Wenting Zhang, Yonghuang Yan, Yujie Wu, Han Yang, Peixuan Zhu, Fang Yan, Ruixue Zhao, Peng Tian, Ting Wang, Qiongyin Fan, Zeqi Su
BACKGROUND: Anxiety disorder is a common psychiatric illness. Medicinal herbs have become a field of interest in the treatment of anxiety. This study aimed to evaluate and compare the efficacy and acceptability of all possible medicinal herbs for the treatment of anxiety. METHODS: A Bayesian network meta-analysis was conducted for adults with diagnosed or subthreshold anxiety in randomized controlled trials identified in PubMed, EMBASE, the Cochrane Library, and Web of Science, searched between Jan 1, 1987, and Dec 31, 2021...
May 2022: Pharmacological Research: the Official Journal of the Italian Pharmacological Society