Review on Herbal Plants with Hepatoprotective Activity against Alcohol Inducing Liver Cirrhosis

Different combinations of plants and herbal extracts are most likely to provide desired activities or actions to cure different liver diseases.An approach to modern drug development can provide different valuable drugs but search for pure phytochemicals and drug form is more time consuming and expensive.Various polyherbal formulations and medicinal plants are used to treat and prevent various types of liver diseases.Herbal drugs are broadly used over than allopathic drugs for various hepatic disorders, due to less expensive, more acceptability, good compatibility with human body.Hepatic cirrhosis is a major health concern, it became a big challenging health care professionals and scientists.It is a life-threatening condition such as hepatitis, liver cirrhosis.Hepatic cells may get damaged.Hence hepatoprotective activity of herbal plants such as "eclipta alba", "Acacia confusa", "Curcuma longa", "Glycyrrhiza glabra", "solanum nigrum".Present review is aimed at collecting data on various medicinal plants that have proved for hepatoprotective activity in laboratory animal models.