SynthesisThe Journal of international medical research2018
Efficacy of Chinese herbal medicine in treatment of allergic rhinitis in children: a meta-analysis of 19 randomized controlled trials.
Synthesis in The Journal of international medical research, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
13 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 20 citations in OpenAlex.
- Pooled it
- Herbal Medicines for Allergic Rhinitis: a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Current allergy and asthma reports · 2021Pooled it
- Herbal Inhalation Therapy for Allergic Rhinitis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Article
- Unravelling allergic rhinitis: exploring pathophysiology, advances in treatment, and future directions.Frontiers in allergy · 2025Review
- The Effect of Acupuncture along with Conventional Therapies on the Treatment of Allergic Rhinitis: A Clinical Trial.Advanced biomedical research · 2025Article
- Natural products for the treatment of allergic rhinitis: focus on cellular signaling pathways and pharmacological targets.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2024Review
- Factors affecting the use of herbal medicines for weight loss in overweight and obese adolescents.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2023Article
- Psychological Disorders of Patients With Allergic Rhinitis in Chengdu, China: Exploratory Research.JMIR formative research · 2022Article
- Efficacy and Safety of Modified Yupingfeng Nasal Spray in Controlling the Recurrence of Persistent and Moderate-Severe Allergic Rhinitis: Study Protocol for a Multicenter, Open-Label, Randomized, and Parallel-Arm Trial.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2022Article
- Clinical efficacy of jade wind-barrier powder combined with loratadine in the treatment of pediatric allergic rhinitis.American journal of translational research · 2021Article
- Efficacy and Safety of Guizhi Decoction AssociatedFormulas for Allergic Rhinitis: A Systematic Review.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2021Review
- Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and Allergic Diseases.Current allergy and asthma reports · 2020Review
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
This study aimed to systematically evaluate the effect of Chinese herbal medicine (CHM) for treating allergic rhinitis in children. We reviewed relevant studies retrieved from the following databases: MEDLINE (PubMed), Embase, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, Chinese National Knowledge Infrastructure, the Cqvip Database, and the Wanfang Database. The analysis was conducted by Cochrane software Revman 5.3. Nineteen randomized, controlled trials were included. Meta-analysis showed that CHM had advantages in the efficacy rate (odds ratio [OR] 3.32; 95% confidence interval [CI], 2.32-4.76), recurrence rate (OR 0.30; 95% CI, 0.18-0.49), scores of symptoms, such as sneezing (mean difference [MD] -1.24; 95% CI, -2.33 to -0.14), running nose (MD -1.32; 95% CI, -2.58 to -0.05), and nasal congestion (MD -0.70; 95% CI, -1.05 to -0.36), but not nasal itching (MD -1.37; 95% CI, -3.96 to 1.22), compared with controls. CHM could also effectively decrease immunoglobulin E levels (MD -46.01, 95% CI, -57.53 to -34.48). The current evidence suggests that CHM is more effective in treating allergic rhinitis in children compared with controls. CHM may also decrease the recurrence and level of immunoglobulin E, and improve symptoms such as sneezing, running nose, and nasal congestion, compared with controls.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.