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now typically when you think of herbs for the  liver you think they’re very very beneficial  

and most herbs are very healthy for  the liver especially those that are  

bitter there’s all sorts of phytochemicals  that support the liver a herb that’s very  

important would be milk thistle or stinging  nettle root two very very powerful herbs  

there’s a lot of plants that are good for the  liver as well dandelion greens is very good for  

the liver and there’s many many more but there  are herbs that are a bit toxic to your liver  

in large amounts but the six herbs i’m going to  talk about um don’t affect everyone but a certain  

population they do so i want to bring them up to  increase your awareness so the first one we’re  

going to talk about is kava kava now kava kava  is great for relaxation it’s good for stress  

and if you’re consuming it traditionally you’re  going to consume the roots you’re not going to do  

the stems or the leaves and unfortunately certain  nutritional companies to save money they’ll use  

the whole plant and that’s when you get into  trouble because the stems and the leaves are  

are a bit more toxic to the liver than the  roots now the main thing with kava kava is that  

it should never be taken with drugs or  alcohol because it will tend to hold  

that chemical in the liver a lot longer and  that’s really what creates a lot of the damage  

so it would be like you consuming alcohol but then  you can’t release the toxic effects of alcohol so  

that would be a situation so traditionally  people that use kava kava they would chew the  

root and then they would spit it out and your  saliva has certain enzymes to kind of deal with  

the toxicity that would affect your liver so  fortunately we don’t do that anymore all right  

the next one is shepparel and that has been  used for over 50 different elements including  

cancer asthma tb skin problems you name it now  this herb is banned in many different countries  

and it’s been known to be very poisonous even  indicated by the fda but you can still buy it my  

recommendation is to choose some other safer herbs  because this potentially could create a problem  

in certain people if you have too much and this  herb also affects the liver’s ability to detoxify  

so we don’t want that and so the next herb  would be called germander now this herb acts  

as an antiseptic antidepressant diuretic it’s even  used for obesity and weight loss but unfortunately  

can cause hepatitis and liver cirrhosis in a  certain percentage of the population so this  

is another one that i would probably avoid all  right next one is in pila this was used in africa  

in fact the word for impila means health in Zulu  so it’s used for stomach problems infertility  

coughing in worms but it can be highly toxic  to the liver in the kidney in certain people  

and so this is another herb i probably would not  recommend and number five red clover which has  

been used for menopause and also many other  ailments but the problem with red clover in  

certain species it can create a toxic liver and  that includes humans now what is interesting it  

can actually improve the thyroid but at the  same time it can increase liver enzymes so  

when you’re researching herbs you have to really  make sure that you get one that doesn’t give you  

another problem all right and number six st john’s  wort which is very effective for depression now  

i actually recommend this herb if someone has  depression or anxiety because it’s extremely  

effective but not if you’re taking medications  because there are so many complications with other  

medications especially psychiatric drugs that you  would have to take this under supervision so if  

you’re not taking any medication or drugs i think  it’ll be okay because it’s very very effective  

but even though it might not cause liver damage  directly it can create indirect damage because how  

it concentrates other medications and last note  on this um saint john’s wort i mean think about  

what what competition that this goes up against  we’re talking about a the major anti-anxiety  

anti-depressant medication so again i also don’t  know how unbiased some of this research is against  

saint john’s wort and so my recommendation is if  you’re taking other medications get supervision  

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