Chinese herbal medicine Buyang Huanwu Decoction combined with acupuncture to treat sequela of apoplexy: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.

Background: Buyang Huanwu Decoction combined with acupuncture has a wide range of applications in the treatment of stroke sequelae, and there are many clinical trial reports. We systematically evaluated the clinical efficacy and safety of Buyang Huanwu Decoction combined with acupuncture in treating stroke sequelae, and evaluated overall research quality.

Methods: We searched 7 databases which includes the Chinese Journal Full-text Database (CNKI), VIP Database (VIP), China Biomedicine (SinoMed), Wanfang Database and PubMed, Cochrane Central, EMBASE from January 2010 to December 2019 Literature references.