Green tea is now the in drink for a health conscious public. Yet there are questions. Is it compatible with certain heart medications such as those that strengthen the heart, and the ever popular blood thinners? Or are the medical community being overly cautious and somewhat paranoid? Absolutely not. A drink powerful enough to stop disease processes or slow them down is powerful indeed.

Medical science teaches its students chemicals powerful enough to cure and alleviate disease and health problems may also do harm. Put another way, what is good for you in one sense, is bad for you in another. It is all in the circumstances. A study done by The University of Maryland Medical Center believes it interferes with Adeonosine, a medication given for irregular and unstable heart rhythms. This is one out of many studies being done with Green tea and Medications.

Other heart medications, such as the beta blockers Propranalol and Metipranolol, may interact with the caffeine in the tea — any kind of tea — and raise the blood pressure. Warfarin, too, is another drug under surveillance when given to green tea drinkers. Why? Green tea has Vitamin K and this is aids in blood clotting. This could potentially cancel out the effectiveness of the blood thinning medicine. In professional circles, blood thinning drugs are known as anti-coagulants. The well known drug Coumadin is a Brand name of Warfarin.

In addition to heart medications, the chemotherapy drugs Doxorubicim and Tamoxifen work well together. Too well. Lab tests show Green tea may have value along with these drugs as they appear to enhance the hoped for effect. Enough explanatory evidence is not yet available, therefore caution is recommended. What I said earlier about a good effect also having the opposite effect applies here too.

Drugs for depression, especially the Monoamine Oxidase inhibitors, MAOIs, show a risk for high blood along with other medicines that are at risk for Green Tea drinkers. These drugs work by inhibing or slowing down the neurotransmitters, norepinephrine, serotonin and dopamine. They stay in the blood longer thus elevating moods.

Green tea, a fairly new drink in the Western World, comes from the Camelilla sinensis plant’s fresh leaves. It is grown in Japan and in China and other Asiatic areas. Elsewhere it is known under various other names that tre too numerous to mention here. Yet for identification the plant name will do.

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