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ArticleWorld journal of gastroenterology2025

Complementary medicines and ginseng for inflammatory bowel disease-rooted in science, but will it bear fruit?

Tamar Schildkraut, Ashish R Srinivasan, Andrew Nguyen, Mark Lai, Abhinav Vasudevan

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Article in World journal of gastroenterology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
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

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.

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

5 authors.

Tamar SchildkrautDepartment of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Eastern Health, Melbourne 3128, Victoria, Australia.
Ashish R SrinivasanDepartment of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Eastern Health, Melbourne 3128, Victoria, Australia.
Andrew NguyenDepartment of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Eastern Health, Melbourne 3128, Victoria, Australia.
Mark LaiDepartment of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Eastern Health, Melbourne 3128, Victoria, Australia.
Abhinav VasudevanDepartment of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Eastern Health, Melbourne 3128, Victoria, Australia.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This editorial is based on the network pharmacology and

Indexed as

Colitis, UlcerativeComplementary TherapiesInflammatory Bowel DiseasesPanaxPhytotherapyPlant ExtractsAnimalsGinsenosidesHumansNetwork PharmacologyGinsenosidesPlant ExtractsComplementary and alternative therapiesCrohn’s diseaseGinsengInflammatory bowel diseaseUlcerative colitis

Identifiers

PMID40741107
PMCPMC12305131

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