{"id":990,"date":"2009-12-29T14:25:49","date_gmt":"2009-12-29T13:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i-base.info\/qa\/?p=990"},"modified":"2021-11-22T12:17:11","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T12:17:11","slug":"does-yohimbe-interact-with-hiv-meds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/990","title":{"rendered":"Does yohimbe interact with HIV meds?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi<\/p>\n<p>Very few herbs or compounds made from herbs (ie yohimbine from yohimbe) have been tested for drug interactions and I couldn&#8217;t find any that included yohimbe and HIV meds.<\/p>\n<p>However, some herbs, like medications, have side effects and the potential for drug interactions.<\/p>\n<p>It would be better for your medical doctor to prescribe a tested medication to treat the symptoms that you are taking yohimbe for, rather than use a herbal product that has been suggested by an alternative therapist (if this is the case), or using this as an over-the-counter supplement.<\/p>\n<p>A reliable medical site has useful <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webmd.com\/drugs\/drug-678-Yohimbe+Oral.aspx?drugid=678&amp;drugname=Yohimbe+Oral\">information about yohimbe <\/a>but please see the tab links for this page at the top of the text for information on Side Effects, Precautions, Interactions and Overdose.<\/p>\n<p>This site includes warnings about interactions with heart and blood pressure medication amongst others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have recently been prescribed a herbal drug called yohimbe, but I note from the letter that my doctor copied me in on, that no tests have been completed to ensure that it doesn&#8217;t interact with antiretrovirals.<\/p>\n<p>Are you able to advise on the best course of action for me?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,16,38,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-drug-interactions","category-side-effects","category-supplements-and-herbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}