Black Cumin and Increased Serum Free Thyroxine Levels

• Herbal remedies for hypothyroidism: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

  • 2024-10-19
  • Review
  • Caspian journal of internal medicine 16(1)
  • • Fatemeh Ghaffari-Saravi
    • Assie Jokar

  • PubMed: 39619751
  • DOI: 10.22088/cjim.16.1.1

  4 Insights on

  • Increased Serum Free Thyroxine Levels

  • Low evidence

  The meta-analysis results showed that herbal medicines used in these papers significantly changed level of T4 (SMD=0.86 CI95%: 0.47-1.24), T3 (SMD=0.50 CI95%: 0.13-0.87), and TSH (SMD=-1.19 CI95%: -1.82-0.56) compared to placebo.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Large

  Significant

  Yes

  Dose

  not specified per individual study, but abstract mentions three papers about Nigella sativa