Diagnosis and Management of Drug-Induced Liver Injury After the Use of Polygonum multiflorum

Ali Zahir; Michael Li; Ryan M Gill; Danielle Brandman

doi:10.14309/crj.0000000000000884

Diagnosis and Management of Drug-Induced Liver Injury After the Use of Polygonum multiflorum

ACG Case Rep J. 2022 Oct 12;9(10):e00884. doi: 10.14309/crj.0000000000000884. eCollection 2022 Oct.

Authors

Ali Zahir¹, Michael Li^{1

2}, Ryan M Gill^{1

3}, Danielle Brandman^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA.
² Division of Gastroenterology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA.
³ Department of Pathology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA.

Abstract

Polygonum multiflorum, a species of flowering plant in the buckwheat family, is widely used in alternative medicine. However, a growing body of literature has implicated P. multiflorum as a cause of drug-induced liver injury. We report a case of successful treatment of a drug-induced liver injury after consumption of an herbal tea containing P. multiflorum.

Publication types

Case Reports