Liu 2006.

Methods	Healing of skin lesions (complete, partial, or no healing depending on the area affected) after 4 weeks treatment
Participants	30 participants with bullous pemphigoid; diagnosis confirmed by pathological tests
Interventions	A: Jingui Shenqi Pill (JSP) 1# bid plus prednisone 0.5 to 1.0 mg/kg/day (15 participants). B: prednisone alone 0.5 to 1.0 mg/kg/day (15 participants).
Outcomes	Complete healing after 4 weeks Partial healing No response
Notes	Article in Chinese. Translation obtained
Risk of bias
Bias	Authors' judgement	Support for judgement
Random sequence generation (selection bias)	Unclear risk	No randomisation details in English abstract; nor in paper.
Allocation concealment (selection bias)	Unclear risk	No details in English abstract; nor in paper.
Blinding (performance bias and detection bias) All outcomes	High risk	Not blinded, no details in English abstract; nor in paper.
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) All outcomes	Low risk	Adequately reported.
Selective reporting (reporting bias)	Low risk	Outcome is adequately reported.
Other bias	Unclear risk	Few details about any methods in translated paper. Precise method of diagnosis not specified (referred to as 'clinical' and 'pathological' tests). No further details available from the trial investigator.