Stinging Nettle and Improved Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms

• Phytotherapy of benign prostatic hyperplasia. A minireview.

  • 2014-07-01
  • Review
  • Phytotherapy research : PTR 28(7)
  • • Ester Pagano
    • Massimiliano Laudato
    • Michele Griffo
    • Raffaele Capasso

  • PubMed: 25165780
  • DOI: 10.1002/ptr.5084

  1 Insight on

  • Improved Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms

  • Low evidence

  This articles review the mode of action, the efficacy, and the safety, including herb-drug interactions of the most common botanicals (Serenoa repens, Pygeum africanum, Urtica dioica, and Cucurbita pepo) and nutraceuticals (isoflavones, lycopene, selenium, and β-Sitosterol) in controlling the lower urinary tract symptoms associated to BPH.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Moderate

  Significant

  Yes