The other medicine: Complementary and alternative - Why, why not?

Clinics in Dermatology

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 456-460

  Witkowski, Joseph A ^a,c   Parish, Lawrence Charles ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; CHAMOMILE; COMFREY EXTRACT; COUMARIN; CRATAEGUS EXTRACT; DIGOXIN; GARLIC EXTRACT; GINGER EXTRACT; GINKGO BILOBA EXTRACT; GINSENG EXTRACT; GLYCYRRHIZA EXTRACT; HERBACEOUS AGENT; HYPERICUM EXTRACT; HYPERICUM PERFORATUM EXTRACT; KYUSHIN; LEAD; MERCURY; MONOAMINE OXIDASE INHIBITOR; PLACEBO; SAFROLE; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; STEROID; TANACETUM PARTHENIUM EXTRACT; TEA TREE OIL; TRYPTOPHAN; XIAO CHAI HU TANG;

ACUPUNCTURE; ALLERGIC REACTION; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; BRONCHIOLITIS; CARCINOGENESIS; COMPETENCE; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; ENERGY; ESOPHAGUS OBSTRUCTION; HEALING; HERBAL MEDICINE; HOMEOPATHY; HUMAN; HYDROTHERAPY; HYPNOSIS; IMAGERY; LIVER TOXICITY; MANIPULATIVE MEDICINE; MASSAGE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; NEPHROTOXICITY; NOTE; PATIENT INFORMATION; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; SAFETY; SELF HELP; SIDE EFFECT; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; STANDARDIZATION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TOUCH; TREATMENT INDICATION;

EID: 0036657546     PISSN: 0738081X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0738-081X(02)00260-2     Document Type: Letter

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