An Overview of the Randomized Placebo-Controlled Trials of Chinese Herbal Medicine Formula Granules

Table 6

The overview of the effectiveness of CHM formula granules only.

Diseases	No. of studies	Cure rate		Effectiveness rate
		CHM granules	Placebo	CHM granules	Placebo
HBV carrier/recrudescence; HBV DNA (HBeAg)	5	3.1% (7.4%)	0.5% (3.8%)	20.8%	5.3%
Chronic hepatitis C; HCV RNA	3	16.9%	3.0%	-	-
Non-alcoholic fatty liver	1	47.5%	25.0%	82.5%	52.5%
Depression	2	28.4%	10.5%	78.9%	44.2%
Fever	2	62.9%	40.0%	94.4%	87.5%
Migraine	1	4.2%	0.0%	74.8%	74.2%
AIDS	1	-	-	38.9%	16.7%

P<0.05 (result of individual study or meta-analysis).