Re: Lesley--liver--milk thistle

[Guest guest]

Lelia,

On the Larry King show Naomi Judd said that Dr.

Weil put her on milk thistle (silymarin) for her

hepatitis C. She credits it, along with very healthy

changes in her diet, with her cure from hep C.

So it's very interesting and wonderful to learn what a

difference it has made for you! Apparently it's used

extensively for liver damage in Europe.

My son was Dxed with hepatitis A this spring when the

doc did some blood tests for bronchitis. The hep A was

a total shock! I ordered some milk thistle online to

be delivered to him (what 20 year old kid about to

head into college finals is going to drop by the

drugstore on Mom's orders?<g>) We'll never know really

what effect it had, but he never developed jaundice or

other symptoms of the hep A and his bronchitis and

sinusitis cleared up very quickly with antibiotics.

I was glad to see your recommendation because I've

been wondering whether it would help the folks online

with liver problems.

Tenayahh

--- Lelia Oster wrote:

> Lesley, Methotrx isn't the only thing that can

> cause liver problems. Pred can too. To help

> prevent that consider taking Vit E and/or Milk

> Thistle daily. I began to have liver problems in

> 1998 or 1999 and had biopsy done but nothing

> significant. This was after I had tried Methotrx

> but

> was switched to Imuran (azathioprine). Then they

> went down and then came up again and last year had

> another biopsy. This time diagnosed with NASH --

> non-alcoholic steato (??) hepatitis. That was

> when the GI doc recommended 400 I.U. of Vit E daily

> and the tests began to go much more toward

> normal. Then I read of Milk Thistle and started

> taking that and they've stayed normal all year.

> Milk Thistle " cleanses " the liver. I just take

> whatever the milk thistle bottle recommends and here

> in the US I just get one that says " standardized " .

>

> Lelia

>

>

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