Natural Healing Botanicals

Juniper Berry

Keywords

Anti-Fungal, Antiaging, Antibacterial, Antifungal, Antimicrobial, Antioxidant, Hepatoprotective, Immunomodulator, Psoriasis, Skin Care, Skin Health, Skin Inflammation, Wound Healing

Outline

1. Healing Properties
2. Disease / Symptom Treatment
1. 2.1. Liver Damage
  1. 2.1.1. Reperfusion injury

Juniper berry

Healing Properties

Disease / Symptom Treatment

Liver Damage

Reperfusion injury

Juniper berry oil supplementation helped prevent Hepatic Reperfusion injury, sometimes called ischemia-reperfusion injury (IRI) or reoxygenation injury.^[1]

improved rates of bile flow
juniper berry oil reduced cell death in pericentral regions of the liver lobuleby 75%.
improves the hepatic microcirculation in livers under-going oxidant stress.

Title: Dietary juniper berry oil minimizes hepatic reperfusion injury in the rat
Publication: Hepatology
Date: October 1998
Study Type: Animal Study: In Vitro - In Vivo
Author(s): Jones SM, Zhong Z, Enomoto N, Schemmer P, Thurman RG.
Institutions: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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