Angelica Sinensis Protects the liver Against Toxicity

The liver is the largest internal organ in the human body and the only organ which can regenerate itself. The liver is the first line of the bodily toxin defense by filtering the blood that comes from the digestive tract, before passing it to the rest of the body.

The liver also produces cholesterol that plays a critical role in building strong cell membranes, producing steroid hormones and vitamin D and aiding the digestive function in food absorption and detoxifying chemicals and metabolizing drugs.

The hepatoprotective or liver protective effect is an action that maintains the liver's healthy functioning against any harmful toxins, including detoxification which is a natural process of our body to maintain the proper function and protect our organs and tissues against toxicity by eliminating toxins accumulated.

When they fail, the toxic accumulations cause a disruption of hormone production, damage the body's detoxification organs and weaken the immune system, leading to hormone imbalance and much chronic illness consequently.

Symptoms of liver diseases include jaundice, abdominal pain, and swelling, swelling in the legs and ankles, itchy skin, dark urine, and pale stool color, and a tendency to bruise easily.

There are no exact causes of liver disease. viruses, toxins, genetics, alcohol, and unknown causes are some prevalent factors found in patients with chronic liver disease, including cancer.

In the US, most cases of liver disease are a result of hepatitis viral infection and autoimmune diseases. Infectious viral hepatitis can produce toxins to protect them against the antioxidant enzymes produced by the host body and prevent the attack of the systematic immune response.

Furthermore, in recent years, excessive alcohol drinking has been found to induce alcoholic liver disease in many parts of Asia and America.

On finding a natural ingredient for the prevention and treatment of liver diseases, scientists examined the hepatoprotective effects of polysaccharides-enriched fractions from the root of Angelica sinensis in rodents.

Angelica or Dang Gui is a herb of Genus Angelica from the family Apiaceae, indigenous to China.

The herb has been used as a Queen herb in traditional Chinese medicine antispasmodic and vasodilatory agent, and to balance the hormones in women for a normal menstrual cycle and menstruation and strengthen heart, spleen, kidneys, and liver for both men and women, etc. In other words, it is used to treat gynecological ailments, fatigue, mild anemia, and high blood pressure. It has analgesic, anti-inflammatory, etc.

According to tested analysis,
* Intra-gastric administration of Angelica sinensis polysaccharides-enriched fraction (AP) at the doses of 50 or 75 mg/kg dose-dependently prevented liver toxicity induced by acetaminophen in mice but did not affect the serum acetaminophen concentration.
* AP inhibited the liver stress markers alanine transferase (ALT), malondialdehyde (MDA) and hepatic nitric oxide synthase (NOS) activities and glutathione level in the liver.

* In the carbon tetrachloride (CCl4) induced liver damage animals, AP showed weak protective activity.


* However, a higher dose of AP inhibited the MDA level without affecting the serum ALT level, the hepatic glutathione level instead while the NOS activity in CCl4 induced liver damage in rats.


Based on the results, researchers suggest, "These findings suggest that the pathogenic mechanisms of both acetaminophen and CCl4 are different. AP is more effective in the protection against liver damage induced by acetaminophen, which is associated with the glutathione depletion and nitric oxide synthase activation in the liver".


Taken altogether, Dandelion may be considered a remedy for the protection against liver damage, pending to the confirmation of the larger sample size and multicenter human study.

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Sources
(1) Protective effect of polysaccharides-enriched fraction from Angelica sinensis on hepatic injury by Ye YN1, Liu ES, Li Y, So HL, Cho CC, Sheng HP, Lee SS, Cho CH. (PubMed)
(2) Protection of Angelica sinensis (Oliv) Diels against hepatotoxicity induced by Dioscorea bulbifera L. and its mechanism by Niu C1, Wang J, Ji L, Wang Z. (PubMed)