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
Some/limited potential for harm	No evidence that it is effective
Regarded as safe	Evidence that it is effective

Tinnitus treatments

Treatment	Safety	Efficacy	Treatment	Safety	Efficacy
Acouphenol			Levo® therapy system
Acupuncture			Magnesium
Alprazolam (Xanax)			Melatonin
Amitriptyline			Mindfulness based cognitive therapy
Anticonvulsants			Neuromodulation
Antidepressants			Neuromonics
Antinitus			Osteopathy
Betahistine			Quietum Plus
Cannabinoids (Cannabidiol, CBD oil, cannabinol)			Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation rTMS/TMS
CBD Gummies Charles Stanley CBD Gummies Charlie Stayt CBD Gummies David Suzuki CBD Gummies Eagle Hemp CBD Gummies MediGreens CBD Gummies Dragons Den Tinnitus Gummies Kara's Orchard CBD Gummies Nala Labs CBD Gummies Nature's Gold CBD Gummies Tinnitus CBD Gummies Shark Tank Ulixy CBD Cubes Zenzi CBD Gummies			Silencil
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)			Silencis Pro
Craniosacral therapy			Sonus Complete
Desyncra	Sheet in preparation	Sheet in preparation	Sound therapy
Ear candles (Hopi ear candles, ear cones, auricular candles)			Synapse XT
Ear Clear Plus			Tai chi (T’ai chi ch’üan, Tàijí quán)
Electroacupuncture			Tinnitool (Low Level Laser Therapy; Tinnitus Soft Laser; Ear Laser)
Essential oils			Tinnitus 911
Eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing (EMDR)			Tinnitus Guard
Ginkgo biloba			Tinnitus retraining therapy (TRT)
Hawthorn extract			Tranquillis
Hearing aids			Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS)
Hibiscus			Vitamin B12
Hypnotherapy (Hypnosis)			Xanax (see Alprazolam)
Hyperbaric oxygen			Zinc
Laser therapy (Low Level Laser Therapy; Medium Level Laser Therapy; Tinnitool; EarLaser; Tinnitus Soft Laser)
Lenire(TM)

Updated 20 May 2022