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What Supplements Interact with Elotuzumab?

Elotuzumab brand name: Empliciti. Every interaction below applies to the brands too.

38 Interactions 3 Major 35 Moderate
Curated & coded by · Clinical Pharmacist · Updated September 15, 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 Elotuzumab? 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 Elotuzumab against your other medications, use the drug–drug interaction checker. Educational information from our licensed clinical databases, not medical advice. Our editorial policy

HelloPharmacist Bottom Line
Our Pharmacist Explains
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.

Elotuzumab (Empliciti) is an infusion for multiple myeloma, and every one of the 38 supplement interactions on file for it comes down to the same organ: the liver. Each ingredient here can stress or injure the liver on its own, and stacking that risk on top of cancer treatment deserves genuine care. Three entries rate major and are worth understanding before anything else: Siberian cocklebur, which has been tied to outright liver failure, and alcohol in the form of beer and wine.

The other 35 rate moderate, a long roster of herbs with reported or suspected liver harm, from traditional botanicals to weight loss and bodybuilding products. Most rest on case reports rather than controlled trials, but the arithmetic holds either way, since two liver stressors leave less margin than one. That margin matters during myeloma treatment, so clear anything on this page with your oncology pharmacist first.

— , Clinical Pharmacist · July 18, 2026

Major 3 Moderate 35 No known interaction 1,414

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Top Ingredient Interactions

Elotuzumab: Top Interactions at a Glance

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

Showing the 12 highest-ranked of 38 interacting ingredients — plus 1,414 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 Elotuzumab + supplement combinations in our database, best-documented first. Open any card for the full report.

Major Likelihood Likely Siberian Cocklebur + Elotuzumabi

Siberian cocklebur can adversely affect the liver.

Read the full interaction Major Likelihood Probable Beer + Elotuzumabi

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

Read the full interaction Major Likelihood Probable Wine + Elotuzumabi

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

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The complete list

Every Supplement Checked Against Elotuzumab

All 1,452 ingredients in our database, ranked by severity — 38 with a Elotuzumab interaction on file and 1,414 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 Elotuzumab?

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 Comfrey with Elotuzumab?

Moderate Possibly, but carefully — this moderate-rated combination may need monitoring, a dose adjustment, or separated timing. Theoretically, comfrey might have additive adverse effects on the liver when used with hepatotoxic drugs.

Full Comfrey + Elotuzumab answer

Can you take Ephedra with Elotuzumab?

Moderate Possibly, but carefully — this moderate-rated combination may need monitoring, a dose adjustment, or separated timing. Theoretically, concomitant use might have additive adverse hepatotoxic effects.

Full Ephedra + Elotuzumab answer

Can you take Epistane with Elotuzumab?

Moderate Possibly, but carefully — this moderate-rated combination may need monitoring, a dose adjustment, or separated timing. Theoretically, concomitant use might have additive adverse hepatotoxic effects.

Full Epistane + Elotuzumab answer

Can you take Fo-ti with Elotuzumab?

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

Full Fo-ti + Elotuzumab answer

Can you take Garcinia with Elotuzumab?

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

Full Garcinia + Elotuzumab answer

Can you take Gotu Kola with Elotuzumab?

Moderate Possibly, but carefully — this moderate-rated combination may need monitoring, a dose adjustment, or separated timing. Theoretically, taking gotu kola with hepatotoxic drugs might have additive adverse effects.

Full Gotu Kola + Elotuzumab answer

Can you take Greater Celandine with Elotuzumab?

Moderate Possibly, but carefully — this moderate-rated combination may need monitoring, a dose adjustment, or separated timing. There is some concern that greater celandine can adversely affect the liver.

Full Greater Celandine + Elotuzumab answer

Can you take Hemp Agrimony with Elotuzumab?

Moderate Possibly, but carefully — this moderate-rated combination may need monitoring, a dose adjustment, or separated timing. Hemp agrimony contains hepatotoxic pyrrolizidine alkaloids (PA).

Full Hemp Agrimony + Elotuzumab answer

Can you take Kava with Elotuzumab?

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

Full Kava + Elotuzumab answer

Can you take Khella with Elotuzumab?

Moderate Possibly, but carefully — this moderate-rated combination may need monitoring, a dose adjustment, or separated timing. Theoretically, khella might have additive adverse effects on the liver when used with hepatotoxic drugs.

Full Khella + Elotuzumab answer

Can you take Kudzu with Elotuzumab?

Moderate Possibly, but carefully — this moderate-rated combination may need monitoring, a dose adjustment, or separated timing. Theoretically, concomitant use might have additive hepatotoxic effects.

Full Kudzu + Elotuzumab answer

Can you take Ligandrol with Elotuzumab?

Moderate Possibly, but carefully — this moderate-rated combination may need monitoring, a dose adjustment, or separated timing. Theoretically, concomitant use might have additive hepatotoxic effects.

Full Ligandrol + Elotuzumab answer

Can you take Manchurian Thorn with Elotuzumab?

Moderate Possibly, but carefully — this moderate-rated combination may need monitoring, a dose adjustment, or separated timing. Animal research suggests that high doses of Manchurian thorn can induce liver damage.

Full Manchurian Thorn + Elotuzumab answer

Can you take Niacin with Elotuzumab?

Moderate Possibly, but carefully — this moderate-rated combination may need monitoring, a dose adjustment, or separated timing. Theoretically, concomitant use of niacin and hepatotoxic drugs might increase the risk of hepatotoxicity.

Full Niacin + Elotuzumab answer

Can you take Noni with Elotuzumab?

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

Full Noni + Elotuzumab answer

Can you take Ostarine with Elotuzumab?

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

Full Ostarine + Elotuzumab answer

Can you take Padang Cassia with Elotuzumab?

Moderate Possibly, but carefully — this moderate-rated combination may need monitoring, a dose adjustment, or separated timing. There is some concern that ingesting large amounts of Padang cassia might cause hepatotoxicity in some people.

Full Padang Cassia + Elotuzumab answer

Can you take Red Yeast Rice with Elotuzumab?

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

Full Red Yeast Rice + Elotuzumab answer

Can you take Rhubarb with Elotuzumab?

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

Full Rhubarb + Elotuzumab answer

Can you take Saigon Cinnamon with Elotuzumab?

Moderate Possibly, but carefully — this moderate-rated combination may need monitoring, a dose adjustment, or separated timing. Theoretically, Saigon cinnamon might cause additive effects when used with hepatotoxic drugs.

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

Elotuzumab sits in 1 interaction category. 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 Elotuzumab through this category.

About Elotuzumab

Elotuzumab injection (Empliciti) is an immunostimulatory antibody used in combination regimens to treat multiple myeloma in adults who have already received prior therapy.

Generic name: Elotuzumab  ·  Brand name: Empliciti.

See the full Elotuzumab Injection drug information
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Elotuzumab & Supplements: Common Questions

What supplements interact with Elotuzumab?
In our interaction database, 38 supplement and herbal ingredients have an interaction with Elotuzumab on file — 3 rated major, 35 moderate, and 0 minor. That number sounds scarier than it is: severity matters far more than the count, which is why the list on this page is ranked instead of alphabetical. Start at the top. The highest-ranked right now: Siberian Cocklebur, Beer, Wine.
Which Elotuzumab supplement interactions are the most serious?
The 3 major-rated combinations — led by Siberian Cocklebur, Beer and Wine — deserve real caution: these are the ones generally best avoided, or used only with your prescriber watching. If you take any of them today, don't panic and don't stop anything abruptly — call your pharmacist first. Jump to the ranked list.
Can I take vitamins or supplements while on Elotuzumab?
That depends entirely on which supplement. The honest answer for Elotuzumab is in the ranked list above — and if what you take is a combination product with a dozen ingredients, don't check them one by one: photograph the label with our scanner and we'll check the whole thing at once. Try the label scanner or the interaction checker.
Do brands like Empliciti have the same supplement interactions as Elotuzumab?
Yes — Empliciti all contain Elotuzumab, 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.
What about Elotuzumab and my other medications?
This page covers Elotuzumab against supplements and herbal ingredients. Checking Elotuzumab 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, or read the full Elotuzumab Injection drug information.

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

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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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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.