Drug & supplement interaction

Hound's Tongue + Indapamide

Indapamide brand names: Lozol, Lozide.

No Known Interaction
The bottom line No known interaction

We found no known interaction between Hound's Tongue and Indapamide in our sources. Absence of a documented interaction is not the same as proven safety, and does not guarantee one does not exist. Do not start, stop, or change a medication or supplement based on this page; confirm with your pharmacist or doctor first. Additionally, although there is no interaction, the two are separately associated with some of the same side effects, which would make a new symptom harder to attribute to one or the other.

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Hound's Tongue and Indapamide

We checked these two against our interaction database. Here is what we found.

No Known Interaction Found

We did not find a documented interaction between Indapamide and Hound's Tongue in our sources. This does not guarantee that the combination is completely free of risk — there is often limited research on supplements and herbal products, especially around drug interactions.

If you decide to take both, the practical routine is simple: add one new thing at a time and note the date you started it. If the combination is going to disagree with you, it usually shows in the first days to a couple of weeks — and a start date turns “I’ve been feeling off” into something a pharmacist can actually work with. Do not stop a prescribed medicine on your own.

Always talk with your pharmacist or doctor before making changes to your medications or supplements, particularly if you take several medications or have an ongoing health condition.

Hound's Tongue safety at a glance

Hound's Tongue overall Avoid It contains liver-toxic pyrrolizidine alkaloids, so internal use is not recommended.
Pregnancy Likely Unsafe When used orally. Hound's tongue preparations containing pyrrolizidine alkaloid (PA) constituents might be teratogenic and hepatotoxic. There is insufficient re... Read the full pregnancy detail
Breastfeeding Likely Unsafe When used orally. Hepatotoxic pyrrolizidine alkaloid (PA) constituents in hound's tongue are excreted in milk. There is insufficient reliable information availa... Read the full breastfeeding detail

Pregnancy & breastfeeding ratings are from Natural Medicines (Therapeutic Research Center) — the full detail is in the Special populations card below. Safety guidance is general; always confirm with your pharmacist or doctor for your situation.

Still wondering about combining Indapamide and Hound's Tongue? Ask Dr. Brian Staiger, PharmD, BCPS directly ›
How we checked

Why No Interaction Is Listed for Indapamide

Interactions in our licensed database are recorded against drug classes, not just single drug names. Indapamide is filed under 5 classifications — including thiazide diuretics, diuretic drugs, qt interval-prolonging drugs. Hound's Tongue has documented interactions with 1 drug class — the most serious being cytochrome p450 3a4 (cyp3a4) inducers (moderate) — and none of Indapamide’s classifications are among them.

Classification data comes from our licensed Natural Medicines dataset. A medication can belong to classes beyond those recorded there, so this describes how the check was run — it is not a safety guarantee.

Keep it in perspective

Hound's Tongue Does Interact With Other Medications

Hound's Tongue has 87 moderate known drug interactions in our database — Indapamide isn’t one of them. If you take anything else, check it against the full list below.

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No Interaction Found — But Data Suggests Hound's Tongue and Indapamide May Share Several of the Same Side Effects

This is not an interaction. Neither one changes how your body handles the other, and nothing here says they react together. What our sources do show is that each has separately been linked to the effects below — so taking both can make those effects more likely to turn up, and harder to pin on one or the other if they do.

  • Diarrhea / Vomiting reported in 4.9% of FDA reports for Indapamide Additional detail

    Hound's Tongue

    “The pyrrolizidine alkaloid (PA) constituents of hound's tongue are hepatotoxic. Chronic exposure to other plants containing hepatotoxic PA constituents is associated with veno-occlusive disease (VOD). Subacute VOD causes vague symptoms with persistent liver enlargement. Symptoms of acute VOD include epigastric pain, vomiting and diarrhea, and ascites formation within several days.”

    Hound's Tongue · Natural Medicines adverse-effect record, reported in diarrhea.

    3 sources cited
    1. 12841. Chojkier M. Hepatic sinusoidal-obstruction syndrome: toxicity of pyrrolizidine alkaloids. J Hepatol 2003;39:437-46. PubMed
    2. 12842. Roeder E. Medicinal plants in Europe containing pyrrolizidine alkaloids. Pharmazie 1995;50:83-98.
    3. 4021. WHO working group. Pyrrolizidine alkaloids. Environmental Health Criteria, 80. WHO: Geneva, 1988.

    Indapamide

    Listed in the ADVERSE REACTIONS section of the FDA label for Indapamide, and in voluntary FDA adverse-event reports. Read the label on DailyMed ›

Effects for Indapamide come from the ADVERSE REACTIONS section of its FDA label; effects for Hound's Tongue come from the Natural Medicines adverse-effect record, quoted above. Where a percentage is shown, it is the share of 17,821 voluntary FDA FAERS reports for Indapamide that mention that effect — a reporting proportion, not an incidence rate and not evidence the drug caused it. Wording is matched across sources by our own clinical vocabulary, so treat this as a prompt to pay attention, not a diagnosis.

Special populations

Hound's Tongue in Pregnancy & Breastfeeding

Pregnancy Likely Unsafe

When used orally. Hound's tongue preparations containing pyrrolizidine alkaloid (PA) constituents might be teratogenic and hepatotoxic. There is insufficient reliable information available about the safety of using PA-free hound's tongue products during pregnancy.

Lactation Likely Unsafe

When used orally. Hepatotoxic pyrrolizidine alkaloid (PA) constituents in hound's tongue are excreted in milk. There is insufficient reliable information available about the safety of using PA-free hound's tongue products during lactation.

DISCLAIMER: This tool is intended for informational purposes only, and should not be interpreted as specific medical advice. Patients should consult with a qualified healthcare provider before making decisions about therapies and/or health conditions.© 2026 Therapeutic Research Center

Everything else you take

See Every Supplement That Interacts With Indapamide

This page covers Hound's Tongue only. If you take other supplements — a multivitamin, a sleep aid, something for joints — the Indapamide page lists 215 supplements it has a documented interaction with, worst first, each one explained.

The most serious there right now: Activated Charcoal (major), American Hellebore (major), American Mistletoe (major), Arsenic (major) and Cesium (major).

By severity: 13 major · 179 moderate · 23 minor.

From our pharmacist’s overview on the Indapamide page

“A water pill like indapamide (Lozol) lowers blood pressure and pulls potassium down, and most of the 215 supplements and herbs on file press on those same levers. Thirteen entries rate major, so this is a list to read with real care rather than skim.”

Reviewed by 2 · Jul 18, 2026

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One more smart check

Taking Hound's Tongue as Part of a Dietary Supplement Product? Check It for Interactions

We hold 1 real supplement products containing Hound's Tongue, each one broken down to its full ingredient list — and combination products often carry several ingredients besides Hound's Tongue. Even though Hound's Tongue itself has no known interaction with Indapamide, another ingredient on your label might. Find your product and we’ll check every ingredient on its label:

How much people look this up

Where Hound's Tongue and Indapamide Sit Against Everything Else

Out of every supplement and medication people look up on HelloPharmacist, here is where these two land this week — and which way each has been moving.

Supplement Hound's Tongue
Top half

#613 of 1,452 supplements looked up here in the last 7 days

29 days ago today
Medication Indapamide
Steady interest

#1,721 of 2,830 medications looked up here in the last 7 days

29 days ago today

Position among everything looked up on this site, not a measure of how commonly either one is used or how important it is. A supplement can climb this list because of a news story. It counts every request to the page, automated ones included, and nothing here identifies anyone.

Where does our data come from?
  • Source: the Natural Medicines (TRC Healthcare) clinical database — the evidence-graded professional reference for herb & supplement interactions.
  • Citation library: 103,510 references behind our interaction content, 65,311 of them resolved to verified PubMed/DOI sources. See every Hound's Tongue reference on this page ↓
  • Freshness: we automatically re-check this combination every week — this pair was last verified September 13, 2026. The Hound's Tongue and Indapamide records this page draws on were last updated July 11, 2026.
  • What “no known interaction” means: no documented interaction in the sources above — not a guarantee of safety. Supplements are studied far less than prescription drugs, so we say exactly what the evidence supports, and nothing more.
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Supplement

About Hound's Tongue

What is Hound's Tongue?

  • Minor wounds and skin irritation
  • Coughs and sore throat
  • Hemorrhoids
  • Burns and bruises
  • Diarrhea

Hound's Tongue is a traditional folk remedy used mostly on the skin and for coughs, but there is little to no reliable human research showing it works. More importantly, it contains pyrrolizidine alkaloids that can seriously harm the liver, so internal use is generally discouraged. Talk with a pharmacist or doctor before using it in any form.

Cynoglossum officinale · Boraginaceae · Leaves and roots · Dried herb, topical poultice, ointment, tincture, tea

An interaction check asks whether these two react with each other — it does not ask whether Hound's Tongue is a good idea for someone in your situation. Here is what our Hound's Tongue record says about it on its own.

Hound's Tongue: dosing

There is no established safe or standardized dose for Hound's Tongue. In most cases, safer and better-studied alternatives are available for the conditions people use this plant for.

From our Hound's Tongue monograph — the full record covers uses, side effects and every documented interaction.

Read the full Hound's Tongue monograph & all interactions
Medication

About Indapamide

What Is Indapamide Used For?

Brand names: Lozol, Lozide

Indapamide tablets are used to treat high blood pressure (hypertension), either on their own or together with other blood pressure medications. Lowering blood pressure helps reduce the risk of related complications.

Indapamide tablets are also used to treat salt and fluid retention (edema) associated with congestive heart failure. In certain cases, indapamide may also be appropriate during pregnancy when swelling is caused by a medical condition rather than normal pregnancy changes — but routine use in otherwise healthy pregnant women is not recommended.

Most-Reported Side Effects for Indapamide

From FAERS, the FDA’s public side-effect reporting system (17,821 reports, all brands). Reports are voluntary and are not proof the drug caused the effect.

Hyponatraemia 1,318 reports
Acute kidney injury 949 reports
Dyspnea 920 reports
Dizziness 899 reports
Nausea 881 reports
See full Indapamide drug information
Keep checking

Other Drugs & Hound's Tongue

Browse every other medication we’ve checked against Hound's Tongue — both the ones with a known interaction and the ones without. Select any drug for the full detail.

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Moderate

87 interactions

Showing 60 of 87 moderate interactions — see all 87 on the Hound's Tongue page.

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Evidence & sources

Hound's Tongue References

The 4 references that drive our Hound's Tongue monograph and interaction data, from the evidence-graded Natural Medicines (TRC Healthcare) database. Citations with a link open the study on PubMed or the publisher’s site.

  1. WHO working group. Pyrrolizidine alkaloids. Environmental Health Criteria, 80. WHO: Geneva, 1988.
  2. Chojkier M. Hepatic sinusoidal-obstruction syndrome: toxicity of pyrrolizidine alkaloids. J Hepatol 2003;39:437-46. PubMed
  3. Roeder E. Medicinal plants in Europe containing pyrrolizidine alkaloids. Pharmazie 1995;50:83-98.
  4. Wang YP, Yan J, Fu PP, Chou MW. Human liver microsomal reduction of pyrrolizidine alkaloid N-oxides to form the corresponding carcinogenic parent alkaloid. Toxicol Lett 2005;155:411-20. PubMed

Medication overviews come from MedlinePlus (NIH); supplement label data from the NIH Dietary Supplement Label Database. Content is written and reviewed by licensed HelloPharmacist pharmacists — see our data sources and editorial standards.

Pharmacist Counseling Corner

Taking Hound's Tongue and Indapamide Together: Common Questions

Is it safe to take Hound's Tongue with Indapamide?
We do not list a known interaction between Hound's Tongue and Indapamide. That does not guarantee the combination is risk-free, so confirm with your pharmacist or doctor — especially if you take other medications or have a health condition.
Do Hound's Tongue and Indapamide have any of the same side effects?
Yes — our sources link each of them separately to 2 of the same effects. That is not an interaction: neither changes how your body handles the other. It does mean that if one of those effects turns up, it can be harder to tell which one is behind it. They are listed on this page with the source behind each.
How was the Hound's Tongue and Indapamide combination checked?
Interactions in our licensed database are recorded against drug classes. Indapamide is filed under 5 classifications, and Hound's Tongue has documented interactions with 1 drug class — none of Indapamide's classifications are among them. A medication can belong to classes beyond those recorded in our dataset, so this describes how the check was run rather than guaranteeing safety.
Does Hound's Tongue interact with any other medications?
Yes. Hound's Tongue has 87 documented drug interactions in our database — Indapamide is simply not one of them. If you take anything else, it is worth checking each one; they are all listed on this page.
Does Indapamide interact with any supplements?
Yes. Indapamide has documented interactions with 215 supplements in our database — Hound's Tongue is not one of them. The Indapamide interaction page linked on this page lists every one, ranked by severity.

Written and reviewed by the HelloPharmacist editorial staff. Our editorial policy

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