Treating hot flushes without hormone replacement therapy

Journal of Family Practice

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 291-296

  Seibel, Machelle M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b Inverness Medical Innovations   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGELICA SINENSIS EXTRACT; BIOCHANIN A; CIMICIFUGA RACEMOSA EXTRACT; DAIDZEIN; FORMONONETIN; GENISTEIN; ISOFLAVONE DERIVATIVE; PHYTOESTROGEN; PLACEBO; PRIMROSE OIL; SOYBEAN OIL;

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ABDOMINAL PAIN; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BREAST CANCER; CLOVER; DEPRESSION; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; FLATULENCE; FOOD ALLERGY; HEADACHE; HEART INFARCTION; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HOT FLUSH; HUMAN; MENSTRUAL IRREGULARITY; MOOD DISORDER; NAUSEA; PHOTODERMATOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RASH; REVIEW; SEIZURE; SOYBEAN; TREMOR; UTERUS CANCER; VASCULAR DISEASE; VERTIGO;

CIMICIFUGA; DRUGS, CHINESE HERBAL; FATTY ACIDS, ESSENTIAL; FEMALE; GAMMA-LINOLENIC ACID; HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY; HOT FLASHES; HUMANS; ISOFLAVONES; LINOLEIC ACIDS; MIDDLE AGED; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT OILS; PLANT PREPARATIONS; SOYBEANS; TRIFOLIUM;

EID: 0037388424     PISSN: 00943509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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