Evening Primrose and Reduced Pain

• An investigation into the effect of evening primrose in dilatation of cervix and pain during and after hysterosalpingography.

  • 2019-07
  • RCT
  • Journal of medicine and life 12(3)
  • • Shahrzad Shahnam Nia
    • Fatemeh Safi
    • Maryam Shoukrpour
    • Alireza Kamali

  • PubMed: 31666832
  • DOI: 10.25122/jml-2019-0021

  4 Insights on

  • Reduced Pain

  • High evidence
  • Clinical

  There was a significant difference between the two groups in terms of pain during insertion of speculum and injection of the contrast medium (p <0.05). Less pain was reported in the evening primrose group compared to placebo.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Moderate

  Significant

  Yes

  Dose

  1000 mg orally for two days prior to hysterosalpingography