The Use of Medicinal Herbs by Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Infected Patients

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 151, Issue 11, 1991, Pages 2281-2288

  Kassler, William J ^a,b   Blanc, Paul ^a   Greenblatt, Ruth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLANT EXTRACT;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ADVERSE DRUG REACTION; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST; DERMATITIS; DIARRHEA; DRUG THERAPY; HERB; HERBAL MEDICINE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LIVER TOXICITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICINAL PLANT; NAUSEA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; VOMITING;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; DATA COLLECTION; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASES; HUMAN; MALE; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; SELF MEDICATION; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0025723960     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.1991.00400110123024     Document Type: Article

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