Black Cohosh and Reduced Wake After Sleep Onset

• Black cohosh improves objective sleep in postmenopausal women with sleep disturbance.

  • 2015-05-22
  • RCT · n = 42
  • Climacteric : the journal of the International Menopause Society 18(4)
  • • K Jiang
    • Y Jin
    • L Huang
    • S Feng
    • X Hou
    • B Du
    • J Zheng
    • L Li

  • PubMed: 26000551
  • DOI: 10.3109/13697137.2015.1042450

  5 Insights on

  • Reduced Wake After Sleep Onset

  • High evidence
  • Clinical

  decreased wake after sleep onset (WASO) duration. On average, 15.8% of WASO duration was reduced in the black cohosh group.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Moderate

  Significant

  Yes

  Dose

  daily administration (specific dose not stated)