Everyone who suffers from bothersome tinnitus wants something that will make their tinnitus go away. If you browse the internet or read newspapers and magazines, you can easily find people or organisations who will offer a method that claims to cure, or at least reduce, tinnitus. This could be in the form of medication, such as pills or injections; herbal supplements; devices and gadgets or different types of therapy and hypnosis. The list of "cures" is long, and getting longer.

Some of the information you read will be about effective, evidence-based treatments. And some will be about treatments which haven't even been tested. There may even be suggestions you try treatments that are dangerous.

This page lists a number of treatments and gives our verdict on them. If you click on the treatment name, you can see the decision-making tool we used to come to that verdict.

We provide verdicts on two aspects of each treatment:

• Safety - whether the treatment will do you any harm 

• Efficacy - whether the treatment works for tinnitus

Don't forget, if you want further information on managing tinnitus, explore this site or call our helpline on 0800 018 0527.

Key

Safety	Efficacy
Evidence of harm	Evidence that it has NO effect
Limited potential for harm	No evidence that it is effective
Regarded as safe	Evidence that it is effective

Tinnitus treatments

Treatment	Safety	Efficacy
Acouphenol
Acupuncture
Alprazolam (Xanax)
Amitriptyline
Anticonvulsants
Antidepressants
Antinitus
Betahistine
Cannabinoids (Cannabidiol, CBD oil, cannabinol)
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
Craniosacral therapy
Ear candles (Hopi ear candles, ear cones, auricular candles)
Ear Clear Plus
Electroacupuncture
Essential oils
Eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing (EMDR)
Ginkgo biloba
Hawthorn extract
Hearing aids
Hibiscus
Hypnotherapy (Hypnosis)
Hyperbaric oxygen
Laser therapy (Low Level Laser Therapy; Medium Level Laser Therapy; Tinnitool; EarLaser; Tinnitus Soft Laser)
Lenire(TM)
Levo® therapy system
Magnesium
Melatonin
Mindfulness based cognitive therapy
Neuromodulation
Neuromonics
Osteopathy
Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation rTMS/TMS
Silencil
Silencis Pro
Sonus Complete
Sound therapy
Synapse XT
Tai chi (T’ai chi ch’üan, Tàijí quán)
Tinnitool (Low Level Laser Therapy; Tinnitus Soft Laser; Ear Laser)
Tinnitus 911
Tinnitus retraining therapy (TRT)
Tranquillis
Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS)
Vitamin B12
Xanax (see Alprazolam)
Zinc

Updated 2 November 2020