Echinacea for the common cold: Can alternative medicine be evidence-based medicine?

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 137, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1001-1002

  Turner, Ronald B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECHINACEA EXTRACT;

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COMMON COLD; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG RESEARCH; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY;

EID: 0037126650     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-137-12-200212170-00015     Document Type: Short Survey

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