Traditional Chinese medicinean approach to scientific proof and clinical validation

Pharmacology and Therapeutics

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 191-198

  Yuan, Robert ^a   Lin, Yuan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b Marco Polo Technologies   (United States)

Author keywords

Atopic dermatitis; Biological assays; Bronchial asthma; Chemical standardization; Chinese herbal formulations; Irritable bowel syndrome

Indexed keywords

ALLOPURINOL; DANGGUI NIAN TONG TANG; INDOMETACIN; SAIBOKU TO; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; HERBACEOUS AGENT;

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTHRITIS; ASTHMA; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; BIOASSAY; CHINESE HERB; CHINESE MEDICINE; CLINICAL TRIAL; HUMAN; HYPERURICEMIA; IRRITABLE COLON; MEDICAL LITERATURE; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCIENCE; STANDARDIZATION; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; VALIDATION PROCESS; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY;

ANIMALS; CLINICAL TRIALS; DRUGS, CHINESE HERBAL; HUMANS; MEDICINE, CHINESE TRADITIONAL;

EID: 0033625056     PISSN: 01637258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0163-7258(00)00039-5     Document Type: Review

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