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Inclusion Criteria: Adults aged over 18 years with the evidence of alcoholic liver disease (ALD) based on a thorough history, physical examination, and laboratory tests and all of the following: * Chronic alcohol intake, Identified with AUDIT(Alcohol Use Disorder Inventory Test) Questionnaire * Active alcohol use until 4 weeks prior to presentation * ALT and AST elevated \>1.5 times the upper limit of normal * Over 1.5 ratio of AST to ALT * Maddrey Discriminant function(DF) less than 30 Exclusion Criteria: * Severe alcoholic hepatitis with cirrhosis or life expectancy less than 3 months * Severe renal impairment (Glomerular filtration rate below 60 ml/min per 1.73m2) * Hepatic disorders due to cardiac causes, inherited metabolic causes, hemochromatosis and Wilson's disease * Participants with active viral hepatitis * Under going active treatment for alcohol withdrawal syndrome(AWS) at the study entry * Participants on hepatotoxic medications like antitubercular medication, antiviral medication, paracetamol etc. * Pregnant, attempting to conceive, or lactating women * Participating in another clinical trial with an active intervention or drug or device with last dose taken within 60 days.