Borage Seed and Improved Global Eczema Symptoms

• Oral evening primrose oil and borage oil for eczema.

  • 2013-04-30
  • Meta-Analysis · n = 1,596
  • The Cochrane database of systematic reviews 2020(12)
  • • Joel T M Bamford
    • Sujoy Ray
    • Alfred Musekiwa
    • Christel van Gool
    • Rosemary Humphreys
    • Edzard Ernst

  • PubMed: 23633319
  • DOI: 10.1002/14651858.cd004416.pub2

  3 Insights on

  • Improved Global Eczema Symptoms

  • High evidence
  • Clinical

  Treatment with BO also failed to significantly improve global eczema symptoms compared to placebo treatment as reported by both participants and medical doctors

  Effect

  Neutral

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  No

  Dose

  Not stated in abstract (varied across studies)