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ReviewFrontiers in pharmacology2021

Akash Saggam, Kirti Limgaokar, Swapnil Borse, Preeti Chavan-Gautam, Santosh Dixit, Girish Tillu, Bhushan Patwardhan

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In one paragraph

Review in Frontiers in pharmacology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 44 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
44citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

44 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Safety and tolerability of Ashwagandha (Frontiers in nutrition · 2026
    Trial
  3. Trial
  4. Efficacy and safety of Ashwagandha (Journal of medicine and life · 2025
    Trial
  5. Efficacy and safety of Shatavari root extract (Frontiers in reproductive health · 2025
    Trial
  6. Exploring the efficacy and safety of a novel standardized ashwagandha (Journal of psychopharmacology (Oxford, England) · 2023
    Trial
  7. Review
  8. Ashwagandha (Iranian journal of basic medical sciences · 2026
    Review
  9. Article
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  11. Extraction of Bioactive Compounds FromInternational journal of food science · 2025
    Review
  12. Review
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  14. Anti-inflammatory and anti-angiogenic effects ofJournal of medicine and life · 2024
    Article
  15. Ayurvedic and Chinese Herbs against Coronaviruses.Current pharmaceutical design · 2024
    Review
  16. Steroidal lactones fromIn silico pharmacology · 2024
    Article
  17. Article
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  19. Article
  20. Phytochemicals ofMicroorganisms · 2023
    Review
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Akash SaggamAYUSH Center of Excellence, Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, Interdisciplinary School of Health Sciences, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, India.
Kirti LimgaokarDivision of Biochemistry, Department of Chemistry, Fergusson College (Autonomous), Pune, India.
Swapnil BorseAYUSH Center of Excellence, Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, Interdisciplinary School of Health Sciences, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, India.
Preeti Chavan-GautamAYUSH Center of Excellence, Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, Interdisciplinary School of Health Sciences, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, India.
Santosh DixitPrashanti Cancer Care Mission, Pune, India.
Girish TilluAYUSH Center of Excellence, Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, Interdisciplinary School of Health Sciences, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, India.
Bhushan PatwardhanAYUSH Center of Excellence, Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, Interdisciplinary School of Health Sciences, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, India.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

As the COVID-19 pandemic is progressing, the therapeutic gaps in conventional management have highlighted the need for the integration of traditional knowledge systems with modern medicine. Ayurvedic medicines, especially Ashwagandha (

Indexed as

AdjuvantAshwagandhaAyurvedaCytokineImmunomodulationInflammationRasayana

Identifiers

PMID34012390
PMCPMC8126694

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