Rhubarb and Reduced Pain Intensity

• Dietary supplements for dysmenorrhoea.

  • 2016-03-22
  • Meta-Analysis · n = 3,101
  • The Cochrane database of systematic reviews 2016(3)
  • • Porjai Pattanittum
    • Naowarat Kunyanone
    • Julie Brown
    • Ussanee S Sangkomkamhang
    • Joanne Barnes
    • Vahid Seyfoddin
    • Jane Marjoribanks

  • PubMed: 27000311
  • DOI: 10.1002/14651858.cd002124.pub2

  1 Insight on

  • Reduced Pain Intensity

  • High evidence
  • Clinical

  Vitamin B1 may be more effective than fish oil (MD -1.59 points, 95% CI -2.25 to -0.93; one RCT, 120 women).

  Effect

  Neutral

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  Yes

  Dose

  plus fish oil