ABSTRACT
Objective To evaluate the effect and safetyof Yupingfeng Powdercombined with antihistamines for the treatment of patients with chronic urticaria.Methods Searched all randomized controlled trials (RCTs)of Yupingfeng Powder for treatment of chronic urticaria from the databases of CENTRAL,Pubmed,Embase,CNKI,CBM,VIP and Wanfang.Two researchers independently searched the literature and used the Cochrane system evaluation method to evaluate the quality of the study,and used RevMan 5.3 for meta-analysis.Results A total of 10 RCTs involving 964 patients were included in this study.Meta-analysis showed that compared with antihistamines alone,Yupingfeng Powder combined with antihistamines could improve the clinical effective rate (OR=2.83,95 ％ CI:1.89-4.25,P ＜ 0.01),reduce relapse rate (OR =0.13,95 ％ CI:0.07-0.24,P＜0.01) and reduce the incidence of adverse reactions (OR=0.40,95％CI:0.19-0.83,P=0.01).Conclusion Yupingfeng Powder combined with antihistamines has superior clinical effective rate,lower recurrence rate and incidence of adverse reactions.