Review Article

Evidence-Based Study to Compare Daodi Traditional Chinese Medicinal Material and Non-Daodi Traditional Chinese Medicinal Material

Table 6

Results and clinical practice.

CharacteristicNumber (%) of studies,

Results
Daodi medicinal materials were better than non-Daodi medicinal materials69 (64.5%)
 No difference between Daodi medicinal material and non-Daodi medicinal material2 (1.9%)
Non-Daodi medicinal materials were better than Daodi medicinal materials3 (2.8%)
 No clear comparison33 (30.8%)
Use in clinical practice
 Having a significant use for clinical practice after finding that the genuine material is distinguishable from the nongenuine material and confirming the quality for the GAP (good agricultural practice) system98 (91.6%)
 Not mentioned9 (8.4%)