HEPATO-BILIARY

SYMPTOM
CONDITION
SUB-CONDITION
HERB
"BILIOUSNESS"
Acute, from drug or food excess
 
Berberis, Mahonia
 
Sick headache with nausea, dyspepsia, light feces
 
Iris
 
Dizziness, depression, frontal headache, tenderness and pain in right hypochondrium
 
Leptandra
 
Chronic, with symptoms of autointoxication, sluggish liver catabolism
 
Larrea
CHOLANGITIS
Acute
 
Leptandra
 
Light stools, cloudy or dark urine, pain in right hypochondrium to shoulder
 
Chelidonium
 
Light stools, dark scanty urine, with steatorrhea, pain in right hypochondrium to navel
 
Chionanthus
 
with sharp cutting pains, increased by motion
 
Chionanthus
 
General antispasmodic
 
Brickellia, Dioscorea, Picraena, Piscidia
CHOLECYSTALGIA
Pain in right hypochondrium to right shoulder, without any major abdominal pain
 
Chelidonium, Leptandra
 
General antispasmodic
 
Dioscorea, Lobelia, Picraena
CHOLECYSTITIS
"Catarrhal"
 
Achillea, Brickellia, Bryonia, Chionanthus
 
Chronic without blockage
 
Chelidonium
 
with occasional jaundice
 
Chionanthus
 
For pain
 
Brickellia, Picraena
CHOLELITHIASIS
Reoccurring without blockage
 
Chelidonium
 
Preventative
 
Chionanthus, Leptandra
CIRRHOSIS
Alcoholic
 
Silybum
 
with portal congestion
 
Chionanthus, Fouquieria, Iris
 
Biliary
 
Chelidonium
 
Laennec's
 
Silybum
HEPATITIS
General strengthening
 
Arctium, Silybum, Taraxacum
 
with jaundice, headache, orange colored urine
 
Bryonia
 
with jaundice, light frothy stools, scanty urine, right hypochondrium pain
 
Chionanthus
 
Hot skin, cold feet, abdominal congestion, white coated tongue, bad taste and breath, pain in right
 
hypochondrium with pain referred to right or left shoulder Leptandra
 
Rebound elevations of bilirubin, SGOT and SGPT at a later time
 
Linaria
 
Chronic abdominal pain and hemorrhoidal aching after acute symptoms long over
 
Fouquieria
JAUNDICE
Mild, with simple unobstructed hepatic dysfunction
 
Chelone, Taraxacum
 
Pale, dry skin, thick coated tongue, moderate hepatic pain,
 
Leptandra
 
Posthepatic, Cholestatic
 
Chelidonium
 
Functional
 
Chionanthus
 
General recuperative
 
Berberis, Linaria, Mahonia

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