Does complementary medicine work?

Dermatologic Therapy

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 85-86

  Parish, Lawrence Charles ^a,b   Witkowski, Joseph A ^b  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

St. John's wort; Tea tree oil

Indexed keywords

HYPERICUM PERFORATUM EXTRACT; TEA TREE OIL;

ACNE; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; DERMATITIS; ERYTHEMA MULTIFORME; HERBAL MEDICINE; HUMAN; PHOTODERMATOSIS; PHOTOSENSITIVITY DISORDER; SCABIES; SHORT SURVEY; URTICARIA; VERRUCA VULGARIS;

COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; HUMANS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; SKIN DISEASES;

EID: 0041671047     PISSN: 13960296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1529-8019.2003.01615.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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