Names of Drugs | Names of Herbs | Reasons: |
ampicillin ( Omnipen, Polycillin, Principen) | | ampicillin is a strong inhibitor for Psuedomonas Aureginosa. If it use with the cardiac stimulating herb of jia zhu tao, wan nian qiang or fu shou cao it can cause hypokalemia and create cardiac toxicity for the herbs. |
Tetracyclines | | herbs contain calcium sulfate which may combine with tetracyclines and render it ineffective. |
Iron compounds, vitamin B1 | | the herbs contain large amount of tannin acid and may result in tannin salt |
Aluminium Hydroxide , Aminophylline , Sodium Bicarbonate | | the drugs are alkaline and the herbs are acidic. |
Aspirin | | the herbs posses the effect steroid and aspirin can stimulate the mucus lining of the stomach |
| corticosteroids | | possible additive effect |
cyclosporine | | |
Digitalis type of drug | | the herbs contain calcium ions and can increase the toxicity of digitalis and can result in arrhythmia |
Digitalis type of drug | | the herb can increase the function of the drug and may cause cardiac exhaustion |
Diuretics for expelling potassium | | the herb has mineralocorticoid effect which can retain sodium and expel potassium and may cause over expelling K and result in low overly potassium. |
Erythromycin. (Erythromycinum, Erythrocin, Erythrogran, Robimycin 紅黴素) | | Erythromycin can inhibit the function of chuan xin lian in promoting the ability of white cells in killing bacteria. |
Sulphonamides | | may cause increase of uric acid crystal formation |
Sodim bicarbonate, Aminophylline , theophyline | | lowering the effectiveness of the drugs |
warfarin, heparin | | the use of these herbs may increase the effect of the blood thinning drugs and can cause bleeding. |
phenelzine | | induces mania if used with phenelzine. |
serotonin-reuptake inhibitors; decreased bioavailability of digoxin,
theophylline, cyclosporin, and phenprocoumon | |
possible mild serotonin syndrome[2] |
indinavir (Crixivan) | | St. John's Wort has been shown to significantly lower indinavir (Crixivan) levels by almost 60%. [1] |
interferon | | risk of interstitial pneumonia |
atropin, pepsin, and other digestive enzymes | | contains arsenic, the main ingredient of xiong huang 雄黃 which is one of the ingredients of liu shen wan. Using it with atropin can cause oxidation of xiong huang and increases the toxicity. Using liu shen wan with digestive enzyme can lower the effeciveness of the digestive enzyme. |