Eating grapefruit or drinking grapefruit juice can affect some medicines. In most cases, it increases the level of the medicine in your blood. This can increase the risk of side effects or alter the effect that the medicine has.
Health Benefits and Therapeutic Uses of Buckthorn. 1  The plant helps clean toxins from the body. 2  It can be strongly purgative and it is therefore used in the treatment of constipation. In some cases, where a patient has had rectal surgery, this herb is given so that the patient has soft stools that do not aggravate the surgery area.
If you have a large infestation of buckthorn on your property with both old and young plants, this is a long term effort to remove and may involve a 5 year commitment on your part. If you work diligently, each year the amount of buckthorn will be reduced. The first two years are when you will have the most work.If you have Buckthorn that measures 2.5 in diameter or less, you can rent or purchase a special tool called a Weed Wrench that will help you pull the plants out of the ground.or some time, people thought that only Common Buckthorn was a problem, but Glossy Buckthorn (including the cultivars called Columnar or Tallhedge and Fern-Leaf) will also produce seeds and be invasive-particularly in more moist habitats.