Glycyrrhizine and Hepatitus C

Hi
My Dr. has been writing an Rx for 100mg of C Glycyrrhizine for a couple of years. He had me take 3 a day. This drug works wonders for the liver reducing swelling and inflammation and it even has anti viral properties. Search Goggles for Glycyrrhizin and Hepatitis C, you will find some startling results.
My insurance was paying for the prescription at a reasonable rate. In 2012 the medication co pay started to rise and now Blue Cross Blue Shield which uses CVS Caremark as their filling drug supplier has my co pay at 45%. Now my co pay is about $200. A month!
I have found a source for the white sweet powder and know the dose 100Mg 3 times a day. Is there anyone on this board that can confirm the Gliz that I can buy kelos of is the same strength and quality?
Thank You
Mike

Long-term treatment of chronic hepatitis C with glycyrrhizin [stronger neo-minophagen C (SNMC)] for preventing liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma.
Kumada H.
SourceDepartment of Gastroenterology, Toranomon Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.

Abstract
In Japan, hepatitis C virus (HCV) is the single most frequent cause of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), resulting in yearly deaths of over 30,000. Although the mechanism of how HCV induces HCC is not clear, persistent HCV infection and necro-inflammatory changes in chronic hepatitis C accelerate the development of liver cirrhosis and can eventuate in HCC. Hence, means of eradicating HCV as well as suppressing inflammation in the liver, even if patients stay infected with HCV, would decrease the incidence of HCC with chronic hepatitis C. For more than 40 years, a preparation of glycyrrhizin [Stronger Neo-Minophagen C (SNMC)] has been used for the treatment of 'allergic' hepatitis in Japan. In 1977, intravenous injection with SNMC was started in patients with chronic hepatitis or liver cirrhosis, most of whom have turned out to be infected with hepatitis viruses. In a multicenter double-blind study, alanine aminotransferase (ALT) levels decreased in the patients who received 40 ml/day of SNMC for 4 weeks at a rate significantly higher (p < 0.001) than controls receiving placebo. Furthermore, SNMC 100 ml/day for 8 weeks improved liver histology in 40 patients with chronic hepatitis, in correlation with improved ALT levels in serum. Liver cirrhosis occurred less frequently in 178 patients on long-term SNMC than in 100 controls (28 vs. 40% at year 13, p < 0.002). Finally, HCC developed less frequently in the 84 patients on long-term SNMC than in the 109 controls (13 vs. 25% at year 15, p < 0.002). Combined, these results indicate that a long-term treatment with SNMC prevents the development of HCC in the patients with chronic hepatitis. SNMC is particularly helpful in the patients with chronic hepatitis C who fail to respond to interferon and in those who cannot be treated with it for various reasons.

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