Common Herbs That Can Interfere With Prescription Drugs

Herbs and medications can complement each other when used with expert guidance.
Common Herbs That Can Interfere With Prescription Drugs
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Emma Suttie
Emma Suttie
D.Ac, AP
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Most of Feather Jones’s clients are taking pharmaceuticals, but they don’t want to be. They come to her, a clinical herbalist, to get off whatever drugs they can, and to manage the side effects of the ones they can’t. It’s a meticulous process that takes time and skill.

“When I look at the list of their current meds, I have to look and see what they’re doing to make sure that what I’m recommending doesn’t nullify what the drug is attempting to do, or over-enhance it,” she told The Epoch Times.

Emma Suttie
Emma Suttie
D.Ac, AP
Emma is an acupuncture physician and has written extensively about health for multiple publications over the past decade. She is now a health reporter for The Epoch Times, covering Eastern medicine, nutrition, trauma, and lifestyle medicine.