Efficacy and safety of Chinese herbal footbaths for the treatment of dysmenorrhea: Protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis

• Min Xiao ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Min Xiao, Lizhou Liu, Steve Tumilty

  Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation College of Clinical Medicine/College of Basic Medicine, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

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• Lizhou Liu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Min Xiao, Lizhou Liu, Steve Tumilty

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Health, Activity, and Rehabilitation Research, School of Physiotherapy, University of Otago, Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand

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• Steve Tumilty ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Min Xiao, Lizhou Liu, Steve Tumilty

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Health, Activity, and Rehabilitation Research, School of Physiotherapy, University of Otago, Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand

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• Dan Liu,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation

  Affiliation West China Hospital, Sichuan University, South Renmin Road, Wu Hou District, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

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• Yanyan You,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation West China Hospital, Sichuan University, South Renmin Road, Wu Hou District, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

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• Yunhui Chen ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: chenyunhui@cdutcm.edu.cn (YC); tangsongqi@hainmc.edu.cn (ST); david.baxter@otago.ac.nz (GDB)

  Affiliation College of Clinical Medicine/College of Basic Medicine, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4140-0698

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• Songqi Tang ,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Validation

  * E-mail: chenyunhui@cdutcm.edu.cn (YC); tangsongqi@hainmc.edu.cn (ST); david.baxter@otago.ac.nz (GDB)

  Affiliation College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Hainan Medical University, Haikou, Hainan, China

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• Wei Huang,

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Validation

  Affiliation College of Clinical Medicine/College of Basic Medicine, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

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• George David Baxter

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: chenyunhui@cdutcm.edu.cn (YC); tangsongqi@hainmc.edu.cn (ST); david.baxter@otago.ac.nz (GDB)

  Affiliation Centre for Health, Activity, and Rehabilitation Research, School of Physiotherapy, University of Otago, Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand

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