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

Updated 27 May 2021