The Experience of Application of Complex Fitodrug Containing Potentilla Alba L. In Patients With Chronic Autoimmune Thyroiditis

New Perspectives for the Use of Potentilla alba Rhizomes to Treat Thyroid Gland Impairments

“…The authors found that a 3-month treatment with the addition of the abovementioned preparation to a complex therapy had a significant influence on the TSH and free thyroxine levels in only the subgroup with subcompensated hypothyroidism, with values of 5.88 ± 0.56 µU/mL and 1.09 ± 0.11 pg/mL before treatment and 4.49 ± 0.38 µU/mL and 1.21 ± 0.11 pg/mL after treatment for TSH and free thyroxine, respectively. However, the tested preparation had no influence on the thyroid gland volume [72]. More interestingly, in another study, a multicomponent phytopreparation (containing 80 mg of an extract of P. alba underground parts and other extracts from underground parts of species such as Filipendula vulgaris, Genista tinctoria, and Paeonia anomala, as well as Gemmae betulae extract, Arthrospira, and a leaf extract from Corulus sp.)…”