Liver - Self-Care Actions

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Carolyn Chambers Clark, RN, EdD

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Liver - Self-Care Actions

 

What self-care actions can you take to improve the health of your liver?

 

1. Drink a flush drink for your liver: juice of 1-2 grapefruit or 2 oranges, l

clove of garlic and l tablespoon of olive oil and the juice of two fresh lemons.

A sprinkle of cayenne pepper is optional. Drink the mixture for breakfast.

Follow with two glasses of warm water or herbal tea (dandelion leaf or root,

oatstraw, peppermint, yarrow, chickweed or red clover). Eat nothing solid until

lunch.

 

2. Eat the following foods to cleanse your liver: artichokes, watercress, fresh

lemon juice, celery, and papaya

 

3. Take milk thistle (silymarin). Alternative Medical Review summarized the use

of milk thistle and its use in the treatment of hepatitis, fatty liver,

cirrhosis and viral hepatitis.

 

4. Take SAMe for pain. This popular supplement works as well as ibuprofen and

other pain killers, but has fewer adverse effects, according to Clinician

Reviews. It may also help relieve liver condition symptoms.

 

5. Avoid all meats. Eat only fish and chicken. No sugar, alcohol, coffee or tea

(except herbal), fried foods, processed foods or flours, salt, strong spices,

preservatives, additives or synthetic vitamins. Eat pickles, sauerkraut and

other fermented vegetables to stimulate the healthy function of your liver.

Other cleansing foods include pineapple, celery, parsley, watercress and fresh

grapes. Eat a lot of steamed vegetable and tofu meals, concentrating on green

vegetables. With lunch and dinner have 2 tablespoons of grated beets with 1

tablespoon of olive oil and a teaspoon of fresh lemon juice. Eat bland, avoiding

onion, garlic (except in the liver flush drink), radishes and spices. Avocados

are good.

 

6. For infectious hepatitis, take 1,000 mg. of vitamin C every 2-4 hours with a

full glass of water; and a calcium citrate-magnesium capsule; take a B complex

capsule, vitamin E, and lecithin (Vegetarian Times/Well-Being).

 

7. If you have cirrhosis, try taking zinc as a supplement. In a study reported

in the Romanian Journal of Internal Medicine, patients who were given zinc

considerably improved after 30 days.

 

8. Avoid taking acetaminophen (Tylenol). A study published in the Journal of the

American Medical Association found that Tylenol was associated with liver

toxicity. Use SAMe instead (see # 4 above).

 

For more ideas, consult the source of this article. This article is for

information purposes only. For treatment, consult your health care practitioner.

 

Source:

 

This article was excerpted from The American Holistic Nurses' Association Guide

to Common Chronic Conditions: Self-Care Actions that Complement Your Doctor's

Advice, by Carolyn Chambers Clark, Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons, 2003.

 

 

 

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