Potential Benefits of Acupuncture and Herbs for Obesity-Related Chronic Inflammation by Adipokines

Table 4

The summary of herbal medicine studies on the changes of metabolic index (clinical research studies).

Study design	Intervention (n)	Comparison (n)	Duration	Results	References
RCT	Bofu-tsusho-san (54)	Conventional control therapy (52)	24 weeks	Resistin↑, body weight↓, body mass index (BMI) ↓, and systolic blood pressure↓	Azushima et al. [92]