Very little treatment is available although in the west the drug interferon has proved of some use in the third world where hepatitis b is most prevalent such treatment is generally too expensive. Now there is some hope. Research in Madras and Philadelphia have been testing an ancient herbal remedy. Plants of the genus phyllanthus. have been widely used for over2000 years as a treatment for were given capsules containing an extract of the plant while twenty -three took capsules containing only a type of sugar.after thirty day twenty -two of those treated with the plant extract no longer had. The virus while only oneof those give sugar was free of it. Nine months after the trials the virus had not returned to any of those patients who had been cured . Most of the patients who were given plant extract but were bordered the virus had received treatment when they were in the early stages of the disease when it spread very quickly. Researchers believe that they too could be helped with higher doses and longer courses of treatment. These results ate encouraging especially Sargent plant extract appears to have no harmful side effect