A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis on the Treatment of Primary Epilepsy with Settling and Quieting the Spirit and Resolving Phlegm / 世界科学技术-中医药现代化

ABSTRACT

Objective: To evaluate the clinical effects of combination of traditional Chinese and Western medicine in the treatment of primary epilepsy. Methods: The China Journal Full-text Database, science and Technology Journal Full-text Database, Wanfang database, PubMed database, EMbase were searched on the treatment of primary epilepsy literature combining traditional Chinese and Western medicine, and the system evaluation and meta-analysis were performed.Results: A total of 11 studies with 951 cases of primary epilepsy were included in the randomized controlled trial. The meta-analysis showed that the clinical effects of treatment of epilepsy group with combination of TCM and Western Medicine (RR=1.18, 95％ CI 1.07-1.29, P ＜ 0.01), incidence frequency (WMD =-0.98, 95％ CI 1.56-0.40), electrocardiogram improvement rate (RR=1.28, 95％ CI 1.11-1.47, P ＜ 0.01) were significantly better than western medicine treatment (control group) . Conclusion: The effects of combined traditional Chinese and Western Medicine on primary epilepsy based on the method of latent town collaterals is superior to that of pure western medicine.