Bandolier, November 1st, 2000
Valerian is a herbal medicine that has been promoted for improving sleep. Does it work? A systematic review [1] of randomised trials provides very limited evidence for its effectiveness. It also demonstrates how clinical trials using different extracts, different outcomes, different subjects and different periods of use can produce a real mess of data.
Review
It sought randomised, placebo-controlled double-blind studies examining the effects of valerian preparations on sleep, without restriction of language up to May 1999. It used a range of electronic databases, including the Cochrane Lib...
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