Plants and Fungi as Etiologic Agents of Cirrhosis

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Abstract
THE causes of cirrhosis are by no means entirely known. In alcoholic patients malnutrition, probably alcohol and possibly virus hepatitis need to be considered.1 Among patients without alcoholism hepatitis virus and malnutrition have been invoked as possible causes, and yet neither alone nor in combination do these seem to be sufficient to account for the worldwide presence but varied incidence of this disease. Other possible factors need to be searched for and studied, among which is a number of plants and fungi known to produce liver lesions when ingested by animals and, in some cases, by man.2 The great emphasis . . .