Guideline, 2024
How should Xiangshao Granules be prescribed for premenstrual tension syndrome?
Experts from 29 major hospitals have created standardized guidelines on how to use Xiangshao Granules for premenstrual tension, including dosage and timing. These recommendations come from multidisciplinary experts' review of current evidence.
What they did
Multidisciplinary experts from 29 tertiary hospitals and 3 provincial traditional Chinese medicine hospitals worked together for 2 years (from August 2021 to November 2023) to develop clinical guidelines on using Xiangshao Granules.
What they found
The consensus specifies the indications, dosage regimen and timing, course of treatment, safety, and precautions for using Xiangshao Granules for premenstrual tension syndrome and menopausal syndrome in clinical practice.
What it means for you
This provides doctors with standardized clinical guidance on how to use this treatment for premenstrual tension. The main limitation is that this is expert consensus based on review of existing evidence, not new research data on whether it works.
29
Hospitals and medical institutions involved
2 years
Time from proposal to publication
November 2023
Date consensus was issued
About the study
- Original title
- [Expert consensus on clinical application of Xiangshao Granules]
- Journal
- Zhongguo Zhong yao za zhi = Zhongguo zhongyao zazhi = China journal of Chinese materia medica
- Year
- 2024
- Study design
- Guideline
- What was tested
- Xiangshao Granules, a traditional Chinese medicine treatment
- Read the paper
- doi.org/10.19540/j.cnki.cjcmm.20240428.501
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