Author Dr. Setiawan Dalimartha Thickness: 147 pp.
Size: 19 x 26 cm (7.5 x 10.25 inches)
Language: Indonesian.
The disease of hepatitis is a process of inflammation in the tissues of liver. Popularly, people know it as liver, or yellow disease. Virus is the main cause of hepatitis. The followings are the general symtoms of hepatitis: weak body, loss of appetite, queasy and vomitting, feeling uncomfortable or pain in the stomach, fever, headache, pain in the body joints. In addition, the white part of eye balls, mucus film in the mouth and skin look yellowing.
If it is not cured, the disease will cause death to the patient. The trend in Indonesia shows that the number of this disease tends to increase. Ironically, specific medicines for curing this viral disease have not been found. Patients and You who have relatives or colleagues who suffer this disease should know hepatitis by reading this book. Those who work in the field of medicine should also know more about hepatitis and or buy this book. The book describes how hepatitis infects people, its sympthoms, complication, diagnosis, prognosis, medication, and its prevention.
Various traditional herbs both from the chinese and the ones that are available on the market are explained by specialist doctor of this traditional medicine.
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Table of Contents:
Chapter 1. Physiology of Liver - a. about liver organ; b. Functions of liver
Chapter 2. Understanding the disease of hepatitis - a. definition; b. the cause of hepatitis; c. clinical sympthoms; diagnosis
Chapter 3: Viruses of Hepatitis: a. what is virus; b. Hepatitis A; c. Hepatitis B; d. Hepatitis C; e. Hepatitis D; f. Hepatitis E; g. Hepatitis G
Chapter 4: Hepatitis by other causes - a. Hepatitis causd by bacteria or parasites; b. Hepatitis caused by medicines; c. Hepatitis caused by Alcohol; d. Non-Alcoholic Steato Hepatitis, e. Hepatitis caused by dirty food
Chapter 5: Complications - a. liver sirosis ; b. liver cancer.
Chapter 6. Laboratory examination on liver disease
Chapter 7. Traditional medicines for curing disease in liver.
- Temulawak Rhizome or Radix Curcumae;
- Meniran herbs or Herba Phyllanthi urinariae
- Spoon leaves or semen plantaginis
- Sambiloto leaves or herba andrographidis
- Centellae leaves
- Ecliptae leaves
- Teraxaci leaves
- Chicken claw leaves (herba slaginellae doederleinii)
- Radix Acanthi
- Folium Malpighiae coccigerae
- Herba hydrocotylis (Tian hu sui leaves - (chinese name))
- Herba Kyllingae brevifoliae (Shui wu gong)
- Herba Sidae rhombifoliae
- Radix Lagerstroemiae indicae
- Flos Stachytarphetae
- Tomatoes or fructus lycopersici esculenti (fan qie)
- Semen cassiae
- Stigma maydis (corn silk)
- Herba Oxalis (Cu jiang cao)
- Herba Paederiae (Ji shi teng)
- Rhizoma Imperatae (Bai mao gen)
- Radix Rauvolfiae serpentinae or Radix Rauvolfiae Verticillatae
- Radix Coicis
- Herba et Radix Sambuci javanicae
- Rhizoma Cannae indicae
- Rhizoma costi speciosi (Zhang liu tou)
- Herba Vernoniae cinereae
- Herba Elephantopi (di dan cao)
- Herba Hedyotis diffusae
- Herba Rorippae (Hancai)
- Radix et Caulis Abri
- Rhizoma Carotae
- Rhizoma Zedoariae
- Radix Glycyrrhizae (Gan cao)
- Sporophore or mycelium of mushroom (Ling zhi)
Chapter 8. Curing hepatitis according to Traditional Chinese Medicine
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