Updated clinical evidence of Chinese herbal medicine for insomnia: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

Sleep Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 1462-1481

  Ni, Xiaojia ^a,b   Shergis, Johannah Linda ^b   Guo, Xinfeng ^a   Zhang, Anthony Lin ^b   Li, Yan ^a   Lu, Chuanjian ^a,c   Xue, Charlie Changli ^b,c  

^a GUANGZHOU UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE MEDICINE   (China)

^b RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c Guangdong Provincial Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

Evidence based medicine; Herbal medicine; Insomnia; Meta analysis; Randomized controlled trial; Systematic review

Indexed keywords

ALPRAZOLAM; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; BU SHEN SHU GAN TANG; CHINESE DRUG; CLONAZEPAM; ESTAZOLAM; FU FANG ZAO REN JIAO NANG PLUS JIAN PI SHU GAN TANG; JIA WEI CHANG PU YU JIN TANG; JIAN NAO NING SHEN KE LI; JIE YUWAN; MEI AN KE LI; MIAN AN NING KE LI; NAN WU WEI ZI JIAO NANG; PLACEBO; PLANT MEDICINAL PRODUCT; SHUI MIAN LING; TIAN WANG BU XIN DAN; TIANWANG BU XIN DAN; TIAO ZHONG HUA TAN AN SHEN HE JI; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG; WEN DAN NING XIN KE LI; WEN DAN TANG PLUS XUE FU ZHU YU TANG JIA JIAN; XIE CAO; XUE FU ZHU YU TANG; YANG YIN AN SHEN JIAO NANG; ZAO REN AN SHEN JIAO NANG; ZAO REN AN SHEN PIAN; ZI NI YANG XIN AN SHEN TANG; ZOLPIDEM; ZOPICLONE; HERBACEOUS AGENT;

ATHENS INSOMNIA SCALE; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; DEFECATION DISORDER; DISEASE DURATION; DIZZINESS; DROWSINESS; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FATIGUE; HERBAL MEDICINE; HUMAN; INDIGESTION; INSOMNIA; JUJUBE; META ANALYSIS; MONOTHERAPY; PITTSBURGH SLEEP QUALITY INDEX; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SLEEP DISORDER ASSESSMENT; SLEEP ONSET LATENCY; SLEEP PARAMETERS; SLEEP QUALITY; SLEEP TIME; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT DURATION; XEROSTOMIA; SLEEP INITIATION AND MAINTENANCE DISORDERS;

DRUGS, CHINESE HERBAL; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SLEEP INITIATION AND MAINTENANCE DISORDERS;

EID: 84947795691     PISSN: 13899457     EISSN: 18785506     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sleep.2015.08.012     Document Type: Review

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