Natural Hepatitis Treatments - 3 Ways to Reclaim Your Liver Health

Natural hepatitis treatment is showing promising results in relieving debilitating liver symptoms like nausea, vomiting, fatigue, fever, abdominal pain, jaundice, headache and aching joints and muscles.

Your liver is the largest internal organ in your body and one of the most hard-working. Its roles include filtering the blood, removing toxins, releasing bile to help digest fats, breaking down hormones and producing immune factors.

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When hit by hepatitis, the liver becomes inflamed. The major cause of this disease is a viral infection like Type A, B and C Hepatitis, the Epstein Barr virus (that causes mononucleosis), CMV and yellow fever. Alcohol and drugs are implicated in some cases.

The aim of natural hepatitis treatment is to reduce or stop the viruses from multiplying and destroying your liver. If alcohol or drugs are involved, then these will be need to be eliminated in order to give the liver a chance to heal.

Natural hepatitis treatment consists of 3 easy steps:

1) Anti-viral remedies

Powerful anti-viral remedies are at the forefront of effective hepatitis treatment. Scientific studies are revealing nutrients and herbs that specifically work against liver viruses and help the liver to heal. Milk thistle, dandelion and artichoke are examples of liver herbs that can repair and rebuild the liver.

Certain vegetables and fruits, like broccoli, cabbage, carrot and beetroot offer anti-inflammatory and immune-boosting benefits. Juicing these fruits and vegetables can accelerate the healing process by flushing out toxins that are over burdening the liver. The foods and remedies recommended for natural hepatitis treatment are affordable and easily available from health food shops and grocers.

2) Body cleansing

A clean internal cell environment, free of toxins, acids and microbes, is essential to keep chronic illnesses like hepatitis at bay. When your cells are full of toxins, your immune system shuts down and leaves you exposed to viruses, bacteria and fungal infections. To get off the cycle of chronic infection, hepatitis treatment must cleanse the body and regenerate your cells so that microbes cannot get a hold.

A breakthrough diet that changes your body's internal environment to one of vibrant health is the fastest, most effective way to cleanse your body. This diet is based around an abundance of healing vegetables, fruits, quality protein, essential fats, whole grains and pure water.

3) Stress Management and Relaxation

It is a fact that stress and worry can lower immune health and leave you exposed to infections. Relaxation techniques that calm your mind, ease tension and give you a good night's sleep, can release the effects of stress on your body.

A regular exercise program that makes working out easy and enjoyable will accelerate your results. Walking, swimming, cycling, playing competitive sport or dancing are all good choices. As well as helping your stress, exercise helps boost circulation to the liver to flush out excess fats.

The benefits of a natural approach to hepatitis treatment is that you can eliminate your infection permanently without dangerous drugs and unwanted side effects. You also get the freedom of living a life without constant doctors appointments, surgery and hospital visits. If you or a loved one are suffering from this dreadful illness, then natural hepatitis treatment may be the answer you have been looking for.

Natural Hepatitis Treatments - 3 Ways to Reclaim Your Liver Health

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Natural Treatments for Hepatitis C

What I've noticed over the years is that I get a run of cases with the same disease in a short period of time. Last month I saw lots of clients with Multiple Sclerosis (or the misdiagnosis of same.) We learned about the low-fat Swank diet and all the drugs used to treat this particular disease process.

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This month I had a run of Hepatitis C clients. They each had contracted the disease differently, but none-the-less, their lives have been permanently shifted from this terrible disease which is seemingly not curable. The common thread that assisted these clients was that each person had to make some lifestyle changes (a permanent lifestyle choice that was healthier than they were living.) Stressing the optimal amounts of raw fruits/vegetables is always a staple in my programs--especially the dark green ones in hepatitis cases, but we also centered on the liver.

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So let's review hepatitis C and natural treatments for it.

Hepatitis means inflammation of the liver (Hepato is the root word for liver and anything ending in "itis" means inflammation.) Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is one of the many viruses that can cause inflammation of the liver. Other causes are irritation to the liver from alcohol, bacterial infections, drugs, and cancer. At least 75% of people infected with hepatitis C develop chronic hepatitis C which can be progressive and fatal. Once you have it, you will need to find ways to keep it under control. This disease never completely goes away. However, my clients have had very good luck with alternative medicine treatments for hepatitis C, but they work at it and stick with a good program.

About 4 million people in the United States have antibodies to HCV, meaning they have been infected with the virus at some point. Half of these people don't even know they have it. All forms of viral hepatitis are contagious.

The most common way hepatitis C is passed is through direct contact with blood. Drug users often have this disease because they re-use and share needles. Needles, and before 1992 prior to the blood test which became available to test for the virus, transfusions, organ transplants, and hemodialysis have all been vehicles for transferring the virus, but I have known people to warn others not to even drink out of the same cup as they are drinking out of, so it could also be passed through saliva.

Childbirth, sexual intercourse and accidental needle sticks (most common in nurses and the human medical field) are also less common causes of transmission. Sharing toiletry items is another way of passing the virus (e.g. razors and nail clippers.)

Symptoms and Signs of Hepatitis: Eighty percent of people infected with Hepatitis C do not have symptoms. Symptoms may also be mild and come and go over the lifetime of the patient. Less frequently, the patient will come down with an acute case of hepatitis with full-blown symptoms.

Symptoms typically occur 5-12 weeks after being exposed to the virus and may last for weeks to months and include: liver pain (on the right side just under the rib cage area), nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, fatigue, dark colored urine, gray or clay colored stools, irritability, confusion, and headaches (due to dehydration from chronic diarrhea.) Chronic hepatitis often leads to cirrhosis of the liver. Cirrhosis is where healthy liver tissue is taken over by scar tissue. When this happens, the liver loses its ability to detoxify the blood.

Additional symptoms at this time include fluid retention (especially below the rib cage in the belly area), jaundice (also called icterus which is a yellowing of the skin seen most obviously in the whites of the eyes), chronic fatigue, sleep disturbance, itchy skin, weight loss (wasting disease), vomiting now with blood in it (so it could look like coffee grounds) and finally hepatic encephalopathy characterized by hallucinations.

When the liver is sick, we see diseases like high cholesterol, high triglycerides, hemorrhoids, cancer, allergies, varicose veins and lots of anger and resentments.

I don't know which comes first in these types of cases; anger causing the liver-based diseases or liver-based diseases resulting in anger. The good thing is that we have LOTS of options on how to overcome these challenges and it doesn't really matter where you start as long as you start and keep at it.

My favorite treatments for hepatitis include:

1. Raw fruits/veggies (especially dark green foods, bitter vegetables, red fruits, and beets.)

2. Barfy Green Stuff (or some other green food--it really doesn't matter too much what you choose.

3. Drink plenty of filtered, chorine and fluoride free water to stay hydrated.

4. Exercise, but don't overdo it. Walking is wonderful--especially on a consistent schedule.

5. Homeopathics specifically to bind and excrete the Hepatitis virus (I use Professional Health Formulations Hepatitis Nosode Drops.)

6. Emotional release work (to help dislodge the Emotional Cysts in the liver.)

7. Herbs to support the liver as needed including but not limited to: Milk Thistle (Also Called Silymarin), Burdock Root, Safflower, Licorice, Green Tea, Dandelion, Artichoke, Cordyceps Mushroom, Turmeric, and Peppers. Note: It's important to take what your body needs but not more than it needs. The body has to process everything put into it. If there is extra, the liver has to work to get it out of the system.

8. Evaluation of current lifestyle habits and suggestions to decrease toxification.

9. Rebuilding of the cells with a Glandular/protomorphogen (I love Livaplex by Standard Process Labs(TM))

10. Abstinence from all alcohol products and any kind of drug that is processed through the liver (Tylenol, NSAIDS, some pain killers, and lots of other drugs are processed through the liver--ask your pharmacist and doctor about anything you put into your mouth!)

11. Work on relieving all anger and resentment issues in your life and dove-tail in forgiveness work. Anger and resentments are stored in the liver.

12. Managing liver-associated diseases: allergies, hemorrhoids, varicose veins, glaucoma and cancer.

13. Eliminating metaphors from your vocabulary having to do with anger, hatred, resentment, and being galled and stubborn.

Self-forgiveness seems to be one common obstacle to overcome in these particular cases. It is most important to understand that there was a reason why they contracted the disease, it taught them valuable lessons, but now it's time to come to a resolution and move onto a healthier way of being.

Life is a journey. The challenges we have are a Gift from God. What we do with those challenges are our gift to Him. If we focus on the similarities instead of how we feel ostracized and alienated, we find that all in all, we want the same things...to be loved, understood and valued. I believe that this is what life is all about.

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Healing Hepatitis And Liver Diseases Naturally - Alternative Treatments

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"Modern medicine does not allow for the healing potential inherent in each individual. A program for liver health includes a diet designed to alleviate liver stress or disease, plus an effective herbal formula and other dietary supplements such as antioxidants and essential fatty acids. Such program will cause liver enzymes to return to normal range as well as decreased or low viral load. The liver will get better and a long and a healthy life can be anticipated." Herbalist Christopher Hobbs

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About30 million American have liver disease. Liver disease is the fourth leading cause of death in America. Over 550,000 people worldwide die from liver cancer each year -a preventable complication of liver disease. One in one hundred thousand Americans have a truly functional liver. About 25,000 Americans die each year from liver cancer. Liver cirrhosis is the seventh leading cause of death in America.

Often overlooked is the pain associated with orthodox management of infective and degenerative liver diseases and the promise alternative remedies have to offer. The question often asked is which herbs and nutrients are crucial to my healing? How much should I take? What about the latest infomercial? And who can we believe with so many choices out there?A comprehensive nutrition program that combines the right herbal formula and attitudinal healing holds the key to making the right choices is found in the ground breaking book 'Healing hepatitis And liver Disease Naturally'

Hepatitis as the name implies, is primarily an inflammation and not an infection. Itis caused by a wide variety of factors that includes viral attacks, inappropriate immune responses to chemical toxins (autoimmune hepatitis), environmental toxins, drugs, and alcohol (alcoholic hepatitis). Hepatitis is either viral or non-viral. Viral hepatitis is caused by contagious viruses that have special affinities for the liver cells of humans. It is also referred to as infectious hepatitis. Non-viral hepatitis or non-contagious hepatitis is also referred to as toxic hepatitis. There are five form of contagious viral hepatitis which are classified alphabetically:hepatitis A, B, C, D, and E. The hepatitis A, B, C, D, and E viruses cause acute hepatitis while the B, C, and D viruses can lead to chronic infections. Chronic hepatitis is a hepatitis infection lasting more than six months. Another type of hepatitis is called fluminant hepatitis, a severe and potentially fatal form of acute hepatitis.

The conventional emphasis on viral loads in the management of infective hepatitis is like blaming the policemen for the prisoners in the jail house. The viral loads that conventional medicine uses as its therapeutic yardstick are an effect and not the cause of hepatitis. It is like putting the horse before the boggy. Just like a weed that flourishes in a favorable soil environment and no matter how much we control its growth, unless we change the soil environment the weeds will always flourish. So, too, with viruses, diseases, and cancer cells. When the internal environment is fertile, viruses multiply. As we change our internal environment we reduce our loads, cirrhotic progression, and cancer propensity.

The treatment of infectious hepatitis as an infection to justify expensive orthodox therapy is a medical disgrace. Hepatitis inflammation does not require steroids either, but dietary factors that reverse cellular inflammation as explained in Dr. Floyd H. Chilton's book The War Within. Viruses are lifeless entities that cannot exist on their own without a favorable internal host environment. The internal environment that favors viral replication is constitutional acidity and fermentation which in simple English is inflammation and low immune resistance. The emphasis on the viral component and the use of anti-virals in the management of infective hepatitis is like pouring gasoline on fire or salt on a wound. These anti-viral drugs increase extracellular matrix toxicity-the launching pad for viral replication. As anti-viral remedies engage the viruses, the host's body is caught in the ensuring crossfire which manifests as the side effects associated with anti-viral use. These adverse reactions are often worse than the disease.

The adverse reactions associated with drug use are due to their exacerbation of liver inflammation. In Dr. Strand's book Death by Prescription, he points out to the fact that "while the Centers for Disease Control estimate that office-based physicians prescribe approximately 100 million courses of antibiotics yearly, viruses do not respond to antibiotics. One's own immune system will normally get rid of them with time." Ironically, the common cold and stomach viruses that do not respond to any anti-viral or antibiotic remedy always depend on the immune system for resolution. Interferon, Baraclude, Hepsera, Epivir, and Viread that are used to treat infective hepatitis cost above 0 for a 30-day supply.

Interferon was originally used to treat hairy-cell leukemia in 1986. The FDA approved its use for the management of HCV in 1991 i.e. to prevent the replication of HCV by empowering the immune system, reducing viral loads, slowing inflammation, addressing liver damage, and normalizing liver enzymes.Interferon is in immune system cells that make infected cells self-destruct or commit suicide to prevent further infection. Ironically, synthetic interferon does not have any resemblance to our innate interferon; hence its use is like using a delivery van to break into your front door to deliver your groceries. Since they don't fit the body's chemistry, they do not have the wherewithal to launch the immunological response needed for viral clearance. We need to redirect our emphasis away from attacking the virus to managing the viral environment. Since viruses are lifeless creatures that become alive only in an inflammatory environment, by addressing inflammation with herbs, detoxification, diets, lifestyle changes, and nutrition, we cut off the supply lines for viral multiplication and consequently reverse liver disease. By clearing the extracellular space and lymphatic system of cellular debris and metabolic wastes, we strengthen the immune system. By reversing liver inflammation, we optimize immune function which ultimately eradicates the viruses as explained by Doctors Strand and Chilton.

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The liver-repairing, immune-stimulating, and bile-moving herbs unlock the cell walls via the extracellular matrix (ECM). Thus, the healing and anti-viral substances can penetrate deep into the nucleus. This creates an opening for botanical antiviral herbs to move in and mop up the viruses. Detoxification with cleansing herbs guarantee that the dead pathogenic viral agents are eliminatedthe natural way. Regenerating herbs stimulate and rebuild the extracellular matrix and cells to produce a natural healthy body. Throughout the body, the extracellular matrix is the space between cells. This space is responsible for most basic functions that include nutrition, waste removal, acid-alkaline balance, cell communication, inflammatory, and immune response. The basic understanding of this often-ignored space along with its proper regulation is pivotal to successfully treating chronic degenerative diseases. In this modern world, it is easy to become over-burdened with toxins-and it is not your fault. Every year, over 1,000 new chemicals are released on the market, many not fully tested for their effects on the human body.

Through the actions of herbs we're able to turn the tables in our favor and make viruses play by our rules. The liver herbs change our internal environment to one of natural health, literally unlocking our health from the inside out. What's more, not only do these herbs make us feel amazing, they create an environment so repulsive and uninhabitable for the viruses within us that they wave the white flag. This uninhabitable environment forces the viruses into retreating. We have now essentially changed the rules.

The blood tonic cleans the blood of toxins and metabolic wastes that feed viral multiplication or perpetuates cirrhotic damage. By eliminating wastes there is more oxygen-carrying capacity for the hemoglobin. Viruses cannot replicate in oxygen-rich blood. As we cleanse the blood, we increase its alkalinity and change cellular metabolism from fermentation to oxidation. Hepatic herbs in the book 'Healing Hepatitis And Liver Disease Naturally' hold the key to eradicating the hepatitis viruses from the body.

Lymphatic massage, physical exercise, deep breathing, colonic irrigation, far-infrared saunas, and foot de-tox all work collaboratively to reduce the toxic load of the liver and eliminate sluggishness that predisposes the liver to viral infection, viral multiplication, and progression of liver disease through cirrhosis to its terminal point of cancer.

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Alcoholism - Causes and Treatments

The term alcohol comes from the Arabic 'al kuhl', meaning fine powder of antimony or other distilled substance. Its over-use can lead to extreme impairment in physical, social and occupational functioning. Disorders associated with its chronic abuse include cirrhosis, fatty liver, alcoholic hepatitis and liver failure.

Malnutrition may become apparent as those afflicted forget to eat in their quest for more drink and since alcohol robs the body of important micronutrients, including vitamins B, C and E, nutritional status is impaired. B vitamins are particularly important for the nervous system, which is often adversely affected. On top of this, the amount of psychological, emotional and social problems resulting from this disturbing condition may lead to untold damage to the individual and those they share close relationships with. It has to be admitted that if alcohol is used sensibly, it is unlikely to become a problem. If controlled, it is a pleasurable social activity. If can promote a feeling of well being and help in the inter-action between friends and colleagues in an informal environment. It can be found to be useful over a drink, in making new acquaintances at a formal function, where you may be uptight or on a date, particularly if your personality is not an outgoing one.

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There in lies a problem, because if your confidence is boosted with alcohol, you may take the view that a little more taken more often might have a better affect on your social life. The down side of this attitude is that if you succumb, you will find yourself in the stage known as "functional state". At this point, you will be able to perform your work well and indeed it has been noted by Dr Martin Bland, Director of Alcohol Research Project at the University of Edinburgh, those drinkers are often focused on ensuring that their drinking does not impinge on their work.

The Medical Council on alcoholism defines alcohol dependence as the reliance on alcohol intake such as its withdrawal leads to physiological discomfort and/or physical disorders. In the stage of functional alcoholism, the individual does not yet suffer any withdrawal symptoms. They certainly would find it hard to go to a party and not drink as drink to them is their normal social lubrication and they do not drink during working out. They do, according to Dr Andrew McNeil co director of the Institute of Alcoholic studies - when on a drinking spree need to drink more than normal to feel drunk. This is called the tolerance affect - as you drink your body becomes used to it, as you need more to get drunk they achieve this by either drinking more than everyone else or by taking double measures. The interval between functional state and the stage of addiction can be recognised by the definite change in habit. Even personality, which is usually noticed by others, rather than the person concerned, particularly in the early stage of transition. Domestic arguments may become more serious and frequent. They may get into altercations, even a fight and not care about drinking and driving - the "I'm all right attitude". He will gulp his drink down, he will begin to under-perform at work and may be reprimanded. The may turn up to work the worse of wear. If this change of behaviour pattern denotes, he is now entering a future phase which his bleak and in the extreme, that it alcoholic dependence.

We have become in the UK, only too aware of the insidious problem of alcohol abuse. The statistics are almost incredible. Over the past 20 years the admission of alcohol treatment departments in psychiatric hospitals has increased 25 fold. Approximately 1 in 5 male admissions to acute medical wards is directly or indirectly attributed to alcohol abuse. These statistics are serious enough but the effect on the medical staff and other patients on some wards has also been recognised. Physical abuse has reached such a peak that it is now being considered that police posts are to be established within hospitals. Alcoholic dependence or abuse carries with it serious complications. After a 10 year period of drinking, damage will have occurred to all bodily functions and these changes are seen earlier in women than in men.

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Damage is caused by the effect of alcohol on nutrition and direct tissue toxicity. Cardio Vascular Toxic effects on the heart are cardiomathy, (heart enlargement and arrhythmia's) which means the heartbeat becomes erratic in time and force. Neurological Directly due to toxicity - protaxia (in co-ordination of muscular movement), falls causing head injury and internal haemorrhage, epilepsy (ATS, dementia (loss of mental faculties). A specific syndrome karsakofs syndrome - has been identified. This occurs because of a Vitamin B deficiency (Thyomine) , the clinical features of which are multiple - confusion, ataxia (staggering) nystogmus (erratic eye movement or nerve pulses). Untreated, the patient become drowsy, slips into a coma and dies.

Treatment is given of vitamin injections, even although the diagnosis is only considered. Gastro Intestinal Liver Damage: Inflammation of the pancreas, inflammation of the oesophagus (gut) and there is a chance of developing cancer in that area. Haematology: The blood system - anaemia Physchiatric: Depression, serious possibility of suicide. Social, marital and sexual problems - impotence. Employment problems, financial problems, eventual homelessness and definitive problems.

Dietary and Lifestyle Factors

As far as possible a balanced diet should be aimed for to provide good sources of protein and complex carbohydrates for slow burning energy, including whole grains, pulses such as lentils and beans, pasta and rice. Fresh fruit and vegetables also ensure good supplies of vitamins, minerals and fibre. Perhaps most importantly, make sure that you get enough water on a daily basis, aiming for at least 2.5 litres per day.

These above mentioned complications are horrendous and must be avoided at all costs. They can be avoided if alcohol is used sensibly and of course will never arise if not taken in the first place. The mainstay of treatment for alcoholism is abstinence. This may be easier said than done, but drugs are available to make withdrawal less arduous. Non-profit making groups and associations, such as Alcoholics Anonymous, offer support, helping people stay on the wagon.

Individuals who are moderate drinkers should stick within the Department of Health recommendations. It is advised that the consumption of alcohol should not exceed 14 units per week (women) and 21 unit per weeks (man). One unit of alcohol means, and is equal to, one measure of spirits (one glass of sherry, single vodka, whisky or gin) one glass of wine, half a pint of standard type of beer or lager. One bottle of wine is considered to be nine units!

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Hepatitis C Treatments

Hepatitis C is a condition that causes an inflammation of the liver caused by the hepatitis C virus. Hepatitis C is a type of hepatitis that has symptoms that closely resemble the flu. For this reason, most people are not aware that they have hepatitis C until they visit a doctor and have a physical exam. This disease can be transmitted through needle sharing, drug sharing, unprotected sex, body piercing, tattooing, and blood transfusion in which the donor was later tested to be hepatitis C positive. Spreading this disease is as simple as blood-to-blood contact.

Unlike the other types of hepatitis, hepatitis C has no specific treatments for its symptoms. But your doctor can recommend you to have bed rest drink plenty of fluids. Not only that, a healthy diet and avoidance of alcoholic beverages will also be best for you. If you are experiencing only mild hepatitis C, after following the advice of your doctor, you will begin to feel better in two to three weeks and may completely recover from the symptoms within four to eight weeks. But, if you have chronic hepatitis C, your doctor will use synthetic forms of the protein interferon. This treatment can improve liver function and diminish symptoms. However, this may cause side effects such as fever and headache and may not be applicable to some patients. This is only effective in 10 to 40% of hepatitis C patients.

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A hepatitis C patient may remain symptom free and develop only a mild condition or may develop the most serious complications of viral hepatitis like cirrhosis of the liver and liver cancer. That is why if you are experiencing only mild symptoms indicative of hepatitis C, you should consult a physician right away to determine your condition. The sooner you learn about the disease, the better. This way you will be able to undergo the best treatment for you as early as possible.

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