Drug & supplement interaction

Tronadora + Atorvastatin

Atorvastatin brand name: Atorvaliq.

No Known Interaction
Medically reviewed by · Updated July 2026 · Pair last verified Sep 13, 2026
The bottom line No known interaction

We found no known interaction between Tronadora and Atorvastatin 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.

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Tronadora and Atorvastatin

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 Atorvastatin and Tronadora 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.

Tronadora safety at a glance

Tronadora overall Use caution Limited human safety data; may affect blood sugar, so use with care and medical guidance.
Pregnancy Avoid Not enough safety information; avoid during pregnancy.
Breastfeeding Avoid No reliable safety data while breastfeeding; best avoided.

Safety guidance is general; always confirm with your pharmacist or doctor for your situation.

Still wondering about combining Atorvastatin and Tronadora? Ask Dr. Brian Staiger, PharmD, BCPS directly ›
How we checked

Why No Interaction Is Listed for Atorvastatin

Interactions in our licensed database are recorded against drug classes, not just single drug names. Atorvastatin is filed under 7 classifications — including hmg-coa reductase inhibitors ("statins"), organic anion-transporting polypeptide substrates (oatp), glucuronidated drugs. Tronadora has documented interactions with 1 drug class — the most serious being antidiabetes drugs (moderate) — and none of Atorvastatin’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

Tronadora Does Interact With Other Medications

Tronadora has 86 moderate known drug interactions in our database — Atorvastatin isn’t one of them. If you take anything else, check it against the full list below.

Moderate 86 No known interaction 2,744 (incl. Atorvastatin)
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What to actually watch for

What Tronadora Itself Has Been Linked To

This is not an interaction — nothing below involves Atorvastatin. It is the side-effect record for Tronadora on its own, from the licensed Natural Medicines monograph. If something new turns up after you add Tronadora, this list is the first place to look.

  • A skin rash Additional detail

    “There is currently a limited amount of information available about adverse effects of tronadora. Topically, tronadora might cause allergic dermatitis.”

    Tronadora · Natural Medicines adverse-effect record, reported in dermatitis.

    1 source cited
    1. 96666. Lakshmi C. Fingertip eczema to pooja flowers: Allergic contact dermatitis to Tabernaemontana divaricata and Tecoma stans. Indian J Dermatol Venereol Leprol. 2015;81(5):514-6. PubMed

    “Topically, tronadora might cause allergic dermatitis. In one case report, an Indian woman that regularly plucked tronadora flowers as part of her morning pooja ritual developed allergic dermatitis.”

    Tronadora · Natural Medicines adverse-effect record, reported in dermatitis.

    1 source cited
    1. 96666. Lakshmi C. Fingertip eczema to pooja flowers: Allergic contact dermatitis to Tabernaemontana divaricata and Tecoma stans. Indian J Dermatol Venereol Leprol. 2015;81(5):514-6. PubMed

Everything above comes from the Natural Medicines adverse-effect record for Tronadora — expand a row for the licensed statement it rests on. We haven’t matched Atorvastatin to its FDA label in our system yet, so we can’t compare its own side-effect list here — the leaflet that comes with your prescription is the authoritative list for Atorvastatin.

Overlapping uses

What Atorvastatin Is Prescribed For, and What Tronadora Has Been Studied For

These two come up together because they touch the same health topic — not because they do the same job. Atorvastatin is a prescription medicine with approved uses on its FDA label. Tronadora is a supplement: what follows is what researchers have looked at it for, and how strong that evidence is.

Atorvastatin is prescribed for: Atorvastatin is used alongside a healthy diet to lower LDL ("bad") cholesterol, triglycerides (blood fats), and other harmful lipids, while raising HDL ("good") cholesterol. It treats primary hyperlipidemia (high cholesterol), mixed dyslipidemia (mixed abnormal blood fats), hypertriglyceridemia (high triglycerides), and inherited conditions such as heterozygous and homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia — including in children aged 10 and older. Beyond cholesterol control, atorvastatin is used to reduce the risk of heart attack, stroke, revascularization procedures, and angina (chest pain) in adults with coronary heart disease or multiple risk factors for it — including adults with type 2 diabetes who have risk factors for heart disease even without a confirmed heart disease diagnosis.

Tronadora has been studied for:

  • Diabetes studied, not established Tronadora has been studied for this. Natural Medicines rates the evidence: Insufficient Reliable Evidence To Rate Read what the research shows

    Tronadora for diabetes

    A small clinical trial in patients with type 2 diabetes shows that taking a combination of tronadora 100 mg and Guazuma ulmifolia 300 mg each before meals for 90 days modestly improves levels of fasting glucose and glycated hemoglobin when compared with taking placebo. Most patients were taking oral antidiabetic agents and or insulin.

    1 source cited
    1. 110886. Pascoe-González S, Ramos-Zavala MG, Buenrostro Ahued MA, et al. Administration of herbarium mixture (Guazuma ulmifolia/Tecoma stans) on metabolic profile in type 2 diabetes mellitus patients: A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial. J Med Foo

Effectiveness ratings and the research summaries above are the verbatim record from the Natural Medicines database, which grades evidence from “Effective” down to “Insufficient Reliable Evidence To Rate”. A rating below the top of that scale means researchers have looked at it — not that it works, and never that it can stand in for a prescribed medicine. Do not stop or replace Atorvastatin on your own; if you are taking Tronadora for the same health topic, tell your prescriber, especially if the medicine is being adjusted to a target.

From our Q&A

Questions About Tronadora or Atorvastatin

These are real questions from readers, answered by the pharmacists at HelloPharmacist — written by a person, not generated from a database. Each one covers Tronadora or Atorvastatin, not necessarily both, but if one is close to what you were about to ask it will usually go further than a database entry can:

Not quite your question? Ask our pharmacists directly — it is free, there is no account required, and answers usually come back within 24 hours.

Everything else you take

See Every Supplement That Interacts With Atorvastatin

This page covers Tronadora only. If you take other supplements — a multivitamin, a sleep aid, something for joints — the Atorvastatin page lists 181 supplements it has a documented interaction with, worst first, each one explained.

The most serious there right now: Activated Charcoal (major), Apple (major), Beer (major), Grapefruit (major) and Green Tea (major).

By severity: 9 major · 136 moderate · 36 minor.

From our pharmacist’s overview on the Atorvastatin page

“Grapefruit is the entry to understand first. Atorvastatin (Atorvaliq) is cleared by an enzyme called CYP3A4, and grapefruit blocks that enzyme, letting statin levels climb along with the risk of side effects like muscle pain.”

Reviewed by 2 · Jul 18, 2026

Open the Atorvastatin interaction page

How much people look this up

Where Tronadora and Atorvastatin 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 Tronadora
Steady interest

#1,450 of 1,452 supplements looked up here in the last 7 days

29 days ago today
Medication Atorvastatin
Top 1%

#27 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 Tronadora reference on this page ↓
  • Freshness: we automatically re-check this combination every week — this pair was last verified September 13, 2026. The Tronadora and Atorvastatin records this page draws on were last updated July 10, 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.
Data structure & sourcing designed and verified by .
Supplement

About Tronadora

What is Tronadora?

  • Blood sugar control / diabetes
  • Digestive complaints
  • Mild fever
  • Yeast or fungal concerns
  • Traditional 'tonic' use

Tronadora (Tecoma stans) is a flowering shrub used in Mexican and Latin American folk medicine, most often as a tea for diabetes and digestive complaints. Human evidence is very limited, so it should not replace proven treatments. Because it may affect blood sugar and its safety is not well studied, talk to your pharmacist or doctor before using it—and avoid it during pregnancy and breastfeeding.

Tecoma stans · Bignoniaceae · Leaves, flowers, and sometimes roots and bark · Tea (infusion), dried herb, capsules, liquid extracts

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

Tronadora: dosing

There is no established, standardized dose for Tronadora. Traditional use is often as a tea made from the dried leaves or flowers, but the amount of active compounds can vary a lot between products and batches.If you choose to use it, follow the directions on the product label and start low.

From our Tronadora monograph — the full record covers uses, side effects and every documented interaction.

Read the full Tronadora monograph & all interactions
Medication

About Atorvastatin

What Is Atorvastatin Used For?

Brand name: Atorvaliq

Atorvastatin is used alongside a healthy diet to lower LDL ("bad") cholesterol, triglycerides (blood fats), and other harmful lipids, while raising HDL ("good") cholesterol. It treats primary hyperlipidemia (high cholesterol), mixed dyslipidemia (mixed abnormal blood fats), hypertriglyceridemia (high triglycerides), and inherited conditions such as heterozygous and homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia — including in children aged 10 and older.

Beyond cholesterol control, atorvastatin is used to reduce the risk of heart attack, stroke, revascularization procedures, and angina (chest pain) in adults with coronary heart disease or multiple risk factors for it — including adults with type 2 diabetes who have risk factors for heart disease even without a confirmed heart disease diagnosis.

See full Atorvastatin drug information
Keep checking

Other Drugs & Tronadora

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

0Major
86Moderate
0Minor
2,743No known interaction
86 Moderate 2,743 No interaction
Moderate

86 interactions

Showing 60 of 86 moderate interactions — see all 86 on the Tronadora page.

No interaction 2,743 drugs checked — show the list

We also checked Tronadora against these medications and found no known interaction in our sources. Open any page to confirm.

Showing the 60 most looked-up of 2,743 medications checked with no known interaction — see the full Tronadora list.

See the full Tronadora interactions page
See every supplement checked against Atorvastatin, ranked by severity
Evidence & sources

Tronadora References

The 7 references that drive our Tronadora 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. Costantino L, Raimondi L, Pirisino R, et al. Isolation and pharmacological activities of the Tecoma stans alkaloids. Farmaco 2003;58:781-5. PubMed
  2. Meckes-Lozoya M, Ibanez-Camacho R. Hepatic glycogenolysis produced by intraperitoneal administration of total extract of Tecoma stans in rats. Arch Invest Med (Mex) 1985;16:387-9.
  3. Roman-Ramos R, Flores-Saenz JL, Partida-Hernandez G, et al. Experimental study of the hypoglycemic effect of some antidiabetic plants. Arch Invest Med (Mex) 1991;22:87-93.
  4. Lakshmi C. Fingertip eczema to pooja flowers: Allergic contact dermatitis to Tabernaemontana divaricata and Tecoma stans. Indian J Dermatol Venereol Leprol. 2015;81(5):514-6. PubMed
  5. Pascoe-González S, Ramos-Zavala MG, Buenrostro Ahued MA, et al. Administration of herbarium mixture (Guazuma ulmifolia/Tecoma stans) on metabolic profile in type 2 diabetes mellitus patients: A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial. J Med Foo
  6. Gupta A, Behl T, Sehgal A, et al. Elucidating the neuroprotective effect of Tecoma stans leaf extract in STZ-induced diabetic neuropathy. Evid Based Complement Alternat Med 2022;2022:3833392. PubMed
  7. Morales-Ferra DL, Zavala-Sánchez MÁ, Jiménez-Ferrer E, González-Cortazar M, Zamilpa A. Effect of Tecoma stans (L.) Juss. ex Kunth in a murine model of metabolic syndrome. Plants (Basel) 2022;11(14):1794. 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 Tronadora and Atorvastatin Together: Common Questions

Is it safe to take Tronadora with Atorvastatin?
We do not list a known interaction between Tronadora and Atorvastatin. 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.
Are Tronadora and Atorvastatin used for the same thing?
They overlap in purpose, which usually means the real question is whether you need both rather than whether they are safe together. This page lists the shared uses and how strong the evidence is for Tronadora in each. That is a conversation for your prescriber, especially if Atorvastatin is being adjusted to a target.
How was the Tronadora and Atorvastatin combination checked?
Interactions in our licensed database are recorded against drug classes. Atorvastatin is filed under 7 classifications, and Tronadora has documented interactions with 1 drug class — none of Atorvastatin'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 Tronadora interact with any other medications?
Yes. Tronadora has 86 documented drug interactions in our database — Atorvastatin 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 Atorvastatin interact with any supplements?
Yes. Atorvastatin has documented interactions with 181 supplements in our database — Tronadora is not one of them. The Atorvastatin 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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