Our digestive system is the digestive tract, beginning at the mouth and ends at the rectum, and two large outbuildings organs, liver and pancreas: they use in the production of digestive juices needed for digestion and absorption of fats, proteins and carbohydrates present in food.
and their activity is related to many factors of a physical but also chemical, such as acidity or alkalinity of foods, more or less consistent presence of fat, alcohol, etc..
is an apparatus that is in itself very complex, whose proper functioning, perhaps more than any other system, constantly influenced by the type of power. The traditional herbal medicine
allows us to use substances of plant origin capable of improving certain specific functions of this apparatus. Today we'll talk
plant more usable for their functions in the district hepato-biliary, liver and that the bile ducts, which are used to collect the bile produced by the liver and intestine to enter the arrival of food in the stretch duodenum.
plants studied and most used are two very similar morphologically, but indications are quite different from each other: the thistle and artichoke.
thistle.
milk thistle (Silybum marianum Gaertner) is a robust herb, native to the Mediterranean countries, and now actually cultivated mainly in the pharmaceutical industry and cosmetics.
The part used is represented by the result, improperly called the seed, rather than the leaves, once commonly used in folk medicine instead. The thistle is the plant par excellence that deserves the title of the much discussed hepatoprotector, improperly considered a "cleansing the liver" actually offers a real set of substances capable of protecting liver cells (hepatocytes) from the damage of various toxic substances such as alcohol, smoking, drugs, etc.. These substances belong to the category of flavolignani present in its seeds, and form a plant complex now called universally silymarin, mainly composed of three molecules (silybin, and silicristina silidianina) for which, in the liver, have been widely demonstrated with the following pharmacological properties:
· stabilization of cell membranes and lysosomal
° Effect antioxidant and radical 'scavengers'
· Scale inhibition of lipid peroxidation
· Effects Anti-inflammatory and antifibrotic
· Stimulate the glicuroconiugazione and protein biosynthesis
· acceleration of liver regeneration was also recently
ricomfermato flavolignani the role of the thistle in the treatment of toxic liver disease, chronic hepatitis , fibrosis and cirrhosis of the liver and as an antidote in poisoning by Amanita phalloides (with intravenous administration of silymarin). Overall dell'epatocita silymarin improves the functionality, with a 'hepato-protective activity, anti-necrotic and lipotropic. Silymarin is now also used in cosmetics for its antioxidant properties and eudermic.
The important recommendation is to not use the extracts of milk thistle as tea dry extract or tincture of alcohol, but in the form of silymarin, a plant complex that is purified, also available in several preparations of trade and real medicinal products.
Artichoke.
Contrary to the findings of Artichoke (Cynara scolymus) using the plant's leaves and fruit, usually valued as a vegetable. E 'common opinion that the artichoke is the ideal plant to treat and protect the liver, but scientific research and clinical use have instead shown that his statements are particularly suitable in disorders of the bile ducts of the liver parenchyma rather than real.
The most important chemical constituents are represented by the polyphenols (flavonoids, tannins and chlorogenic acid derivatives), polyacetylene, sterols, organic acids, mineral salts and volatile aromatic components. Today we also know that cynarin, once regarded as the active ingredient of the artichoke, in reality is not present in the plant, but is formed only during the drying process.
The actual pharmacological properties attributed to the Artichoke, check with animal studies, are:
· choleretic
· diuretic
· However, no lipid-lowering
verification and confirmation with studies on 'man (and humans sick) for properties hepatoprotective, anthelmintic, oxytocic, antibacterial and antiviral. All pharmacological activities that have been well tested in vitro or in animals. As well as missing
Studies on the purification of the artichoke in patients with renal failure, skin diseases, itching from the psoriasis, dall'orticaria the spots, all indications were found instead a claim in popular belief.
Artichoke extracts can then be rationally used to thin the bile and improve the functional dyspeptic subject, activate the hepatic catabolism of cholesterol and reduce the risk of gallstones. While
dyes and herbal preparations are old, and also love the title, you should use instead the use of standardized dried extracts. The Artichoke is also present in Pharmacopoeia.
appropriately prescribed by a doctor these two plants can then be used in the prevention or treatment of disorders of the liver disease, respectively (thistle) and biliary (Artichoke). www.naturamedica.net
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