Guidelines for randomised controlled trials investigating Chinese herbal medicine

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

Volumn 140, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 550-554

  Flower, Andrew ^a   Witt, Claudia ^b   Liu, Jian Ping ^c   Ulrich Merzenich, Gudrun ^d   Yu, He ^c   Lewith, George ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^c BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE MEDICINE   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Clinical trials; Quality traditional medicines; Systems biology and omics; Traditional Chinese medicine

Indexed keywords

ARTEMISININ; CHINESE DRUG; HERBACEOUS AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; XIAO YAO SAN;

ARTEMISIA ANNUA; BLOATING; BLOOD; BLURRED VISION; CHINESE MEDICINE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; DECREASED APPETITE; DIZZINESS; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG FORMULATION; DRUG MANUFACTURE; DRUG SAFETY; FATIGUE; HEADACHE; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HERBAL MEDICINE; HUMAN; LIVER; LOOSE FECES; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICINAL PLANT; METHODOLOGY; PILL; POWDER; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREMENSTRUAL SYNDROME; PULSE RATE; QUALITY CONTROL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SPLEEN; SYMPTOM; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; TONGUE; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; TREATMENT INDICATION;

EID: 84859005147     PISSN: 03788741     EISSN: 18727573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2011.12.017     Document Type: Article

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