Plant/ Family Animal Model Phytoconstituents Activity References
Allium cepa/ Alliaceae white albino rabbits Onion Decreased erythrocytes crenation Vatsala & Singh, 1981
  white albino rabbits Onion Decreased erythrocytes crenation Vatsala & Singh, 1980
  Male albino rats Onion juice Hypocholesterolemic Sharma, Chowdhury, & Sharma, 1975a
  Male albino rabbits Onion juice Hypocholesterolemic Sharma, Chowdhury, & Sharma,  1975b
  Male albino rats Fibre Hypocholesterolemic Vadhera, Punia, & Soni, 1995
Allium sativum/ Alliaceae Goats Garlic capsules Hypocholesterolemic Kaul & Prasad, 1990
  Male rabbits Garlic Anti-atherosclerotic Mirhadi, Singh, & Gupta, 1991
  Female albino rats Garlic powder Hypocholesterolemic Kamanna & Chandrasekhara, 1982
  Male albino rabbits Garlic oil Anti-atherosclerotic Jain & Konar, 1978
  Male albino rats Garlic protein Anti-atherogenic and
anti-peroxidative
Rajasree, Rajmohan, & Augusti,  2009
  Wistar rats Diallyldisulfide Hypocholesterolemic Rai, Sharma, & Tiwari, 2009
  Dogs of either sex Garlic pearls Hypocholesterolemic Das, Pramanik, Mitra, & Mukherjee, 1982
  Male albino rabbits Garlic Hypercholesterolemic effect during treatment Gupta, Khetrapal, & Ghai, 1987
Commiphora mukul/ Burseraceae Male albino rabbits Alcoholic extract and steroid Marked hypocholesterolemic effect by steroid Nityanand & Kapoor, 1971
  Indian domestic pigs Resin Hypocholesterolemic Khanna, Agarwal, Gupta, & Arora, 1969
  Male albino rabbits Oleoresin fraction Hypocholesterolemic Satyavati, Dwarakanath, & Tripathi,  1969
  Male white leg-horn chicks Steroid, alcoholic extract and terpenoid Marked hypocholesterolemic effect by steroid Malhotra, Agarwal, Mehta, & Prasad, 1970
  Normal male rats Steroid Hypocholesterolemic Nityanand & Kapoor, 1973
Emblica officinalis/ Euphorbiaceae Albino rabbits Amla Hypocholesterolemic Thakur, 1985
Cicer Arietinum/ Fabaceae Albino rats Fibre of different pulses Marked hypocholesterolemic effect by bengal gram Soni, George, & Singh,  1982
  Albino rats Lipid extract Hypocholesterolemic Mathur, Sharma, & Singhal, 1964a
  Male albino rabbits Seed coat Hypocholesterolemic Mand, Soni, Gupta, Vadhera, & Singh, 1992
  Male albino rats Whole, defatted and lipid extract Hypocholesterolemic Mathur, Singhal, & Sharma, 1964b
  Rabbits Bengal gram and Biochanin A Hypocholesterolemic Gopalan, Gracias, & Madhavan,  1991
  Male albino rats Tannin, phytic acid and pectin Marked hypocholesterolemic effect by pectin Sharma, 1984a
Glycine max/ Fabaceae Albino rabbits Defatted soya protein Anti-atherosclerotic Thakur & Ali, 1982
Trigonella foenum-graecum/ Fabaceae Rabbits Galactomannan Hypocholesterolemic and anti-atherogenic effect Boban, Nambisan, & Sudhakaran,  2009
Vigna mungo/ Fabaceae Male albino rats Protein Anti-atherosclerotic Jayakumari, Nampoothiri, Nambisan, & Kurup, 1978
  Male albino rats Neutral detergent fibre Anti-atherosclerotic Jayakumari & Kurup, 1979
  Male albino rats Neutral detergent fibre Hypocholesterolemic Thomas, Leelamma, & Kurup, 1986
Capsicum annuum/ Solanaceae Female wistar rats Capsaicin Anti-peroxidative Kempaiah, Manjunatha, & Srinivasan, 2005
Withania somnifera/ Solanaceae Wistar rats Aqueous extract of fruits Hypocholesterolemic Hemalatha, Wahi, Singh, & Chansouria, 2006
Curcuma longa/ Zingiberaceae Wistar rats Curcumin Hypocholesterolemic Manjunatha & Srinivasan, 2007
  Male albino mice Curcumin Hypocholesterolemic Soudamini, Unnikrishnan, Soni, & Kuttan, 1992
  Diabetic male albino rats Curcumin Hypocholesterolemic Suresh babu & Srinivasan, 1995
  Female albino rats Ethanol extract Hypocholesterolemic Subba Rao, Chandra Sekhara, Satyanarayana, & Srinivasan, 1970
  Albino mice Turmeric Hypocholesterolemic Godkar, Narayanan, & Bhide, 1996
  Wistar rats Curcumin Decreased erythrocytes crenation Kempaiah & Srinivasan, 2002
  Diabetic rats Curcumin Hypocholesterolemic Babu & Srinivasan, 1997
Table 1: Animal studies on hypocholesterolemic effect of Indian medicinal plants.