Relating Giloy to liver damage completely misleading: Govt

 

 

 

 

THE AYUSH Ministry on Wednesday termed as “misleading” and “disastrous” to the traditional medicine system of India a study relating Giloy to liver damage, noting that the herb has been used in Ayurveda since long. Refuting a media report based on the study published in the Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hepatology, a peer reviewed journal of the Indian National Association for the study of the liver, the Ministry said it did not take into account other studies that talk about the efficacy of the herb.

 

The study mentions that use of herb TinosporaCordifolia (TC), commonly known as Giloy or Guduchi, resulted in liver failure in six patients in Mumbai. In a statement, the Ministry said it feels that the authors of the study failed in placing all needful details of the cases in a systematic format.