Therapeutic applications of fenugreek

Alternative Medicine Review

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 20-27

  Basch, Ethan ^a   Ulbricht, Catherine ^a   Kuo, Grace ^a   Szapary, Philippe ^a   Smith, Michael ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDIABETIC AGENT; AYURVEDIC DRUG; DIURETIC AGENT; LAXATIVE; MINERALOCORTICOID; TRIGONELLA FOENUM GRAECUM EXTRACT;

BLEEDING; BRONCHOSPASM; CHINESE MEDICINE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DIARRHEA; DIGESTION; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DRUG INDICATION; DRUG MECHANISM; FENUGREEK; FLATULENCE; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPOGLYCEMIA; HYPOKALEMIA; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; LABOR INDUCTION; METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; POWDER; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REVIEW; SIDE EFFECT; VERTIGO; WEIGHT REDUCTION; WHEEZING;

DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DRUG INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; HYPERLIPIDEMIAS; HYPOGLYCEMIC AGENTS; PLANT EXTRACTS; TRIGONELLA;

EID: 0037296088     PISSN: 10895159     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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