Geranium and Reduced Respiratory Tract Infection Symptom

• Herbal Medicine in Children With Respiratory Tract Infection: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

  • 2018-01
  • Meta-Analysis · n = 2,181
  • Academic pediatrics 18(1)
  • • Dennis Anheyer
    • Holger Cramer
    • Romy Lauche
    • Felix Joyonto Saha
    • Gustav Dobos

  • PubMed: 28610802
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.acap.2017.06.006

  2 Insights on

  • Reduced Respiratory Tract Infection Symptom

  • High evidence
  • Clinical

  Meta-analysis revealed evidence for efficacy (responder rates: risk ratio [RR], 2.56; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.54-4.26; P < .01; heterogeneity: I2 = 38%; chi-square = 9.63; P = .14) ... of Pelargonium sidoides in treating RTI symptoms compared with placebo (6 trials).

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Large

  Significant

  Yes