Table 1.

Lowering lipids in the blood by medicinal herbs

Compounds/extracts	Herbs	Targets or indicator	References
Tribulus terrestris extract	Tribulus terrestris	Serum TC, TG, LDL-C, HDL-C	Tuncer et al. (2009)
Aqueous extract of Ocimum basilicum	Ocimum basilicum	Serum TC, TG, LDL-C, HDL-C	Amrani et al. (2006)
Salvianolic acid B	Salvia miltiorrhiza	CD36	Bao et al. (2012)
Ethanol extract of Cynanchum wilfordii	Cynanchum wilfordii	TG, LDL-C, HDL-C	Choi et al. (2012)
Ethanol extract of Terminalia arjuna	Terminalia arjuna	TC, TG, LDL-C, HDL-C	Subramaniam et al. (2011)
Polysaccharide from polygonatum sibiricum	polygonatum sibiricum	TC, LDL-C, Lp(a)	Yang et al. (2015)
Marrubium extract	Marrubium vulgare	TC, TG, LDL-C	Ibrahim et al. (2016)
Panax notoginseng saponins	Panax notoginseng	TC, TG, LDL-C, HDL-C	Wan et al. (2009)
Propolis, thymoquinone	Nigella Sativa	TC, TG, LDL-C, HDL-C	Nader et al. (2010)
Celastrus orbiculatus extract	Celastrus orbiculatus	TC, non-HDL-C, TG, apoB100, apoE, HDL-C, LDL-R, SR-B1, CYP7A1, HMGCR	Zhang et al. (2013)
Sweritamarin	Enicostemma littorale	TC, TG, LDL-C, HDL-C	Vaidya et al (2009)
Pueraria mirifica extract	Pueraria mirifica	LDL-C, HDL-C, apoA-1, apoB	Okamura et al. (2008)
Hypericum perforatum extract	Hypericum perforatum	TC, TG, LDL-C, HDL-C, MDA	Zou et al. (2005)
Astragaloside IV	Astragalus membranaceus	TC, TG, LDL-C, HDL-C	Qin et al. (2015)