What are the Chinese medicinal herbs for liver protection?

As we all know, the liver organ is very important to the human body. It generally regulates body functions and detoxifies. However, in recent years, due to improper diet, long-term smoking and drinking, many people's liver organs are in poor condition and have problems to varying degrees. In general, diagnosis and treatment in the hospital are combined with medication, mostly liver-protecting drugs. However, some people take liver-protecting drugs for many years, which will have serious effects on the body. This article briefly introduces the Chinese herbal medicines that can protect the liver.

In recent years, people have become more aware of health care, especially the liver, which has a detoxifying effect. You can often hear people say that they have recently quit drinking because drinking too much damages the liver. People have found that many of our traditional Chinese herbal medicines have the effect of protecting the liver. Here are some of them:

There are many Chinese herbal medicines that have liver-protecting effects. Here we introduce 18 Chinese herbal medicines that have liver-protecting effects, namely turmeric, ganoderma lucidum, peach kernel, licorice, rhubarb, Panax notoginseng, astragalus, Schisandra chinensis, Poria, Stephania tetrandra, Lithospermum officinale, pearl grass, etc.

1. Schisandra chinensis: It can reduce the increase of SGPT caused by liver damage. It can also reduce the high SGPT of hepatitis patients and alleviate the metabolic disorders of toxic liver damage. It has the effects of slightly increasing liver glycogen, alleviating liver cell degeneration, reducing the damage of toxic pathogenic factors to liver cell mitochondria and lysosomes, and promoting protein synthesis in liver cells.

2. Salvia miltiorrhiza: It can inhibit and reduce liver cell degeneration, necrosis and inflammatory response in acute and chronic liver damage, accelerate the reabsorption of fibrous tissue, and has the effects of anti-liver fibrosis, improving liver blood circulation, and preventing cirrhosis.

3. Angelica: It can reduce liver cell degeneration and necrosis, promote liver cell regeneration, and inhibit liver fibrosis. It can also reduce serum alanine aminotransferase and aspartate aminotransferase (ALT, AST), and the degree of reduction shows a significant dose-effect relationship with the dosage.

4. Panax notoginseng: Long-term small-dose use of Panax notoginseng can improve liver microcirculation, promote liver tissue repair, regeneration and anti-liver fibrosis.

5. Turmeric curcumin can effectively inhibit the activity of hepatocyte microsomal cytochrome enzymes and glutathione transferases, and can also inhibit collagen synthesis and hepatic stellate cell activity to resist liver fibrosis.

6. Peach kernel extract can enhance liver blood flow, promote collagen decomposition in fibrous liver, reduce collagen content in liver tissue, and resist liver fibrosis.