[RegulatorCountry]

You can if you cut yourself badly. It's an anticoagulant right up there with aspirin. If you're on prescription blood thinning substances such as Coumadin, you might want to look at reducing the dosage if you plan to start supplementing with garlic tabs or gelcaps. It messed my dad's dosage up to the point that he developed petechiae, purple splotches beneath the skin from broken capillaries.

My question to his heart specialist was, if garlic is so effective, why isn't that part of the therapy, reducing or even supplanting Coumadin entirely? Never got a satisfactory answer.

Green leafy vegetables such as collard greens can have the same effect.

[TomGuy]

My question to his heart specialist was, if garlic is so effective, why isn't that part of the therapy, reducing or even supplanting Coumadin entirely? Never got a satisfactory answer.

Natural products cannot be patented. Synthetic products can be.

Guess which generates more $$$$.

[Salamander]

You can’t patent garlic and then charge obscene prices for it.

It also cuts into their ‘repeat business” bottom line.

[Vinnie]

Coumadin, aka Warfarin is cheap, a generic.
It inhibits Vit. K.
You can eat most anything, spinach is a big vit K veggie. It’s being consistent so the drug can be adjusted to cope.

Aspirin and some other drugs work differently than Warfarin, sort of make the platelets slicker.

I take both. One 81mg.aspirin and Warfarin.
Just had a stent installed a few weeks ago and am on a second platelet ‘slicker’ for 1 month.

Been on Warfarin since 2000 after getting an artificial valve.
Having a blood test about once a month is a PIA .
But the alternative......