From Polynesian healers to health food stores: Changing perspectives of Morinda citrifolia (Rubiaceae)

Integrative Cancer Therapies

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 110-120

  McClatchey, Will ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID ETHYL ESTER; ALKALOID; BROMELAIN; BUTANOL; CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; GLYCOSIDE; HEXANE; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; KAVA; NITRIC OXIDE; PLANT MEDICINAL PRODUCT; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER; XERONINE;

ALEURITES MOLUCCANA; BARK; CALOPHYLLUM INOPHYLLUM; CENTENELLA ASIATICA; CORDYLINE FRUTICOSA; CURCUMA LONGA; DIETARY INTAKE; FOOD INTAKE; FRUIT; FRUIT JUICE; HEALTH FOOD; HERBAL MEDICINE; HUMAN; MEDICINAL PLANT; MORINDA; MORINDA CITRIFOLIA; NEOPLASM; NONHUMAN; NONI FRUIT; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT; PLANT LEAF; PLANT ROOT; PLANT SEED; POLYNESIA; POULTICE; PREMMA SERRATIFOLIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RHIZOME; RUBIACEAE; SOLANUM NIGRUM; SYZYGIUM MALACCENSIS; TARENNA SAMBUCINA; THESPESIA POPULNEA; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; ZINGIBER SERUMBET;

HEALTH FOOD; HUMANS; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL; MORINDA; NEOPLASMS; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT PREPARATIONS; POLYNESIA;

EID: 0037925192     PISSN: 15347354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1534735402001002002     Document Type: Review

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