JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - If not resolved, inflammation of the liver which is popularly known as hepatitis can cause death. Hepatitis is the inflammation of the liver tissue. The disease is better known as liver disease or jaundice. However, the term of this jaundice can cause confusion because not all of jaundice caused by liver inflammation.
Of the many factors, the virus that was ranked first as the cause of most disease hepatitis. Others may be caused by bacteria, parasites, drugs, chemicals that damage the liver, alcohol, worms, or too poor nutrition.
According to DR. Dr. Julitasari Sundoro, based on the course of the disease, hepatitis can be divided into acute and chronic. Called when chronic hepatitis is still there after six months. There are five types of viral hepatitis, namely hepatitis A (VHA), hepatitis B virus (HBV), hepatitis C virus (HCV or non-A non-B parenteral), hepatitis D virus (VHD), and hepatitis E virus ( VHE or non-A non-B enteric). In addition some viruses that, now there's even a virus that causes hepatitis AE F and G.
Prof. H. Ali Suleiman, Professor of Internal Medicine Faculty of medicine, said that the hepatitis patients who already are on prodormal phase (before the body becomes yellow), usually experience symptoms of weakness, tired, lethargic, no appetite, nausea, vomiting, feeling uncomfortable and pain in the abdomen, fever and sometimes chills, headache, pain in the joints, stiffness in the whole body, especially hips and shoulders, and diarrhea. Sometimes people like to be cold and cough with or without a sore throat.
When you have reached the phase of yellow (jaundice), the patient will see a yellow urine is concentrated, such as tea. In addition, the whites of the eyes, mucous membrane of the palate, and skin turned yellow. And if there are barriers to the flow of bile into the intestine, the stool will be pale as putty (feces acholis).
Symptomatically, however, not all have symptoms of hepatitis, as already mentioned. There hepatitis patients with no symptoms at all or maybe only with mild symptoms, and there are really heavy in a short time later terminated death.
That being so, we must be careful. In addition to always get used to leading a healthy lifestyle, do regular checks to the doctor. If it is known to have liver disease, a doctor will prescribe.
Treatment by a physician, according to Dr. Dalimartha Setiawan, is generally symptomatic, ie, to relieve the symptoms of diseases that arise other than as a therapy that helps the survival of liver function.
These drugs generally are hepatoprotektor (protects liver cells against the effects of toxic substances that can damage the repair and regeneration), lipotropik (increasing the mobility of fat in the liver), kholeretik (increased production of bile by the liver), and kholagogum (increase emptying of the gall bladder and running it into the duodenum).
Medicinal plant materials to assist in the improvement of liver function usually is hepatoprotective. The ingredients include curcumin which can be obtained from ginger and turmeric, filantin of meniran, silymarin from widuran, aukubin of leaf spoon, glycyrrhisic acid from the saga, essential oils of garlic, krisofanol of rhubarb, gingerol from ginger, wedelolakton of urang -aring, andrografolid of bitter, and sianidol of tanning substances.
Some Examples of herb plants herb Many prescription drugs, one of Dr. Dalimartha Setiawan, useful for improving liver function. Some of them served as the ingredients easily obtainable. However, patients should continue to consult with your doctor when using these recipes:
Remedy 1 Materials - one finger sticks brotowali - three glasses of water - one tablespoon of honey brotowali How to Wash and cut stem pieces as needed. Boil three cups of water until remaining one glasses. Once cool, strain and add a spoonful of honey. Drink twice a day, each half a glass.
Potions 2 Material - 9-15 grams of the dried stem bugenfil - three glasses of water - one tablespoon of honey How to Make After being cleaned, cut into thin sticks bugenfil. Enter your email in the pan while plus three glasses of water. Boil until the water remains one glasses. Once cool, strain. Drink filtered water after the addition of honey. Filtered water taken twice a day, morning and afternoon, each half a glass.
3 Potions Ingredients - handful of fresh leaves of bitter melon - one cup of boiled water - salt to taste How to Make Wash and rinse the leaves pare with boiled water. Tumbuklah leaves until smooth with a plus one cup water. Stir thoroughly and add a little salt. Strain the herbs and drink in the morning before eating. Note: This recipe should not be used when you are pregnant because it can cause miscarriage.
Potions 4 Ingredients - two ripe tomatoes - sugar to taste How to Make After being washed, cut, cut the tomatoes to be used as juice. However, if you do not have the tools, the fruit can be boiled with enough water. After boiling, pulverized or milled and then blackmailed. Sediki sugar added juice and then drink two times a day.
Potions 5 Materials - three or a handful of ripe noni fruit noni skin - a piece of banana leaf - a piece of cloth - vinegar to taste How I noni fruit are washed and rinsed with boiled water. Grate and squeeze it with a cloth. Juice drink. Method II For external use only, finely ground noni skin then stirred with a little vinegar. Wrap mixture with banana leaves. Reheat briefly over a flame or steamed. In the case of warm, place the packet on the upper right abdomen, the liver was swollen and sore.
Potions 6 Ingredients - one tablespoon of papaya seeds - three fingers papaya mengkal - honey to taste How to Make Seeds and fruit blended or mashed papaya seeds until finely shredded while fruit. The dough is rolled into one plus honey to taste, then drink. Note: Pregnant women are prohibited from taking this herb because it can cause miscarriage.
Potions 7 Material - fresh carrot taste How to Make Carrots cleaned and washed with boiled water. Cut as necessary and make into juice. Can also be shredded carrots and the results are squeezed, then filtered to collect up to one glass. Carrot juice can be drunk directly. Note: Most eating carrots can cause skin color to yellow. When that happens, stop taking herbs for a while. Skin color will be normal again.
Potion 8 Material - two fingers of fresh ginger rhizome - honey to taste How to Make a rhizome of ginger, peeled, then washed. Rinse with boiled water and then shredded. Add half a cup of warm water and a tablespoon of honey. Toss well then squeeze and strain. Drink filtered water a day two times a day.
Potion 9 Material - one finger turmeric rhizome - a tablespoon of honey How to Create a turmeric rhizome is washed and shredded. Add a little water on the grater. Grated and then filtered and add honey. Drink three times a day. @ Abdi Susanto
Sources: http://health.kompas.com/read/2010/11/01/08085824/9.Ramuan.Atasi.Hepatitis
