Efficacy and Safety of Salvia miltiorrhiza for Treating Chronic Kidney Diseases: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

or its extracts Salvianolate and Tanshinone, as a complementary therapy to conventional medicine, presents potential impacts to improve kidney functions and delay the progression of CKD without obvious adverse effects. However, the certainty of the evidence and the risk of bias are suboptimal and further clinical studies are still required to determine the underlying effects.