Nanosilver Heals Liver Damaged by Powerful Toxin
Researchers from the Department of Environmental Biotechnology, Bharathidasan University, India, have demonstrated in an animal study that small amounts of silver can help heal liver damage caused by a particularly harsh liver toxin. The study is titled “Hepatocurative activity of biosynthesized silver nanoparticles fabricated using Andrographis paniculata,” and it was published in the journal Colloids and Surfaces B, Biointerfaces, in February 2013.
The study reveals that when researchers used a very toxic solvent known as CC1(4) to damage the livers of mice, and then gave the mice silver nanoparticles, the silver cured the mice of the vast majority of the liver damage induced by the toxic solvent. The clinical researchers claimed in their study that at low doses, the silver “was effective in revival of all biological parameters to near normal in all intoxicated groups indicating the curing effects on CC1(4)-induced liver injury.”
What’s more, the researchers attribute the amazing healing of the damaged mice livers to silver’s “strong antioxidant effect.” The researchers were so enthused by their discovery they even called nanosilver “hepato-curative,” meaning they feel it cured the liver damage induced by the toxic solvent.
