Ashwagandha and Improved Depressive Symptoms

• Effects of Withania somnifera (Ashwagandha) on Stress and the Stress- Related Neuropsychiatric Disorders Anxiety, Depression, and Insomnia.

  • 2021-09
  • Review
  • Current neuropharmacology 19(9)
  • • Alex B Speers
    • Kadine A Cabey
    • Amala Soumyanath
    • Kirsten M Wright

  • PubMed: 34254920
  • DOI: 10.2174/1570159x19666210712151556

  4 Insights on

  • Improved Depressive Symptoms

  • Moderate evidence
  • Highly Cited

  WS also improved symptoms of depression and insomnia, though fewer studies investigated these applications.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small