Lavender and Improved Function

• Herbal Medicine for Low Back Pain: A Cochrane Review.

  • 2016-01-01
  • Systematic Review · n = 2,050
  • Spine 41(2)
  • • Joel J Gagnier
    • Hanna Oltean
    • Maurits W van Tulder
    • Brian M Berman
    • Claire Bombardier
    • Christopher B Robbins

  • PubMed: 26630428
  • DOI: 10.1097/brs.0000000000001310

  2 Insights on

  • Improved Function

  • High evidence
  • Clinical

  Primary outcome measures were pain and function. ... Although Harpagophytum procumbens (devil's claw), Salix alba (white willow bark), Symphytum officinale L. (comfrey), Solidago chilensis (Brazilian arnica), and lavender essential oil also seem to reduce pain more than placebo, evidence for these substances was of moderate quality at best.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Moderate

  Significant

  Yes