Traditional Chinese Medicine Decoction Combined With Antipsychotic for Chronic Schizophrenia Treatment: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
Shi XJ, Fan FC, Liu H, Ai YW, Liu QS, Jiao YG, Cheng Y · Frontiers in Pharmacology · 2021 January 20
DOI 10.3389/fphar.2020.616088
Objective
To study the efficacy of TCM as an adjuvant combined with antipsychotics in the treatment of chronic schizophrenia.
Conclusions
It was found that adjuvant treatment with TCM can reduce some side effects and improve the patient's living conditions in the evaluation of the Schizophrenia Quality Of Life Scale (SQLS). Many studies have proved that TCM is safe and well-tolerated. Although the difficulties of using limited TCM remains to be generalized, it still has great potential in the adjuvant treatment of chronic schizophrenia.
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