Herbal medicine to combat hepatitis.....................

If not treated, the inflammation of the liver which is popular with the name of hepatitis can cause death.Hepatitis is an inflammatory process in liver tissue.


Of the many factors, the virus that was ranked first as the cause of most disease hepatitis.Others may be caused by bacteria, parasites, drugs, chemicals that damage the liver, alcohol, worms, or too poor nutrition.


Based on the course of the disease, hepatitis can be divided into acute and chronic.Called chronic if hepatitis is still there after six months.There are five different types of hepatitis caused by viruses,hepatitis A virus (HAV), hepatitis B virus (HBV), hepatitis C virus (HCV or non-A non-B parenteral), hepatitis D virus (HDV), and hepatitis E virus (HEV or non-A non-B enteric .)In addition to some virus, now there's even a virus A - E, which causes the disease hepatitis F and G.

The hepatitis patients who are at prodormal phase, usually experience symptoms of weakness, tired, lethargic, no appetite, nausea, vomiting, feeling uncomfortable and pain in the abdomen, fever and sometimes chills, headache, pain in the joints, stiffness in whole body, especially hips and shoulders, and diarrhea.Sometimes people like to colds and cough with or without sore throat.If the hepatitis has reached icterik phase, patients will see a yellow urine is concentrated, such as tea.In addition, the whites of the eye ball, the mucous membrane of the palate, and skin turned yellowish.And when there are barriers to the flow of bile into the intestine, feces will pale as putty (feces acholis).

However, not all hepatitis have symptoms, as already mentioned.There are people with hepatitis with no symptoms at all or maybe only with mild symptoms, and there are really serious in a short time later terminated death.

Treatment by a physician, is generally symptomatic, to relieve symptoms of diseases that arise other than as a therapy that helps the continuity of liver function.The drugs are generally hepatoprotector (protects liver cells against the effects of toxic substances that can damage the repair and regeneration), lipotropik (increasing mobility of fat in the liver), Kholeretik (increasing the production of bile by the liver), and kholagogum (improves gallbladder emptying and running it into the duodenum).

Medicinal plant materials to assist in the improvement of liver function is usually hepatoprotective.Medicinal plant materials that include curcumin can be obtained from ginger and turmeric, filantin from Stonebreaker (Phyllanthus niruri), silymarin from Zizipus (Zizipus mauritiana), aukubin from Plantago major, glycyrrhisic acid from the saga (Adenanthera pavonina), essential oils of garlic, krisofanol of rhubarb (Rheum officinale), gingerol from ginger, wedelolakton of urang-aring (Eclipta alba), andrographolide from Sambiloto (Andrographis paniculata Ness), and sianidol of tannic substances.


Many medicinal herbs recipes, useful for improving liver function. Some of them are presented because the materials are easily obtainable. However, patients should still consult your doctor when using these recipes:

Medicinal herbs recipes 1 :

• One finger sticks brotowali ( Tinospora Crispa )
• Three glasses of water.
• One tablespoon honey.

Wash brotowali stem and cut into pieces as needed. Boil three cups of water until the remaining one cup. Once cool, strain and add a spoonful of honey. Drink twice a day, each half a glass.

Medicinal herbs recipes 2 :

• 9-15 grams of dried stem bugenfil (Bougainvillea glabra Choisy )
• Three glasses of water
• One tablespoon honey.

After cleaning, cut the stems thinly bugenfil. Enter the pan while plus three glasses of water. Boil until the water remains one glasses. Once cool, strain. Drink filtered water after the added honey. Water filter is taken twice a day, morning and afternoon, each half a glass.

Medicinal herbs recipes 3 :

• A handful of fresh leaves of bitter melon(Momordica charantia L.)
• One cup of boiled water
•  Salt as needed.

Wash bitter melon leaves and rinse with boiled water. Beat until smooth leaves with a plus one cup water. Stir until evenly distributed and add a little salt. Strain the herbs and drink in the morning before eating.
Note: This recipe should not be used when being pregnant because it can cause miscarriage.

Medicinal herbs recipes 4 :  

• Two ripe tomatoes.
• Sugar as needed.

After being washed, slices of tomato juice to be made. However, if they do not have the tool, the fruit can be boiled with water to taste. After boiling, pulverized or milled, then squeezed. Add the juice of sugar a little bit and then taken twice a day.

Medicinal herbs recipes 5 :  

• 3 ripe noni fruit, or can also use a handful of noni skin.
• A piece of banana leaf
• A piece of cloth
• Vinegar as nedeed.

Noni fruit are washed and rinsed with boiled water. Grate and squeeze with a piece of cloth. Noni juice was drunk every day.For external use, noni skin finely ground and then mixed with a little vinegar. Wrap the mixture with banana leaf. Heat briefly over a fire or steamed.In the circumstances, warm, attach the packing in the upper right abdomen, where the heart is sick and swollen.

Medicinal herbs recipes 6 :   

• One tablespoon papaya seeds
• Three fingers raw papaya fruit.
•   Honey as needed

 Blend papaya fruit and seeds or mash until smooth seeds while the fruit is grated.The dough will serve as an added honey to taste, then drink.Note: Pregnant women are forbidden to drink this concoction because it can cause miscarriage.

Medicinal herbs recipes 7 : 

• Fresh carrot as nedeed.

Carrots cleaned and washed with boiled water. Trim as needed and make into juice. Can also be shredded carrots and the results are squeezed, and then filtered to collect up to one glass. Carrot juice can be drunk directly.Note: Most eating carrots can cause skin color to yellow. When that happens, stop drinking potions for a while. Skin color will return to normal. 

Medicinal herbs recipes 8 :   

•  Two fingers of fresh ginger rhizome.
•  Honey to taste

Peeled ginger rhizome, and then washed clean. Rinse with water boiled and then shredded. Add half a cup of warm water and a tablespoon of honey. Stir evenly then squeeze and strain. Drink filtered water a day two times a day. 

Medicinal herbs recipes 9 :   

• one finger turmeric rhizome.
•  one tablespoon of honey

Turmeric rhizome is washed and shredded. Add a little water on the grater. Grater then filtered and add honey. Drink three times a day.

Source : Kompas