Efficacy and safety of Chinese herbal acupoint application for post-stroke sleep disorders: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Yujing Xu, Yuanjing Xia, Xiaoyu Wang, Xianxian Qian, Yue Xiang, Tanfang Wei, Zhongxia Fu · 2026
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Yujing Xu and co-authors review trials of herbal paste applied to acupoints for sleep problems after stroke. Their 2026 paper asks whether this traditional add-on therapy improves sleep during rehabilitation, when insomnia and poor sleep are common. The therapy presses herbal preparations onto defined skin points rather than using needles.
The team searched eight databases and followed standard review reporting rules. Seven randomized trials with about six hundred participants qualified. Adding the therapy raised the share of patients counted as responders compared with the same base care alone. The reviewers also graded bias and evidence certainty with standard tools. Sleep shapes recovery after stroke, so a safe, low-cost add-on would matter. The review tests whether the trial record supports that hope.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Yujing Xu, Yuanjing Xia, Xiaoyu Wang, Xianxian Qian, Yue Xiang, Tanfang Wei, Zhongxia Fu |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 50 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |