Through Its Nanoparticles, Lemon Juice Could Potentially Prevent Kidney Stones

Scientists in this new study may have finally found how lemon juice prevents the formation of kidney stones, and it challenges the conventional wisdom about how the juice works against the disease.
People have already known for a long time that lemon juice can prevent kidney stones from forming. They thought it was because of the citric acid present. However, drinking pure lemon juice has its own consequences, too. For one, patients will have a hard time drinking a cup of that sour juice. That and lemon juice can also eat away teeth.
And so, scientists looked for alternatives that could prevent kidney stones, and they found the alternatives to be medicinal plants like ginseng and dandelion.
The medicinal plants stated above apparently have nanoparticles that slow down the formation of calcium oxalate crystals.
When the team found out that these same nanoparticles were also present in lemon juice, they fed lemon juice nanoparticles to rats (which also ingested a substance that could cause kidney stone growth). The team found that these particles softened the stones and made them less sticky.
The team hopes that their study about these lemon nanoparticles could be used in treating people with kidney stones in the near future.