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What Supplements Interact with Cerivastatin Sodium?

Cerivastatin Sodium brand name: Baycol. Every interaction below applies to the brands too.

71 Interactions 7 Major 50 Moderate 14 Minor
Curated & coded by · Clinical Pharmacist · Updated September 22, 2026

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

What is this page for?

One answer, for one medication: what supplements and herbal products interact with Cerivastatin Sodium? Every vitamin, herb, and supplement ingredient we’ve checked against it is on this page, ranked by severity, each linking to the full report for that exact pair.

This page covers supplement interactions only — to check Cerivastatin Sodium against your other medications, use the drug–drug interaction checker. Educational information from our licensed clinical databases, not medical advice. Our 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.

Your liver does most of the work of clearing cerivastatin (Baycol), a cholesterol-lowering statin, and this list points hard at that. Treat it seriously. Seven of the 71 ingredients on file rate major, and 38 can stress the liver, including regular beer or wine and herbs like Siberian cocklebur. The other big cluster is juice. Apple, grapefruit, and sweet orange block the gut transporter (OATP) that carries many oral drugs into your blood, so an everyday glass can cut how much medicine you absorb. Space juice well apart from your dose.

Red yeast rice contains a natural statin, so adding it to cerivastatin stacks the same drug effect twice. Beyond the seven majors, 50 entries rate moderate and 14 minor, mostly echoing the liver and absorption themes at lower intensity. If you drink alcohol regularly or take any liver-active herb, talk with your pharmacist before your next refill.

— , Clinical Pharmacist · July 18, 2026

Major 7 Moderate 50 Minor 14 No known interaction 1,381

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Top Ingredient Interactions

Cerivastatin Sodium: Top Interactions at a Glance

The most significant Cerivastatin Sodium supplement & herbal interactions, colored by severity. Tap any ingredient to open the full report for that pair.

Showing the 12 highest-ranked of 71 interacting ingredients — plus 1,381 more checked with no known interaction. See the complete ranked list.

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The Major Interactions to Know About

The most clinically significant Cerivastatin Sodium + supplement combinations in our database, best-documented first. Open any card for the full report.

Major Likelihood Likely Apple + Cerivastatin Sodiumi

Concomitant consumption of apple juice can significantly decrease oral absorption and blood levels of OATP substrates.

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Grapefruit juice can decrease levels of drugs that are substrates of OATP.

Read the full interaction Major Likelihood Likely Siberian Cocklebur + Cerivastatin Sodiumi

Siberian cocklebur can adversely affect the liver.

Read the full interaction Major Likelihood Likely Sweet Orange + Cerivastatin Sodiumi

Consuming sweet orange juice can decrease oral absorption of OATP substrates.

Read the full interaction Major Likelihood Probable Activated Charcoal + Cerivastatin Sodiumi

Activated charcoal reduces systemic exposure to many drugs, including those that undergo enterohepatic recirculation, regardless of the route of administration.

Read the full interaction Major Likelihood Probable Beer + Cerivastatin Sodiumi

Concomitant use of alcohol with hepatotoxic drugs may increase the risk of hepatotoxicity.

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Every Supplement Checked Against Cerivastatin Sodium

All 1,452 ingredients in our database, ranked by severity — 71 with a Cerivastatin Sodium interaction on file and 1,381 with none found. Filter by severity or search any ingredient; hover the for what each ingredient is.

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Straight answers

Can You Take It With Cerivastatin Sodium?

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 Apple with Cerivastatin Sodium?

Major Use real caution — this is a major-rated interaction, generally best avoided or used only under close supervision. Concomitant consumption of apple juice can significantly decrease oral absorption and blood levels of OATP substrates.

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Can you take Black Cohosh with Cerivastatin Sodium?

Moderate Possibly, but carefully — this moderate-rated combination may need monitoring, a dose adjustment, or separated timing. Theoretically, taking black cohosh with hepatotoxic drugs may increase the risk of liver damage.

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Can you take Sweet Orange with Cerivastatin Sodium?

Major Use real caution — this is a major-rated interaction, generally best avoided or used only under close supervision. Consuming sweet orange juice can decrease oral absorption of OATP substrates.

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Can you take Grapefruit with Cerivastatin Sodium?

Major Use real caution — this is a major-rated interaction, generally best avoided or used only under close supervision. Grapefruit juice can decrease levels of drugs that are substrates of OATP.

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Can you take Siberian Cocklebur with Cerivastatin Sodium?

Major Use real caution — this is a major-rated interaction, generally best avoided or used only under close supervision. Siberian cocklebur can adversely affect the liver.

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Can you take Activated Charcoal with Cerivastatin Sodium?

Major Use real caution — this is a major-rated interaction, generally best avoided or used only under close supervision. Activated charcoal reduces systemic exposure to many drugs, including those that undergo enterohepatic recirculation, regardless of the rout...

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Can you take Beer with Cerivastatin Sodium?

Major Use real caution — this is a major-rated interaction, generally best avoided or used only under close supervision. Concomitant use of alcohol with hepatotoxic drugs may increase the risk of hepatotoxicity.

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Can you take Wine with Cerivastatin Sodium?

Major Use real caution — this is a major-rated interaction, generally best avoided or used only under close supervision. Concomitant use of alcohol with hepatotoxic drugs may increase the risk of hepatotoxicity.

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Can you take Coffee Charcoal with Cerivastatin Sodium?

Moderate Possibly, but carefully — this moderate-rated combination may need monitoring, a dose adjustment, or separated timing. Coffee charcoal can reduce the absorption of orally administered drugs and should be separated from oral drug administration by at least two...

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Can you take European Mandrake with Cerivastatin Sodium?

Moderate Possibly, but carefully — this moderate-rated combination may need monitoring, a dose adjustment, or separated timing. Theoretically, concurrent use might increase absorption of some drugs because of inhibited gastrointestinal (GI) motility caused by European...

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Can you take Glucomannan with Cerivastatin Sodium?

Moderate Possibly, but carefully — this moderate-rated combination may need monitoring, a dose adjustment, or separated timing. Theoretically, glucomannan may decrease absorption of drugs taken orally.

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Can you take Green Tea with Cerivastatin Sodium?

Moderate Possibly, but carefully — this moderate-rated combination may need monitoring, a dose adjustment, or separated timing. Theoretically, green tea might reduce the absorption of organic anion-transporting polypeptide (OATP) substrates.

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Can you take Red Yeast Rice with Cerivastatin Sodium?

Moderate Possibly, but carefully — this moderate-rated combination may need monitoring, a dose adjustment, or separated timing. Theoretically, taking red yeast rice with other statins might increase the risk of potential adverse effects.

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Can you take St. John's Wort with Cerivastatin Sodium?

Moderate Possibly, but carefully — this moderate-rated combination may need monitoring, a dose adjustment, or separated timing. St.

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Can you take Ashwagandha with Cerivastatin Sodium?

Moderate Possibly, but carefully — this moderate-rated combination may need monitoring, a dose adjustment, or separated timing. Theoretically, taking ashwagandha with hepatotoxic drugs might increase the risk of liver damage.

Full Ashwagandha + Cerivastatin Sodium answer

Can you take Banaba with Cerivastatin Sodium?

Moderate Possibly, but carefully — this moderate-rated combination may need monitoring, a dose adjustment, or separated timing. Theoretically, concomitant use of banaba with substrates of OATP might reduce the bioavailability of the OATP substrate.

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Can you take Black Tea with Cerivastatin Sodium?

Moderate Possibly, but carefully — this moderate-rated combination may need monitoring, a dose adjustment, or separated timing. Theoretically, black tea might reduce the absorption of organic anion-transporting polypeptide (OATP) substrates.

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Can you take Boldo with Cerivastatin Sodium?

Moderate Possibly, but carefully — this moderate-rated combination may need monitoring, a dose adjustment, or separated timing. Theoretically, taking boldo with hepatotoxic drugs might increase the risk of hepatic injury and disease.

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Can you take Buchu with Cerivastatin Sodium?

Moderate Possibly, but carefully — this moderate-rated combination may need monitoring, a dose adjustment, or separated timing. Buchu contains pulegone, a known hepatotoxin.

Full Buchu + Cerivastatin Sodium answer

Can you take Camphor with Cerivastatin Sodium?

Moderate Possibly, but carefully — this moderate-rated combination may need monitoring, a dose adjustment, or separated timing. Theoretically, concomitant use of camphor with other hepatotoxic drugs might increase the risk of liver damage.

Full Camphor + Cerivastatin Sodium 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) Cerivastatin Sodium is classified into the pharmacology categories it belongs to, (2) every supplement interaction documented against any of those categories is inherited by Cerivastatin Sodium, 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.

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

Hepatotoxic Drugs 38 ingredients

Medications with known liver considerations. Supplements that can stress the liver add to the load.

38 of the supplement ingredients on this page reach Cerivastatin Sodium 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 Cerivastatin Sodium through this category.

Organic Anion-Transporting Polypeptide Substrates (Oatp) 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 Cerivastatin Sodium through this category.

Hmg-Coa Reductase Inhibitors ("Statins") 6 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.

6 of the supplement ingredients on this page reach Cerivastatin Sodium through this category.

Related: does Cerivastatin Sodium deplete any nutrients?

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

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Pharmacist Counseling Corner

Cerivastatin Sodium & Supplements: Common Questions

What supplements interact with Cerivastatin Sodium?
More than you might expect — 71 in total, though they are far from equal: 7 are rated major, 50 moderate, and 14 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: Apple, Grapefruit, Siberian Cocklebur.
Which Cerivastatin Sodium supplement interactions are the most serious?
Focus on the major group: Apple, Grapefruit, Siberian Cocklebur, Sweet Orange and Activated Charcoal, 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 Cerivastatin Sodium?
Usually yes — most people on Cerivastatin Sodium 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 Baycol have the same supplement interactions as Cerivastatin Sodium?
Yes — Baycol all contain Cerivastatin Sodium, 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 Cerivastatin Sodium deplete any vitamins or nutrients?
It might — Cerivastatin Sodium 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 Cerivastatin Sodium nutrient depletion report for the specifics and what to discuss with your pharmacist.
What about Cerivastatin Sodium and my other medications?
This page covers Cerivastatin Sodium against supplements and herbal ingredients. Checking Cerivastatin Sodium 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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