Experiment 511837
Details
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Pharmacology | |
| Administration route | ORAL |
| Organism | Teucrium chamaedrys (LAMIACEAE) |
| Citation | MATTEI,A: BIZOLLON,T: CHARLES,JD: DEBAT,P: FONTANGES,T: CHEVALLIER,M: TREPO,C:. (1992). LIVER DAMAGE DUE TO WILD GERMANDER: REPORT OF FOUR CASES.. 16(10) |
| Amount utilized | |
| Compound isolated | |
| Disease | WE REPORT 4 CASES OF PATIENTS WHO DEVELOPED HEPATIC INJURY DURING ADMINISTRATION OF HERBAL MEDICINES FOR LOSING WEIGHT WITH WILD GERMANDER. THREE DEVELOPED JAUNDICE AND ONE HAD FATIGUE. AMINOTRANSAMINASE ACTIVITIES INCREASED IN ALL PATIENTS. LIVER BIOPSY SHOWED CENTROLOBULAR NECROSIS AND PORTAL LYMPHOPLASMOCYTIC INFILTRATION. A DRUG OTHER THAN WILD GERMANDER MIGHT HAVE BEEN IMPLICATED IN HEPATIC INJURY IN TWO PATIENTS. THE SIMILARITY OF THESE CASES SUGGESTS, HOWEVER, THAT WILD GERMANDER, LIKE OTHER HERBAL MEDICINES, MAY BE RESPONSIBLE FOR HEPATIC INJURY. |
| Number | 2 |
| Qualitative result | ACTIVE |
| Animal | HUMAN ADULT |
| Dose expression | DOSE |
| Extract | PLANT |