Cassia and Reduced Depression Symptoms

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  • 2025-08-15
  • RCT · n = 40
  • Explore (New York, N.Y.) 21(6)
  • • Qiang Zhang
    • Peilu Zhang
    • Dongwei Yan

  • PubMed: 40840152
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.explore.2025.103240

  4 Insights on

  • Reduced Depression Symptoms

  • High evidence
  • Clinical

  The intervention group demonstrated significant reductions in HAMD (22.08±5.43 vs. 13.65±2.73, p < 0.01)

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Large

  Significant

  Yes

  Dose

  2 h/day, 5 days/week for 8 weeks