Drug + condition interactions
Therapeutic herb safety checker
Some herbs in our recipes are food at culinary doses and medicine at therapeutic doses. Select the medications you take and the conditions you have — we'll flag known interactions across all 30+ herbs in the catalog. Every flag includes source citations and a plain-English explanation of why the interaction matters.
Important caveats
- This is educational, not medical advice. Use the flags to prompt a conversation with your prescriber — not as a green light or stop sign.
- Culinary doses are usually fine. Most flags apply at therapeutic supplementation doses (capsule extracts, concentrated tinctures). A pinch of turmeric on roasted vegetables is not the same as 2g curcumin extract.
- Pre-surgery — pause all herbal supplements 2 weeks before any scheduled surgery. Tell your surgeon about every supplement you take.
- Severity grades — severe = avoid combination; caution = monitor; mild = usually fine at culinary doses.
Sources
- NIH National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH)
- Memorial Sloan Kettering "About Herbs" database
- WHO Monographs on Selected Medicinal Plants
- Drugs.com / Lexicomp interaction registries
- American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) for pregnancy guidance