Abstract

A REVIEW ON HERBAL LIVER TONIC

Ganta Manasa*, B. Ramya Sree, Ch Poojabhavani, M. Sravanthi, T. Sandeep,

Abstract

Herbs are the gift of the nature and have a lot of uses, one of the best uses is to use them to make medicines which have no side effects. Utilization of herbs in making medicines is laid down in our ancient ayurveda sashatra. Allopathic treatment has some side effects. Therefore we have to use ayurvedic treatment by modernizing the method, that is by making of tablets, syrup etc. market growth of liver tonic is around 6%-10, it has been observed that the tonic produced from plant origin has taken substantial preference over the synthetic drugs and the new entrepreneur may enter this field with good pharmaceutical knowledge and quality product. Now a days people aware about side effects of synthetic drugs, so consumers also willing to use the herbal products. Herbal remedies are popular in the general population and even more so amount patients with liver diseases. The varied manifestations of liver injury include steatosis (excess fat builds up in the liver) acute and chronic hepatitis, hepatic fibrosis, acute liver failure. Herbal drug have become more popular and their use is highly. Licensing regulations and pharmacovigilance regarding herbal products are still in complete and well defined confirmation of their effectiveness in liver diseases. The herbs like bhuiamla used to treat chronic liver swelling, glycyrrhizin to treat chronic viral liver inflammation silibinin for anti fibrotic. (develop and abnormal amount of scar tissue).

Keywords: Liver tonic, herbal medicine, liver function, hepatoprotective, herb.