Frequently Whole World Botanicals get emails like the following one from a woman who would like to know if it’s safe for her to combine Royal Maca with a number of different botanicals and prescription drugs.
I am concerned about interaction between Maca Root and Valerian. Is this O.K.?
The only way Whole World Botanicals would know about bad reactions from combining other herbs with maca root such as Valerian is if someone taking Royal Maca and Valerian were to report a bad reaction. So all we can say is that we have no reports of negative side effects involving the combination of these two botanicals. That, however, doesn’t mean that it IS a good idea to combine them or that an individual would not experience a negative side effect. It could be fine for one person and another person could have an unpleasant reaction. Everyone is so physiologically different. And then again, there is the question of dosage. A person can have a bad reaction to an herb because he or she is taking too much for the body to handle. Yet another person would have no problem with it.
Valerian is often used to promote better sleep. Women in menopause and older men often have a problem getting a good night’s sleep because their bodies are an inadequate amount of melatonin, the hormone that promotes sleep. Royal Maca promotes hormone balance and there might not be a need to take Valerian if you were taking Maca. So there are many different factors to consider in combining different herbs.
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