Re: desmodium adscendens?+liver problems

kat,I agree with you.is is crazy not to get a clear check up and diagnosis before treatment.I have found info on desmodium.It is largely used in europe here for hepatitis and cirrosis and together with milkthistle the liver herb!http://http://www.europhyto.com/liver-urinal-life-us/desmodium--us.asp/liver-urinal-life-us/desmodium--us.asp
I don't know if the link will open if not just go to the main page:http://www.europhyto.com
I also found that¨:
Effects on the Liver
The nutritional support provided for people with jaundice and different kinds of hepatitis with Desmodium a. is well established in West Africa. Medical doctors have documented the gradual normalization of elevated liver enzyme levels over a period of months. Improvements in liver enzyme levels are noted even within a week. (For documentation of several cases, see below). This effect takes place because of the indolic alkaloids present in the plant. There are no anti-viral properties against the hepatitis virus in Desmodium a., as there are in Phyllanthus niruri or “Break-Stone” herb). The normalization of elevated liver enzymes—including cases of chronic hepatitis C—is facilitated entirely by the nutrients in the herb which support liver repair.*

Clinical Studies of Desmodium Adscendens (for liver function)

STUDY No. 1

A statistical study on 34 cases of viral hepatitis, whether A, B or C, shows the following results:

In the 11 cases in which treatment was given before the 3rd day of the jaundice, return to normal of urine color occurred after 5 days of treatment.

After 5 days, transaminases SGOT and SGPT, which averaged respectively 730 and 640, decreased to 65 and 58.

Perfect normalization was attained in not more than 20 days in 11 cases.

In the 14 cases in which the treatment was applied between the 3rd and the 20th day after the appearance of the jaundice, transminases dropped below a third of their initial value between day 1and day 10 of the treatment.
Example: brief observation of a case of viral hepatitis showing the highest rate of transaminases.

M.B., male 38 years old.
Hepatitis B was diagnosed by the general practitioner on 4th February 1986 (asthenia, jaundice). He was referred to a department of gastroenterology of the CHU. Desmodium was given on 15 February 1986. The jaundice disappeared and the patient reported good energy, good digestion and no health complaints of any kind. by December, 1986.

The table shows the early lab values as follows:

Dates (1986)

2/5 2/15 2/17 2/19
SGOT 5640 90 62 25


Finally, in the 9 cases in which this treatment has been used and when the clinical and biological variables/parameters have remained disturbed after the 20th day of the jaundice, the results have been evident after 2 to 4 months. The other cases did not reach normalization, which meant that in the 9 cases, there was an inflection of transaminases, but normalization was obtained only in 4 cases; other cases had turned into auto-immune chronic hepatitis. In these cases, Desmodium a. may be given, but other immuno-modulating methods will be used as well.

STUDY No. 2: Case No. 1

End of January 1992: jaundice, asthenia, anorexia.

DATES SGOT SGPT GGT
10/12/92 890 1030 978
02/10/92 763 1290 836

From January 17, 1993, took 6 capsules of 200mg of Desmodium per day

DATES SGOT SGPT GGT
03/02/92 190 433 462
03/16/92 16 26 211
04/01/92 13 15 19
01/15/92 11 10 74

The clinical state was normalized since 1st March 1992 and has remained so up to the present (February 1993) The Gamma GT has become normal; transminases have remained from http://www.wholeworldbotanicals.com/herbal_desmodium.html
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