Schizophrenia? Use Chinese herbs

Researchers from Cochrane Collaboration reviewed 7 studies on the use of Chinese herbs for schizophrenia:

• The overall response favoured combining herbal medicine plus antipsychotic drugs vs using antipsychotic drugs alone.
• Significantly fewer people getting combined treatment left the study early compared with those given antipsychotics alone.
• The combined treatment group had reduced side effects (like constipation) of the anipsychotic drugs.

Conclusions. Results suggest that combining Chinese herbal medicine with antipsychotics is beneficial.