Is there clinical evidence supporting the use of botanical dietary supplements in children?

Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 146, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 311-317

  Hrastinger, Andrea ^b   Dietz, Birgit ^b   Bauer, Rudolf ^b   Sagraves, Rosalie ^b   Mahady, Gail ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGRAPHIS PANICULATA EXTRACT; BENZODIAZEPINE; DEXAMPHETAMINE; ECHINACEA EXTRACT; ECHINACEA PURPUREA EXTRACT; ESSENTIAL FATTY ACID; GARLIC EXTRACT; HEDELIX; HERBACEOUS AGENT; PLANT EXTRACT; PRIMROSE OIL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VACCINIUM MACROCARPON EXTRACT; VALERIAN;

ANDROGRAPHIS PANICULATA; ANXIETY; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMMON COLD; COUGHING; CRANBERRY; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DRUG CONTRAINDICATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG ERUPTION; DRUG INDUCED HEADACHE; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; ECHINACEA; ERUCTATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; GARLIC; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; INFLUENZA; INSOMNIA; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; IVY; MASTALGIA; MEDICINAL PLANT; META ANALYSIS; NAUSEA; PEDIATRICS; PREMENSTRUAL SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; PSORIASIS; PUBLICATION; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WOUND DRESSING;

EID: 14844333298     PISSN: 00223476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2004.10.018     Document Type: Article

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