Wild Yam and menopause
What 2 graded rows on wild yam agree on for menopause, and where they differ. Counted side by side, never averaged.
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What the rows agree on
Each block and row is one graded row from the Wild Yam page, with its PubMed record.
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Wild Yam and menopause
2 rows · 73 peopleSplit. 1 row found an improvement and 1 found no difference.
- DGrade D× 2
- Rows
- 2
- Trials
- 2
- People
- 73
Where they differ
From the rowsThe best-graded row, grade D, is a randomized trial of 50 people (2011) and found an improvement.
The row that found an improvement was larger: 50 people, against 23 people for the row that found no difference.
The row that found an improvement ran longer (12 months) than the row that found no difference (3 months).
The row that found an improvement is newer (2011) than the row that found no difference (2001).
The rows
1 improved · 1 no difference- DGrade DMenopausal symptoms (purple yam, not wild yam) · Improved
RCT · n 50 · 2011 · Menopausal Taiwanese women at two centres (50 randomised)
Two sachets a day, each containing 12 mg of extract · 12 months
Total Greene Climacteric Scale scores fell significantly in the yam group by 12 months (p < 0.01) in a placebo-controlled comparison, mainly in anxiety-type symptoms, insomnia and musculoskeletal pain; no safety problems were reported over 12 months.
- DGrade DMenopausal symptoms, lipids and sex hormones · No difference
Crossover RCT · n 23 · 2001 · Healthy women with troublesome menopausal symptoms (average age 53)
Applied daily (amount not stated in the abstract) · 3 months per arm
No difference from placebo cream in hot flushes, night sweats or other symptoms; no change in weight, blood pressure, lipids, glucose, FSH, estradiol, or serum or salivary progesterone. No significant side effects.