Pygeum Bark 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 for Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia.

  • 2016-05-14
  • Review
  • Current urology reports 17(7)
  • • Aryeh Keehn
    • Jacob Taylor
    • Franklin C Lowe

  • PubMed: 27180172
  • DOI: 10.1007/s11934-016-0609-z

  1 Insight on

  • Improved Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms

  • Low evidence

  more recent, larger and more soundly constructed studies found no significant benefit for the use of phytotherapy in the treatment of BPH

  Effect

  Neutral

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  No