Li 2012.

Methods	Design: parallel RCT Randomisation method: random number table Blinding: no Power calculation: no Dropouts/withdrawals: no
Participants	Cancer patients with leukopenia after having received chemotherapy Number (treatment/control): 90 (60/30) Mean age: 63.8 Gender (M/F): 53/37 Country: Henan province, China Setting: hospital
Interventions	Indirect moxa cone on ginger vs conventional medicine Treatment group Indirect moxa cone Indirect moxa cone on ginger placed on the acupoints DU14 (dazhui), BL17 (geshu), BL20 (pishu) and BL21 (weishu) companied with other complementary acupoints, continuous 7 cones, once per day Treatment duration: 9 days Control group conventional medicine G‐CSF (recombinant human granulocyte colony‐stimulating factor injection), 100 µg, subcutaneous injection, once per day Treatment duration: 7 days
Outcomes	WBC count at the end of treatment and 8 days after the end of treatment
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Risk of bias
Bias	Authors' judgement	Support for judgement
Random sequence generation (selection bias)	Low risk	Random number table
Allocation concealment (selection bias)	Unclear risk	No relevant description
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) All outcomes	Low risk	There was no loss to follow‐up. All participants were included in the analysis.
Selective reporting (reporting bias)	Unclear risk	Limited outcome measures were reported.
Other bias	Unclear risk	There was a statement about group similarity but without baseline characteristics data presented
Blinding of participants and personnel (performance bias) All outcomes	High risk	No blinding
Blinding of outcome assessment (detection bias) Subjective outcomes	Unclear risk	No subjective outcome was reported.
Blinding of outcome assessment (detection bias) Objective outcomes	Low risk	No blinding; however, machine‐measured objective outcomes were not influenced substantially