Effiency of Tripterygium Wilfordii on Treating Psoriasis:A Systematic Review

Objective To evaluate the effiency of Tripterygium wilfordii on treating psoriasis. Methods This systematic review for this studies are the randomized or quasi-randomized controlled trials of Tripterygium wilfordii in patients with psoriasis from The Cochrane library 2004. 4th,China BioMedical Literature on disc(CBMdsic),National Science and Technology Library(nstl),Vip,and some Chinese journals. Methodological quality assessment and data extraction assessment for methodological quality was using a modification of criterriagive in the Cochrane Reviewers’ Handbook and the criteria of Jadad. RevMan 4.2 was used for meta-analysis. Results The differences between Tripterygium wilfordii group and controlled group have statistics significance (OR=4.38,95%CI 2.45-7.81). Conclusion Tripterygium wilfordii is not likely to be an effective treatment for psoriasis. It is hoped that this review could highlight the inadequacy of psoriasis in general and encourage improvements in methodological quality and standards of reporting.