Drug & supplement interaction

Toothed Clubmoss + Bendamustine Hydrochloride

Bendamustine Hydrochloride brand name: Bendeka.

No Known Interaction
Medically reviewed by · Updated July 2026 · Pair last verified Sep 13, 2026
The bottom line No known interaction

We found no known interaction between Toothed Clubmoss and Bendamustine Hydrochloride 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.

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Toothed Clubmoss and Bendamustine Hydrochloride

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 Bendamustine Hydrochloride and Toothed Clubmoss 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.

Toothed Clubmoss safety at a glance

Toothed Clubmoss overall Use caution May cause nervous-system and digestive side effects, and product quality varies widely.
Pregnancy Avoid Not enough safety information; avoid during pregnancy.
Breastfeeding Avoid Not enough safety information; avoid while breastfeeding.

Safety guidance is general; always confirm with your pharmacist or doctor for your situation.

Still wondering about combining Bendamustine Hydrochloride and Toothed Clubmoss? Ask Dr. Brian Staiger, PharmD, BCPS directly ›
How we checked

Why No Interaction Is Listed for Bendamustine Hydrochloride

Interactions in our licensed database are recorded against drug classes, not just single drug names. Bendamustine Hydrochloride is filed under 3 classifications — alkylating agents, cytochrome p450 1a2 (cyp1a2) substrates, cytochrome p450 1a2 (cyp1a2) substrates. Toothed Clubmoss has documented interactions with 2 drug classes — the most serious being anticholinergic drugs (moderate) and cholinergic drugs (moderate) — and none of Bendamustine Hydrochloride’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

Toothed Clubmoss Does Interact With Other Medications

Toothed Clubmoss has 219 moderate known drug interactions in our database — Bendamustine Hydrochloride isn’t one of them. If you take anything else, check it against the full list below.

Moderate 219 No known interaction 2,611 (incl. Bendamustine Hydrochloride)
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What to actually watch for

What Toothed Clubmoss Itself Has Been Linked To

This is not an interaction — nothing below involves Bendamustine Hydrochloride. It is the side-effect record for Toothed Clubmoss on its own, from the licensed Natural Medicines monograph. If something new turns up after you add Toothed Clubmoss, this list is the first place to look.

  • Sweating / Dizziness Additional detail

    “No adverse effects have been reported. However, a thorough evaluation of safety outcomes has not been conducted.

    Orally, huperzine A, a constituent of toothed clubmoss, can cause dizziness, nausea, and sweating.”

    Toothed Clubmoss · Natural Medicines adverse-effect record, reported in nausea and vomiting.

    1 source cited
    1. 3140. Zhang RW, Tang XC, Han YY, et al. [Drug evaluation of huperzine A in the treatment of senile memory disorders]. Chung Kuo Yao Li Hsueh Pao 1991;12:250-2.

    “Orally, huperzine A, a constituent of toothed clubmoss, can cause dizziness and sweating.”

    Toothed Clubmoss · Natural Medicines adverse-effect record, reported in vertigo.

    1 source cited
    1. 3140. Zhang RW, Tang XC, Han YY, et al. [Drug evaluation of huperzine A in the treatment of senile memory disorders]. Chung Kuo Yao Li Hsueh Pao 1991;12:250-2.
  • Nausea Additional detail

    “Orally, huperzine A, a constituent of toothed clubmoss, can cause nausea.”

    Toothed Clubmoss · Natural Medicines adverse-effect record, reported in nausea and vomiting.

    1 source cited
    1. 3140. Zhang RW, Tang XC, Han YY, et al. [Drug evaluation of huperzine A in the treatment of senile memory disorders]. Chung Kuo Yao Li Hsueh Pao 1991;12:250-2.

Everything above comes from the Natural Medicines adverse-effect record for Toothed Clubmoss — expand a row for the licensed statement it rests on. We haven’t matched Bendamustine Hydrochloride to its FDA label in our system yet, so we can’t compare its own side-effect list here — the leaflet that comes with your prescription is the authoritative list for Bendamustine Hydrochloride.

Everything else you take

See Every Supplement That Interacts With Bendamustine Hydrochloride

This page covers Toothed Clubmoss only. If you take other supplements — a multivitamin, a sleep aid, something for joints — the Bendamustine Hydrochloride page lists 86 supplements it has a documented interaction with, worst first, each one explained.

The most serious there right now: Acerola (moderate), Adrafinil (moderate), African Wild Potato (moderate), Alpha-lipoic Acid (moderate) and Ashitaba (moderate).

By severity: 62 moderate · 24 minor.

From our pharmacist’s overview on the Bendamustine Hydrochloride page

“Bendamustine (Bendeka), a chemotherapy used for certain leukemias and lymphomas, carries 86 supplement and herbal interactions on file, and none of them rates major, so this is a watch-and-adjust list rather than an alarm. Nearly all of the entries, about 80, involve the same liver enzyme, CYP1A2, which helps process bendamustine.”

Reviewed by 2 · Jul 18, 2026

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One more smart check

Taking Toothed Clubmoss as Part of a Dietary Supplement Product? Check It for Interactions

We hold 101 real supplement products containing Toothed Clubmoss, each one broken down to its full ingredient list — and combination products often carry several ingredients besides Toothed Clubmoss. Even though Toothed Clubmoss itself has no known interaction with Bendamustine Hydrochloride, another ingredient on your label might. Find your product and we’ll check every ingredient on its label:

How much people look this up

Where Toothed Clubmoss and Bendamustine Hydrochloride 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 Toothed Clubmoss
Top half

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

29 days ago today
Medication Bendamustine Hydrochloride
Top 10%

#278 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 Toothed Clubmoss reference on this page ↓
  • Freshness: we automatically re-check this combination every week — this pair was last verified September 13, 2026. The Toothed Clubmoss and Bendamustine Hydrochloride records this page draws on were last updated July 10, 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 Toothed Clubmoss

What is Toothed Clubmoss?

Toothed Clubmoss
  • Memory and cognitive support
  • Alzheimer's disease and dementia
  • General brain or 'nootropic' support
  • Inflammation and pain (traditional use)
  • Age-related memory loss

Toothed Clubmoss is a moss-like plant best known as the natural source of huperzine A, a compound studied mainly for memory and Alzheimer's disease. Some early research is promising, but the evidence is limited and the supplement is not well standardized or regulated, so quality between products varies. Because it can affect the nervous system, talk with a pharmacist or doctor before using it.

Huperzia serrata · Lycopodiaceae · Whole plant (above-ground parts), the source of huperzine A · Capsules, tablets, powdered extracts; often sold as standardized 'huperzine A' supplements

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

Toothed Clubmoss: dosing

There is no official, standardized dose for Toothed Clubmoss. Most products are labeled by their huperzine A content, often in very small amounts measured in micrograms. Avoid combining different supplements that contain huperzine A.

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

Read the full Toothed Clubmoss monograph & all interactions
Medication

About Bendamustine Injection

What Is Bendamustine Injection Used For?

Brand name: Bendeka

Bendamustine hydrochloride injection is used to treat adults with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). It is also used for adults with indolent B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) — a slow-growing type of blood cancer — when the disease has continued to progress during or within six months of treatment with rituximab or a rituximab-containing regimen.

For CLL, how well bendamustine works compared to other first-line treatments (aside from chlorambucil) has not been fully established.

Most-Reported Side Effects for Bendamustine Hydrochloride

From FAERS, the FDA’s public side-effect reporting system (11,906 reports, all brands). Reports are voluntary and are not proof the drug caused the effect.

Fever 861 reports
Disease progression 572 reports
Rash 556 reports
Febrile neutropenia 535 reports
Neutropenia 501 reports
See full Bendamustine Injection drug information
Keep checking

Other Drugs & Toothed Clubmoss

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

0Major
219Moderate
0Minor
2,610No known interaction
219 Moderate 2,610 No interaction
Moderate

219 interactions

Showing 60 of 219 moderate interactions — see all 219 on the Toothed Clubmoss page.

No interaction 2,610 drugs checked — show the list

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

Showing the 60 most looked-up of 2,610 medications checked with no known interaction — see the full Toothed Clubmoss list.

See the full Toothed Clubmoss interactions page
See every supplement checked against Bendamustine Hydrochloride, ranked by severity
Evidence & sources

Toothed Clubmoss References

The 3 references that drive our Toothed Clubmoss 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. Budavari S, ed. The Merck Index. 12th ed. Whitehouse Station, NJ: Merck & Co., Inc., 1996.
  2. Zhang RW, Tang XC, Han YY, et al. [Drug evaluation of huperzine A in the treatment of senile memory disorders]. Chung Kuo Yao Li Hsueh Pao 1991;12:250-2.
  3. Ohba T, Yoshino Y, Ishisaka M, et al. Japanese Huperzia serrata extract and the constituent, huperzine A, ameliorate the scopolamine-induced cognitive impairment in mice. Biosci Biotechnol Biochem. 2015;79(11):1838-44.

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 Toothed Clubmoss and Bendamustine Hydrochloride Together: Common Questions

Is it safe to take Toothed Clubmoss with Bendamustine Hydrochloride?
We do not list a known interaction between Toothed Clubmoss and Bendamustine Hydrochloride. 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.
How was the Toothed Clubmoss and Bendamustine Hydrochloride combination checked?
Interactions in our licensed database are recorded against drug classes. Bendamustine Hydrochloride is filed under 3 classifications, and Toothed Clubmoss has documented interactions with 2 drug classes — none of Bendamustine Hydrochloride'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 Toothed Clubmoss interact with any other medications?
Yes. Toothed Clubmoss has 219 documented drug interactions in our database — Bendamustine Hydrochloride 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 Bendamustine Hydrochloride interact with any supplements?
Yes. Bendamustine Hydrochloride has documented interactions with 86 supplements in our database — Toothed Clubmoss is not one of them. The Bendamustine Hydrochloride 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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