PhytoNexus

PhytoNexus

Department of Pharmacognosy · Herb-Drug Interaction Intelligence Platform · generated 27 Jul 2026 01:09 IST
Open science

Search the live literature, not a snapshot

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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calcium supplements mineral supplements iron supplements iron supplement supplement iron
Mechanism being tested

Iron, calcium and mineral supplements PK-chelation

Tannins, phytates, oxalates and mucilage form insoluble complexes with divalent and trivalent cations in the gut lumen, reducing absorption of both the mineral and any co-administered chelating drug.

Expected clinically: Failure of iron-deficiency correction, unexplained non-response to oral iron or calcium.

Retrieved records

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.