Table 11.

Adverse events in included RCTs.

Interventions	Study	Number of adverse events	Details of adverse events
MA + CM	Wang, 2021 [31]	5	1 case of nausea, 1 case of emesis, 2 cases of diarrhea, 1 case of cough
FA + CM	Zhang, 2019 [36]	2	2 cases of nausea and emesis
EA + CM	Xia, 2020b [35]	2	1 case of nausea, 1 case of dizziness
EA	Feng, 2019 [39]	3	2 cases of pain, 1 case of local hematoma
	Feng, 2017 [43]	3	2 cases of pain, 1 case of local hematoma
MA	Jia, 2017 [44]	5	4 cases of punctate hemorrhage, 1 case of local blood stasis
	Wang, 2021 [31]	4	2 cases of nausea, 1 cases of diarrhea, 1 case of cough
CM	Xia, 2020b [35]	1	1 case of nausea
	Zhang, 2019 [36]	8	2 cases of diarrhea, 5 cases of nausea and emesis, 1 case of insomnia
	Jia, 2017 [44]	7	7 cases of dizziness, nausea, loss of appetite, diarrhea, constipation, fatigue, restlessness

Notes. MA: manual acupuncture, EA: electronic acupuncture, FA: fire acupuncture, and CM: conventional medicine.