Worried about "premature baldness", citizen Ms. Ding soaked Polygonum multiflorum to prevent hair loss. After drinking for a month, the liver was seriously damaged and jaundice occurred. Doctors remind that half of patients with abnormal liver function are related to drugs. Please don't blindly take traditional Chinese medicine, health tea and all kinds of health food. Ms. Ding, 40, is very concerned about health preservation. Not long ago, she bought Polygonum multiflorum in the drugstore and boiled water every day, hoping to maintain health and prevent hair loss through dietotherapy. After drinking for about a month, Ms. Ding always felt that she had no appetite. She was easily tired and turned yellow. She hurried to the Third Hospital of Wuhan to see a doctor. Huang Shasha, a digestive physician in Shouyi Hospital of the hospital, said that Ms. Ding had obvious symptoms of jaundice, not only her skin was yellow, but also her eyes were yellow. The liver function examination showed that the bilirubin index was as high as 218mmol / L, which had exceeded more than ten times the upper limit of the normal value. After a series of the examinations, morphology of the liver and gallbladder were normal with theout organic lesions. After careful inquiry, Han Zheng, director of the Department, judged that "it should be that long-term use of Polygonum multiflorum led to drug-induced liver damage". After receiving liver protection and anti jaundice treatment, Ms. Ding's condition improved significantly. Han Zheng introduced that although Polygonum multiflorum is a common material for drugs and health food, the cases of liver injury caused by taking Polygonum multiflorum are not rare in clinic. Long term overdose of Polygonum multiflorum, especially unprocessed raw Polygonum multiflorum, may lead to liver injury. "Half of the patients with abnormal liver function received in the clinic are drug-related; among them, a considerable number of people get sick after blindly taking traditional Chinese medicine, health tea and all kinds of health food." Han Zheng told reporters that the most common is the abnormal liver function caused by drinking Polygonum multiflorum and Panax notoginseng. Han Zheng appealed not to buy and take the so-called beauty cream, pain cream, hair cream and all kinds of folk prescription health food sold by unknown merchants at will; Do not blindly buy and take traditional Chinese medicine. If there is a need for health preservation, it is best to consult the regular medical institutions first and take appropriate supplements under the guidance of doctors. (Xinhua News Agency)