Turmeric and Reduced Oral Pain

• Efficacy of different pharmaceutical forms of Curcuma longa or curcumin in reducing oral mucositis severity and incidence in cancer patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

  • 2025-04-02
  • Systematic Review · n = 159
  • Frontiers in pharmacology 16
  • • Pedro de Padua G Amatto
    • Lucas Chaves
    • Suzelei de Castro França
    • José Carlos Tavares Carvalho
    • Fabio Carmona
    • Ana Maria Soares Pereira

  • PubMed: 40242451
  • DOI: 10.3389/fphar.2025.1560729

  2 Insights on

  • Reduced Oral Pain

  • High evidence
  • Clinical

  The pooled analysis showed significant reductions in WHO scores and oral pain compared to placebo.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Moderate

  Significant

  Yes