About the Authors

Kah Bik Cheong

Affiliation School of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Ji-ping Zhang

Affiliation School of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Yong Huang

nanfanglihuang@163.com

Affiliation School of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Zhang-jin Zhang

Affiliation School of Chinese Medicine, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KBC YH. Performed the experiments: KBC JPZ YH. Analyzed the data: KBC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KBC. Wrote the manuscript: CKB. Comments on meta-analysis: ZJZ.