Table 1.
Search strategy (PubMed).
| Chinese herbal medicine | |
|---|---|
| #1 | Chinese medic∗ |
| #2 | TCMs or TCM |
| #3 | Chinese herb∗ |
| #4 | Chinese drug∗ |
| #5 | Chinese formul∗ |
| #6 | Chinese plant∗ |
| #7 | Chinese prescri∗ |
| #8 | Chinese remed∗ |
| #9 | Chinese materia∗ medica∗ |
| #10 | kampo |
| #11 | herb∗ medic∗ |
| #12 | “Medicine, Chinese traditional” (MeSH Terms) |
| #13 | “Medicine, East Asian Traditional” (MeSH Terms) |
| #14 | “Medicine, kampo” (MeSH Terms) |
| #15 | “Herbal Medicine” (MeSH Terms) |
| #16 | “drugs, Chinese herbal” (MeSH Terms) |
| #17 | #1 or #2 or #3 or #4 or #5 or #6 or #7 or #8 or #9 or #10 or #11 or #12 or #13 or #14 or #15 or #16 |
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| Metabolic syndrome | |
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| #18 | “Metabolic Syndrome X” (MeSH Terms) |
| #19 | metabolic syndrome |
| #20 | cardiometabolic syndrome |
| #21 | insulin resistance syndrome |
| #22 | “syndrome X” |
| #23 | “Reaven's syndrome” |
| #24 | CHAOS AND Australia |
| #25 | #18 or #19 or #20 or #21 or #22 or #23 or #24 |
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| Randomized controlled trials | |
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| #26 | ((clinical (Title/Abstract) AND trial (Title/Abstract)) OR clinical trials (MeSH Terms) OR clinical trial (Publication Type) OR random∗ (Title/Abstract) OR random allocation (MeSH Terms) OR therapeutic use (MeSH Subheadings)) |
| #27 | #17 AND #25 AND #26 |