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I did research this before purchase and it sounded like an herb with amazing benefits, however after taking them for about a week I started have all sorts of odd things going on, the worse being very loose stool...constantly, nausea, very bad headaches, blurred vision, weakness and dizziness.
At first I thought I had just picked up a virus somewhere and needed to wait it out, but symptoms just became worse. I have acute A-Fib so I need to be tested once a month to make sure my blood remains thin and when the INA came back a 5.0 (normal is between 2.0-3.0) my provider became really concerned because some of the symptoms could be related to internal bleeding and I was sent to the emergency room. All tests done on me were normal so now everyone was confused.
About a week after all the issues, I just stopped taking this thinking maybe this may have caused the problems since after thinking about it for awhile I realized I had started taking this about a week before everything started going wrong. Within a few days, all symptoms were gone so I feel that was the reason. I grew up in a family which practiced herbal medicine (not because of a "new age" fascination with it, but because my parents were born in the early 20th century and that was just how medicine was so taking herbs was not something I am new too so I was surprised at what happened with this one. Bottom line is: This herb seems to have amazing benefits, but if you start have the same symptoms described here within a week or two, stop taking it. The diarrhea I experienced was so bad and so frequent my husband thought I may become dehydrated.
December 2018 · Health and Household · verified purchase