Small-Flower Willow and Reduced IPSS Total Score

• A phase II randomised double-blind placebo-controlled clinical trial investigating the efficacy and safety of ProstateEZE Max: a herbal medicine preparation for the management of symptoms of benign prostatic hypertrophy.

  • 2013-02-23
  • RCT · n = 32
  • Complementary therapies in medicine 21(3)
  • • Samantha Coulson
    • Amanda Rao
    • Shoshannah L Beck
    • Elizabeth Steels
    • Helen Gramotnev
    • Luis Vitetta

  • PubMed: 23642948
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.ctim.2013.01.007

  3 Insights on

  • Reduced IPSS Total Score

  • High evidence
  • Clinical

  There was a significant reduction in IPSS total median score in the active group of 36% as compared to 8% for the placebo group, during the 3-months intervention (p < 0.05).

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Moderate

  Significant

  Yes