Anise and Reduced Anxiety

• Exploring the Effects of a Calming Herbal Tea Blend on Perioperative Anxiety: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

  • 2025-03-01
  • RCT · n = 210
  • Journal of medicinal food 28(3)
  • • Victória Cosel Zampieri
    • Itamar Luís Gonçalves
    • Ana Luiza Lira
    • Jamile Zeni
    • Geciane Toniazzo Backes
    • André Keng Wei Hsu

  • PubMed: 39514279
  • DOI: 10.1089/jmf.2024.0170

  1 Insight on

  • Reduced Anxiety

  • High evidence
  • Large Human Trial
  • Clinical

  Both the calming herbal tea and the placebo tea were found to effectively mitigate perioperative anxiety.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small