2. Interventions of Chinese medicinal herbs and outcome measures.

Study ID	CMH interventions	Control intervention	Loss of HBsAg	Loss of HBeAg	Loss of HBV DNA	ALT normalisation
Chen 2000	Kurorinone	interferon‐alfa2a	‐	NS	NS	NS
Huang 1993	Phyllanthus amarus	non‐specific drugs	NS	+	‐	‐
Wang 1991a	Potenlini	non‐specific drugs	NS	NS	‐	NS
Wang 1994a	Polyporus umbellatus polysaccharide	non‐specific drugs	NS	+	+	‐
Wang 1994a	Buqi Jiedu Tang	non‐specific drugs	NS	NS	NS	‐
Xiao 1994	Fuzheng Jiedu Tang	non‐specific drugs	+	+	+	‐
Yan 1988	Polyporus umbellatus polysaccharide	placebo	NS	+	‐	NS
Yang 1986	Kangdu Wan	placebo	NS	NS	NS	NS
Zhang 1993a	Anisodamine plus Salvia miltiorrhiza	non‐specific drugs	NS	NS	NS	+
Zheng 1999	HB‐Granule‐3 (Phyllanthus compound)	interferon‐gamma	NS	NS	NS	‐
	+: positive ‐: not estimated NS: not significant