ReviewEvidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM2019
Systematic Review of Herbal Tea (a Traditional Chinese Treatment Method) in the Therapy of Chronic Simple Pharyngitis and Preliminary Exploration about Its Medication Rules.
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- Exploring the Action Mechanism and Validation of the Key Pathways ofCombinatorial chemistry & high throughput screening · 2024Article
- Efficacy of botanical lozenges in the treatment of chronic pharyngitis: a randomized controlled trial.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2024Article
- Non-prescription treatments for childhood infections: an Austrian, monocentric, cross-sectional questionnaire study.BMC pediatrics · 2022Article
- Mechanism of Yinqin Oral Liquid in the Treatment of Chronic Pharyngitis Based on Network Pharmacology.Drug design, development and therapy · 2021Article
- Anti-inflammatory effect of Ganluyin, a Chinese classic prescription, in chronic pharyngitis rat model.BMC complementary medicine and therapies · 2020Article
- Combating COVID-19 with integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine in China.Acta pharmaceutica Sinica. B · 2020Review
- Network Pharmacology Identifies the Mechanisms of Sang-Xing-Zhi-Ke-Fang against Pharyngitis.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundChronic simple pharyngitis (CSP) is a common clinical chronic respiratory inflammation with persistent and intransigent symptoms. We analyzed the clinical data to find the evidence that herbal tea, a traditional Chinese medicine treatment in China, could improve the symptoms of CSP patients in a simple way.
methodsWe systematically reviewed the clinical data of randomized controlled treatments from April 2019 and evaluated the results using the improved Jadad scale and the Cochrane bias risk assessment tool. RevMan 5.3 software was used for chart analysis. In addition, we used Excel to conduct frequency statistics on Chinese herbs from included articles and analyze its medication rules.
resultsAmong the collection of 161 articles, 6 RCTs published in Chinese journals were included in this review. The methodological quality of the treatments was low, and most of them only provide diagnostic criteria. Inclusion and exclusion criteria were not specified, and none of the 6 RCTs used the blind method on the result evaluator. Furthermore, only one RCT evaluated the baseline level variance. For these reasons, we did not make a network meta-analysis.
conclusionsThe traditional Chinese herbs involved in herbal tea did have ingredients to alleviate CSP symptoms. However, our research showed that the current research could not draw any credible conclusions on the curative effect of herbal tea, which indicated that the overall level of TCM clinical research needs to be improved to evaluate the efficacy of herbal tea.
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