Research on Traditional Medicine: What Has Been Done, the Difficulties, and Possible Solutions

Table 1

Details of articles on TM found in the PubMed search mentioned in the paper.

Serial number	Name of some TM systems	Articles found in PubMed on February 2014		Category
		Total articles	Relevant articles	EX	QS	RV	DS	DS/HS	IN	CH	NV
1	Aboriginal	136	135	57	2	14	52	7	0	3	0
2	African*	2661	216	131	18	16	18	7	10	6	10
3	Alaskan	9	4	0	0	0	3	1	0	0	0
4	Ayurveda*	3514	300	172	17	24	43	16	0	13	15
5	Bhutan	20	16	8	1	0	3	0	3	0	1
6	Caribbean	306	106	56	8	7	9	21	0	2	3
7	Inca	5	4	2	0	0	2	0	0	0	0
8	Maori	30	21	6	0	0	8	0	1	1	5
9	Mexican	376	249	154	24	14	17	8	16	5	11
10	Native American	536	198	22	13	6	82	9	9	5	52
11	Naturopathy	1002	461	23	24	6	42	5	6	8	44
12	Persian	69	66	16	0	12	1	35	0	1	1
13	Siddha	203	113	59	17	0	15	3	2	0	17
14	South American	281	205	29	14	6	62	8	0	3	83
15	Tibetan	530	237	118	0	12	86	1	0	1	9
16	Unani	303	189	99	8	9	20	7	0	2	44

Note: *where total articles exceeded 1500, the 300 most recent articles were categorized.
EX = experimental.
QS = quasiexperimental.
RV = review.
DS = descriptive.
HS = historical.
IN = interviews.
CH = case history.
NV = abstract not available.