Ashwagandha and Reduced Cholestatic Pattern of Liver Injury

• Supplements Are Not a Synonym for Safe: Suspected Liver Injury From Ashwagandha.

  • 2023-09
  • Case Report
  • Federal practitioner : for the health care professionals of the VA, DoD, and PHS 40(9)
  • • Sondra Vazirani
    • Amit Kothari
    • Jeffrey Fujimoto
    • Mariana Gomez

  • PubMed: 38562158
  • DOI: 10.12788/fp.0409

  1 Insight on

  • Reduced Cholestatic Pattern of Liver Injury

  • Low evidence

  We report a case of a 48-year-old man with a history of severe alcohol use disorder who presented to the emergency department with a cholestatic pattern of liver injury in the setting of alcohol and use of a testosterone-boosting supplement containing ashwagandha.

  Effect

  Harmful

  Effect size

  Large

  Significant

  Yes