Herbal medicines for Parkinson's disease: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

We conducted systematic review to evaluate current evidence of herbal medicines (HMs) for Parkinson's disease (PD).

Methods

Along with hand searches, relevant literatures were located from the electronic databases including CENTRAL, MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, AMED, PsycInfo, CNKI, 7 Korean Medical Databases and J-East until August, 2010 without language and publication status. Randomized controlled trials (RCTs), quasi-randomized controlled trials and randomized crossover trials, which evaluate HMs for idiopathic PD were selected for this review. Two independent authors extracted data from the relevant literatures and any disagreement was solved by discussion.

Results

From the 3432 of relevant literatures, 64 were included. We failed to suggest overall estimat

SUBMITTER: Kim TH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3352906 | biostudies-literature | 2012

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature