ReviewJournal of clinical medicine2018
Aromatherapy for Managing Pain in Primary Dysmenorrhea: A Systematic Review of Randomized Placebo-Controlled Trials.
Review in Journal of clinical medicine, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06233786 (Effectiveness of Non-invasive Neuromodulation in Primary Dysmenhorrea), which is not on this map. Cited by 13 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Effectiveness of Non-invasive Neuromodulation in Primary Dysmenhorrea: A Randomized Clinical Trial
Who cites it
13 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 50 citations in OpenAlex.
- The effects of aromatherapy on anxiety and sleep quality in maternal women: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in public health · 2025Pooled it
- Fennel for Reducing Pain in Primary Dysmenorrhea: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials.Nutrients · 2020Pooled it
- Effect of Citrus Aurantium L. on pain and blood pressure in patients undergoing hand reconstructive surgery.Pain management · 2025Trial
- Potential Biomarkers of Dysmenorrhea Relief: A MEG Study of Hinoki Aromatherapy and Working Memory.Biomedicines · 2024Article
- Plant Essential Oils as Healthy Functional Ingredients of Nutraceuticals and Diet Supplements: A Review.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Effectiveness of flipped teaching on the knowledge and self-efficacy of nursing personnel in non-pharmacological pain management-aromatherapy: a quasi-experiment.BMC nursing · 2022Article
- Effectiveness and safety of aromatherapy massage for knee osteoarthritis: A protocol for systematic review and meta-analysis.Medicine · 2022Article
- Minerals, Essential Oils, and Biological Properties ofPlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Effects ofJournal of education and health promotion · 2021Review
- The Therapeutic Effect of Ge-Gen Decoction on a Rat Model of Primary Dysmenorrhea: Label-Free Quantitative Proteomics and Bioinformatic Analyses.BioMed research international · 2020Article
- Effect of mint aroma on nausea, vomiting and anxiety in pregnant women.Journal of family medicine and primary care · 2019Article
- The harmful effects of acute PMScientific reports · 2019Article
- An Assay on the Possible Effect of Essential Oil Constituents on Receptors Involved in Women's Hormonal Health and Reproductive System Diseases.Journal of evidence-based integrative medicineArticle
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5 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Aromatherapy, the therapeutic use of essential oils, is often used to reduce pain in primary dysmenorrhea. Eleven databases, including four English (PubMed, AMED, EMBASE, and the Cochrane Library) and seven Korean medical databases, were searched from inception through August 2018 without restrictions on publication language. Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) testing aromatherapy for pain reduction in primary dysmenorrhea were considered. Data extraction and risk-of-bias assessments were performed by two independent reviewers. All of the trials reported superior effects of aromatherapy for pain reduction compared to placebo (
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