Table 4.

Section 4 of elaborations of CONSORT items for randomized, controlled trials of herbal medicine interventions

Reference	Herbal medicinal product name	Characteristics of the herbal product	Dosage regimen and quantitative description	Qualitative testing	Placebo/control Group (rationale for control or placebo used)	Practitioner
Akhondzadeh et al. 27	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
Tildesley et al. 4	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
Perry et al. 8	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
Tildesley et al. 18	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
Kennedy et al. 24	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
Scholey et al. 9	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yesa	No	No
Moss et al. 26	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No
Kennedy et al. 25	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No

^aPerry et al. declared to have performed qualitative testing, but they did not provide results in the article.