stomach acid
6 If bile salts don't resolve your symptoms, you're most likely deficient in stomach acid, says Berg, who explains that stomach acid tells the liver to produce bile—with or without a gallbladder Restore stomach acid by taking betaine hydrochloride (abbreviated betaine HCI or HCL), available in enzyme formulas