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Erectile dysfunction is one of the most common sexual health problems in men and is defined by the persistent inability to achieve or maintain an erection for sexual performance. Several risk factors have been mentioned regarding its occurrence. Alcohol is a central nervous system depressant that can lead to erectile dysfunction. The present study was conducted with the aim of a systematic review of the studies conducted on the relationship between erectile dysfunction and alcohol consumption.

The present study was conducted by searching in reliable databases of Web of Science, PubMed, Scopus and Google Scholar search engine without time limit until 2024 by two independent researchers and using Mesh keywords including: Dysfunction, Erectile, Alcohol Drinking, Alcoholism, and Male Sexual Impotence. To evaluate the quality of the articles, the Newcastle-Ottawa scale was used for observational studies or the Cochrane risk of bias tool for interventional studies.

After reviewing and evaluating the quality of 196 selected articles, finally 15 articles were included in the systematic review. The results of most studies show that alcohol consumption is effective in the occurrence of erectile dysfunction in men. The duration, frequency and amount of alcohol consumption were also effective on the severity and occurrence of erectile dysfunction. It has also been shown that avoiding alcohol can be effective in improving penile erection.

Despite the contradictory results of some studies, the findings of most studies show the existence of a relationship between alcohol consumption and erectile dysfunction.

Vaginismus is an involuntary contraction of the vaginal muscles that makes sexual intercourse difficult or impossible. Various treatment strategies have been proposed for vaginismus, such as sex therapy and desensitization. There is no sufficient evidence on the efficacy and effectiveness of vaginismus interventions. This review study was performed with aim to evaluate the effects of different interventions for vaginismus.

In this review study, to find the related articles, the databases of SID, Pubmed, Google scholar, and Science direct were searched using the key words of vaginismus, treatment, and clinical trial from 2002 to 2020. Criteria for selecting a controlled clinical trial were comparison of vaginismus treatments with other treatments, placebo treatment, and routine treatment, or waiting list for treatment.

In this study, 15 studies with a total of 655 participants were reviewed. The results of this study showed that cognitive-behavioral therapies, the use of dilators, Botox, sex therapists, and hypnotherapy could successfully treat vaginismus. Regarding the effectiveness of strategies, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) with the highest number of trials has been very successful. After that, the use of dilators was very popular.

This study showed that Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), the use of vaginal dilators, hypnotherapy, Botox and physiotherapy led to successful and satisfactory intercourse.

Vasomotor symptoms occur in approximately 75% of menopausal women. Hot flash is the main reason of women's referring to receive menopausal care. Estrogen therapy is the most effective way to treat symptoms; given the known risks of hormone therapy, many women are interested to use herbal medicines for treatment of menopausal symptoms including hot flushes. Therefore, this study was performed with aim to evaluate the clinical trials conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of herbal medicines for treatment of hot flashes.

In this review study, to find the related articles, the databases of SID, Pubmed, Scopus and Web of Science were searched using the keywords of Menopause, Herbal medicine, medicine and Hot flash from 2002-2019. The articles which were performed as clinical trial were selected.

31 randomized clinical trials were identified. These studies had investigated Vitagnus (2), soybean (4), Black cohosh (3), Ginkgo biloba (2), sage (4), Valerian (2), Flaxseed (2), red clover (5), Hypericum perforatum (1), evening primrose (2), fenugreek (1) and passion flower (1), and one study was also done as combination. It seems that phytoestrogens and lignans found in these plants can reduce the severity and duration of hot flashes with minimal side effects.

Overall, the findings of this study showed that herbal medicine which belongs to phytoestrogens or lignans like as Vitagnus, licorice, soy, red clover, flax seeds, sage, passion flower, valerian, Hypericum and evening primrose can lead to improvement of hot flashes, but further studies in larger populations are needed.