Add-on effects of Chinese herbal medicine external application (FZHFZY) to topical urea for mild-to-moderate psoriasis vulgaris: Protocol for a double-blinded randomized controlled pilot trial embedded with a qualitative study

• Junyue Wang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Junyue Wang, Claire Shuiqing Zhang

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations The China-Australia International Research Centre for Chinese Medicine, School of Health and Biomedical Sciences, RMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine and Guangdong Provincial Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5211-151X

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• Claire Shuiqing Zhang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Junyue Wang, Claire Shuiqing Zhang

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

  Affiliation The China-Australia International Research Centre for Chinese Medicine, School of Health and Biomedical Sciences, RMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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• Anthony Lin Zhang,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation The China-Australia International Research Centre for Chinese Medicine, School of Health and Biomedical Sciences, RMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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• Jingjie Yu,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine and Guangdong Provincial Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, China

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• Hao Deng,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine and Guangdong Provincial Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, China

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• Haiming Chen,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine and Guangdong Provincial Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, China

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• Charlie Changli Xue ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: lcj@gzucm.edu.cn (CL); charlie.xue@rmit.edu.au (CCX)

  Affiliations The China-Australia International Research Centre for Chinese Medicine, School of Health and Biomedical Sciences, RMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine and Guangdong Provincial Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6937-9088

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• Chuanjian Lu

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: lcj@gzucm.edu.cn (CL); charlie.xue@rmit.edu.au (CCX)

  Affiliations The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine and Guangdong Provincial Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, China, Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Joint Lab on Chinese Medicine and Immune Disease Research, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China, State Key Laboratory of Dampness Syndrome of Chinese Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China

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