Thistle and Reduced Episiotomy Pain Severity

• Evaluation the effect of Silybum marianum ointment on episiotomy wound healing and pain intensity in primiparous women: a randomized triple blind clinical trial.

  • 2021-10-07
  • RCT
  • BMC complementary medicine and therapies 21(1)
  • • Elmira Toomari
    • Sepideh Hajian
    • Faraz Mojab
    • Tayebe Omidkhah
    • Malihe Nasiri

  • PubMed: 34620153
  • DOI: 10.1186/s12906-021-03413-z

  2 Insights on

  • Reduced Episiotomy Pain Severity

  • High evidence
  • Clinical

  Mean difference of pain severity ... in Silybum marianum ointment group ... was significant comparing to control group which indicates decline in episiotomy pain severity (P < 0.001).

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Moderate

  Significant

  Yes

  Dose

  fingertip size twice daily