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ReviewChinese medicine2022

Traditional Chinese medicine paraffin therapy: an evidence-based overview from a modern medicine perspective.

Wenxi Yan, Lanping Liu, Tao Yang, Xiaochen Yang

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Review in Chinese medicine, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from 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.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Wenxi Yan *Department of Acupuncture, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Guang'Anmen Hospital, Beijing, 100053, China.
Lanping Liu *Department of Acupuncture, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Guang'Anmen Hospital, Beijing, 100053, China.
Tao YangDepartment of Acupuncture, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Guang'Anmen Hospital, Beijing, 100053, China.
Xiaochen YangDepartment of Acupuncture, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Guang'Anmen Hospital, Beijing, 100053, China. yangxc822@126.com.

Funding

CACMS Innovation Fund CI2021A03006China Association for Science and Technology 2019-QNRC1-03Fundamental Research Funds for the Central public welfare research institutes ZZ15-YQ-022National Natural Science Foundation of China No. 81603479
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

External therapy of traditional Chinese medicine and paraffin therapy are both traditional Chinese forms of treatment. In recent years, external use of traditional Chinese medicine combined with paraffin therapy, which involves combining meridians, acupoints, drugs, and hyperthermia, has demonstrated great effectiveness in treating certain conditions. An overview of traditional Chinese medicine paraffin therapy (TCMPT) is provided by this article. Additionally, this article describes a new classification of TCMPT, mechanism of action, clinical treatment, indications contraindications and adverse events reports.

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PMID36104753
PMCPMC9476693

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