Herbal Medicine

Scientists Discover Autoimmune Response in Germander-Related Cytolytic Hepatitis

Published in Hepatitis Weekly, October 30th, 2000

A follow-up of patients in France who developed cytolytic hepatitis as a result of ingesting germander, an herbal medicine said to cause weight loss, showed that in many cases, the patient's immune response system recognized substances on liver cells as antigens, which then created an autoimmune response.

Germander, which caused similar cases of hepatitis in Canada, has reportedly been banned in France.

Scientists who studied the patients in France found that the metabolic influences of a substance called teucrin A (TA) was responsible for the hepatotoxicity demonstrated in the cytolytic hepatitis patients. TA was said to influence the activity of...

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