NAFLD Flashcards
Key actions?
alterative and hepatic
Key treatment principles?
overall flavour should be bitter and cool.
food and exercise
Protip: look for constipation, treat this first
Primary botanical actions?
hepatic and bitter
Secondary, supportive and others botanical actions to consider?
hepatoprotective
carminative
laxative
what is the action of Barberry (berberis vulgaris)
Hepatic
What herbs are hepatics other than barberry?
bupleurum, burdock, gentian, yellow dock, peony, sweet wormwoods, andrographis, schisandra
what action does milk thistle (silybum marianum) and schisandra have?
hepatoprotective
what herbs are hepatics and laxatives?
Burdock (arctium lappa)
yellow dock (rumex crispus)
what herbs are carminative and hepatic?
Gentian
Yarrow
Archangelica
sweet wormwood
What is a relevant herb drug interaction for Berberis vulgaris?
May augment the effect of diabetes medications
what herbs should be avoided in pregnancy and lactation?
Berberis vulgaris (barberry)
