Zucchini and Improved Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms

• Role of Phytotherapy in the Management of BPH: A Summary of the Literature.

  • 2023-02-28
  • Review
  • Journal of clinical medicine 12(5)
  • • Vaki Antoniou
    • Vineet Gauhar
    • Sachin Modi
    • Bhaskar Kumar Somani

  • PubMed: 36902686
  • DOI: 10.3390/jcm12051899

  1 Insight on

  • Improved Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms

  • Low evidence

  For most of the reviewed substances, only modest effectiveness was reported.

  Effect

  Neutral

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  No

  Dose

  not stated

• 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