Effectiveness and safety of Xuebijing injection for patients with coronavirus disease 2019: a systematic review and Meta-analysis

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effectiveness and safety of Xuebijing injection (XBJ) on coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in patients. METHODS: Related studies on multiple biological databases and websites were searched up to December 11, 2021 without language and publication time restrictions. Review Manager V.5.3 and Stata 14 software were used for data analysis.RESULTS: Seven studies were finally included. The Meta -analysis showed that compared with the routine treatment alone, XBJ combined with the routine treatment can reduce the 28 -day mortality (OR = 0.3, 95% CI: 0.12, 0.74), C -reactive protein (MD = -12.8, 95% CI: -23.13, -3.46), erythrocyte sedimentation rate (MD = -9.32, 95% CI: -14.66, -3.98) and interleukin-6 (SMD = -0.6, 95% CI: -1.04, -0.17) levels and increase the leukocyte (MD = 0.73, 95% CI: 0.42, 1.04) and lymphocyte count (MD = 0.18, 95% CI: 0.07, 0.29) in peripheral blood; additionally, it has no obvious side effects (OR = 1.11, 95% CI: 0.65, 1.9). There was no evidence that the XBJ combined therapy can improve the nucleic acid conversion rate and computed tomography improvement rate of COVID-19 patients. CONCLUSIONS: Preliminary evidence suggests that XBJ combined with routine treatment seems to be more effective than routine treatment for patients with COVID- 19. Limited by the number and quality of included papers, this finding still needs further validation by more studies. & COPY; 2023 JTCM. All rights reserved.