Liver disorders are quite common, unfortunately. "Your liver is the largest organ inside your body. It is also one of the most important. The liver has many jobs, including changing food into energy and cleaning alcohol and poisons from the blood. Your liver also makes bile, a yellowish-green liquid that helps with digestion.
There are many kinds of liver diseases. Viruses cause some of them, like hepatitis A, hepatitis B and hepatitis C. Others can be the result of drugs, poisons or drinking too much alcohol. If the liver forms scar tissue because of an illness, it's called cirrhosis. Jaundice, or yellowing of the skin, can be one sign of liver disease." (This from MedLine Plus, a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.)
Your liver weighs about 3 to 4 pounds and works hard to removed toxins from the body. Everything you consume goes through your liver at some point, so you have to be careful about what you eat.
Some herbal remedies for liver disorders are:
Put 1 tsp of hops in 1 cup of boiling water and steep, covered, for 40 min, filter and drink at bedtime.
Cut 2-3 unpeeled apples to small pieces and boil in 1 L of water for 10-15 min. Add sugar and lemon and drink 2 cups a day. Helps to improve bile secretion and subsides liver discomfort at liver disorders.
Cut 5-6 horseradish roots and place in glass jar. Add 500 g of vodka and let stand for 1 week. Take 1 tbsp 3 times a day 20 min before meal.
Grind 500 g of horseradish root. Put the mash in 1 L of boiling water, cover tightly and let stand for 24 hours, then filter and take 50 ml 3 times a day before meal.
Horseradish can’t be used to treat liver disorders when gastritis with high acidity is present.
Put 2 tbsp of birch leaves or 1 tbsp of birch buds in 500 ml of boiling water and add ¼ tsp of baking soda. Steep for 1 hour, filter and drink ½ cup 4 times a day before meal.
Add 1 tsp of elecampane to 1 cup of cold boiled water, let stand for 10 hours, filter and drink ¼ cup 4 times a day 30 min before meal.
Put 1 tbsp of St. John's wort in 1 cup of boiling water and boil for 15 min. Filter and drink ¼ cup 3 times a day.
In 2 cups of boiling water put 2 tsp of calendula flowers, steep for 1 hour, filter and drink ½ cup 4 times a day.
Combine 15 g of buckbean leaves, 15 g of gentian root, 20 g of buckthorn, 15 g of celandine, 20 g of dandelion root, and 15 g of peppermint leaves. Put 1-2 tbsp of the mix in 200 g of boiling water, steep for 30 min, let stand for 10 min and filter. Squeeze out any excess juice and add enough water to make 200 g. Take ½-3/4 cups 3 times a day 30 min before meal.
Combine together 10 g of each ingredient: St. John’s wort grass, tansy flowers, yarrow grass, chamomile flowers, burdock root, dog rose, sage grass, elecampane root, knotweed grass and marigold grass. Preparation and dosage as explained above.
Put 2 tsp of dry crushed barberry root in 2 cups of water and boil for 5 min, steep 1 hour and drink 1-2 tbsp of warm broth 3-4 times a day.
Put 15 g of gentian root in 600 g of water and boil for 20 min. Steep, filter and drink before meal.
As with all medical care, consult your doctor before using any home remedies, especially when other prescription medications are involved.
