Ashwagandha and Reduced Anxiety Levels

• Safety and efficacy of Withania somnifera for anxiety and insomnia: Systematic review and meta-analysis.

  • 2024-07-31
  • Meta-Analysis · n = 254
  • Human psychopharmacology 39(6)
  • • Kaneez Fatima
    • Javeria Malik
    • Fariha Muskan
    • Ghana Raza
    • Areesha Waseem
    • Hiba Shahid
    • Syeda Fatima Jaffery
    • Umeed Khan
    • Muhammad Kashan Zaheer
    • Yasmeen Shaikh
    • Ahmed Mustafa Rashid

  • PubMed: 39083548
  • DOI: 10.1002/hup.2911

  7 Insights on

  • Reduced Anxiety Levels

  • High evidence
  • Clinical

  W. somnifera significantly reduced HAM-A scores (MD = -5.96; [95% CI -10.34, -1.59]; P = 0.008; I2 = 98%)

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Large

  Significant

  Yes