Safety · Supplement
Ginkgo Biloba: side effects, safety & interactions
Increases bleeding risk, especially with anticoagulants/antiplatelets and around surgery; stop well before procedures.
- Overall grade
- Grade C
- Last revised
- 0
- graded outcomes
- 0
- references listed
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Safety profile
Increases bleeding risk, especially with anticoagulants/antiplatelets and around surgery; stop well before procedures.
Interactions to respect
Anticoagulants (warfarin) — Antiplatelet action — additive bleeding risk.
What Ginkgo Biloba is
Ginkgo leaf extract (standardized to flavone glycosides and terpene lactones) is a long-popular 'brain and circulation' botanical.
The honest bottom line
Not the memory-saver it's marketed as — the prevention trials were null. Modest niche use at best, and a genuine bleeding concern.
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