PhytoNexus

PhytoNexus

Department of Pharmacognosy · Herb-Drug Interaction Intelligence Platform · generated 27 Jul 2026 01:08 IST
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Six public APIs, no keys and no paywall. Queries are scoped to title and abstract rather than full text, because a full-text hit on Curcuma in a reference list is not evidence of anything. Everything retrieved is then passed through an interaction-vocabulary gate: a paper is admitted only if it actually describes an interaction, not merely because it names a plant and a drug in the same abstract. What survives is ranked against an eight-level evidence hierarchy, so a randomised trial outranks a review that cites it.

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hmg-coa reductase inhibitors lipid lowering drugs lipid-lowering drugs statins statin Statins and lipid-lowering drugs
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Statins and lipid-lowering drugs PK-CYP3A4/OATP

CYP3A4 and OATP1B1 inhibition by furanocoumarin- and flavonoid-rich botanicals raises simvastatin, atorvastatin and lovastatin exposure. Some botanicals themselves contain monacolin K, which is chemically lovastatin.

Expected clinically: Myalgia, raised creatine kinase, rhabdomyolysis, hepatic transaminase elevation.

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Records are ranked by the local hierarchy, not by relevance as the upstream service judges it. Nothing here is written to the knowledge base until a signed-in curator attaches it to a monograph, which keeps retrieval and curation as separate steps.