Holistic Treatment for Chronic Liver Diseases

Hepatitis C

Hepatitis C

Hepatitis C is a viral infection that causes liver inflammation, sometimes leading to serious liver damage. The hepatitis C virus (HCV) spreads through contaminated blood.That’s changing. Today, chronic HCV is usually curable with holistic treatment. Still, about half of people with HCV don’t know they’re infected, mainly because they have no symptoms, which can take decades to appear.

Signs & Symptoms

Long-term infection with the hepatitis C virus (HCV) is known as chronic hepatitis C. Chronic hepatitis C is usually a “silent” infection for many years, until the virus damages the liver enough to cause the signs and symptoms of liver disease. Among these signs and symptoms are:

  • Bleeding easily
  • Bruising easily
  • Fatigue
  • Poor appetite
  • Yellow discoloration of the skin and eyes (jaundice)
  • Dark-colored urine
  • Itchy skin
  • Fluid buildup in your abdomen (ascites)
  • Swelling in your legs
  • Weight loss
  • Confusion, drowsiness and slurred speech (hepatic encephalopathy)
  • Spider-like blood vessels on your skin (spider angiomas)

Every chronic hepatitis C infection starts with an acute phase. Acute hepatitis C usually goes undiagnosed because it rarely causes symptoms. When signs and symptoms are present, they may include jaundice, along with fatigue, nausea, fever and muscle aches. Acute symptoms appear one to three months after exposure to the virus and last two weeks to three months.

Acute hepatitis C infection doesn’t always become chronic. Some people clear HCV from their bodies after the acute phase, an outcome known as spontaneous viral clearance. In studies of people diagnosed with acute HCV, rates of spontaneous viral clearance have varied from 14 to 50 percent.

Causes

Hepatitis C infection is caused by the hepatitis C virus. The infection spreads when blood contaminated with the virus enters the bloodstream of an uninfected person.

Globally, HCV exists in several distinct forms, known as genotypes.

Although chronic hepatitis C follows a similar course regardless of the genotype of the infecting virus, treatment recommendations vary depending on viral genotype.

Risk factors

Your risk of hepatitis C infection is increased if you:

  • Are a health care worker who has been exposed to infected blood, which may happen if an infected needle pierces your skin
  • Have ever injected or inhaled illicit drugs
  • Have HIV
  • Received a piercing or tattoo in an unclean environment using unsterile equipment
  • Received a blood transfusion or organ transplant before 1992
  • Received clotting factor concentrates before 1987
  • Received hemodialysis treatments for a long period of time
  • Were born to a woman with a hepatitis C infection
  • Were ever in prison
  • Were born between 1945 and 1965, the age group with the highest incidence of hepatitis C infection

Complications

Hepatitis C infection that continues over many years can cause significant complications, such as:

  • Scarring of the liver (cirrhosis)
    After 20 to 30 years of hepatitis C infection, cirrhosis may occur. Scarring in your liver makes it difficult for your liver to function.
  • Liver cancer
    A small number of people with hepatitis C infection may develop liver cancer.
  • Liver failure
    Advanced cirrhosis may cause your liver to stop functioning.

Principle of Holistic Treatment

  1. Human body has a wonderful self-healing power
  2. Through excellent drainage system i.e. Liver, Colon, Kidney, Lungs, etc., waste material is thrown out of the body.
  3. Whole of the body is a unit so it is treated in totality
  4. Body has a strong defense (immune) system
  5. At any point of time (age) live tissues can be regenerated and
  6. Immune system can be modulated

Treatment Protocol

  1. Avoidance of allergen food: both known to the medical world after various studies and known to the patient itself
  2. Correction of DIGESTIVE SYSTEM: Regulation of biological clock and right food
  3. Decongestion of VITAL ORGANS i.e. Liver, kidney, Colon Gall Bladder, Lungs, etc.
  4. Cellular DETOXIFICATION: through various natural chelation/detoxification methods
  5. ACID & ALKALI IMBALANCE correction: through alkali forming food and nutrients
  6. Nutritional cover along with PHYTONUTRIENTS supplementation: initially ONA (Optimum Nutritional Allowance) is recommended followed by RDA (Daily Recommended Allowance).
  7. Herbs like Tecoma undulata, Phyllanthus urinaria, Taraxacum officinale, Nyctanthes arbortritis and Terminalia arjuna, etc are also used in the treatment of Hepatitis C.

Prevention

Protect yourself from hepatitis C infection by taking the following precautions:

  • Stop using illicit drugs, particularly if you inject them. If you use illicit drugs, seek help.
  • Be cautious about body piercing and tattooing. If you choose to undergo piercing or tattooing, look for a reputable shop. Ask questions beforehand about how the equipment is cleaned. Make sure the employees use sterile needles. If employees won’t answer your questions, look for another shop.
  • Practice safer sex. Don’t engage in unprotected sex with multiple partners or with any partner whose health status is uncertain. Sexual transmission between monogamous couples may occur, but the risk is low.

Duration of the Treatment

Duration of the treatment varies according to duration and severity of the illness.

Positive changes may be observed within days in most of the cases suffering from the disorders. For the best results time period may vary from 6 months to 2 years.

Result

The results are well established. Even the most chronic and severe cases respond early.