Blood thinning

April 21 The FDA sets the number of deaths from contaminated doses of Heparin at 81. The main ingredient of the blood-thinning drug comes from pig intestines processed in China. 

Ginkgo. Because this herb can inhibit blood platelet activity, it should be used cautiously with blood-thinning drugs such as warfarin, heparin, or even aspirin. 

There is only one broad contraindication. Patients taking the potent blood-thinning drug Coumadin (warfarin) by prescription from their physicians should not, under any circumstances, take omega-3 supplements. If you take those drugs, talk with your doctor about the safe consumption of fish meals. 

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Wayne Martin continues with his recommendations for a low-iron and vegetarian diet, but takes up the immolation of metastatic cancer in the July 2005 Townsend Letter for Doctors Patients. It was found that blood-thinning agents such as coumarin would nullify angiogenesis by dissolving the fibrin jeU that surrounds cancer cells. Ordinarily taken as a control against myocardial infarction (Ml), a study in the October 17, 1964, issue of The Lancet reported that Ml patients never died from cancer metastasis. Hence the recommendation of coumarin as an anticancer agent. 

Salicylic acid provides little inhibition of isolated cyclooxygenases, rather it prevents their formation in cells. Since they lack the acetyl gronp found in aspirin, natural salicylates do not have antiplatelet (blood thinning) effects (Meier and Liebi 1990). 

Coumarins in general have antimicrobial and fungicidal activity. They are often described as blood thinning, though this activity is mainly restricted to dicoumarol, a product of incorrectly dried (or mouldy) hay. 

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