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.
The herb rejuvenates the hair, adding sheen to the appearance and strength to the hair shafts. It is often found formulated with other herbs in herbal hair loss remedies. Horsetail also contains appreciable amounts of selenium and cysteine which are known to prevent hair loss and promote hair regrowth.