Saw Palmetto and Improved Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia Symptoms

• Various treatment options for benign prostatic hyperplasia: A current update.

  • 2012
  • Review
  • Journal of mid-life health 3(1)
  • • Alankar Shrivastava
    • Vipin B Gupta

  • PubMed: 22923974
  • DOI: 10.4103/0976-7800.98811

  1 Insight on

  • Improved Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia Symptoms

  • Low evidence

  Herbal remedies such as Serenoa Repens, pumpkin extract and Lepidium meyenii (Red Maca) have some improvements on BPH are included.

  Effect

  Neutral

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  No

• Dietary supplements for benign prostatic hyperplasia: an overview of systematic reviews.

  • 2012-11
  • Review
  • Maturitas 73(3)
  • • Tae-Hun Kim
    • Hyun-Ja Lim
    • Myung-Sunny Kim
    • Myeong Soo Lee

  • PubMed: 22883375
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.maturitas.2012.07.007

  2 Insights on

  • Improved Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia Symptoms

  • Low evidence
  • Clinical

  Serenoa repens was reviewed in 3 studies and no specific effect on BPH symptoms and urinary flow measures was observed.

  Effect

  Neutral

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  No