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Record W4409616073 · doi:10.32592/rr.2025.10.2.62

Effect of Jujube/Frankincense as supportive therapy to alleviate the pain with knee osteoarthritis

2025· article· en· W4409616073 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueRheumatology Research · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldAgricultural and Biological Sciences
TopicZiziphus Jujuba Studies and Applications
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersShahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences
KeywordsOsteoarthritisMedicineKnee painPhysical therapyAlternative medicinePathology

Abstract

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Zizyphus jujuba is a thorny Rhamnaceous plant found throughout Europe and Southeast Asia. It possesses medicinal properties and is utilized in traditional medicine. Frankincense is recognized for its analgesic properties. The purpose of this study was to determine the anti-nociceptive efficacy of Z. jujuba and Frankincense in assessing their effect on pain associated with knee osteoarthritis. This research included 46 people ranging in age from 50 to 70 years. They were placed into two groups: test and control. Z. jujuba and Frankincense pills were made, and participants were given a Persian-validated Western Ontario and McMaster Universities (WOMAC), and visual analogue score (VAS) questionnaire. The variables were evaluated before and after the intervention. In the test group, there was a considerable decrease in pain VAS score following the administration of dosages of Z. jujuba/Frankincense pills. The analgesic efficacy of the aforementioned herbal medicines under study was significant after taking mixed jujube/frankincense/aloe vera tablets at doses of 250 mg/100 mg/25 mg, respectively. The combined standardized mean difference for the WOMAC, were 14.56 ± 3.2, 13.9 ± 3.50, and 13.33 ± 4.09, for the before, one-week, and one-month follow-ups, respectively. WOMAC and VAS scores were different between “before intervention” as well as both “one week”, and “one-month” follow-ups. In summary, pain reduced in study group compared to their respective baseline (VAS and WOMAC outcome measures). These findings confirmed that Z. jujube, and frankincense supplementation effectively reduce pain and improve functional outcomes in OA patients, supporting their use as a complementary treatment alongside standard therapies.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Other design · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.908
Threshold uncertainty score0.416

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.018
GPT teacher head0.326
Teacher spread0.308 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it