Traditional East Asian Herbal Medicine for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: A Scoping Review

Table 5

Review of prospective Study.

First author (year)	Country	Sample size	Sex (M:F)	Average age	Duration of disease (average)	Diagnosed by	Outcomes
Pan et al. (2013) [8]	China	231	148:83	63.2	2.1 y	El Escorial criteria	Analyzing the basic patient characteristics, IT usage status, reasons for using IT, Chinese medicine usage status, IT efficacy, and IT cost

M, male; F, female; y, year(s); and IT, integrative therapy.