Menopause symptoms: what the evidence supports and Black Cohosh
Each entry’s own grades, side by side. A grade says how strong the evidence is for one outcome — it does not rank one entry over the other.
Outcome map
Menopause symptoms: what the evidence supports
3 graded interventions for menopause symptoms, ranked by strength of evidence.
Grade B3 graded outcomesrevised Jul 10, 2026
Assembled by the app from other entries in this library. It adds no evidence of its own — follow the links to the entries it draws on.
Compound or practice
Black Cohosh
A menopausal hot-flash botanical with genuinely divided trials and rare liver-safety signals.
Grade C1 graded outcomerevised Jul 10, 2026
A structured monograph in Prometheus's bundled library. Its grades are the monograph's own reading of the evidence, not a peer-reviewed review.
Graded in both
Outcomes are matched by name. Two entries can describe the same outcome in different words, so one listed further down may still be graded in the other.
No outcome has the same name in both entries. They may still overlap under different wording — read the two lists below.
Graded only in Menopause symptoms: what the evidence supports
- Soy Isoflavones Unclear effectEvidence grade B
- Black Cohosh Unclear effectEvidence grade C
- Red Clover Unclear effectEvidence grade C
Graded only in Black Cohosh
- Menopausal hot flashes Small effectEvidence grade C
Conditions
Only in Menopause symptoms: what the evidence supports
None.
Only in Black Cohosh
- Menopause symptoms May improveEvidence grade C
What each entry says about the other
- Menopause symptoms: what the evidence supports’s entry · Goes with: Grade C
Both columns are read from the entries as they stand in this library. A comparison is not advice to take either one, and it is no substitute for a clinician who knows the person.