Food Supplement for Therapy of HCV

Abdelkhalek Hassan Younes

doi:10.4172/jaa.s15-002

Abstract

Hepatitis C is a progressing global health problem. The expense of the exciting regimen for treatment is not available for many patients. Herbal medicines have been used as complementary therapy in the treatment of liver diseases for a long time. Fifty one patients with hepatitis C have been seen in our outpatient clinic, with twelve patients as control. Patients were interviewed to obtain detailed clinical data before and after treatment. The herbal medicines used in the treatment of HCV are Milk Thistle, Phyllanthus, Garlic, Cinnamon, Parsley, Black seed and AKHY-J-25 (mixture of herbs). Every patient received single oral capsule of herbal preparations powder, in early morning on an empty stomach with two cups of water and simple breakfast after two hours, from three months to two years, and twelve patients as control received placebo. The results showed 20% of patients had no detectable HCV RNA in serum at 24 week treatment, 72.6% showed clinical and biochemical improvement with decline of HCV RNA to lower limit and 7.4% showed clinical and biochemical improvement without change in level of HCV RNA.

Highlights

The Civilization in Ancient Egypt was the pyramids and tombs, but it involved all aspects of human life
Current treatment for chronic hepatitis C with pegylated interferon (IFN) and ribavirin is associated with suboptimal responses and numerous adverse effects number of botanical products has been used to treat hepatic disorders [6]
The results showed that 20% of patients had no detectable HCV RNA in serum at 24 week treatment. 72.6% showed clinical and biochemical improvement with decline of HCV RNA to lower limit and 7.4% showed clinical and biochemical improvement without change in level of HCV RNA

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Introduction

The Civilization in Ancient Egypt was the pyramids and tombs, but it involved all aspects of human life. Most of the complementary medicine modalities were originated from ancient Egyptians. The Ancient Egyptians were quite advanced in their diagnosis and treatments of various illnesses [1]. Written about 3500 years points to the fact that ancient Egyptians applied plants such as mandrake for pain relief and garlic for the treatment of heart and circulatory disorders [2]. According to WHO [3] herbal medicine is plant derived material or preparations with therapeutic or other human health benefits, which contain either raw or processed ingredients from one or more plants. Material of inorganic or animal origin may be present

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