CellWell record HH-68560
Prescription of Chinese Herbal Medicine in Pattern-Based Traditional Chinese Medicine Treatment for Depression: A Systematic Review
Yeung WF; Chung KF; Ng KY; Yu YM; Zhang SP; Ng BF; Ziea ET
Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM ยท 2015
In plain language
Across 61 Chinese trials in 2,504 people, prescribing mapped consistently onto pattern diagnoses, Xiaoyao decoction for liver qi depression, but the reviewers could draw no conclusion on efficacy; single-sex and small studies were excluded.
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