Prospects for the use of herbal medicine for liver diseases

Abstract

Liver disease today is the number one digestive disease. According to WHO, there are more than 2 billion people with liver disease in the world, while in the CIS countries the registered number of people suffering from liver disease varies from 500 thousand to 1 million annually. Liver diseases with concomitant somatic, toxicological and surgical pathologies, along with viral hepatitis, are increasingly dominating the morbidity pattern.