Treatment of Hepatopathy in Children with a Combination of Capparis Spinosa and Other Indian Indigenous Drugs

INTRODUCTION Hepatopathy, commonly encountered in our paediatric practice, may be just a benign one or an indication of an underlying serious pathological process. One such malignant hepatopathy is the Cirrhosis of the liver. Any enlarged liver with some degree of firmness should be looked upon with suspicion, especially when such enlargement is associated with gastrointestinal symptoms, low fever, inability to thrive and increasing pallor. Cirrhosis of the liver is still a baffling problem from the therapeutic point of view. It is now increasingly realised that only in early stages the disease can be arrested and cured with suitable treatment. In advanced cases the chances of recovery are very thin or almost nil.