Is There Tinnitus Relief through Herbal Treatments?
Article taken from the Better Hearing Institute by Richard E. Carmen, Au.D. – Auricle Ink Publishers, Sedona, AZ In the past many years there have been a number of herbal remedies claiming benefit for tinnitus. As a clinical and research audiologist, I reviewed the literature on herbal treatments in 2004 and was unable to substantiate that any of the product manufacturers’ claims were backed by U.S. evidence-based research. As a former human studies researcher in the area of tinnitus during the 1980s, I’ve remained interested in this subject matter. In that it had been six years since I last looked at the literature, in June-July/2010 I ran a Medscape search that revealed 174 articles mentioning the word tinnitus. However, none of them were scientific studies on herbal treatments for tinnitus. On a Medline search for “tinnitus,” 7,078 articles were cited. But when I refined the search to “herbal treatment for tinnitus,” 24 articles were cited, almost all of which were useless because t
