The liver is located on the right side of the abdomen, just below the rib cage, and is crucial for digesting food, absorbing nutrients, and eliminating toxins from the body. Some people are genetically prone to liver trouble, but many liver problems are as a result of viruses or chemicals causing damage. Common afflictions of the liver are hepatitis (A, B, C, D, E), alcohol damage, fatty liver disease, cirrhosis, cancer, and liver damage from acetaminophen.
People who are exposed to others’ blood and bodily fluids, have body piercings, have diabetes, use alcohol heavily, are on prescription medications, share needles, are obese, or have tattoos are at risk for liver damage. Symptoms of liver damage include jaundice or a yellowing of the skin and eyes, abdominal pain and swelling, itchy skin, dark urine coloring, pale stool coloring, chronic fatigue, nausea, and loss of appetite.
Treat Liver Damage Symptoms with Folk Medicine
On this page you can find a number of different user submitted natural remedies for liver damage. Some of our popular home cures for liver damage are castor oil, coconut oil, turmeric, and a garlic tea recipe. In addition, we have a number of discussions concerning dietary suggestions and detox options for your liver. Let us know what you try and how it works for you; and if you know a remedy that’s not yet listed here, please don’t hesitate to share it with us.
For those interested, I’ve been taking a set liver protocol over the last 12 years or so that seems to be very effective. I take it every day without fail. I thought it might be useful to pass this on.
The protocol that I supplement mainly consists of taking Milk Thistle, Selenium and Alpha Lipoic Acid + all the B vitamins every day. This is my core protocol. I decided long ago that it was was all but impossible, unrealistic and too expensive to eat organic food every day and anyway there’s no real chance of me regularly buying organic food when living in the primitive provinces of the Philippines. Here, people just look at me funny and smile whenever I ask for organic this or that. So my approach turned into supplementing a preventative daily detox regimen where I don’t panic or get paranoid if I’m forced to eat food from bad sources. The reason I don’t panic is that I’m always detoxing my body every single day. I also try and eat food and veg bought at the local wet market in my provincial town, so this also helps to limit all those fungicides, pesticides, agri-chemicals and poisons in the food because I’m not buying my food at a supermarket. In my opinion buying produce grown locally like this is by far the best and most realistic and affordable all-round option.
Milk Thistle, in my own experience, is a truly mighty detoxer for the liver. In my opinion, no other herb comes close. Other herbs like Burdock, Dandelion and Hogweed (Boerhavia diffusa) are also very good for the liver. But Milk Thistle has one huge plus. Milk Thistle is the only one that is a xenobiotic. There are poisons that you can eat that the liver or body knows nothing about and so it cannot neutralize them or get rid of those poisons form the body and they just end up staying in your body permanently doing harm. But Milk Thistle will get rid of these poisons because it is an efficient xenobiotic that can remove such poisons from the body safely.See the research on Milk Thistle:
https://selfhacked.com/blog/milk-thistle/
Selenium is a remarkable mineral that is hugely important in the human body. Selenium removes mercury, it’s good for the heart, promotes a healthy thyroid, reduces inflammation, protects the brain, helps to prevent cancer, boosts the immune system and most importantly, it is the central metallic atom in glutathione, which is probably the most important master anti-oxidant of the body that is essential for the protection of the liver, thyroid and the lungs. The reason the auto-immune system does not attack or destroy host cells is because all host cells contain a code (hapten code). And when an immune system cell interrogates that host cell — “Are you friend or foe??” — the hapten code response from the host cell is “Hey, I’m a friend”. But if mercury is absorbed by the host cell, it will scramble the hapten code so when the immune cell interrogates that host cell it gets the wrong response so the host cell is attacked and destroyed by antibodies as the enemy. This is what causes auto-immune disease. So if you regularly supplement selenium to remove mercury from your body then this must also help to reduce the possibility of getting auto-immune disease. See this link about selenium.
https://selfhacked.com/blog/health-benefits-selenium/
I learned all about Alpha Lipoic Acid (ALA) from the research of Dr Burt Berkson who was also using the Milk Thistle, Selenium and ALA + ALA IVs + Low dose naltrexone to successfully cure hepatitis C, liver cirrhosis, liver cancer and pancreatic cancer. From the Introduction to his book “The Alpha Lipoic Acid Breakthrough” which is all based on his own experience and research,
in 2017 I added resveratrol to my daily detox protocol which now consists of taking Milk Thistle, Selenium, ALA + B vitamins. I had been taking this protocol + resveratrol specifically to see if I could lose some weight because I was a wee bit too heavy for my height.
After seven months of taking this protocol my wife said, “Hey you’ve lost a lot of weight.” So I weighed myself and got a very pleasant surprise. I used to weigh 92 kilos and when I weighed myself after taking detox + resveratrol for 7 months, my weight had fallen to 75 kilos. I had lost about 20 kilos safely without taking any exercise. I thought that perhaps 75 kilos was a bit too light so I stopped taking the resveratrol and went up to about 80 kilos which, I reckon, is my fighting weight so to speak.
On further researching resveratrol, I also discovered two things. First if resveratrol is taken with Genistein (another flavonoid) on a daily basis then you will loose weight more rapidly than taking resveratrol alone. Milk Thistle contains significant amounts of genistein so there’s the reason I lost so much weight so easily. Milk thistle also contains significant amounts of quercitin. Research has also confirmed that when quercitin is taken with resveratrol on a daily basis then the immune strength is twice as strong as it would be just taking resveratrol on its own.
Here are the dosages that I take every day:
Milk Thistle….500 mgs once a day with a meal.
Selenium…….200 to 400 micrograms a day with a meal.
ALA……………..600 to 1200 mgs a day with a meal.
B Vitamins….half a tablespoon of Organic Brewer’s Yeast once a day with a meal.
Resveratrol (only derived from Japanese Knotweed)…..300 mgs taken first thing in the morning. Should contain at least 150mgs of trans-resveratrol.
Bill,
I would appreciate some insight. ALA, the warnings about mercury, or metal fillings. I have never decided one way or another regarding its use. There seems two sides to this and I am hesitant.
Now that I have been sprayed by glyphosates. It is difficult to know exactly what to do. I can unwind some or most of the symptoms. I know I am not making enough headway.
The sense it is lurking is concrete. There are protocols and advice. Not enough to eradicate it. It does not take much to knock me off my pins.
So looking at your regime, it has some promise. It is crazy making to resolve.
I look at this mess as something akin to arsenic or heavy metal poisoning. I am thinking it is not reversable, but manageable.
Chlordane poisoning in the 90s was an unknown factor, when I first became seriously ill. I have always concluded that was another issue that remains.
I would appreciate any insight into this mess.
Janet
Hi Janet…The way that I think about your ALA/mercury problem is mostly based on the research of Dr Burt Berkson, who is the ultimate expert or research guru on ALA and who has used the milk thistle, selenium, ALA oral protocol as part of his very successful natural Triple Antioxidant Therapy treatment for thousands of people with hepatitis C, cirrhosis, liver cancer and pancreatic cancer. And you can bet that those people he treated were just ordinary Americans who, without any doubt, would also have many mercury fillings in their teeth. The point is that Dr Berkson, in all his research and in his books, has never reported that people died or were injured with his detox treatment (i.e because ALA was redistributing mercury from their teeth into their bodies).
If you still have any fears about mercury when using ALA then I would also urge that you read Dr Berkson’s book “The ALA Breakthrough” on Amazon.com. In this book, he also describes, in one simple sentence, how ALA removes mercury safely from the body:
“Alpha lipoic acid has been demonstrated to chelate high levels of mercury and allow the patient to excrete it from the body by way of the gall bladder.”
It also sounds, from the description of your problem, that you may have other heavy metals in your body. If that is the case, I would immediately supplement Chlorella daily to help remove all heavy metals efficiently from just your intestines. I would also recommend that you supplement Cilantro extract every day which should help to also remove all the heavy metals from your tissues, organs and blood fairly quickly (probably within a month).
Chloredane is an awful industrial poison that contains a remarkable 6 chlorine atoms per molecule of chloredane which makes it highly poisonous and dangerous. Supplementing Milk thistle, Cilantro extract, MSM or Sodium thiosulfate (which is a well-known and efficient dechlorinator. The dose is 6 to 10 drops of ST in a glass of water per day – also see Ted from Bangkok’s dose recommendations for ST on EC) should help to remove chloredane from the body.
Hi Janet…I forgot to mention that if you regularly eat sulfur-containing foods then this will also help to remove glyphosates efficiently from your body.
Here are some useful sulfur-containing foods: Apple Cider vinegar, Korean kimchi, sauerkraut, garlic, onions, eggs, organic cheese etc
To Bill from Philippines:
I have been diagnosed with Scleroderma and doing a FCT Homeopathy protocol. Can Wheatgrass be used instead of Chlorella? I’ve heard make Chlorella brands are bad. Thank you.
Hi Becky…Scleroderma is an auto-immune disease. Here’s what Ted from Bangkok recommends:
“The cause of scleroderma in certain cases may be due to a tiny mycoplasma which bought about the condition. In which case zinc acetate 50 mg every other day, may normalize the immune functions as well as some iodine foot painting, maybe twice a week. A sodium ascorbate vitamin C (or ascorbic acid with baking soda), 1000 mg/day would normalize the body’s inflammation somewhat as it raises the body’s nitric oxide to some extent.
A drop of lavender oil in a glass of water may help that too for the scleroderma. If you think scleroderma is due to invading mycoplasma, then a pinch of borax in a drinking water would stop the scleroderma then and there.”
Source: http://ted.earthclinic.com/cures/acid_reflux42.html
Scleroderma can also affect other areas of the body such as skin, blood vessels, muscles and organs. Taking Milk Thistle, Chanca piedra, Cilantro extract and Selenium should also help with these internal issues.
Milk Thistle and Cilantro extract will help to support your liver/blood and will remove heavy metals and poisons from the body. Chanca piedra is highly beneficial for the body and will help to remove any excess calcium in the blood, which should also help to safely reduce excess calcium in the skin(which causes it to thicken). See this link:
https://earthclinic.com/herbs/chanca-piedra/comment-page-2/#comment-251407
Milk thistle and Cilantro extract will remove any heavy metals. Recent research has confirmed that excess mercury in the body can also be a cause for auto-immune disease and that’s why it’s important for you to take Selenium. Selenium helps to prevent auto-immune disease by removing mercury from the body. See my detailed description of the benefits of selenium here:
https://earthclinic.com/ailments/liver-damage-remedies/comment-page-3/#comment-251390
Protocol Dosages
* Borax(Sodium Tetraborate)….A pinch of Borax(like a pinch of salt) in a glass of water once per day. You can use unscented 20 Mule Team Borax from the supermarket(washing isle) without problems.
* Lavender Oil…One drop in a glass of water once per day.
* Milk Thistle…500mgs twice a day taken with meals
* Chanca piedra…Take the tea form three times a day outside mealtimes. Or you can take the capsules – 500mgs twice a day.
* Selenium…200 micrograms twice a day with meals.
* Cilantro extract…10 drops(or as recommended) in a glass of water taken twice a day outside mealtimes
My GGT in liver blood tests were 400 u/l. After taking ALA and Milk Thistle, they have dropped to below 90 u/l in 6 months.
HI U OLE PATOOTS DOIN,,,,,,,,,,, as all know I's kinda wild and strange. Anyways, me and my Tractor Driver are starting our annual liver and gall bladder flush this week and want to invite you to come along with us. The procedure is from Dr. Hulda Clark's book as the following URL explains.
http://www.drclark.net/cleanses/advanced/liver-cleanse-page/liver-cleanse-recipe
She also recommends that you drink apple juice daily for a week prior to the actual flush procedure. We will be drinking a glass of apple juice before every meal preceding our start on Friday night. The procedure is done Friday night and all is completed Saturday mid-morning. There is very little cost, a few lemons, a little epsom salt and a little olive oil. You can follow Dr. Clark's protocol but I will be posting all week and walk you through what takes place on Friday night and Saturday morning.
You will be amazed as to what your flashlight shows you in the toilet on Saturday morning. We have done this flush for about the last 10 years so we no longer get stones, we just get what is called chaff. If this is your first Rodeo then you will likely get stones of every color in the rainbow. You liver will thank you for getting rid of lots of toxins as you should feel much better.
I'm serious about this. This is your chance to clean out your liver with the whole world available to help you. I will post daily on things that may ease any reservations. In Dr Clark's book, she says she gets credit for this flush, but it has been done for thousands of years.
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YEP, It's me again. The professional folks have spooked me, because they don't want you to think for yourself. They say you can't do this by yourself. You must have professional guidance….. $, $, $. BS, BS, BS.
After reading what the sites say, I'm going to give you those caveats and you will have to make the decision as what is good for you. If you do the procedure, then don't fuss at me. I ain't got no money nohow.
One lady makes it clear that you must go to her for guidance. Instead, I'll give you what cure zone says and the decision is yours. Read the the possible problems and read the benefits. We are both old and we opt for the benefits. The decision is yours.
http://www.curezone.org/cleanse/liver/gallstones_and_liver_flush.asp
Not trying to stir up a controversy, but don't know your health situation. We old, but we've done this at least 10 times.
Here is what you might see in the toilet.
http://liverflushtruth.blogspot.com/p/pics.html
Know this is gross, but this crap is in your liver and you need to understand that. What we get now get is the chaff you see in the last pictures.
Research this flush yourself and I hope you will join us. Our governments can't get along, but maybe we can.
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I recently was diagnosed with a 5.5 cm simple liver cyst, I cant digest most food, so much heartburn, gas, bloated, nausea, specialty at night, no stones showed on my ecography, is Liver flush safe to my with such cyst? I was preparing me with apple juice last day to do the liver flush but with this ecography results I'm scared that what could happen with my cyst. Thank you for your help.
Dear Robert Henry,
Just last night I was in bed thinking about how much better I feel than a year ago. A year ago no foods agreed with me and I had heartburn and chest pain that often woke me in the night.
It took me four flushes over the course of a couple of months to get the largest stones out. The proof is in the pudding. I haven't had the chronic heartburn or chest pain since. Even a year later I marvel that it actually worked. No surgery. No organs removed. Yay!
Reading stories here at EC finally gave me the courage to do it. It was that or surgery.
Happy cleansing!
~Mama to Many~
MAMA,,,,,,,, got a few stories to tell you. What folks don't know is that in these stones are full of toxins big time as we have learned from a lady in our little country church experienced this past year.
She had a kidney stone and went to a Cleveland, Tn hospital to get it crushed and passed. They crushed it alright and it was full of E-coli, went through out her body and gave her sepsis. That's a $3 consultant word for blood poison. She was unconscious for 8 days and on life support. They took her off life support and she became conscious 3 days later. She was totally black. So far the doctors have cut off her left arm at the elbow, cut off her left leg at the knee and have cut off the toes on her right foot.
She only survived because we were praying for her night and day . You cannot believe her attitude. She is just grateful to be alive. She has been back to church twice and it thrills us just to see her. If folks don't think there is a God, then I weep for them.
I told this story to my dentist and he related that his son's mother in law is still in the hospital after a simple gall bladder incision went array. The doctors had to operate on her a third time and she went into sepsis and is still in IR.
It is now apparent that toxins are in your fat, and stones and any other place they can hide. They hide in your kidney stones, they hide in you liver and gall stones. Our medical folks are just smart enough to get us to the Holy Land before our time. Crush stones full of toxins and send that garbage through out your body. Are you SHEETING ME? They spent 28 years of schooling and did not know this? You kidding me, right?
Reminds me of going to the Institute of Paper Industry in Wisconsin back in the '70's and learned that the professors were 20 years behind the industry. They brought us up on summer seminars to learn from us. They did not know sheet. I don't think our medical doctors do either. They only know what the mini skirted Pharma Reps tell them.
Excuse my rant. Just more reasons that folks need to flush their liver and get rid of the stones full of toxins.
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HI U GOOD PEOPLE,,,,,,, if you are doing the flush, I hope you are drinking your apple juice. It's not mandatory, but helps. Also like Jessie, I did not lie, I just misspoke. Forgot that Sat. we are leaving for Grayton Beach, Fla. so we will do the actual flush on Thursday night. Suggest you stay with Fri. night going into the weekend.
There are additional things that will assist you:
Take about 4 to 8 capsules of 500 mg L-Ornithine for sleep and a heating pad on your left side to encourage your liver to flush. Have a bright flashlight so you can observe the toilet stones the next morning. We have learned to have all our solutions in jars and packed in an ice chest next to our bed. They go down better cold. Dr Clark says to use pink grapefruit, but we have used lemons, either works.
Well, if you are not doing the flush with us, then at least you're thinking about doing preventive things like Mama does.
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HI U OLE PATOOTS,,,,,,,,,,, tonight we do our liver flush ; have shut off all supplements, eating a mild and late breakfast, drinking lots of apple juice and water. Have all the toddies mixed and in the frig. and heating pads are on the bed. Hope some of you are trying this procedure for the first time. The Russian PhD says in his book that he and his Retreat followers spent a week detoxing and conclude with the liver flush. He considers this to be one of the best things to do for good health. We have two of his books. His mother was an MD and was disappointed that he studied Physiology, not medicine. His reponse was that he wanted to help people stay healthy and not just treat their symptoms.
Wish us well, =====ORH=====
I dropped the olive oil part since the green of the olive oil could be mistaken for stones. I started the Atkins cholesterol protocol, TMG, vitamin E, a bunch of supplements. That alone flushed the smaller stones. I found though that for me they returned very quickly and I used plain Apple Cider Vinegar to keep them flushed. Later I found Stephanie Seneff discussing sulfur and cholesterol sulfate and its proper function in the body, added MSM to my protocol, resolved stones and diarrhea as long as I keep on the MSM and TMG. I have helped two people flush their stones the way since then. One was my husband who went on a fast and felt like he was having a heart attack. He grew new respect for my pain all those years.
Essential Oils cleaned out blocked liver:
I am grateful for this site and am hoping this will help someone. Applying an essential oil blend externally 3 times cleared my liver. (I DO NOT SELL THEM). After that I could actually take supplements without them making my face numb. Now I take huge doses of Niacin for my anxiety and life is becoming wonderful again.
A while back I was in really bad shape – for a year I couldn't take more than a quarter of the adult dose of a quality multivitamin (took a while to find one I could tolerate at all) or my face would go numb. Auto-immune diagnosis and major issues.
One day I tried an essential oil blend designed to help digestion – ingredients were Ginger, Peppermint, Tarragon, Fennel, Caraway, Coriander, and Anise essential oils. (called Digestzen). I rubbed 2 or 3 drops over my liver area 3 times in one day. The next day I had pain in ALL joints in my body – this took a week to clear. I also saw something that looked like chopped straw in my poop.
After a few months I got brave enough to try again – this time I applied only once 2 drops over my liver. I got a little pain in my liver this time.
A week later I tried again 2 drops applied over my liver and it was all good.
I read later that the straw stuff is called chaff and is crystallised stuff that literally blocks the tiny ducts up and was leaving the liver. My liver was literally blocked up. (So nothing was working very well)
Since then I have also started using Chinese bitters. I am now able to take supplements in orthomolecular doses without fear of tremors all night or numb face, etc.
Life if fabulous. Keep asking the universe/god for help and it will come – love to all and I hope this helps someone.
It sounds great to me. Hopping you are a serious human being acting in God's name and not be a charlatan.
NOTE: I had missed a important information.
All those oils from GINGER at to Anise, comes in a hole bottle, or we have to buy all individually and then, mixing them in a glass jar?
Please, let me know and were I can buy them too.
I have two Benign cysts, one is 1 cm and other, the first one had show in X-Ray is now 2cm.
I am so happy for you, because I know how bad you usually feel, I can not eat almost nothing every thing hurts me, even medicine do not cure me instead make me worst. My bally is always blowing I need digestive on the account remedies.
All my joins of my body hurts, since I was a child, I noted it after I had turned yellow like a Lemon even my eye I was only 6 years old. Not school took me in because teachers thought I was a hepatitis person.
Dr. said that I have a damaged liver but not contagious, it was a Jaundice infected liver by contaminated water of uncooked food. until my color finally clear a great deal but not complete I still look a Olive greenish.
Today, I am going to be 77 next June 07/17 and my health is getting worst I feeling the earth is moving, actually it is me only, and even felling down frequently by not reason at all. Every thing I eat is bad, gasses are my worst anemic and always are with me.
I am telling my history for those ones that might have the same problem and not ware that can be the liver too.
I never had drinking neither smoke, not eat hot food because I have had follow very carful since the Dr. had diagnosticade me with liver damaged, I can not grease, meat and many other foods, and I have had developed Asthma that is together with the liver, ready to make my live miserable.
Please return my email letting me know if all those remedies comes already mixed or I have o buy them individually and mixed those myself.
I hope it ill kill most of my problems, thanks to you and God that has had put you in many people lives to get cure or at least most better.
Thanks again and God bless your and yours too.
blanche.
Ginger, raw, thinly sliced and chewed or crystallized ginger tiny pieces, really cut down my liver pain, go slow it's very strong.
The name is listed – Digestzen (by doTerra). Young Living and other companies sell similar digestion blends – they all have similar ingredients. Try also using Swedish or Chinese Bitters as well. These help clean out the liver. God bless you.
Thank you.
Have you tried the essential oils yet? Did it work for the cyst?
Tell me more about the niacin you used and the dose per day. Your experience too. Thank you, Carri