Is Echinacea Safe with warfarin sodium?
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Inform your doctor if you take echinacea. Monitor INR more frequently when starting or stopping echinacea.
Why this interaction occurs
Echinacea can interact with warfarin sodium through CYP450 interactions, potentially altering warfarin exposure and changing its anticoagulant effect.
Evidence
Evidence level: strong.
Data source
FDA Drug Label
Reported safety data
The FDA’s adverse event reporting system (FAERS) has received 3,390,437 reports mentioning warfarin sodium. This reflects reported cases involving the medication in general — not confirmed causation, and not specific to the warfarin sodium + supplement combination on this page.
FAERS reports are voluntary and cannot prove that a drug caused an event. Do not use report counts to assess the safety of this specific drug-supplement pair.
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