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ArticleChinese journal of integrative medicine2020

Role of Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Prevention and Treatment of COVID-19: An Overhyped Hope.

Abhishek Shankar, Anusha Dubey, Deepak Saini, Chandra Prakash Prasad

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Article in Chinese journal of integrative medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

18 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Herbal medicine for COVID-19: An overview of systematic reviews and meta-analysis.Phytomedicine : international journal of phytotherapy and phytopharmacology · 2022
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  11. Medicinal Plants for Viral Respiratory Diseases: A Systematic Review on Persian Medicine.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2023
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  17. The use of medicinal plants to prevent COVID-19 in Nepal.Journal of ethnobiology and ethnomedicine · 2021
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  18. Integrative practice in Asia - India and China.Journal of Ayurveda and integrative medicine
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Abhishek ShankarDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Lady Hardinge Medical College and SSK Hospital, Delhi, 110001, India. doc.abhishankar@gmail.com.
Anusha DubeyDivision of Cancer Control and Prevention, Indian Society of Clinical Oncology, Delhi, 110049, India.
Deepak SainiDivision of Cancer Control and Prevention, Indian Society of Clinical Oncology, Delhi, 110049, India.
Chandra Prakash PrasadDepartment of Medical Oncology (Lab), Dr BR Ambedkar Institute Rotary Cancer Hospital, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi, 110029, India.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Indexed as

Complementary TherapiesBetacoronavirusCoronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19HomeopathyHumansMedicine, AyurvedicMedicine, Chinese TraditionalPandemicsPneumonia, ViralSARS-CoV-2

Identifiers

PMID32761336
PMCPMC7405788

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