PhytoNexus

PhytoNexus

Department of Pharmacognosy · Herb-Drug Interaction Intelligence Platform · generated 27 Jul 2026 01:08 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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cardiac glycoside drugs digitalis glycosides cardiac glycosides cardiac glycoside cardioglycosides cardioglyco
Mechanism being tested

Cardiac glycosides (digoxin, digitoxin) PD-additive + PK-transporter + assay interference

Cardenolide- and bufadienolide-bearing plants are themselves Na+/K+-ATPase inhibitors, so co-administration is pharmacological overdose. Several also inhibit intestinal P-glycoprotein, raising digoxin exposure, and cross-react with digoxin immunoassays so that serum levels become uninterpretable.

Expected clinically: Nausea, xanthopsia, bradyarrhythmia, AV block, ventricular tachycardia and death; falsely reassuring or falsely high assay results.

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.