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Background: Hot flashing is the most common symptoms experienced by women around the menopause time. The most common therapy for relief of menopausal symptoms is Hormone Replacement Therapy [HRT], but it has side effects. So, many women are interested in herbal medicines because of fear of side effect of hormone therapy
Objective: The aim of this study was assess the effectiveness of different herbal medicine on the hot flash in menopausal women in clinical tria
Methods: The database of Medline, Scopus, and Web of Science were searched to investigate randomized controlled clinical trials on the efficacy of herbal medicines on hot flash from Feb 1994 to Feb 2017
Results: Fifty nine randomized controlled trials found according to the inclusion criteria
The results demonstrating that different herbal medicines such as Ginkgo biloba can have role in reduction of the hot flashes
Conclusion: Our study show that many herbal medicines can reduce the frequency and number of hot Flash but it needs more future studies to find reliable result