Thursday, 26 February 2015

Maximum Health Benefits of Dates

Top 10 Health Benefits of Dates

Dates can provide lot of health benefits. Dates are high in iron content and fluorine. Dates are rich source of vitamins and minerals.  Consuming dates regularly can help to lower cholesterol and keep many health disorders away. Read on to know more about the top 10 benefits of consuming dates.

The health benefits of dates are innumerable. It is, in fact, a dry fruit that is sweet in taste and is rich in minerals and vitamins. The cultivation of dates can be traced back many years in history. Have a quick look at top 10 health benefits of dates.

Health Benefits of Consuming Dates
  1. Dates are free from cholesterol and contain very low fat. Dates are rich in vitamins and minerals.
  1. They are rich source of protein, dietary fiber and rich in vitamin B1, B2, B3 and B5 along with vitamin A1 and C.
  1. It helps improve the digestive system as it contains soluble and insoluble fibers and different kinds of amino acids.
  1. Dates are great energy boosters as they contain natural sugars like glucose, sucrose and fructose. To get more advantage add dates to milk and make it a very nutritious snack. Dates are very low in calories and are extremely suitable for health conscious people.
  1. Dates are rich in potassium and reduced in sodium. This helps regulate a healthy nervous system. Researches have revealed the fact that potassium intake up to a certain extent can reduce risk of stroke. Dates also help in lowering of the LDL cholesterol.
  1. Dates have high iron content and are very useful in treating anemia. The patients can eat many dates for better advantages. Dates also have fluorine that slows down the process of tooth decay.
  1. It helps people suffering from constipation. Soak dates overnight and take it along with water to have added advantage.
  1. It helps increase one’s sexual stamina. Soak one handful of dates in goat’s milk overnight. In the morning grind the dates in the milk and add honey and cardamom powder and drink it.
  1. Dates help in weight gain and are beneficial for those who suffer from over slimming problem. Dates are excellent for alcoholic intoxication.
  1. Cures abdominal cancer. The best thing is that it does not have any side effect on the body and is completely natural as well as it works better than medicine. It also helps in improving eye sight and helps in curing night blindness as well.
Dates can be chipped and sprinkled on sweet dishes, cakes and puddings and this enhances the state of the dish too. Selection of dates is very easy and you can have good ones if they appear fleshy and evenly coloured. Make sure there is no artificial sugar coating. Wash the dates properly before you eat because dust accumulates on the dates easily. In addition to all these, storing dates is not a big deal. They are dry fruits and so you do not have to face hassles to store them.
Dates can be introduced in daily diet in any form. You can introduce it in the form of snacks. Adding dates in any form makes the food tasty and healthy too. It fills anyone with energy no matter how tired he is. Keeping in mind the health benefits of dates, one should take utmost care while choosing the right quality of dates.
Do not forget to wash the dates thoroughly so that the dust is cleaned properly before consumption. Buy and consume only those dates that are properly packed and processed. No matter how beneficial eatables are, you need to take care while choosing them and so go for the good ones even if you have to pay a little bit more for that.

Importance of the Education of Islam: It is Compulsory for every person.

Education in Islamic History


From the very earliest days of Islam, the issue of education has been at the forefront at the minds of the Muslims. The very first word of the Quran that was revealed to Prophet Muhammad ﷺ was, in fact, “Read”. Prophet Muhammad ﷺ once stated that “Seeking knowledge is mandatory for all Muslims.” With such a direct command to go out and seek knowledge, Muslims have placed huge emphasis on the educational system in order to fulfill this obligation placed on them by the Prophet ﷺ.
Throughout Islamic history, education was a point of pride and a field Muslims have always excelled in. Muslims built great libraries and learning centers in places such as Baghdad, Cordoba, and Cairo. They established the first primary schools for children and universities for continuing education. They advanced sciences by incredible leaps and bounds through such institutions, leading up to today’s modern world.

Attitudes Towards Education

Today, education of children is not limited to the information and facts they are expected to learn. Rather, educators take into account the emotional, social, and physical well-being of the student in addition to the information they must master. Medieval Islamic education was no different. The 12th century Syrian physician al-Shayzari wrote extensively about the treatment of students. He noted that they should not be treated harshly, nor made to do busy work that doesn’t benefit them at all. The great Islamic scholar al-Ghazali also noted that “prevention of the child from playing games and constant insistence on learning deadens his heart, blunts his sharpness of wit and burdens his life. Thus, he looks for a ruse to escape his studies altogether.” Instead, he believed that educating students should be mixed with fun activities such as puppet theater, sports, and playing with toy animals.

The First Schools

Ibn Khaldun states in his Muqaddimah, “It should be known that instructing children in the Qur’an is a symbol of Islam. Muslims have, and practice, such instruction in all their cities, because it imbues hearts with a firm belief (in Islam) and its articles of faith, which are (derived) from the verses of the Qur’an and certain Prophetic traditions.”
A miniature from the Ottoman period of students and their teacher
The very first educational institutions of the Islamic world were quite informal. Mosques were used as a meeting place where people can gather around a learned scholar, attend his lectures, read books with him/her, and gain knowledge. Some of the greatest scholars of Islam learned in such a way, and taught their students this way as well. All four founders of the Muslim schools of law – Imams Abu Hanifa, Malik, Shafi’i, and Ibn Hanbal – gained their immense knowledge by sitting in gatherings with other scholars (usually in the mosques) to discuss and learn Islamic law.
Some schools throughout the Muslim world continue this tradition of informal education. At the three holiest sites of Islam – the Haram in Makkah, Masjid al-Nabawi in Madinah, and Masjid al-Aqsa in Jerusalem – scholars regularly sit and give lectures in the mosque that are open to anyone who would like to join and benefit from their knowledge. However, as time went on, Muslims began to build formal institutions dedicated to education.

From Primary to Higher Education

Dating back to at least the 900s, young students were educated in a primary school called a maktab. Commonly, maktabs were attached to a mosque, where the resident scholars and imams would hold classes for children. These classes would cover topics such as basic Arabic reading and writing, arithmetic, and Islamic laws. Most of the local population was educated by such primary schools throughout their childhood. After completing the curriculum of the maktab, students could go on to their adult life and find an occupation, or move on to higher education in a madrasa, the Arabic world for “school”.
The Registan complex in Samarkand, Uzbekistan contains three madrasas in the same square
Madrasas were usually attached to a large mosque. Examples include al-Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt (founded in 970) and al-Karaouine in Fes, Morocco (founded in 859). Later, numerous madrasas were established across the Muslim world by the great Seljuk vizier, Nizam al-Mulk. At a madrasa, students would be educated further in religious sciences, Arabic, and secular studies such as  medicine, mathematics, astronomy, history, and geography, among many other topics. In the 1100s, there were 75 madrasas in Cairo, 51 in Damascus, and 44 in Aleppo. There were hundreds more in Muslim Spain at this time as well.
These madrasas can be considered the first modern universities. They had separate faculties for different subjects, with resident scholars that had expertise in their fields. Students would pick a concentration of study and spend a number of years studying under numerous professors. Ibn Khaldun notes that in Morocco at his time, the madrasas had a curriculum which spanned sixteen years. He argues that this is the “shortest [amount of time] in which a student can obtain the scientific habit he desires, or can realize that he will never be able to obtain it.”
When a student completed their course of study, they would be granted an ijaza, or a license certifying that they have completed that program and are qualified to teach it as well. Ijazas could be given by an individual teacher who can personally attest to his/her student’s knowledge, or by an institution such as a madrasa, in recognition of a student finishing their course of study. Ijazas today  can be most closely compared to diplomas granted from higher educational institutions.

Education and Women

Throughout Islamic history, educating women has been a high priority. Women were not seen as incapable of attaining knowledge nor of being able to teach others themselves. The precedent for this was set with Prophet Muhammad’s own wife, Aisha, who was one of the leading scholars of her time and was known as a teacher of many people in Madinah after the Prophet’s ﷺ death.
Later Islamic history also shows the influence of women.  Women throughout the Muslim world were able to attend lectures in mosques, attend madrasas, and in many cases were teachers themselves. For example, the 12th century scholar Ibn ‘Asakir (most famous for his book on the history of Damascus, Tarikh Dimashq) traveled extensively in the search for knowledge and studied under 80 different female teachers.
Women also played a major role as supporters of education:
The University of al-Karaouine in Fes, Morocco was founded by Fatima al-Fihri in 859
  • The first formal madrasa of the Muslim world, the University of al-Karaouine in Fes was established in 859 by a wealthy merchant by the name of Fatima al-Fihri.
  • The Abbasid caliph Harun al-Rashid’s wife, Zubayda, personally funded many construction projects for mosques, roads, and wells in the Hijaz, which greatly benefit the many students that traveled through these areas.
  • The wife of Ottoman Sultan Suleyman, Hurrem Sultan, endowned numerous madrasasin addition to other charitable works such as hospitals, public baths, and soup kitchens.
  • During the Ayyubid period of Damascus (1174 to 1260) 26 religious endownments (including madrasas, mosques, and religious monuments) were built by women.
Unlike Europe during the Middle Ages (and even up until the 1800s and 1900s), women played a major role in Islamic education in the past 1400 years. Rather than being seen as second-class citizens, women played an active role in public life, particularly in the field of education.

Modern History

The tradition of madrasas and other classical forms of Islamic education continues until today, although in a much more diminshed form. The defining factor for this was the encroachment of European powers on Muslim lands throughout the 1800s. In the Ottoman Empire, for example, French secularist advisors to the sultans advocated a complete reform of the educational system to remove religion from the curriculum and only teach secular sciences. Public schools thus began to teach a European curriculum based on European books in place of the traditional fields of knowledge that had been taught for hundreds of years. Although Islamic madrasas continued to exist, without government support they lost much of their relevance in the modern Muslim world.
Today, much of the former Ottoman Empire still runs education along European lines. For example, what you are allowed to major in at the university level depends on how you do on a certain standardized test at the end of your high school career. If you obtain the highest possible grades on the test, you can study sciences such as medicine or engineering. If one scores on the lower end of the spectrum, they are only allowed to study topics such as Islamic sciences and education.
Despite the new systems in place in much of the Muslim world, traditional education still survives. Universities such as al-Azhar, al-Karaouine, and Darul Uloom in Deoband, India continue to offer traditional curricula that bring together Islamic and secular sciences. Such an intellectual tradition rooted in the great institutions of the past that produced some of the greatest scholars of Islamic history and continues to spread the message and knowledge of Islam to the masses.

Bibliography:
Ibn Khaldūn. The Muqaddimah, An Introduction To History. Bollingen, 1969. Print.
Lindsay, James E. Daily Life in the Medieval Islamic World. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 2005. Print.
Morgan, M. Lost History. Washington D.C. : National Geographic Society, 2007. Print.

ESR Test

ESR stands for erythrocyte sedimentation rate. It is commonly called a "sed rate."
It is a test that indirectly measures how much inflammation is in the body.

How the Test is Performed

A blood sample is needed. Most of the time blood is drawn from a vein located on the inside of the elbow or the back of the hand. The blood sample is sent to a lab.
The test measures how fast red blood cells (called erythrocytes) fall to the bottom of a tall, thin tube.

How to Prepare for the Test

There are no special steps needed to prepare.

How the Test will Feel

You may feel slight pain or a sting when the needle is inserted. You may also feel some throbbing at the site after the blood is drawn.

Why the Test is Performed

Reasons why a "sed rate" may be done include:
  • Unexplained fevers
  • Certain types of arthritis
  • Muscle symptoms
  • Other vague symptoms that cannot be explained
This test may also be used to monitor whether an illness is responding to treatment.
This test can be used to monitor inflammatory diseases or cancer. It is a screening test. This means it cannot be used to diagnose a specific disorder.
However, the test is useful for detecting and monitoring:
  • Autoimmune disorders
  • Bone infections
  • Certain forms of arthritis
  • Inflammatory diseases that cause vague symptoms
  • Tissue death

Normal Results

For adults (Westergren method):
  • Men under 50 years old: less than 15 mm/hr
  • Men over 50 years old: less than 20 mm/hr
  • Women under 50 years old: less than 20 mm/hr
  • Women over 50 years old: less than 30 mm/hr
For children (Westergren method):
  • Newborn: 0 to 2 mm/hr
  • Newborn to puberty: 3 to 13 mm/hr
Note: mm/hr = millimeters per hour
Normal value ranges may vary slightly among different laboratories. Talk to your doctor about the meaning of your specific test results.

What Abnormal Results Mean

An abnormal ESR may help with a diagnosis, but it does not prove that you have a certain condition. Other tests are almost always needed.
An increased ESR rate may be due to:
The immune system helps protect the body against harmful substances. An autoimmune disorder is when the immune system mistakenly attacks and destroys healthy body tissue. ESR is often higher than normal in people with an autoimmune disorder.
Common autoimmune disorders include:
Very high ESR levels occur with less common autoimmune disorders, including:
An increased ESR rate may be due to some infections, including:
Lower-than-normal levels occur with:

Alternative Names

Erythrocyte sedimentation rate; Sed rate; Sedimentation rate

References

Pisetsky DS. Laboratory testing in the rheumatic diseases. In: Goldman L, Schafer AI, eds. Goldman's Cecil Medicine. 24th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap 265.

Update Date: 5/11/2013

Updated by: David C. Dugdale, III, MD, Professor of Medicine, Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Bethanne Black, and the A.D.A.M. Editorial team.

Tuesday, 24 February 2015

“সুস্থ্যতা ও অবসর আল্লাহ্‌র নিয়ামত” আপনার স্বাস্থ্য- রক্ষার দায়িত্ব আপনারই।


বিসমিল্লাহির রাহমানির রাহিম 

আপনার স্বাস্থ্য, রক্ষার দায়িত্ব আপনারই!
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এটা সকলের জানা যে, "রোগ চিকিৎসার চেয়ে প্রতিরোধ উত্তম"! কারণ, যখন কেউ কোন রোগে আক্রান্ত হয় তখন তাকে এই রোগের কারণে নানা জটিল ও কঠিন সময় পার করতে হয়। সহ্য করতে হয় নানা রকম কষ্ট। এর পর ডাক্তারের সাথে যোগাযোগ, রোগ নির্ণয় ও পরিশেষে ডাক্তারের দেয়া প্রেসক্রিপশনমত ঔষধ কিনতে প্রচুর অর্থ ব্যয় করতে হয়। কখনও কখনও শুধু ঔষধে কাজ হয়না। দরকার হয় অপারেশনের। কোন কোন ক্ষেত্রে শরীরের কোন কোন অঙ্গ প্রতঙ্গ পাল্টে ফেলতে হয়। শরীরে রক্ত সঞ্চালণের মত কাজটি আপনাকে করতে হবে নির্দৃষ্ট সময় পর পর। ক্যামো থ্যরাপীর মত পীড়াদায়ক চিকিৎসা পদ্ধতিও আপনাকে গ্রহণ করতে হবে ক্যানসারের মত জীবনঘাতী মরন ব্যধীতে। আরও নানা কঠিন ও জটিল সমস্যার মুখোমুখি হতে হয়।সুতরাং আমাদের উচিৎ রোগগ্রন্থ হওয়ার আগে আল্লাহ্ আমাদের সুস্থতা নামক যে নিয়মাত দান করেছেন তার সঠিক পরিচর্যা করা। নিজেদেরকে সুস্থ রাখা। নিজেদের উপর যুলুম না করা। পরিবেশ বিপর্যয় না ঘটানো। আমরা যদি কিছু বিষয় মেনে চলতে পারি তাহলে অনেক রোগের হাত থেকে আমরা মুক্ত থাকতে পারব, ইনশাআল্লাহ্!

এজন্য আমাদের করণীয়ঃ


* স্বাস্থ্য সচেতনা গড়ে তোলা ও তার বাস্তবায়ন ঘটানো।
* রুটিন মাফিক জীবন পরিচালনা করা। যেমন- দ্রুত ঘুমাতে যাওয়া (ঈশার সালাতের পর ঘুমিয়ে পড়া) এবং দ্রুত অর্থাৎ খুব ভোরে ঘুম থেকে উঠা। (নিজে ও পরিবারের সবাইকে নিয়ে ফজরের সালাত জামাআ'তে আদায় করা।
* পাঁচ ওয়াক্ত সালাতের ওযুর আগে মিশওয়াক করে দাঁত পরিস্কার করে নেয়া।
* ফজর সালাতের পর কিছুক্ষণ ব্যয়াম করার চেষ্টা করা। কোন কিছু না হলেও অন্তঃত ৩০মিনিট হাটা; মাঝে মাঝে হালকা দৌড়নো।
* নিয়মিত গোসল করা, পরিষ্কার পরিচ্ছন্ন থাকা, কাপড়-চোপড়, বিছানা পত্র ও বসবাসের ঘরের ভিতর-বাহির পরিষ্কার পরিচ্ছন্ন রাখা।
* হালাল রুজি খাওয়া ও মন্দ কিছু পরিত্যাগ করা।
* খাওয়ার আগে ভালভাবে হাত ধোয়া, বাসনপত্র পরিষ্কার করে তাতে খাবার গ্রহণ করা। যতটা সম্বব টাটকা খাবার গ্রহন করা। অতি গরম ও অতি ঠান্ডা খাবার থেকে বিরত থাকা।
* সময় মত ও নিয়মিত স্বাস্থ্যসম্মত খাবার গ্রহণ করা। অতিরিক্ত তেল, চর্বি, বাসি-পঁচা, অতি ভাজা ও মসলা যুক্ত খাবার পরিহার করা।
* অতিরিক্ত লবণ ও মিষ্টি জাতীয় খাবার থেকে বিরত থাকা।
* টাটকা শাক-সবজি ও ফল-মূল বেশী বেশী খাওয়া।
* মাছ, মাংস, দুধ, ডিম পরিমিত খাওয়া।
* মধু, কলোজিরা, মাসরুম, জয়তুন ও সয়াবিন পরিমিত ও নিয়মিত খাওয়ার চেষ্টা করা।
* পরনিন্দা, হিংসা-বিদ্বেষ থেকে দূরে থাকা।
* অসুস্থ প্রতিযোগিতা পরিহার করা।
* সর্বদা আল্লাহর শুকরিয়া আদায় করা পাশাপাশি নফল সালাত (রাতের) ও নফল সিয়াম পালনের চেষ্টা করা।
* সমাজে ভাল কাজে অংশ গ্রহণ করা। দরিদ্র, এতিম, অসহায় ও রোগগ্রস্ত মানুষের পাশে গিয়ে দাঁড়ানো।

Sunday, 8 February 2015

The Great Islamic Scholar, Scientist, Historian, Philosopher, Legislator and Author : Fakhr al-Din al-Razi

In the Name of Allah The Most Merciful The Most Beneficent


The Great Islamic Scholar, Scientist, Historian, Philosopher, Legislator and  Author :
Abu Abdullah Muhammad ibn Umar ibn al-Husayn al-Taymi al-Bakri al-Tabaristani Fakhr al-Din al-Razi[1](Arabic/Persian: أبو عبدالله محمد بن عمر بن الحسین فخرالدین الرازي), also known as Fakhruddin Razi or Imam Razi, was a well-known Persian[2][3] polymath:[4] a Sunni Islamic theologian of the Ash'ari school, Islamic legal scholar of the Shafi'i school, Madrasah professor, and expert in a wide variety of disciplines, including the traditional Islamic fields of Sharia law, Fiqh jurisprudence, Islamic literature,Tafsir exegesis, Kalam theology, Arabic grammar andMuslim history; the Islamic philosophies of ethics andmetaphysics; the formal sciences of logic andmathematics; the natural sciences of astronomy,cosmology and physicsIslamic psychology;[5] medicine;[6]and the occult arts of alchemy and astrology.[7] He was born in 1149 CE (543 AH) in Ray, Iran, and died in 1209 CE (606 AH) in HeratAfghanistan.[8]
 Fakhr al-Din al-Razi.   A title page of Mafatih al-Ghayb, a classical book of tafsir (Quranic exegesis) by the Persian scholar Fakhr al-Din al-Razi, copied in Egypt in the 1300s.
During his lifetime in the 1100s, al-Razi wrote numerous books on theology, Quran, medicine, astronomy, law, and history.[9]


For more about Him see these link: [10]


Reference:
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1. Ibn Khallikan. Wafayat Al-a'yan Wa Anba' Abna' Al-zaman. Translated by William MacGuckin Slane. (1961) Pakistan Historical Society. pp. 224.
2. Richard Maxwell Eaton, The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier, 1204-1760,University of California Press,1996, - Page 29
3. Shaikh M. Ghazanfar, Medieval Islamic Economic Thought: Filling the Great Gap in European Economics,Routledge, 2003 [1]
6. Muammer İskenderoğlu (2002), Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī and Thomas Aquinas on the question of the eternity of the world, Brill Publishers, p. 59, ISBN 9004124802
7.↑ 7.0 7.1 Manfred Ullmann, Die Natur- und Geheimwissenschaften im Islam, Handbuch der Orientalistik,Abteilung I, Ergänzungsband VI, Abschnitt 2 (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1972), pp. 388-390.
8. http://islam.wikia.com/wiki/Fakhr_al-Din_al-Razi
10. a) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fakhr_ad-Din_ar-Razi

Friday, 6 February 2015

Vitamin K is Special Benefit for Human body

Vitamin K is Special Benefit for Human body 
                                                                              
------------- Dr M M Abdul Halim MD Cardiology

Vitamin K is very benefited for our body.  Because vitamin K is made by the human body,
Experts had long believed there was no need to supplement with it.

However, we now know that the amount we manufacture, while in some cases sufficient, is at other times less than optimal.(1)

Vitamin K is a fat-soluble vitamin, so your body stores it in fat tissue and the liver. It is best known for its role in helping blood clot, or coagulate, properly. The "K" comes from its German name, Koagulationsvitamin.(2)  Lately, researchers have demonstrated that vitamin K is also involved in building bone. Low levels of circulating vitamin K have been linked with low bone density, and supplementation with vitamin K shows improvements in biochemical measures of bone health. (3) A report from the Nurses’ Health Study suggests that women who get at least 110 micrograms of vitamin K a day are 30 percent less likely to break a hip than women who get less than that.(4) 

There are Different Types of Vitamin K
The most commonly available form of vitamin K is phylloquinone (vitamin K1). Vitamin K1 is found in leafy green vegetables; however, its ability to be absorbed from this source is limited.
Menaquinone (vitamin K2), found in meat, eggs, and dairy products is available in supplemental form as MK-4 and MK-7.

Vitamin K2 has been shown to be significantly more bioavailable than vitamin K1 and remains in the body for longer periods of time. (5)


Vitamin K is Needed for Healthy Bones and Arteries
While calcium is critical to bone health, its presence in the arteries can lead to atherosclerotic plaque. Vitamin K is the link that helps keep calcium in bone rather than blood vessels.

The calcium-regulating protein matrix-Gla (MGP), which inhibits arterial calcification, requires a chemical reaction called carboxylation to take place. This cannot be accomplished without vitamin K.

Insufficient vitamin K may lead to impaired activation of MGP in the arteries, resulting in calcium being deposited in arterial walls. (6, 7)

Osteocalcin, also known as bone Gla protein, is also dependent upon vitamin K. Reduced activation of osteocalcin results in decreased bone formation. (8)

So, when vitamin K is lacking, calcium is less likely to be deposited in the bone and more likely to end up in the arteries, resulting in arterial calcification accompanied by osteoporosis - a process labeled the "calcification paradox."(9)


***Vitamin K Protects Against Cancer
Having a high intake of vitamin K, particular vitamin K2, could protect against cancer.

The results of a study involving 24,340 participants found a 28% lower risk of dying from cancer among men and women with a high intake of vitamin K. (10)

In another study, people whose vitamin K1 intake was among the top 25% had a 46% lower risk of dying from cancer and a 36% lower risk of dying from any cause over a median of approximately 5-year period.(11)


Directions for Vitamin K Use
As with all supplements, check with a health care provider before taking vitamin K or giving it to a child.
People whose bodies can’t absorb enough vitamin K, because of gallbladder or biliary disease, cystic fibrosis, celiac disease, or Crohn's disease, will probably get more benefit from a multivitamin containing vitamin K than an individual vitamin K supplement. In certain circumstances, your doctor may give you a vitamin K shot. 

The daily Adequate Intake for vitamin K is:

Possible Interactions

If you are currently being treated with any of the following medications, you should not take vitamin K without first talking to your health care provider.
Antibiotics -- Antibiotics, especially those known as cephalosporins, reduce the absorption of vitamin K in the body. Using them for more than 10 days may lower levels of vitamin K because these drugs kill not only harmful bacteria but also the bacteria that make vitamin K. People who already have low levels of vitamin K, such as those who are malnourished, elderly, or taking warfarin (Coumadin) are at greater risk. Cephalosporins include:
·         Cefamandole (Mandol)
·         Cefoperazone (Cefobid)
·         Cefmetazole (Zefazone)
·         Cefotetan (Cefotan)

Phenytoin (Dilantin) -- Phenytoin interferes with the body's ability to use vitamin K. Taking anticonvulsants (such as phenytoin) during pregnancy or while breastfeeding may lower vitamin K in newborns.
Warfarin (Coumadin) -- Vitamin K blocks the effects of the blood-thinning medication warfarin, so that it doesn’t work. You should not take vitamin K, or eat foods containing high amounts of vitamin K, while you are taking warfarin.
Orlistat (Xenical, Alli) and Olestra -- Orlistat, a medication used for weight loss, and olestra, a substance added to some foods, lowers the amount of fat you body can absorb. Because vitamin K is a fat-soluble vitamin, these medications may also lower levels of vitamin K. The Food and Drug Administration now requires that vitamin K and other fat-soluble vitamins (A, D, and E) be added to food products containing olestra. Doctors who prescribe orlistat usually recommend taking a multivitamin with these vitamins. If you should not be taking vitamin K, then you should avoid foods that contain olestra.
Cholesterol-lowering medications -- Bile acid sequestrants, used to reduce cholesterol, reduce how much fat your body absorbs and may also reduce absorption of fat-soluble vitamins. If you take one of these drugs, your doctor may recommend a vitamin K supplement:
·         Cholestyramine (Questran)
·         Colestipol (Colestid)
·         Colsevelam (Welchol) .(12) 

List of Vitamin K Contain Food:



References
(1) http://blog.lef.org/2015/01/the-special-benefits-of-vitamin-k.html
(2) http://umm.edu/health/medical/altmed/supplement/vitamin-k
(3) Weber P. Vitamin K and bone health. Nutrition. 2001; 17:880–7.
(4) Feskanich D, Weber P, Willett WC, Rockett H, Booth SL, Colditz GA. Vitamin K intake and hip fractures in women: a prospective study. Am J Clin Nutr. 1999; 69:74–9.
(5) Blood. 2007 Apr 15;109(8):3279-83. 
(6) Kidney Int. 2014 Aug;86(2):286-93. 
(7) J Am Soc Nephrol. 2011 Feb;22(2):387-95. 
(8) J Biol Chem. 2013 Sep 27;288(39):27801-11. 
(9) Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2005 Aug 1;62(15):1574-81. 
(10) Am J Clin Nutr. 2010 May;91(5):1348-58. 

(11) J Nutr. 2014 May;144(5):743-50.
(12) http://umm.edu/health/medical/altmed/supplement/vitamin-k