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Black Cohosh: Primary Use
Ease Menopause Symptoms
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Black Cohosh: Potential interaction
May cause clotting
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Echinacea: Primary Use
Prevent, moderate cold symptoms
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Echinacea: Potential interaction
Avoid taking > 2 mo
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Ephedra: Primary use
Promote weight loss
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Ephedra: Potential interaction
rapid heart rate, headaches, very likely hazardous
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Garlic: Primary use
may reduce cholesterol, BP
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Garlic: potential interaction
reduces clotting time, avoid use with warfarin
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Ginger: Primary use
Antiemetic
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Ginger: Potential interaction
avoid use with drugs that affect bleeding
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Gingkgo Biloba: primary use
Vasodilation
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Ginkgo biloba: Potential interaction
Avoid use with warfarin
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Ginseng: Primary use
immunity, endurance
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Ginseng: Potential interaction
high BP, avoid with warfarin
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Kava: Primary use
Relieve anxiety
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Kava: Potential interaction
Liver failure, very likely hazardous
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Milk Thistle: Primary use
May help protect liver
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St. John's Wort: Primary use
Antidepressive
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St. John's Wort: Potential interaction
may compromise meds for heart disease, cancer, seizures, birth control
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Licorice Root: Primary use
Ulcers
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Licorice Root: potential interaction
Avoid combinations with spironolactone, thiazide and loop diruretics, hypertensives
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Saw Palmetto: Primary use
relieve syptoms of enlarged prostate
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Saw Palmetto: Potential interaction
diuretic
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Valerian root: primary use
Calms nerves
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Valerian root: potential interaction
avoid with liver disease
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