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What Supplements Interact with Entacapone?

Entacapone brand name: Comtan. Every interaction below applies to the brands too.

33 Interactions 1 Major 22 Moderate 10 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

HelloPharmacist Bottom Line

33 supplements and herbal ingredients have interactions with Entacapone on file in the HelloPharmacist interaction database — 1 rated major, 22 moderate, and 10 minor. The most serious involve Activated Charcoal.

Our assessment: with 1 major-rated interaction on the list, this one deserves real attention — know the major entries before combining anything with Entacapone.

Ranked by severity below. Every entry links to the full pharmacist-reviewed report for that exact combination — what can happen, how likely it is, and what to do about it.

This box checks one ingredient at a time (like turmeric or magnesium). Taking a supplement product with a whole label of ingredients? Search the product instead — we check every ingredient on it ↓

Top Ingredient Interactions

Entacapone: Top Interactions at a Glance

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

Showing the 12 highest-ranked of 33 interacting ingredients — plus 1,419 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 Entacapone + supplement combinations in our database, best-documented first. Open any card for the full report.

The complete list

Every Supplement Checked Against Entacapone

All 1,452 ingredients in our database, ranked by severity — 33 with a Entacapone interaction on file and 1,419 with none found. Filter by severity or search any ingredient; hover the for what each ingredient is.

Straight answers

Can You Take It With Entacapone?

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 Milk Thistle with Entacapone?

Moderate Possibly, but carefully — this moderate-rated combination may need monitoring, a dose adjustment, or separated timing. Theoretically, milk thistle might affect the clearance of drugs that undergo glucuronidation.

Full Milk Thistle + Entacapone answer

Can you take Vitex Agnus-castus with Entacapone?

Moderate Possibly, but carefully — this moderate-rated combination may need monitoring, a dose adjustment, or separated timing. Theoretically, vitex agnus-castus could interfere with dopamine agonists.

Full Vitex Agnus-castus + Entacapone answer

Can you take Breadfruit with Entacapone?

Moderate Possibly, but carefully — this moderate-rated combination may need monitoring, a dose adjustment, or separated timing. Breadfruit might increase the levels of drugs metabolized by uridine diphosphoglucuronosyl transferase (UGT).

Full Breadfruit + Entacapone answer

Can you take Uva Ursi with Entacapone?

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

Full Uva Ursi + Entacapone answer

Can you take Valerian with Entacapone?

Moderate Possibly, but carefully — this moderate-rated combination may need monitoring, a dose adjustment, or separated timing. Valerian might weakly inhibit glucuronidation and increase concentrations of drugs metabolized by UGT1A1 and UGT2B7.

Full Valerian + Entacapone answer

Can you take Thyroid Extract with Entacapone?

Minor Usually — this is a minor-rated interaction, generally not clinically significant but worth mentioning to your pharmacist. Food and medications can interfere with thyroid hormone absorption.

Full Thyroid Extract + Entacapone answer

Can you take Agar with Entacapone?

Minor Usually — this is a minor-rated interaction, generally not clinically significant but worth mentioning to your pharmacist. Agar forms a thick gel, which may disrupt the absorption of nutrients and medications.

Full Agar + Entacapone answer

Can you take Algin with Entacapone?

Minor Usually — this is a minor-rated interaction, generally not clinically significant but worth mentioning to your pharmacist. Theoretically, algin can alter the absorption of oral drugs.

Full Algin + Entacapone answer

Can you take Black Psyllium with Entacapone?

Minor Usually — this is a minor-rated interaction, generally not clinically significant but worth mentioning to your pharmacist. Theoretically, psyllium might increase, decrease, or have no effect on the absorption of oral drugs.

Full Black Psyllium + Entacapone answer

Can you take Blond Psyllium with Entacapone?

Minor Usually — this is a minor-rated interaction, generally not clinically significant but worth mentioning to your pharmacist. Theoretically, psyllium might increase, decrease, or have no effect on the absorption of oral drugs.

Full Blond Psyllium + Entacapone answer

Can you take Carob with Entacapone?

Minor Usually — this is a minor-rated interaction, generally not clinically significant but worth mentioning to your pharmacist. Theoretically, carob might also impair the absorption of oral drugs.

Full Carob + Entacapone answer

Can you take Karaya Gum with Entacapone?

Minor Usually — this is a minor-rated interaction, generally not clinically significant but worth mentioning to your pharmacist. Co-administration of oral drugs with bulk forming laxatives such as karaya gum may decrease, increase, or have no effect on the absorption o...

Full Karaya Gum + Entacapone answer

Can you take Marshmallow with Entacapone?

Minor Usually — this is a minor-rated interaction, generally not clinically significant but worth mentioning to your pharmacist. Theoretically, mucilage in marshmallow might impair absorption of oral drugs.

Full Marshmallow + Entacapone answer

Can you take Xanthan Gum with Entacapone?

Minor Usually — this is a minor-rated interaction, generally not clinically significant but worth mentioning to your pharmacist. Theoretically, xanthan gum can alter the absorption of oral drugs due to its fiber qualities.

Full Xanthan Gum + Entacapone answer

Can you take Chrysin with Entacapone?

Minor Usually — this is a minor-rated interaction, generally not clinically significant but worth mentioning to your pharmacist. Theoretically, chrysin might increase the clearance of drugs that are UGT1A1 substrates, thereby reducing their effectiveness.

Full Chrysin + Entacapone answer

Can you take Activated Charcoal with Entacapone?

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...

Full Activated Charcoal + Entacapone answer

Can you take Brussels Sprout with Entacapone?

Moderate Possibly, but carefully — this moderate-rated combination may need monitoring, a dose adjustment, or separated timing. A cabbage and Brussels sprout-containing diet seems to boost elimination through glucuronide conjugation.

Full Brussels Sprout + Entacapone answer

Can you take Cabbage with Entacapone?

Moderate Possibly, but carefully — this moderate-rated combination may need monitoring, a dose adjustment, or separated timing. Theoretically, cabbage might increase clearance and decrease the effects of drugs metabolized through glucuronide conjugation.

Full Cabbage + Entacapone answer

Can you take Coffee Charcoal with Entacapone?

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...

Full Coffee Charcoal + Entacapone answer

Can you take European Mandrake with Entacapone?

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...

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

Entacapone sits in 3 interaction categories. Open any one to see what the group means:

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 Entacapone through this category.

Glucuronidated Drugs 12 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.

12 of the supplement ingredients on this page reach Entacapone through this category.

Dopamine Agonists 4 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.

4 of the supplement ingredients on this page reach Entacapone through this category.

About Entacapone

Entacapone is a COMT inhibitor used with other Parkinson's medications to reduce end-of-dose symptom worsening.

Generic name: Entacapone  ·  Brand name: Comtan.

See the full Entacapone drug information
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Pharmacist Counseling Corner

Entacapone & Supplements: Common Questions

What supplements interact with Entacapone?
Our database currently documents 33 ingredients with a known Entacapone interaction (1 major, 22 moderate, 10 minor). The practical move: scan the major group first, then look up the exact supplements you take rather than reading all 33. The highest-ranked right now: Activated Charcoal, Brussels Sprout, Cabbage.
Which Entacapone supplement interactions are the most serious?
Focus on the major group: Activated Charcoal. 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 Entacapone?
Plenty of supplements coexist fine with Entacapone; a shorter list does not. Rather than memorizing it, check the specific ingredients on your labels — the ranked list above covers every one we've checked, and multi-ingredient products can be checked label-by-label with our scanner. Try the label scanner or the interaction checker.
Do brands like Comtan have the same supplement interactions as Entacapone?
Yes — Comtan all contain Entacapone, 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 Entacapone and my other medications?
This page covers Entacapone against supplements and herbal ingredients. Checking Entacapone 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 Entacapone drug information.

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

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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.

🧑‍⚕️ Pharmacist review

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.

🔄 Kept current

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 22, 2026.

🔍 Full transparency

How every dataset on this site is sourced, licensed, and updated is documented publicly: our data sources · editorial policy · how we use AI.

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.