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What Supplements Interact with Bepridil?

Bepridil brand name: Vascor. Every interaction below applies to the brands too.

151 Interactions 9 Major 101 Moderate 41 Minor

Drug–supplement interaction data sourced from Natural Medicines Pro, the licensed clinical database from TRC Healthcare / Therapeutic Research, with additional analysis by the HelloPharmacist Pharmacist Team. Our sources · Editorial policy

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What is this? The interaction data in the HelloPharmacist supplement database is licensed from Natural Medicines Pro by TRC Healthcare (Therapeutic Research). HelloPharmacist pharmacists often add our own analysis and context on top of that licensed data — such as this Bottom Line summary and the notes on individual interaction pages — and any such commentary is noted as ours.

Bepridil (Vascor) is a calcium channel blocker for chest pain that can itself lengthen the heart's QT interval, so I would handle its supplement list with real care. Nine of the 151 ingredients on file carry a major rating, and most of the risk runs along two lines. The largest group, everyday grapefruit and St. John's wort included, changes how much bepridil reaches the blood by acting on the CYP3A4 enzyme that clears it, while a second group stretches the QT interval further on its own, raising the odds of a dangerous rhythm.

Learn those nine major names first. The 101 moderate and 41 minor entries mostly echo the same mechanisms at lower strength, and a few add to bepridil's blood-pressure lowering. A last cluster, led by major-rated activated charcoal, blunts absorption of pills taken alongside it, so those belong well apart from your dose.

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Bepridil: Top Interactions at a Glance

The Bepridil supplement & herbal interactions people checked most in the last 24 hours, colored by severity. Tap any ingredient to open the full report for that pair.

Showing the 12 highest-ranked of 151 interacting ingredients — plus 1,301 more checked with no known interaction. See the complete ranked list.

The complete list

Every Supplement Checked Against Bepridil

All 1,452 ingredients in our database, ranked by severity — 151 with a Bepridil interaction on file and 1,301 with none found. Filter by severity or search any ingredient; hover the for what each ingredient is.

Straight answers

Can You Take It With Bepridil?

One-line answers, one card per combination — scroll through today’s 20 and tap any card for the full report. A different set rotates in daily until every combination has had its turn.

Can you take Calcium with Bepridil?

Minor Usually — this is a minor-rated interaction, generally not clinically significant but worth mentioning to your pharmacist. Intravenous calcium may decrease the effects of calcium channel blockers; oral calcium is unlikely to have this effect.

Full Calcium + Bepridil answer

Can you take Ashwagandha with Bepridil?

Minor Usually — this is a minor-rated interaction, generally not clinically significant but worth mentioning to your pharmacist. Theoretically, ashwagandha might decrease the levels and clinical effects of CYP3A4 substrates.

Full Ashwagandha + Bepridil answer

Can you take Vitamin D with Bepridil?

Minor Usually — this is a minor-rated interaction, generally not clinically significant but worth mentioning to your pharmacist. Vitamin D might induce CYP3A4 enzymes and reduce the bioavailability of CYP3A4 substrates.

Full Vitamin D + Bepridil answer

Can you take Black Pepper with Bepridil?

Moderate Possibly, but carefully — this moderate-rated combination may need monitoring, a dose adjustment, or separated timing. Theoretically, black pepper might increase levels of drugs metabolized by CYP3A4.

Full Black Pepper + Bepridil answer

Can you take Bacopa with Bepridil?

Moderate Possibly, but carefully — this moderate-rated combination may need monitoring, a dose adjustment, or separated timing. Theoretically, bacopa might increase the levels and adverse effects of CYP3A4 substrates.

Full Bacopa + Bepridil answer

Can you take Evodia with Bepridil?

Moderate Possibly, but carefully — this moderate-rated combination may need monitoring, a dose adjustment, or separated timing. Theoretically, evodia might have an additive effect with drugs that prolong the QT interval, potentially increasing the risk of ventricular...

Full Evodia + Bepridil answer

Can you take False Unicorn with Bepridil?

Moderate Possibly, but carefully — this moderate-rated combination may need monitoring, a dose adjustment, or separated timing. In vitro, false unicorn extract inhibits cytochrome P450 3A4 (CYP3A4) activity.

Full False Unicorn + Bepridil answer

Can you take Fennel with Bepridil?

Moderate Possibly, but carefully — this moderate-rated combination may need monitoring, a dose adjustment, or separated timing. Theoretically, fennel might increase levels of drugs metabolized by CYP3A4.

Full Fennel + Bepridil answer

Can you take Feverfew with Bepridil?

Moderate Possibly, but carefully — this moderate-rated combination may need monitoring, a dose adjustment, or separated timing. Theoretically, feverfew might increase levels of drugs metabolized by CYP3A4.

Full Feverfew + Bepridil answer

Can you take Fo-ti with Bepridil?

Moderate Possibly, but carefully — this moderate-rated combination may need monitoring, a dose adjustment, or separated timing. Theoretically, fo-ti might increase the levels and clinical effects of drugs metabolized by CYP3A4.

Full Fo-ti + Bepridil answer

Can you take Garlic with Bepridil?

Moderate Possibly, but carefully — this moderate-rated combination may need monitoring, a dose adjustment, or separated timing. Theoretically, garlic products containing allicin might induce intestinal CYP3A4 and inhibit hepatic CYP3A4.

Full Garlic + Bepridil answer

Can you take German Chamomile with Bepridil?

Moderate Possibly, but carefully — this moderate-rated combination may need monitoring, a dose adjustment, or separated timing. Theoretically, German chamomile might inhibit CYP3A4 and increase levels of drugs metabolized by these enzymes.

Full German Chamomile + Bepridil answer

Can you take Ginger with Bepridil?

Moderate Possibly, but carefully — this moderate-rated combination may need monitoring, a dose adjustment, or separated timing. Ginger might increase or decrease the levels of CYP3A4 substrates.

Full Ginger + Bepridil answer

Can you take Ginkgo with Bepridil?

Moderate Possibly, but carefully — this moderate-rated combination may need monitoring, a dose adjustment, or separated timing. Theoretically, ginkgo might decrease levels of drugs metabolized by CYP3A4.

Full Ginkgo + Bepridil answer

Can you take Goji with Bepridil?

Moderate Possibly, but carefully — this moderate-rated combination may need monitoring, a dose adjustment, or separated timing. Theoretically, goji berry might inhibit CYP3A4 and reduce metabolism of CYP3A4 substrates.

Full Goji + Bepridil answer

Can you take Goldenseal with Bepridil?

Moderate Possibly, but carefully — this moderate-rated combination may need monitoring, a dose adjustment, or separated timing. Goldenseal might increase serum levels of drugs metabolized by CYP3A4.

Full Goldenseal + Bepridil answer

Can you take Goldthread with Bepridil?

Moderate Possibly, but carefully — this moderate-rated combination may need monitoring, a dose adjustment, or separated timing. There's very preliminary evidence that berberine, a constituent of goldthread, might inhibit cytochrome P450 3A4 (CYP3A4) enzyme.

Full Goldthread + Bepridil answer

Can you take Grape with Bepridil?

Moderate Possibly, but carefully — this moderate-rated combination may need monitoring, a dose adjustment, or separated timing. It is unclear if grape seed extract inhibits or induces CYP3A4; research is conflicting.

Full Grape + Bepridil answer

Can you take Guar Gum with Bepridil?

Moderate Possibly, but carefully — this moderate-rated combination may need monitoring, a dose adjustment, or separated timing. Guar gum might reduce the absorption of some oral drugs, potentially decreasing their effectiveness.

Full Guar Gum + Bepridil answer

Can you take Gum Arabic with Bepridil?

Moderate Possibly, but carefully — this moderate-rated combination may need monitoring, a dose adjustment, or separated timing. Theoretically, gum arabic can alter the absorption of oral drugs due to its fiber content.

Full Gum Arabic + Bepridil answer
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What Severity, Likelihood & Evidence Mean

Severity — How Serious It Can Be

  • Major. Clinically significant; generally best avoided, or used only under direct professional supervision.
  • Moderate. May need monitoring, a dose adjustment, or separating the times you take each one.
  • Minor. Generally not clinically significant, but still worth noting and mentioning to your pharmacist.
  • No known interaction. Checked against our sources with nothing documented — not the same as proven safety.

Likelihood — How Well It’s Documented

  • Likely. Well-controlled human studies have demonstrated the likely existence of this interaction
  • Probable. Interaction has not been documented in well-controlled studies, however, the interaction has been demonstrated in some small human studies or in controlled animal studies in conjunction with multiple case reports.
  • Possible. Interaction has been documented in animal or in lab research, or the interaction has been documented in humans but is limited to case reports or conflicting clinical research exists
  • Unlikely. Interaction has been demonstrated in animal or in lab research but has been shown not to occur in humans.

Where This Data Comes From

  • Interaction records are evidence-graded and sourced from the Natural Medicines database (TRC Healthcare), the same reference used by pharmacists and hospitals.
  • Each entry links to a full report with the clinical detail, likelihood, evidence level, and citations for that exact combination.
  • Content is reviewed by licensed HelloPharmacist pharmacists — see our data sources and editorial standards.

How Does Our Interaction Checker Work?

Behind every verdict on this page is a category system. Our source database doesn’t document supplement interactions drug-by-drug — it documents them against groups of medications that behave the same way (for example, “drugs processed by the CYP3A4 liver enzyme” or “blood-thinning medications”).

So the check works in three steps: (1) Bepridil is classified into the pharmacology categories it belongs to, (2) every supplement interaction documented against any of those categories is inherited by Bepridil, and (3) each ingredient keeps its own severity, likelihood, and evidence grades from the underlying record. That’s why one supplement can carry several records for one drug — it may interact through more than one category.

Bepridil sits in 4 interaction categories. Open any one to see what the group means:

Cytochrome P450 3A4 (Cyp3A4) Substrates 121 ingredients

A drug-metabolism group: these medications are processed by the named liver enzyme (a cytochrome P450). Supplements that speed this enzyme up or slow it down can lower or raise the medication's levels in your body.

121 of the supplement ingredients on this page reach Bepridil through this category.

Oral Drugs 17 ingredients

A pharmacology grouping from our source database: medications in this group share a property that certain supplements are known to interact with, so an interaction documented for the group applies to every drug in it.

17 of the supplement ingredients on this page reach Bepridil through this category.

Qt Interval-Prolonging Drugs 13 ingredients

Medications that can affect the heart's electrical rhythm (the QT interval). Supplements with similar effects can add to that risk.

13 of the supplement ingredients on this page reach Bepridil through this category.

Calcium Channel Blockers 9 ingredients

A pharmacology grouping from our source database: medications in this group share a property that certain supplements are known to interact with, so an interaction documented for the group applies to every drug in it.

9 of the supplement ingredients on this page reach Bepridil through this category.

Related: does Bepridil deplete any nutrients?

Bepridil has 1 reported nutrient association in the research literature — see the Bepridil nutrient depletion report.

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Bepridil & Supplements: Common Questions

What supplements interact with Bepridil?
More than you might expect — 151 in total, though they are far from equal: 9 are rated major, 101 moderate, and 41 minor. The ranked list on this page puts the ones that genuinely matter first, and every entry opens a full report on that exact pair. The highest-ranked right now: Grapefruit, Activated Charcoal, Arsenic.
Which Bepridil supplement interactions are the most serious?
Focus on the major group: Grapefruit, Activated Charcoal, Arsenic, Cesium and Coleus, among others. A major rating means the combination can be clinically significant, not that harm is guaranteed — but it's exactly the kind of thing to run past your pharmacist before your next dose, not after. Jump to the ranked list.
Can I take vitamins or supplements while on Bepridil?
Usually yes — most people on Bepridil can take most supplements. The catch is the exceptions, and they aren't always the exotic ones (St. John's Wort trips up more prescriptions than almost anything sold next to it). Look up each ingredient you actually take in the list above, and treat "no known interaction" as a green-ish light, not a guarantee. Try the label scanner or the interaction checker.
Do brands like Vascor have the same supplement interactions as Bepridil?
Yes — Vascor all contain Bepridil, so everything on this page applies to them equally. Interactions belong to the active drug, never to the brand on the box; the same is true of generics.
Where do these interaction ratings come from?
Every rating comes from the Natural Medicines database — the same evidence-graded reference pharmacists and hospitals use — and each interaction carries three separate grades: severity (how bad it can be), likelihood (how well it's documented in studies and case reports), and an evidence level. Our pharmacists review the content; we never let an AI decide an interaction. See how to read the ratings and our editorial policy.
Does Bepridil deplete any vitamins or nutrients?
It might — Bepridil has 1 reported nutrient-depletion association in the research literature, which is a different question from interactions: instead of a supplement changing the drug, the drug may lower a nutrient over time. See the Bepridil nutrient depletion report for the specifics and what to discuss with your pharmacist.
What about Bepridil and my other medications?
This page covers Bepridil against supplements and herbal ingredients. Checking Bepridil against your other prescription or OTC medications is a different tool — our drug interaction checker covers that side. Head to the drug–drug interaction checker.

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Where This Data Comes From — and Why You Can Trust It

🧪 Licensed clinical database

Every interaction verdict on this page comes from Natural Medicines Pro (TRC Healthcare / Therapeutic Research) — the same evidence-graded reference used by pharmacists and hospitals. We license this data directly; we do not scrape it, and no AI invents an interaction.

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This page is curated and coded by , Clinical Pharmacist, with additional analysis by the HelloPharmacist Pharmacist Team. Editorial commentary is ours; the licensed interaction records are shown as sourced.

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Our interaction database refreshes on a weekly cycle, and this page re-checks the live database every time it’s rebuilt — what you see reflects the database as of September 24, 2026.

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Educational information, not medical advice. An interaction being on file does not mean it will happen to you — and absence of one is not proof of safety. Never start or stop a medication or supplement without talking to your pharmacist or doctor.