Chinese herbal medicines are safe and effective for vascular dementia. eurekalert.org. July 21, 2013.Chinese herbal medicine, which has been used for thousands of years in China, has long been considered an effective treatment for vascular dementia. There are already meta-analyses of the effects of herbal extracts (ginkgo biloba and huperzine A) on vascular dementia. However, there has been no systematic review of the efficacy and safety of Chinese herbal medicines for vascular dementia, despite its wide use in clinical practice. 

A recent study published in the Neural Regeneration Research (Vol. 8, No. 18, 2013) evaluated the efficacy and safety of Chinese herbal medicines for vascular dementia, using efficacy, Mini-Mental State Examination score, Hasegawa Dementia Scale score, and adverse reactions as evaluation indices by performing a meta-analysis. The results suggested that Chinese herbal medicine appears to be safer and more effective than control measures in the treatment of vascular dementia. Chinese herbal medicines for vascular dementia exert characteristics of syndrome differentiation of traditional Chinese medicine, and have good potential in the clinic.

Article: " A meta-analysis of Chinese herbal medicines for vascular dementia " by Xiude Qin1, 2, Yu Liu3, Yanqing Wu1, Shuo Wang1, Dandan Wang1, Jinqiang Zhu1, Qiaofeng Ye1, Wei Mou1, Liyuan Kang1 (1 Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin 300193, China; 2 Department of Encephalopathy, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin 300150, China; 3 GCP Center, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin 300150, China)
Qin XD, Liu Y, Wu YQ, Wang S, Wang DD, Zhu JQ, Ye QF, Mou W, Kang LY. A meta-analysis of Chinese herbal medicines for vascular dementia. Neural Regen Res. 2013;8(18):1685-1692.


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