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.
Benefits of Artichoke Leaf Extract for the Heart Thanks to Cholesterol-Lowering Effects. One of the most researched medicinal properties of artichoke leaf extract is its ability to fight high cholesterol levels, one of the key pre-cursors to coronary heart disease and atherosclerosis (fatty deposits in blood vessels).