A randomized controlled trial of the effect of fluid extract of Echinacea purpurea on the incidence and severity of colds and respiratory infections

American Journal of Medicine

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 138-143

  Grimm, Wolfram ^a   Müller, Hans Helge ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECHINACEA PURPUREA EXTRACT; PLACEBO;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMMON COLD; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TOXICITY; HERBAL MEDICINE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROTOXICITY; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; COMMON COLD; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0033082192     PISSN: 00029343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9343(98)00406-9     Document Type: Article

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