Diagnosis of symptomatic postmenopausal women by traditional Chinese medicine practitioners

Menopause

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 129-134

  Zell, Bonnie ^a   Hirata, Janie ^a   Marcus, Alon ^b   Ettinger, Bruce ^c   Pressman, Alice ^c   Ettinger, Katharine M ^c  

^a KAISER PERMANENTE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Private Practice   (United States)

^c DIVISION OF RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative medicine; Chinese traditional medicine; Menopause; Yin yang

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHINESE MEDICINE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HOT FLUSH; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; POSTMENOPAUSE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE;

EID: 0034064583     PISSN: 10723714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00042192-200007020-00010     Document Type: Article

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