Safety and effectiveness of Traditional Chinese Medicinal herbs for diabetic foot： a systematic review and Meta-analysis

OBJECTIVE： To evaluate the safety and effective-ness of traditional Chinese medicinal herbs （TC-MHs） as an adjunctive treatment for diabetic foot（DF）.METHODS： The sources used were PubMed （1966to August 2015）, the Cochrane Library （1988 to Au-gust 2015）, the Excerpta Medica Database （1974 toAugust 2015）, Wiley （1807 to August 2015）, Ovid（1988 to August 2015）, ClinicalTrials.gov （1993 toAugust 2015）, the Cochrane Central Register of Con-trolled Trials （1966 to August 2015）, China Scienceand Technology Journal Database （1994 to August2015）, ChiCTR （2007 to August 2015）, SinoMed（1978 to August 2015）, the China National Knowl-edge Infrastructure （1984 to August 2015）.