BERKELEY, CA (UroToday.com) - As we reviewed the best level of evidence concerning the use of Chinese medicine in urinary stone disease in the English language Literature to accomplish this paper,
we also faced the barrier imposed by the lack of knowledge of other languages such as Mandarim or Japanese. Had we been able to extend our research to these Asian manuscripts we might have found additional information to shed some more light on this mostly interesting but still not fully explored field.
This review also puts in evidence the fact that when dealing with concepts of diagnosis or treatment that are not universally accepted, the scientific methods may be compromised. The lack of standardization among studies regarding dosage, types of medicines, results assessment, etc. makes it quite difficult to perform a truly fair comparison between them. In this context, care should be taken to improve the quality of research work from now on, especially when designing clinical trials, in order to provide the scientific community with convincing and reproducible work with good level of evidence. This seems to be the proper pathway to lead to the popularization of western folk medicine.
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Ricardo Miyaoka, MD as part of Beyond the Abstract on UroToday.com. This initiative offers a method of publishing for the professional urology community. Authors are given an opportunity to expand on the circumstances, limitations etc... of their research by referencing the published abstract.
Use of traditional Chinese medicine in the management of urinary stone disease - Abstract
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