Efficacy of extract of Pelargonium sidoides in children with acute non-group a beta-hemolytic streptococcus tonsillopharyngitis: A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial

Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 68-79

  Bereznoy, Viatcheslav V ^a,b   Riley, David S ^c   Wassmer, Gernot ^e   Heger, Marianne ^d  

^a Acad for Cont Medical Education   (Ukraine)

^b Ministry of Health of Ukraine   (Ukraine)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d DR WILLMAR SCHWABE GMBH AND CO KG   (Germany)

^e NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PELARGONIUM SIDOIDES EXTRACT; PLANT EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BETA HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCUS; BRONCHITIS; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; COVARIANCE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LARYNGITIS; LYMPHADENITIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICINAL PLANT; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; OTALGIA; OTITIS MEDIA; PELARGONIUM SIDOIDES; PHARYNGITIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RHINITIS; SIDE EFFECT; TONSILLITIS; TRACHEITIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACUTE DISEASE; ALGORITHMS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHILD; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PELARGONIUM; PHARYNGITIS; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT EXTRACTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; TIME FACTORS; TONSILLITIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UKRAINE;

EID: 0141708049     PISSN: 10786791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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