The inflammatory process in the liver, often of viral origin, is called hepatitis by specialists. The name comes from the Greek word for liver. Hepatitis is divided into several types, each of which proceeds in acute or chronic form. Moreover, in the second case, during the gradual displacement of hepatocytes and replacing them with other cells, the development of cirrhosis or cancer.
Types and forms of hepatitis
This is a serious liver disease, which is dangerous by inflammation of a vital organ with further death of its individual areas. The result of treatment depends on a number of factors: the causes of the disease, timely diagnosis and initiation of treatment, the general condition of the patient.
Doctors distinguish two main forms of the course of hepatitis:
- Acute, which develops rapidly over several days. An acute disease can be a consequence of infection with the hepatitis virus or poisoning with medicines, toxins.
- Chronic hepatitis occurs due to acute viral hepatitis B or C, as well as autoimmune diseases, prolonged use of certain types of drugs.
Common symptoms of the disease
Symptoms of hepatitis are quite characteristic. Treatment with folk remedies is allowed only after obtaining the results of laboratory tests. Hepatitis occurs due to impaired bilirubin metabolism. If the liver is disturbed, it accumulates in the blood and spreads throughout the body, deposited in the mucous membranes and skin, giving them a yellowish tint. Most often, during a violation of the outflow of bile from the liver, which partially enters the bloodstream and spreads through the body, the patient experiences itching: when deposited in the skin, bile acids strongly irritate it.
Patients complain of pain in the right hypochondrium. Due to violations of the digestive function of the liver, as a rule, there is no appetite, belching, nausea, bitterness in the mouth appear.
With the slightest trauma, bruising occurs, since the liver does not produce specific proteins and enzymes involved in the coagulation process. It is necessary to immediately call a doctor at home, having found signs of the disease. The treatment of hepatitis with folk remedies at home is strictly prohibited before being examined by a doctor and establishing a diagnosis.
Etiology of hepatitis
The current classification of the disease can be represented as follows:
- Infectious (viral) hepatitis A, B, C, D, E, F, G.
- Bacterial hepatitis develops with a human infectious disease - leptospirosis, as well as syphilis.
- Toxic hepatitis: drug, alcohol. Develop in case of chemical poisoning.
- Radiation hepatitis accompanies radiation sickness.
- Autoimmune hepatitis, according to experts, develops due to a hereditary predisposition. In this case, the patient’s immune system perceives the liver cells as foreign. The body begins to produce antibodies to the elements of this tissue.
Viral hepatitis is the most common and dangerous group of infectious diseases. Different viruses cause them, and therefore they differ in the symptoms and course of the disease.
Hepatitis A
Perhaps the most common type of viral hepatitis. Its incubation period can last from 7 to 50 days. At first, the disease is manifested by an increase in temperature and a condition that is very similar to a cold. After 2-4 days, the patient's urine darkens. It becomes the color of strong tea, and feces become almost colorless. Then the skin and sclera of the eyes are painted yellow. The duration of the disease is from a week to two months, and the rehabilitation period can last up to six months.
Traditional treatment
According to doctors, hepatitis A has the most favorable prognosis for cure, since it does not cause serious complications. As a rule, treatment of this hepatitis is carried out in the infectious department of the hospital. Patients are prescribed bed rest, a special diet and hepatoprotectors - effective drugs that protect the liver. It is recommended to combine traditional methods of treating hepatitis with folk remedies.
Herbal collection for hepatitis A
To make it, you need to mix two tablespoons (tea) of valerian root, barberry bark, peppermint leaves, hawthorn flowers. Pour the dry mixture with a glass of boiling water and leave for an hour. Such a medicine should be consumed half a cup twice a day: in the morning - before breakfast and in the evening - before bedtime.
Rosehip and mountain ash infusion
Mountain ash and wild rose will help with hepatitis A. Mix two teaspoons of mountain ash and wild rose and pour a glass of hot water. The resulting product must be consumed three times a day, two teaspoons.
Hepatitis B
It is also called serum hepatitis. This is a more dangerous disease, which is characterized by severe damage to the liver with a DNA-containing virus. Infection occurs through sexual contact, through the blood, from mother to fetus. As a rule, pathology begins with a sharp increase in body temperature, joint pain, general weakness, nausea and vomiting. A change in the color of urine and feces is not always observed. For hepatitis B, jaundice is not characteristic. Damage to the liver can be very serious and in especially advanced cases leads to cancer and cirrhosis.
Traditional Medicine Methods
Treatment of viral hepatitis B is aimed at:
- relief of the general condition of the patient;
- the fight against the virus;
- relieving symptoms of toxicosis;
- elimination of liver tissue lesions.
In the acute course of the disease, there is no special treatment. The help of physicians is aimed at maintaining the patient’s satisfactory well-being, and the compensation of the fluid that is excreted during vomiting and diarrhea. Chronic hepatitis B requires treatment, including antiviral drugs.
In treatment use:
- antiviral drugs from the group of interferons;
- immunostimulating therapy;
- drip administration of medicinal solutions to relieve symptoms of intoxication;
- drugs are used to support the liver and its functions;
- digestion enzymes;
- choleretic drugs;
- vitamins necessary to strengthen the body and restore metabolic processes;
- diet and fractional nutrition;
- sparing mode and complete physical and psychological peace.
After completing treatment, doctors prescribe a long course of interferon, which is necessary to restore the immune system. Treatment of hepatitis B with folk remedies is possible only with the approval and control of the attending physician. Self-medication can cause irreversible effects.
Milk Thistle Treatment
This plant is well known to folk healers due to its beneficial effects on liver tissue. Milk thistle contains many useful substances, oils.
Decoction of seeds is not difficult to prepare. Pre-crushed seeds (30 grams) pour 500 ml of hot water and put on low heat until the volume is halved. After this, the broth must be filtered and cooled to room temperature. Take this tool one spoonful (tablespoon). The course of treatment lasts two months.
Soda treatment
Make juice from a whole lemon, add baking soda (a teaspoon) to it. Mix the composition thoroughly. You should take the medicine half an hour before breakfast, immediately after preparation, so that the drug does not lose its healing properties. Soda is taken for three days, then they take a break for three days, after which the course is continued. Treatment of hepatitis at home with folk remedies can be carried out using only lemon, without soda.
Lemon treatment
Lemon is a powerful therapeutic agent that has many healing properties. For effective treatment of hepatitis with folk remedies, lemon juice is used. Traditional healers keep many recipes for preparing medicines based on it, which help to fight this ailment. We will present you only two of them.
- Mix a liter of lemon, carrot and orange juice. Add the freshly squeezed juice of two lemons to this mixture. Take this tool one glass a day, dividing it into four doses, for two weeks.
- Mix lemon and birch juice (per liter). The juice of one lemon is added to them. Take the composition in the same way as in the first case.
ASD in the treatment of hepatitis
ASD is an antiseptic, a stimulant of Dorogov. A unique remedy has antiseptic, stimulating, wound healing effects. The drug restores damaged liver tissue, has a powerful anti-inflammatory property. It should be taken under the supervision of the attending physician, who will prescribe the necessary dosage and duration of treatment.
Hepatitis C
This is one of the most severe forms of viral hepatitis, which quite often affects very young people. In recent years, the incidence of hepatitis C has increased significantly. Most often, infection occurs through non-sterile syringes, with a blood transfusion, much less often - from mother to fetus or sexually.
Doctors say that hepatitis C can be transferred and fully restored. However, the probability of such a result is no more than 20% of the number of cases. In other cases, chronic hepatitis develops, which can lead to cirrhosis of the liver or cancer.
You can become a carrier of hepatitis C. In the body of the carrier, viruses multiply without causing much harm to himself. These people have no signs of hepatitis, liver tests are normal. At the same time, hidden progression of the disease is also possible. The infected should be under the constant supervision of a doctor, since they still have a risk of activating the disease. The patient receives medical care only in the hospital.
With the combination of this type of hepatitis with other viral forms, the patient's condition can dramatically worsen and even lead to death. That is why the treatment of hepatitis "C" folk remedies can not be considered the main method. It can only be a supplement in complex therapy.
Treatment of hepatitis C folk remedies
It should be understood that such a serious disease can not be quickly cured. Do not take seriously enthusiastic reviews flickering in different publications about the treatment of hepatitis C with folk remedies. This is a long and stressful path to healing. And one should also consider at what stage of the development of the disease was detected. Self-treatment of hepatitis C with folk remedies should in no case be an alternative to conservative in-patient methods. Only an experienced doctor can choose the therapy for each patient.
Medicinal infusions
Medicines in combination with medicinal infusions help fight this insidious disease. For the preparation of infusions are used:
- jujube (fruits);
- rosehip;
- corn silk.
Based on these plants, medicinal infusions are prepared. To do this, pour 50 grams of dry raw materials with boiling water (0.5 l) and simmer over low heat for half an hour. When the composition has cooled to room temperature, strain and take 100 ml on an empty stomach. The course of treatment is a month. Then, treatment should be interrupted for two weeks, and then, if necessary, the course is repeated.
Honey treatment
Many are aware of the unique healing properties of natural honey. This product has a bactericidal property, has a powerful choleretic effect. It improves well-being and inhibits the pathological process. Treatment of chronic hepatitis is recommended with folk remedies based on honey.
Honey drink is the easiest to prepare and effective drug. It allows with regular use to improve the patient's condition in the treatment of hepatitis C liver folk remedies. In a glass of boiled warm water, dissolve one or two tablespoons (teaspoons) of natural honey. The drink is taken in the morning on an empty stomach and before a night's sleep.
Some healers recommend replacing boiled water with mineral still water. To enhance the healing properties of the drink, you can add a slice of lemon to it. It is more convenient for some patients to prepare a mixture of lemon and honey.
A medium-sized lemon must be washed thoroughly and grated with a peel on a fine grater. In the resulting mass add 10 teaspoons of honey and mix thoroughly. To prepare a healing drink, 1-2 tablespoons of the mixture should be dissolved in a glass of water.
In the treatment of hepatitis C with folk remedies, you can use a honey drink with the addition of apple cider vinegar, which gently cleanses the liver and enhances the healing properties of honey. In this case, add a tablespoon of vinegar to the glass of the drink.
Mummy
This is another very effective treatment for hepatitis. Dissolve 15 grams of mummy in half a liter of boiling water. Every day, this medicine is taken before meals three times a day for a teaspoon.
Drug hepatitis
Reactive inflammation of the liver that occurs while taking certain types of medications that have the ability to poison liver tissue cells is called drug or drug hepatitis. This is a dangerous condition that often puts clinicians before a choice, since some drugs, on the one hand, are necessary for treatment, and on the other, have hepatotoxic side effects.
Medical hepatitis can occur in two forms: acute, which manifests itself suddenly and rapidly, and against the background of a rather successful clinical picture. Signs of toxic damage are growing rapidly and can cause complications. In the chronic form, derivatives of drugs accumulate in the body. Then they begin to act destructively on the cells and tissues of the liver.
Treatment
At first, I would like to say that drug hepatitis can be prevented by taking enterosorbents. The most common of these include activated carbon and Enterosgel. In the treatment of hepatitis drug folk remedies, good results are shown by preparations based on milk thistle seeds.
In the treatment of drug hepatitis, fresh dill water with honey is very useful. Dill seeds (two tablespoons) should be insisted for half an hour in 400 ml of boiling water. Then add a spoonful of honey to the infusion and drink it in small portions throughout the day. Such a drug will restore the liver.
It is very important for dietary hepatitis, as with any other inflammation of the liver. During treatment, discard spices, fatty and spicy foods, fried foods.
Toxic hepatitis
Unfortunately, this is a fairly common disease that develops as a result of exposure to toxic substances in the liver. Most often, damage to this vital organ occurs after exposure to harmful production factors, alcohol, drugs, and bacterial viral toxins.
The disease is extremely dangerous, requires timely diagnosis and proper treatment. It, like other types of hepatitis, can have an acute and chronic form. You should know that the treatment of chronic hepatitis with folk remedies does not always lead to the desired result. Therefore, timely diagnosis is so important. In official medicine, a number of measures have been developed to treat this ailment, which give excellent results if treatment is started on time.
Specialists attribute the treatment of toxic hepatitis to folk remedies, rather, to preventive measures. In addition, it can be used during the recovery period. This is due to the fact that during treatment, the body is subjected to a large load. Folk remedies are not so powerful as to relieve acute poisoning and severe damage to liver tissue. But during the recovery period, traditional medicine preparations, on the contrary, can have a beneficial effect on the body.
You can use a strengthening agent, which is quite easy to prepare. To do this, you need 250 grams of prunes, dried apricots, figs and raisins, which should be chopped with a blender. The resulting mass must be mixed and add 100 grams of natural honey. Ground ginger, caraway seeds, cinnamon (per teaspoon) are added to the therapeutic composition.Mix well again and refrigerate for three days. Add the juice of half a lemon and take three times a day for a tablespoon. The course of treatment is a month.
Fortifying Herbal Tea
This drink, according to herbalists, is able to remove harmful substances and restore liver cells. For cooking, pour boiling water (300 ml) two teaspoons of tea rose petals (dry) and a tablespoon of rose hips (fruits). After 30 minutes, the product is ready for use. Add a spoonful of honey if desired.
Patient Reviews
People who have been treated with hepatitis confirm the opinion of the representatives of official medicine that folk remedies for the treatment of any form of hepatitis can be used as an additional tool in complex therapy. Taking them as an alternative to traditional treatment will not lead to healing, and in some cases can only aggravate the situation. The use of any folk remedies for hepatitis should be agreed with your doctor.