An Insight on Alcoholic Steatosis and its Homoeopathic Management

Alcoholic Liver Disease is the term that encompasses the liver manifestations of alcohol overconsumption, including fatty liver, alcoholic hepatitis and chronic hepatitis with liver fibrosis or cirrhosis. Alcoholic Steatosis, is also known as Fatty Liver Disease (FLD). Many people with alcoholic liver disease experience no symptoms in the early stage of the disease. In most cases, a simple fatty liver may not cause any symptom and may not even lead to complications. However, with the fat deposits, the liver becomes prone to further health problems, in some people. With excess fat deposits, the liver may develop complications like, cirrhosis, liver failure and even liver cancer. The common and mild stage of this disease is called simple fatty liver or hepatic steatosis and the more serious and worsened one is known as steato - hepatitis. Homoeopathy is a scientific system of medicine which have very good medicines for the treatment of fatty liver. It is important to understand that homeopathy selects the right medicine on the basis of the holistic symptoms of the patient and not just the diagnostic name of the disease. Homoeopathic medicines are more specific in nature and act primarily on the disease process affecting totality of the liver.