Liver enlargement indicates liver disease. It is otherwise known as Hepatomegaly. The enlarged or swollen liver can become explains no clinical symptoms. It can be caused by liver cancer, blood disorders, hepatitis, excessive intake of alcohol and jaundice. The liver is the most vulnerable part which is exposed to various disorders some of them may become life threatening. There are simple and inexpensive home remedies that can use used to treat these ailments that are easy and effective.
Symptoms of Liver Enlargement
There are no specific symptoms for liver enlargement. It is just an indication or symptom of other underlying diseases.
Causes for Liver Enlargement
- Hepatitis
- Malaria
- Leukemia
- Lymphoma’s
- Viral hepatitis B and C
- Prolonged ingestion of quinine
- Excessive use of alcohol
- Liver abscesses
Home remedies for liver enlargement
- Include long brinjals (egg plant) in your daily diet as it helps in restoring the liver to its original condition. They stimulate the inactive cells of the liver.
- Papaya is also helpful incuring Liver Enlargement
- A mixture of 2 grams of Sprague powder, ½ gram salt taken with water twice daily is another effective home remedy for liver enlargement.
- Make a mixture of carrot juice, cucumber juice and spinach juice in the ratio of 3: 1:1 and consume it everyday. This is very effective in curing liver problems.
- Drink orange juice on empty stomach for 7 days.
- Prepare the juice of 50 grams of white radish leaves and stem with sugar candy and drink this mixture every morning with empty stomach. This is one of the effective home remedies for live enlargement.
- Drink half a cup of bitter guard juice with a pinch of salt everyday as it is helpful in treating both liver and spleen problems.
- Make a juice of 2 oranges and drink it with empty stomach for 5-7 days.
- Take a spearmint juice with added sugar for 10 days.
- Add black salt and ginger to Aloe pulp of a single leaf every morning for about 10 days.
- You can also prepare the extract of chicory from its flowers, roots and seeds and take it daily as it has curative properties for liver enlargement.
- Make a mixture of fresh lime juice and the juice of black papaya seeds and drink it everyday for a month.
- Dandelion and yellow dock can be consumed to effectively control liver problems.
- Juice of spearmint with sugar taken for 10 days is also a good home remedy for liver enlargement.
- Include vitamin E as it can control liver enlargement and jaundice.
- Garlic, fennel, sunflower, catnip, sagrada, blessed thistle and cascara are helpful herbs in curing liver enlargement.
- Wash 5 leaves of fig and grind with water and sugar candy. Strain the mixture and take it two times a day for best liver care.
- Eating strawberries is another good home remedy helpful in curing liver enlargement.
- Drink glucose water thrice daily to help cure liver problems.
- A tablet can be made using 1 ½ gram of jaggery and same amount of Chebulicmyrobalan's peel powder. This tablet should be taken with hot water everyday in the morning and evening for a month.
- Indian Gooseberry has been used in the treatment of liver enlargement since hundreds of years as a home remedy.
- The extract of Bathu leaves with a pinch of salt added to it is another helpful home remedy to cure liver enlargement.
- Take henna powder in the doses of 1.25 to 5 grams daily. The decoction of this herb is also equally effective.
- The bark of Berberis tree is a liver tonic. ¼ teaspoon of this should be taken daily.
- Basil leaves extract has been used in ancient Indian and Arabic medicines.
- Trailing eclipta is another herb useful in curing liver enlargement. Take 1 tablespoon of its juice two times a day after adding cardamom to the juice. It controls enlargement of liver. It can also be taken as juice of few leaves mixed with crushed peppercorns or mixed with curd in the early morning for seven days.
- Use of life force energy is also helpful in curing liver enlargement.
Diet Recommendation
- Avoid alcohol and caffeine.
- Avoid fried and high fatty foods and spicy foods as they can aggravate the liver problems. Reduce use of red chilies and turmeric.
- Do not drink buffalo’s milk.
- Drink lots of goat’s milk and churned buttermilk.
- Avoid sour foods and curd.
- Eat lots of bitter vegetables like bitter guard and drumstick.