MEDLINE (Ovid SP platform): Epub Ahead of Print, In‐Process & Other Non‐Indexed Citations, Ovid MEDLINE(R) Daily and Ovid MEDLINE(R) 1946 to Present

Search strategy: Herbal medicine 1. exp Herbal Medicine/ 2. exp Plants, Medicinal/ 3. exp Phytotherapy/ 4. exp Herbals as Topic/ 5. exp teas, herbal/ 6. exp Drugs, Chinese Herbal/ 7. exp Medicine, Traditional/ 8. exp Materia Medica/ 9. (herb or herbs or herbal$).tw,kf,ot. 10. materia medica.tw,kf,ot. 11. traditional medic$.tw,kf,ot. 12. traditional drug$.tw,kf,ot. 13. traditional formul$.tw,kf,ot. 14. traditional prescri$.tw,kf,ot. 15. traditional remed$.tw,kf,ot. 16. Chinese medic$.tw,kf,ot. 17. (TCM or TCMs).tw,kf,ot. 18. Chinese drug$.tw,kf,ot. 19. Chinese formul$.tw,kf,ot. 20. Chinese prescri$.tw,kf,ot. 21. Chinese remed$.tw,kf,ot. 22. kampo.tw,kf,ot. 23. or/1‐22 Search strategy for weight loss: 24. exp Obesity/ 25. exp Weight Gain/ 26. exp Weight Loss/ 27. exp Body Mass Index/ 28. exp Skinfold Thickness/ 29. exp Body Fat Distribution/ 30. exp Waist‐Hip Ratio/ 31. exp Abdominal Fat/ 32. exp Overweight/ 33. (overweight or over weight).tw,kf,ot. 34. fat overload syndrom$.tw,kf,ot. 35. (overeat or over eat).tw,kf,ot. 36. (overfeed or over feed).tw,kf,ot. 37. (adipos$ or obes$).tw,kf,ot. 38. (weight adj6 (cyc$ or reduc$ or los$ or maint$ or decreas$ or watch$ or control$ or gain or chang$)).tw,kf,ot. 39. (body mass ind$ or BMI or quetelet ind$).tw,kf,ot. 40. waist‐hip ratio.tw,kf,ot. 41. skinfold thickness.tw,kf,ot. 42. abdominal fat.tw,kf,ot. 43. or/24‐42 RCTs [Cochrane handbook Box 6.4.c: Cochrane Highly Sensitive Search Strategy for identifying randomized trials in MEDLINE: sensitivity‐maximizing version (2008 revision)] 44. randomized controlled trial.pt. 45. controlled clinical trial.pt. 46. randomized.ab. 47. placebo.ab. 48. drug therapy.fs. 49. randomly.ab. 50. trial.ab. 51. groups.ab. 52. or/59‐66 53. exp animals/ not humans.sh. 54. 52 not 53 Retrieving publications: 55. 23 and 43 and 54