Herbal Medicines for Treating Metabolic Syndrome: A Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials
Table 1
Search strategy (PubMed).
Chinese herbal medicine
#1
Chinese medic
#2
TCMs or TCM
#3
Chinese herb
#4
Chinese drug
#5
Chinese formul
#6
Chinese plant
#7
Chinese prescri
#8
Chinese remed
#9
Chinese materia medica
#10
kampo
#11
herb medic
#12
“Medicine, Chinese traditional” (MeSH Terms)
#13
“Medicine, East Asian Traditional” (MeSH Terms)
#14
“Medicine, kampo” (MeSH Terms)
#15
“Herbal Medicine” (MeSH Terms)
#16
“drugs, Chinese herbal” (MeSH Terms)
#17
#1 or #2 or #3 or #4 or #5 or #6 or #7 or #8 or #9 or #10 or #11 or #12 or #13 or #14 or #15 or #16
Metabolic syndrome
#18
“Metabolic Syndrome X” (MeSH Terms)
#19
metabolic syndrome
#20
cardiometabolic syndrome
#21
insulin resistance syndrome
#22
“syndrome X”
#23
“Reaven’s syndrome”
#24
CHAOS AND Australia
#25
#18 or #19 or #20 or #21 or #22 or #23 or #24
Randomized controlled trials
#26
((clinical (Title/Abstract) AND trial (Title/Abstract)) OR clinical trials (MeSH Terms) OR clinical trial (Publication Type) OR random (Title/Abstract) OR random allocation (MeSH Terms) OR therapeutic use (MeSH Subheadings))