Dear Editor-in-Chief: Renal Stone is one of the fairly common dis-eases in all over the world. According to statistics, its prevalence in America is between 10 to 15% (1). Iran and its neighbors such as Turkey and Pakistan locate on stone-making region. The exact prevalence and incidence rates of urinary calculi in Iran are not clear (2).
Since a) mortality rate in this disease is not high, b) there is no longer time to invention and applying modern methods such as ESWL, PCNL, and TUL in order to cure Renal Stone, c) there is no evidence implying that its prevalence has been low in the past, there have been possibly effective treatments to renal stone, on the other hand, despite of discovering modern and effective methods to cure renal stone, none of them are without side-effects.
ancient principles of medicine are too different in comparison with modern medicine and description of diseases (3). Traditional Iranian Medicine (TIM) can be used in conjunction with and as an aid to the conventional medicine (4).