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ArticleCureus2025

Herba Epimedium (Horny Goat Weed) Toxicity With Severe Muscle Spasms and Elevated Creatine Kinase and Creatinine: A Case Report.

Tucker Ledo, Dhara Patel, Wayne Tamaska, James Espinosa, Alan Lucerna

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Article in Cureus, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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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

0 citing papers in PubMed.

No citing paper in PubMed yet.

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

5 authors.

Tucker LedoEmergency Medicine, Jefferson Health, Stratford, USA.
Dhara PatelEmergency Medicine, Jefferson Health, Stratford, USA.
Wayne TamaskaEmergency Medicine, Jefferson Health, Stratford, USA.
James EspinosaEmergency Medicine, Jefferson Health, Stratford, USA.
Alan LucernaEmergency Medicine, Jefferson Health, Stratford, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Here, we present the case of a 33-year-old man who presented to the emergency department (ED) with a complaint of severe muscle spasms of a 10-hour duration. He noted that he took a supplement which he purchased over the internet called

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elevated creatine kinase from horny goat weedelevated creatinine from horny goat weedherba epimedium and severe muscle spasmsherba epimedium toxicityhorny goat weed and severe muscle spasmshorny goat weed toxicitysevere muscle spasms

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PMID40546602
PMCPMC12182873

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