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.
Aged garlic extract may help boost weight-loss efforts when combined with exercise. A study published in Nutrition Research and Practice in June 2012 set out to discover how aged garlic extract in combination with regular exercise effects cardiovascular risk in postmenopausal women.