What herb has been used in Ayurvedic Medicine for over 2,000 years, is called Bahupatra in Sanskrit, used to be called Phyllanthusniruri in India, and grows widely in Central and Southern India? Answer:Phyllanthus Amarus a small tropical shrub with big benefits for liver health, and more.
This plant has been highly valued in a number of countries "for its curative properties; in India the plant is often used by traditional medical practitioners for a variety of ailments, including asthma, bronchial infection" and diseases of -- and injury to -- the liver (as mentioned above), researchers L. Yeap Foo and Herbert Wong tell us in their 1992 article which appeared in the English journal, According to an interesting passage from Dr. K.M. Nadkarni's Indian Materia Medica (1954), this botanical has been used for a wide array of indications:
The plant is considered diuretic, astringent and cooling. A decoction of the plant is administered in jaundice Whole plant is employed in some genitourinary infections, [the] young tender shoots are [used in] chronic dysentery [and the] juice of the stem [is] mixed with oil in ophthalmia [eye treatments].
Used in China, the Philippines, Cuba, Nigeria, Guam, East and West Africa, the Caribbean, and Latin America, this liver-protectant/detoxifier has been used, in recent years, most successfully in such conditions as jaundice and Hepatities-B
What's in it? Studies have already shown that the plant contains alkaloids, lignans, flavonoids [see Editor's Desk, p. 8, this issue], fatty acids, and vitamin C, just to name a few.
A brief overview on the importance of the liver
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