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cord-289238-f3lv7o4d	Wu, Taixiang	Traditional Chinese medicine in the treatment of acute respiratory tract infections	2008-08-31		.txt	text/plain	3907	202	52	Summary Aims To review the evidence from Cochrane systematic reviews for the effectiveness of traditional Chinese medicinal (TCM) herbs for treating acute respiratory tract infections (ARTIs) and to discuss the limitations of current clinical trials of TCM. The six reviews related to the use of TCM in the treatment of acute bronchitis, influenza, measles, sore throat, common cold and severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), respectively. If a preparation was tested as the intervention, it had a high rate of effectiveness; if used as a control drug by another author, it may have had a much lower rate of One poor-quality trial showed that TCM may decrease influenza symptoms and speed up recovery. Common cold 14 trials identified and included In five studies, treatment with herbal preparations resulted in a statistically significantly shorter duration of symptoms compared with control.	./cache/cord-289238-f3lv7o4d.txt	./txt/cord-289238-f3lv7o4d.txt