Liver Tonic

For Protecting and Improving Function of Liver

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Liver is concerned with the products of digestion. It secretes bile juice, which stimulates the other secretions. It stores fat, glycogen and prevents poison from reaching the blood stream and other organs of the body. It detoxifies the substances which otherwise get into general blood stream. Improper function of the liver gives rise to many diseases, directly or indirectly. The important diseases are constipation, depression, roughness of skin, darkness around eyes, jaundice, hepatitis, cirrhosis, enlargement of liver and spleen etc.

Out of these, hepatitis is an acute infectious diseases characterized by fever, jaundice and a tendency of haemorrhage and collapse. The symptoms are yellow discoloration of skin, vomiting of black mater with slow pulse and high temperature, albumin in the urine and suppression of urine. In case of hepatitis rib below right side is painful to touch, with lack of appetite and restlessness in the stomach, sometimes pain in the liver.

The disease is caused by exposure to long continued, high temperature, atmospheric humidity, unhygienic conditions and through infection. The onset of hepatitis at times is suddenly from day-to-day. It is accompanied by severe headache and pain in the legs and back. Sometimes nausea and vomiting are present.

Liver also gets damaged because of pollutants, and mutants. These cause deposition of more toxins in the body than liver can effectively eliminate, so it gets overburdened with these. For clearing these toxins some herbs used as ‘liver cleanser’ or ‘liver tonic’ are required to prevent any damage to liver.

Liver tonics
These increase normal function of liver. If there is malfunctioning of liver due to any known or unknown causes such as hepatotoxicity or due to infection, these herbs improve the function of the liver. During the use of these herbs, protein diet should be restricted and patient should be given maximum amount of fluids in the form of fresh fruit juice, and whey of milk. The immunostimulant herbs used for this purpose are:

(a) Kutaki has a hepatoprotective effect, it increase bile. It is an antioxidant and immunostimulant in a dose of 750 mg – 1.50 gm. It helps in sluggishness of liver and jaundice. It is useful in effective and amoebic type of inflammation. Children suffering from torpidity of liver may be given 500 mg of this herb three times of day.
(b) Kalmegh (1gm) is a hepatoprotectant, and helps in liver regeneration. It is an antidote to antibiotic and alcoholic toxicity, in induced chronic hepatotoxicity, and viral hepatitis. In increase gastric juices, bile, bile acids, bile flow, and saliva.
(c) Khairsar (500 mg) because of the presence of catechin in useful and chronic hepatic disorders. It stimulates the energy metabolism of stressed liver cells membranes and protects the tissue structure. In acute viral hepatitis it helps by rapid reduction of bilirubinemia (bile in blood).
(d) Bibhitaki (1-3 gm) stimulates bile secretion, provides protection to liver, and cures liver diseases.
(e) Bhringraja (5 gm) fights infection of the liver and spleen enlargement. It has stimulating effect on regeneration of liver cells. When mixed with equal quantities of Ajwain, it stimulates the flow of bile, removes toxins from the liver, helps in congestion, enlargement and turgidity of liver.
(f) Bhuiamala improves appetite, helps in hepatic tenderness and alcohol induced fatty liver development.
(g) Gaduchi: Decoction made from 10 gm of the herb helps in cirrhosis and jaundice.
(h) Pippali inhibits the metabolism of toxic compounds by liver, in a dose of 750 mg – 1.5 gm. An equal quantity of Aswagandha may be used along with it.

For better results, it is advisable to use mixture of the above herbs at the prescribed doses.

The liver is likely to get damaged, while detoxifying excess of alcohol, environmental pollutants, antibiotics, and other synthetic and other synthetic chemicals etc. Some herbs are known, which protect the liver from various types of toxins. A mixture of equal quantities of Kalmegh and Kutaki, in a dose of 1 gm three times a day, helps. These herbs have given better results as compared to those obtained from a widely known liver protectant Silybium marianum.

Gaduchi has shown very good results as liver protectant. It helps shown very good results as liver protectant. It helped in conditions stimulating viral hepatitis, fatty infiltration and cirrhosis, induced in rats by using carbon tetrachloride in different doses and for variable durations and frequency. It did not prevent the acute type of liver damage but it helped in the chronic type of damage. It prevented the fibrous change and promoted regeneration of parenchymal tissues, prevented fibrosis by virtue of its action on immune process. The aggravation of acute damage might have occurred either byacceleration of metabolism or by carbon tetrachloride, leading to production of free radicals or accumulation of the metabolites.

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