Complementary medicine: Aromatherapy

Pharmaceutical Journal

Volumn 260, Issue 6998, 1998, Pages 862-867

  Barnes, Joanne ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b Intl Federation of Aromatherapists ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARVONE; CHAMAZULENE; CINEOLE; CINNAMALDEHYDE; CITRAL; ESSENTIAL OIL; EUGENOL; LIMONENE; LINALOOL; MENTHOL; PLANT EXTRACT; THYMOL;

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; DIET; DROWSINESS; DRUG CONTAMINATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG SAFETY; HEADACHE; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; MASSAGE; MOOD; NAUSEA; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PREGNANCY; REVIEW; TRANSDERMAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; WELLBEING; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0032513868     PISSN: 00316873     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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