Patients with heart disease return to be reminded to be careful taking the drug. Do not get medicine for the heart taken with herbal medicine due to the bleeding risk is greater.
Investigators found several herbal remedies to make the drug less effective for heart disease. Mixing can cause heart rhythm problems and bleeding.
Research conducted by Dr. Arshad Jahangir of the Mayo Clinic Arizona have been published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
The use of herbal supplements, especially for elderly heart patients are also at risk of bleeding is greater because parents usually have more than one disease.
Previous studies have also been warned against the use of herbal supplements heart medications.
Many patients are not open to the use of herbs which then becomes a problem that doctors should really get them to hold the light.
Cardiac patients during this regard herbal medicines derived from plants do not have a negative effect because it is made from natural ingredients that are safe to use.
But the research is opposed by the herbal industry players who are members of The Council for Responsible Nutrition. Through his spokesman Douglas MacKay, they assess not clear and the study were made to attack the herbal supplements.
"Many herbal supplements offer health benefits such as fiber, garlic is beneficial for heart health. Risk of drug interactions and herbal can be eliminated if patients talk openly with their doctors," said Mackay.
The Nutritional Business Journal noted herbal consumption in the U.S. rose six percent in 2008 with sales reaching U.S. $ 25.2 billion.