Homeopathic tincture

[Kathy4478]

I take a homeopathic tincture of hawthorn and motherwort for my afib does this interfere with xarelto or metropolol. I cant see that it does just checking.

[Ceelos81]

I’ve been wondering the same but with CBD

Trying to figure out other options as well

[absolutepatsy in reply to Ceelos81]

I tried CBD oil and immediately triggered my AFib. It opens up the blood vessels too so be wary.

[Icenae in reply to absolutepatsy]

Me too when I increased dose.

[Hidden]

Hi Kathy, I would check with your homeopath and pharmacist. That said, I haven't run into any problems with homeopathic remedies and Flecainide, which I take as Pill-in-Pocket.

I wrote several months ago that I have noticed that taking Arnica 10 minutes after the Flec seems to end the episode faster. I usually do this.

[Bagrat]

Homeopathic tinctures are a very different form of complementary medicine from herbs or supplements.

Because the more dilute they are the stronger the effect, I would think it would be the other way round - that conventional medicine may affect the homeopathic meds. This is DEFINITELY not a suggestion to terminate conventional medicine and I would discuss with your homeopath as many GPs are skeptical. I would certainly take at different times. At the homeopathic hospital in the 60s medicine rounds took ages as each medication was given separately. Tbat may have changed

[HiloHairy]

The big question is; does it help you?

I couldn't live with the way that metoprolol blunted my emotions. Experimenting, I started using Hawthorne a few years ago. It seems to give me much of the benefit of the metoprolol with much less of the personality killing side effect. These days, I use metoprolol only when I have an A-fib event.

Other than the name, know nothing of motherwort. Will do some research. Thank you for bringing up the subject.

[Ceelos81 in reply to HiloHairy]

I thought you can’t just stop metoprolol or use it once in a while because it can cause a heart attacking or dangerous arythmia?

[HiloHairy in reply to Ceelos81]

I ran it by my electrocardiologist before I stopped and I titrated down very very slowly. Even titrating slowly, stopping it gave me continuing anxiety problems.

These days, when I do get an event I take Metoprolol and Diltiezem until it's over. Together, they bring my heart rate down from the 160s to 100 to 110 and hasten the end of the event. This is at the suggestion of my cardiologist.

I can instead go to my area's 1 ER were they will give me a drip of diltiazem which ends the event faster but because of triage and only one doctor they usually keep me waiting For 5 for 6 hours. Thus, it's not worth doing so unless an attack continues for many hours.

[MarkS]

I think it's extremely unlikely that the homeopathic tincture will interfere with your medicines as the tincture has been so diluted that it probably contains not a single molecule of hawthorn or motherwort anyway!

[solarjdo69]

I take hawthorne 650mg 2 - 3 times a day and it definetly helps. IF I don't take it I get swelling in feet and lower legs. When I take regularly no swelling. I take Diltiezem as my ONLY prescribed meds. Got off of all the others including the rat poisin (Warfarin) in 2015. I take natural blood thinners such as Nattokin, "E", D3, co-q10, and turmeric.