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Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 568106, 19 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/568106
Review Article

Efficacy and Side Effects of Chinese Herbal Medicine for Menopausal Symptoms: A Critical Review

Lian-Wei Xu,1,2 Man Jia,1 Roland Salchow,2 Michael Kentsch,3 Xue-Jun Cui,4 Hong-Yong Deng,5 Zhuo-Jun Sun,6 and Lan Kluwe7

1Gynecology Department, Yueyang Integrated Traditional Chinese Medicine and Western Medicine Hospital of Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai 200437, China
2HanseMerkur Traditional Chinese Medicine Centre, University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf, 20246 Hamburg, Germany
3Department of Internal Medicine, University Teaching Hospital Itzehoe, 25524 Itzehoe, Germany
4Clinical Evaluation Centre, Longhua Hospital of Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai 200032, China
5Technology Information Centre, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai 201203, China
6Gynecology Department, Shuguang Hospital of Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai 200021, China
7Laboratory for Research and Diagnostics, Departments of Maxillofacial Surgery and Neurology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Martinistraβe 52, 20246 Hamburg, Germany

Received 27 July 2012; Accepted 3 October 2012

Academic Editor: V. C. N. Wong

Copyright © 2012 Lian-Wei Xu et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Supplementary Material

Three Chinese databases, VIP, CNKI, CBM, and two English electronic databases, Cochrane Library, MEDLINE, were searched according to their special searching strategies. The details of the strategies, word strings and abbreviation are provided in the following supplementary information

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