Progress in treatment of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease

“Liver–gut” axis: A target of traditional Chinese medicine for the treatment of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease

“…Although promising therapeutic options targeting mechanisms for patients with NAFLD are available ( 5 ), particularly for NASH, none has been approved by the international medical community. Presently, a lot of studies have shown that Chinese medicine, relative to Western medicine, has multi-level and multi-target features, integrity, complex chemical composition, fewer adverse reactions, and a long history; therefore, a lot of scholars believe that the treatment of NAFLD using TCM has certain advantages, as long as clinical syndrome differentiation is correct, which often achieves good effects ( 6 ).…”