Ginseng and Reduced Emotional Fatigue

• Efficacy of ginseng oral administration and ginseng injections on cancer-related fatigue: A meta-analysis.

  • 2022-11-18
  • Meta-Analysis
  • Medicine 101(46)
  • • Huijing Li
    • Tianwen Hou
    • Shijiang Sun
    • Jing Huang
    • Xueqi Wang
    • Xi Liang
    • Tianhe Zhao
    • Jingnan Hu
    • Jianli Ge
    • Haiyan Bai
    • Jianming He

  • PubMed: 36401389
  • DOI: 10.1097/md.0000000000031363

  2 Insights on

  • Reduced Emotional Fatigue

  • High evidence
  • Clinical

  Emotional fatigue was reported in 4 studies, ginseng oral administration in 2 and ginseng injections in 2. The pooled SMD was 0.12 (95% CI [-0.04 to 0.29], P = .15).

  Effect

  Neutral

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  No

  Dose

  2000 mg/day, 3000 mg/day, 1000 mg/day