Drug & supplement interaction

Kousso + Bosutinib

Bosutinib brand name: Bosulif.

No Known Interaction
Medically reviewed by · Updated July 2026 · Pair last verified Sep 20, 2026
The bottom line No known interaction

We found no known interaction between Kousso and Bosutinib in our sources. Absence of a documented interaction is not the same as proven safety, and does not guarantee one does not exist. Do not start, stop, or change a medication or supplement based on this page; confirm with your pharmacist or doctor first. Additionally, although there is no interaction, the label for Bosutinib states a food rule worth keeping to, and the two are separately associated with some of the same side effects, which would make a new symptom harder to attribute to one or the other.

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Interaction report

Kousso and Bosutinib

We checked these two against our interaction database. Here is what we found.

No Known Interaction Found

We did not find a documented interaction between Bosutinib and Kousso in our sources. This does not guarantee that the combination is completely free of risk — there is often limited research on supplements and herbal products, especially around drug interactions.

If you decide to take both, the practical routine is simple: add one new thing at a time and note the date you started it. If the combination is going to disagree with you, it usually shows in the first days to a couple of weeks — and a start date turns “I’ve been feeling off” into something a pharmacist can actually work with. Do not stop a prescribed medicine on your own.

Always talk with your pharmacist or doctor before making changes to your medications or supplements, particularly if you take several medications or have an ongoing health condition.

Kousso safety at a glance

Kousso overall Use caution Traditionally used as a worm treatment but can cause nausea, vomiting, and other side effects; modern safety data are limited.
Pregnancy Unsafe When used orally due to abortifacient activity. Read the full pregnancy detail
Breastfeeding Unsafe When used orally due to its potential for toxicity. Read the full breastfeeding detail

Pregnancy & breastfeeding ratings are from Natural Medicines (Therapeutic Research Center) — the full detail is in the Special populations card below. Safety guidance is general; always confirm with your pharmacist or doctor for your situation.

Still wondering about combining Bosutinib and Kousso? Ask Dr. Brian Staiger, PharmD, BCPS directly ›
How we checked

Why No Interaction Is Listed for Bosutinib

Interactions in our licensed database are recorded against drug classes, not just single drug names. Bosutinib is filed under 4 classifications — including nephrotoxic drugs, hepatotoxic drugs, cytochrome p450 3a4 (cyp3a4) substrates. Kousso has documented interactions with 1 drug class — the most serious being antidiabetes drugs (moderate) — and none of Bosutinib’s classifications are among them.

Classification data comes from our licensed Natural Medicines dataset. A medication can belong to classes beyond those recorded there, so this describes how the check was run — it is not a safety guarantee.

Keep it in perspective

Kousso Does Interact With Other Medications

Kousso has 86 moderate known drug interactions in our database — Bosutinib isn’t one of them. If you take anything else, check it against the full list below.

Moderate 86 No known interaction 2,744 (incl. Bosutinib)
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What to actually watch for

No Interaction Found — But Data Suggests Kousso and Bosutinib May Share Several of the Same Side Effects

This is not an interaction. Neither one changes how your body handles the other, and nothing here says they react together. What our sources do show is that each has separately been linked to the effects below — so taking both can make those effects more likely to turn up, and harder to pin on one or the other if they do.

  • Diarrhea / Nausea reported in 23.2% of FDA reports for Bosutinib Additional detail

    Kousso

    “Orally, kousso can cause gastrointestinal irritation, resulting in salivation, nausea, and diarrhea. It can also cause headache and general weakness (18). At high doses, vision disorders, spasms, and syncope can occur, progressing to acidosis, and shock (18).”

    Kousso · Natural Medicines adverse-effect record, reported in cluster headache.

    1 source cited
    1. 18. Gruenwald J, Brendler T, Jaenicke C. PDR for Herbal Medicines. 1st ed. Montvale, NJ: Medical Economics Company, Inc., 1998.

    “Orally, kousso can cause gastrointestinal irritation, resulting in salivation, nausea, and diarrhea (18).”

    Kousso · Natural Medicines adverse-effect record, reported in diarrhea.

    1 source cited
    1. 18. Gruenwald J, Brendler T, Jaenicke C. PDR for Herbal Medicines. 1st ed. Montvale, NJ: Medical Economics Company, Inc., 1998.

    Bosutinib

    Listed in the ADVERSE REACTIONS section of the FDA label for Bosutinib, and in voluntary FDA adverse-event reports. Read the label on DailyMed ›

  • Headache Additional detail

    Kousso

    “Orally, kousso can cause headache and general weakness (18). At high doses, kousso can cause spasms (18).”

    Kousso · Natural Medicines adverse-effect record, reported in cluster headache.

    1 source cited
    1. 18. Gruenwald J, Brendler T, Jaenicke C. PDR for Herbal Medicines. 1st ed. Montvale, NJ: Medical Economics Company, Inc., 1998.

    Bosutinib

    Listed in the ADVERSE REACTIONS section of the FDA label for Bosutinib. Read the label on DailyMed ›

Reported for Kousso but not commonly for Bosutinib: fainting.

Effects for Bosutinib come from the ADVERSE REACTIONS section of its FDA label; effects for Kousso come from the Natural Medicines adverse-effect record, quoted above. Where a percentage is shown, it is the share of 8,931 voluntary FDA FAERS reports for Bosutinib that mention that effect — a reporting proportion, not an incidence rate and not evidence the drug caused it. Wording is matched across sources by our own clinical vocabulary, so treat this as a prompt to pay attention, not a diagnosis.

Special populations

Kousso in Pregnancy & Breastfeeding

Pregnancy Unsafe

When used orally due to abortifacient activity.

Lactation Unsafe

When used orally due to its potential for toxicity.

DISCLAIMER: This tool is intended for informational purposes only, and should not be interpreted as specific medical advice. Patients should consult with a qualified healthcare provider before making decisions about therapies and/or health conditions.© 2026 Therapeutic Research Center

How to take them

Some Bosutinib Products Have a Food Rule — Kousso Should Not Break It

At least one FDA label for a product containing Bosutinib says to take it with food. If you take Kousso on an empty stomach out of habit, keep them separate — and take Bosutinib with a meal where the label says to.

This may not be true of your version. Food instructions belong to the product, not the ingredient: two Bosutinib products can carry different directions, and extended-release forms often differ from immediate-release ones. The label we read is quoted below — check the directions on your own box or bottle, or ask your pharmacist, for how to take the exact product you were given.

Adult patients with newly-diagnosed chronic phase Ph+ CML: 400 mg orally once daily with food.

From the Dosage and Administration section of the FDA label we read for Bosutinib — where that label names a specific product, the instruction is that product's. Read the label on DailyMed ›

A food rule is not an interaction — it is about how much of the medicine you absorb. The directions that came with your own product, and your pharmacist, outrank anything on this page.

Everything else you take

See Every Supplement That Interacts With Bosutinib

This page covers Kousso only. If you take other supplements — a multivitamin, a sleep aid, something for joints — the Bosutinib page lists 172 supplements it has a documented interaction with, worst first, each one explained.

The most serious there right now: Activated Charcoal (major), Asarabacca (major), Beer (major), Grapefruit (major) and Siberian Cocklebur (major).

By severity: 7 major · 126 moderate · 39 minor.

From our pharmacist’s overview on the Bosutinib page

“Grapefruit is the first thing to know about if you take bosutinib (Bosulif) for chronic myeloid leukemia. Bosutinib is cleared by the enzyme CYP3A4, and grapefruit blocks that pathway, so drug levels climb and side effects with them.”

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How much people look this up

Where Kousso and Bosutinib Sit Against Everything Else

Out of every supplement and medication people look up on HelloPharmacist, here is where these two land this week — and which way each has been moving.

Supplement Kousso
Top half

#725 of 1,452 supplements looked up here in the last 7 days

29 days ago today
Medication Bosutinib
Steady interest

#2,106 of 2,830 medications looked up here in the last 7 days

29 days ago today

Position among everything looked up on this site, not a measure of how commonly either one is used or how important it is. A supplement can climb this list because of a news story. It counts every request to the page, automated ones included, and nothing here identifies anyone.

Where does our data come from?
  • Source: the Natural Medicines (TRC Healthcare) clinical database — the evidence-graded professional reference for herb & supplement interactions.
  • Citation library: 103,510 references behind our interaction content, 65,311 of them resolved to verified PubMed/DOI sources. See every Kousso reference on this page ↓
  • Freshness: we automatically re-check this combination every week — this pair was last verified September 20, 2026. The Kousso and Bosutinib records this page draws on were last updated July 11, 2026.
  • What “no known interaction” means: no documented interaction in the sources above — not a guarantee of safety. Supplements are studied far less than prescription drugs, so we say exactly what the evidence supports, and nothing more.
Data structure & sourcing designed and verified by .
Supplement

About Kousso

What is Kousso?

  • Tapeworm infection (traditional anthelmintic)
  • Other intestinal worms
  • Traditional digestive remedies

Kousso is the dried flower of the African tree Hagenia abyssinica, used traditionally—especially in Ethiopia—to expel tapeworms. It was once listed in older pharmacopeias as a worm treatment, but it has largely been replaced by safer, more reliable modern medicines and can cause significant side effects. There is no good modern evidence supporting its use, so talk to a pharmacist or doctor before considering it.

Hagenia abyssinica · Rosaceae · Dried female flowers · Dried flower powder, infusion (tea), and traditional liquid preparations

An interaction check asks whether these two react with each other — it does not ask whether Kousso is a good idea for someone in your situation. Here is what our Kousso record says about it on its own.

Kousso: dosing

There is no well-established, standardized modern dose for kousso. Traditional preparations varied widely and were not measured in the careful way modern medicines are.Because of the lack of standardization and the risk of side effects, we cannot recommend a specific amount.

From our Kousso monograph — the full record covers uses, side effects and every documented interaction.

Read the full Kousso monograph & all interactions
Medication

About Bosutinib

What Is Bosutinib Used For?

Brand name: Bosulif

Bosutinib is used to treat Philadelphia chromosome-positive chronic myelogenous leukemia (Ph+ CML) — a type of blood cancer. It can be used for newly diagnosed patients or for those whose cancer has stopped responding to, or who cannot tolerate, a prior treatment.

Bosulif (the brand-name product) is approved for adults and children 1 year and older with chronic phase Ph+ CML, and for adults with accelerated phase or blast phase Ph+ CML that is resistant or intolerant to prior therapy. Generic bosutinib tablets are approved for adults only with the same range of disease phases.

Most-Reported Side Effects for Bosutinib

From FAERS, the FDA’s public side-effect reporting system (8,931 reports, all brands). Reports are voluntary and are not proof the drug caused the effect.

Diarrhea 2,071 reports
Nausea 1,015 reports
Fatigue 726 reports
Vomiting 542 reports
Rash 491 reports
See full Bosutinib drug information
Keep checking

Other Drugs & Kousso

Browse every other medication we’ve checked against Kousso — both the ones with a known interaction and the ones without. Select any drug for the full detail.

0Major
86Moderate
0Minor
2,743No known interaction
86 Moderate 2,743 No interaction
Moderate

86 interactions

Showing 60 of 86 moderate interactions — see all 86 on the Kousso page.

No interaction 2,743 drugs checked — show the list

We also checked Kousso against these medications and found no known interaction in our sources. Open any page to confirm.

Showing the 60 most looked-up of 2,743 medications checked with no known interaction — see the full Kousso list.

See the full Kousso interactions page
See every supplement checked against Bosutinib, ranked by severity
Evidence & sources

Kousso References

The 4 references that drive our Kousso monograph and interaction data, from the evidence-graded Natural Medicines (TRC Healthcare) database. Citations with a link open the study on PubMed or the publisher’s site.

  1. Gruenwald J, Brendler T, Jaenicke C. PDR for Herbal Medicines. 1st ed. Montvale, NJ: Medical Economics Company, Inc., 1998.
  2. Brinker F. Herb Contraindications and Drug Interactions. 2nd ed. Sandy, OR: Eclectic Medical Publications, 1998.
  3. Thomsen H, Reider K, Franke K, et al. Characterization of constituents and anthelmintic properties of Hagenia abyssinica. Sci Pharm 2012;80(2):433-46. PubMed
  4. Kifle ZD, Yesuf JS, Atnafie SA. Evaluation of in vitro and in vivo Anti-Diabetic, Anti-Hyperlipidemic and Anti-Oxidant Activity of Flower Crude Extract and Solvent Fractions of Hagenia Abyssinica (Rosaceae). J Exp Pharmacol. 2020 Jun 9;12:151-167.

Medication overviews come from MedlinePlus (NIH); supplement label data from the NIH Dietary Supplement Label Database. Content is written and reviewed by licensed HelloPharmacist pharmacists — see our data sources and editorial standards.

Pharmacist Counseling Corner

Taking Kousso and Bosutinib Together: Common Questions

Is it safe to take Kousso with Bosutinib?
We do not list a known interaction between Kousso and Bosutinib. That does not guarantee the combination is risk-free, so confirm with your pharmacist or doctor — especially if you take other medications or have a health condition.
Do Kousso and Bosutinib have any of the same side effects?
Yes — our sources link each of them separately to 3 of the same effects. That is not an interaction: neither changes how your body handles the other. It does mean that if one of those effects turns up, it can be harder to tell which one is behind it. They are listed on this page with the source behind each.
Should I take Kousso and Bosutinib at the same time of day?
At least one FDA label for a product containing Bosutinib says to take it with food. If you take Kousso on an empty stomach out of habit, keep them separate and take Bosutinib with a meal where the label says to. Food instructions belong to the product rather than the ingredient — two Bosutinib products can differ — so check the directions on your own box. This is about absorption, not an interaction.
How was the Kousso and Bosutinib combination checked?
Interactions in our licensed database are recorded against drug classes. Bosutinib is filed under 4 classifications, and Kousso has documented interactions with 1 drug class — none of Bosutinib's classifications are among them. A medication can belong to classes beyond those recorded in our dataset, so this describes how the check was run rather than guaranteeing safety.
Does Kousso interact with any other medications?
Yes. Kousso has 86 documented drug interactions in our database — Bosutinib is simply not one of them. If you take anything else, it is worth checking each one; they are all listed on this page.
Does Bosutinib interact with any supplements?
Yes. Bosutinib has documented interactions with 172 supplements in our database — Kousso is not one of them. The Bosutinib interaction page linked on this page lists every one, ranked by severity.

Written and reviewed by the HelloPharmacist editorial staff. Our editorial policy

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