May Patients with Alcohol Liver Disease Benefit from Herbal Medicines?
1Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine, University of Novi Sad, Hajduk Veljkova 3, 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia
Abstract
Alcoholism
is currently listed as the third leading cause of death. Chronic
alcohol consumption brings serious medical complications like
gastrointestinal, cardiovascular, musculoskeletal, respiratory system
disorders. Liver can be seriously damage by alcohol misuse. Alcoholic
Liver Disease (ALD) is the first important warning sign of alcohol
abuse. Since effective therapies for ALD are still limited, natural
products in the treatment of ALD become very important. In this regard,
there have been done very few clinical trials with poor results.
Silymarin, glycyrrhizin, garlic show some promising results in ALD
patients while the in vivo and in vitro studies with green tee,
quercetin and curcumin indicate positive effect on patients with ALD.
