Is there rat poison in the medication coumadin?
Coumadin and heparin are in the family of drugs called blood thinners, or anti-coagulents. The generic name is WARFARIN as I recall. YES, the active ingredient WAS developed first for rats, which would cause internal bleeding and since the blood would not clot, the rat would die of exanguation, (sp?) blood loss. Taken in moderate amounts, plebitis, blood clots in the legs, is kept under control. Even on massive amounts of heparin, my father died from plebitis, when a blood clot in his leg broke loose and killed him. The same condition applied to Richard Nixon by the way. Even with blood thinners and anti-coagulents, blood clots can STILL form, break away and float through the blood stream, lodge at a critical junction and KILL you…
