Herbs and HIV: The health food industry’s answer

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 88, Issue 9, 1995, Pages 911-913

  Phillips, Laura G ^a   Nichols, Michele Holloway ^b   King, William D ^b  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GARLIC EXTRACT; IMMUCOMP; IMMUNACE; IMMUNACTION; IMMUNECTAR; IMMUNSYS; NEUTRAPATH; PROPOLIS; ROYAL JELLY; UBIDECARENONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADVERSE DRUG REACTION; ALOE; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; DRUG COST; DRUG FORMULATION; DRUG THERAPY; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GINSENG; HERB; HERBAL MEDICINE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; PHARMACEUTICS; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SKIN DISEASE; URINARY TRACT DISEASE;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; DATA COLLECTION; HUMAN; PHYTOTHERAPY;

EID: 0029092097     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: 15418243     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007611-199509000-00004     Document Type: Article

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