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Tinnitus
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Tinnitus
Tinnitus
Efficacy of Alternative and Other Treatments According to GRADE* Ranking:
Six Flavor Tea (Liu Wei Di Huang Wan, Rehmannia Six) [1, 14, 15]:
Please note, this management does NOT treat the condition itself. It may mildly help with some of the symptoms, and even then has insufficient evidence to back up this claim at present.
Recommendation: No Recommendation (There is insufficient evidence to show that Six Flavor Tea helps in any way in the treatment of tinnitus)
Grade of Evidence: Very Low Quality of Evidence
Goldenseal (Hydrastis Canadensis) [1, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13]:
Please note, this management does NOT treat the condition itself. It may mildly help with some of the symptoms, and even then has insufficient evidence to back up this claim at present.
Recommendation: Weakly Against (There is insufficient evidence to support claims that Goldenseal helps to treat tinnitus. More studies are needed. Goldenseal may produce toxic effects, including depression, constipation, rapid heartbeat, stomach pain, mouth ulcers and vomiting.)
Grade of Evidence: Low Quality of Evidence
Gingko [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]:
Please note, this management does NOT treat the condition itself. It may mildly help with some of the symptoms, and even then has insufficient evidence to back up this claim at present.
Recommendation: No Recommendation (There is insufficient evidence to support claims that Ginkgo helps to treat the tinnitus)
Grade of Evidence: Low Quality of Evidence
* www.gradeworkinggroup.org
Summary References
Treatments:
1. Ades T, Alteri R, Gansler T, Yeargin P, "Complete Guide to Complimentary & Alternative Cancer Therapies", American Cancer Society, Atlanta USA, 2009
2. http://www.cancer.org/Treatment/TreatmentsandSideEffects/ComplementaryandAlternativeMedicine/HerbsVitaminsandMinerals/ginkgo
3. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginfo/natural/patient-ginkgo.html
4. http://nccam.nih.gov/news/newsletter/2010_may/ginkgostudy.htm
5. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20040554
6. http://www.bixby.org/faq/tinnitus/treatmnt.html#gingko
7. http://www.cancer.org/Treatment/TreatmentsandSideEffects/ComplementaryandAlternativeMedicine/HerbsVitaminsandMinerals/goldenseal
8. http://nccam.nih.gov/health/goldenseal/
9. Tierra Michael (1998): The Way of Herbs. New York, Pocket Books
10. Grieve M. (1971): A Modern Herbal. New York, Dover Publications, Inc
11. Mills S. and Bone K. (2000): Principles and Practice of Phytotherapy. Philadelphia, Churchill Livingstone
12. Tice Raymond (1997): Goldenseal and Two of its constituent alkaloids: berberine and hydrastine Research Triangle Park, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, in Seiger E: Review of Toxilogical Literature
13. http://www.henriettesherbal.com/eclectic/ellingwood/hydrastis.html
14. Shen JJ, Lin CJ, Huang JL, Hsieh KH, Kuo ML. The effect of liu-wei-di-huang wan on cytokine gene expression from human peripheral blood lymphocytes. Am J Chin Med. 2003;31(2):247-57.
15. http://www.cancer.org/Treatment/TreatmentsandSideEffects/ComplementaryandAlternativeMedicine/HerbsVitaminsandMinerals/six-flavor-tea