Favorable outcome of adjunctive traditional Chinese medicine therapy in liver cirrhosis: A large cohort study in Southwest China
Xie Z, Qiang J, Pi X, Wang J, Chen Y, Yu Q, Zhang Q · Complementary Therapies in Medicine · 2020 June
DOI 10.1016/j.ctim.2020.102446
Objective
To assess the effects of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) on the survival of patients with liver cirrhosis (LC) in Southwest China.
Conclusions
Our results provide evidence for supporting that adjunctive TCM therapy may potentially improve the survival of patients with liver cirrhosis, and XCHT was the most effective TCM prescription in this study.
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