Acupuncture for nausea: How does it work?

Harefuah

Volumn 142, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 297-300+316

  Samuels, Noah ^a  

^a Shoresh Medical Center   (Israel)

Author keywords

Acupuncture; Chemotherapy; Nausea; Post operative; Pregnancy; Travel

Indexed keywords

BETA ENDORPHIN; CORTICOTROPIN;

ACID SECRETION; ACUPUNCTURE; CHEMOTHERAPY INDUCED EMESIS; CLINICAL RESEARCH; HUMAN; ISRAEL; NAUSEA; REVIEW;

ACUPUNCTURE POINTS; ACUPUNCTURE THERAPY; CHEMORECEPTORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MERIDIANS; NAUSEA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; VOMITING;

EID: 0038637761     PISSN: 00177768     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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