One hundred and twenty patients with early-stage breast or colon cancer who required postoperative chemotherapy were enrolled.
Participants were randomly assigned to receive either individualized Chinese herbal medicine prescriptions of herbal extract granules or placebo packages containing non-therapeutic herbs that smelled and tasted like a typical herbal tea.
The incidence of nausea was the only non-haematologic toxicity that was significantly reduced in the Chinese herb group.
(A double-blind placebo-controlled randomized study of Chinese herbal medicine as complementary therapy for reduction of chemotherapy-induced toxicity. Ann Oncol. 2007 Apr;18(4):768-74).
Chinese Herbal Medicine Controls Nausea
a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study
