No kidding. I am a big pro-herb guy but I do my research beforehand.
When garlic, ginger and grapefruit juice are listed as contraindicated that’s a pretty clear picture of how dangerous and unpredictable the pharmaceutical in question is.
STOP LIVING, EVERYONE. NOW!!!!!!!
With Medicare cuts on the horizon seniors will turn more and more to these remedies.
“The paper includes a list of more than two dozen herbal products that patients should approach with caution...”
I wonder if the paper considered publishing a list of pharmaceutical combinations that Heath Ledger and Britany Murphy should have approached with caution.
I’m not paying $15.00 for this article.....
“...which can decrease the effectiveness of warfarin”
Warfarin is rat poison. So, if I had a choice, I would NOT be taking the rat poison and then not worry about all the herbs and good food that aren’t so dangerous.
I need to read/absorb this.
thanks for article.
Yes, this is all true. Once you start on Coumadin (a “thinner”), you become painted into a rather tiny corner. Especially if you want to keep everything stabilized. Coumadin can be lifesaving, and it is important to obsessively track towards the center of the INR (clotting range) that your physician specifies. If you track that center line, all is well. However, there are goblins at every turn. Add a statin (Crestor), and you can potentiate the effect of the Coumadin, thus shooting right out of the top of your range. I had this happen once, when the Coumadin clinic wasn’t paying attention. No immediate harm was done, but it showed that ANY medication that is added to the mix has the potential to bump the INR too high, or too low.
Foods are a big problem as well. Too much fish, and you can cause your INR to go out the bottom of your range. Clots are a bad thing. Too much licorice (an odd gotcha’) and it goes the other way. And the strangest thing of all is cranberries. I am told by my clinic that, “Cranberries are death! You will bleed out.”. Well, ......OK! I’ll warn my relatives at Thanksgiving and Christmas, or pack a lunch. There are books on the peculiarities of Coumadin and how food or medications can modify what it does.
If your LDL/TG and Total Cholesterol is low in the first place, you can do surprising things just by going vegan (albeit unwillingly on my part) along with your statin and fibric acid. Fortunately there is an easy diet to fall back on. A vegan-mediterranean regimen is ideal for my particular mix of drugs and dietary needs. You can actually live on it, and enjoy it at the same time. There are plenty of books at the library on this. You even start looking like you did in high school after awhile. It’s true!
While some think I’ve become something of a food/drug/lifestyle Nazi, the threat of imminent death does tend to motivate me in ways as never before. While my problem was caught early, it has to be taken quite seriously. It’s best to do what you’re told by the docs. There’s plenty of stuff available that wasn’t there even 10 years ago. A strict diet, exercise schedule and drug regimen can often keep you from getting stents, or grafting later on. I’d be happy with that.
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What about Horny Goat Weed and/or Maca-do they have any related problems?
compounds? garlic??
seriously, sounds like the problem isn’t with the natural “compounds” but the “medicines”
someone should raise the bar back to normal instead of allowing substandard junk onto the market
In other words, bow down to western medicine and put your faith in man.
The herbs worked perfectly well for millenia, then along come some dangerous chemicals that are able to exert an accidental effect on some disease symptom, and all caution is thrown to the wind in favor of huge profits, and the lavish gifts that the manufacturers of these deadly poisons are able to bestow on gullible doctors.
Ask any person taking synthetic chemical 'medications' what the potential (and highly likely) side effects are, and you're likely to get a blank stare.
These "medications" mask disease symptoms, but do nothing to alleviate the underlying cause, thus ensuring that you will continue fat, dumb, and happy until the point of no return.
The logical choice is skipping the drugs in favor of the proven herbal treatment of the actual disease, rather than the irrelevant symptoms; when the cause is removed, the symptoms will have disappeared, in most cases unnoticed.
So since I can't stay away from new health supplements, I tried it.
For a week, I had insomnia till it dawned on me to check out the pros and cons of taking Resveratrol. WHAT A BIG SURPRISE when one of the listed side effects was indeed "insomnia".
I trashed the stuff.
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Lookout, dude, cannabis sativa can interfere with your blood pressure medication.
What interferes with Interferon?
Rhubarb can kill ya, I hear!
we’re all gonna die /s
bfl