Man fails in bid to dissolve kidney stones by drinking 10 bottles of beer a day


Doctors finally operated on the man on Sunday after he could bear with the pain no longer. Photo: SCMP Pictures.

BEIJING: A Chinese man with kidney stones has tried – unsuccessfully – to cure himself with a home-made therapy by drinking 10 bottles of beer a day.

The 38-year-old unnamed businessman from Chongqing had been suffering from severe pains caused by kidney stones for years, the Chongqing Morning Post reported.

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