Haematological indicators of complementary healing intervention

Complementary Therapies in Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 14-20

  Wirth, D P ^a   Chang, R J ^a   Eidelman, W S ^a   Paxton, J B ^a  

^a Healing Sci Research International   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; NITROGEN; UREA;

ADULT; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSULTATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; EXPECTATION; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEALING; HEMATOLOGY; HUMAN; MEDITATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SUGGESTION; UREA BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 0030030390     PISSN: 09652299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0965-2299(96)80050-1     Document Type: Article

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