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Complementary therapies
Many people with hepatitis use complementary or alternative therapies, either as a treatment for their liver disease or to help relieve the symptoms or treatment side-effects.
Chinese medicine is popular in the UK, and milk thistle is used by some people with liver disease.
However, there is no evidence from clinical trials to show that complementary and alternative treatments work. Some popular herbal treatments, such as the herbal antidepressant St John's wort can stop anti-HIV drugs working properly, large doses of garlic supplements stop the protease inhibitors saquinavir working properly, and large doses of vitamin C have the same effect on the protease inhibitor indinavir.