(self) Pre-Registering Saffron Self Trial

Aug 22, 2025

I have been pointed at a bunch of studies by a few doctors showing that Saffron and saffron extract have a large effect on managing ADHD. This is primarily studies of juveniles, but my kiddo's got the ADHD pretty bad so we are considering using it on him.

I personally would self diagnose with mild ADHD. My wife asked me to to check it out myself before we start giving it to him just as a sort of "test the waters" precaution. So I'm Starting a self run RCT

My wife has assembled a pillbox with 28 days that either have 60mg Saffron, or placebo, and recorded which one is in each. I'm going to take these with my morning pills each day, and then attempt to record my numbers for the Adult ADHD self report Scale as well as anxiety, sleep quality, spirituality, and if I think it was a placebo.

after this is all done, I'm going to un-blind the thing, and do a proper write-up of results, as well as some math