Comparing the effects of estrogen and an herbal medicine on peripheral blood flow in post-menopausal women with hot flashes: Hormone replacement therapy and Gui-zhi-fu-ling-wan, a kampo medicine

American Journal of Chinese Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 259-267

  Ushiroyama, Takahisa ^a   Ikeda, Atsushi ^a   Sakuma, Kou ^a   Ueki, Minoru ^a  

^a OSAKA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gui zhi fu ling wan (Keishi bukuryo gan); Herb drugs (cinnamomi cortex, paeoniae radix, persicae semen, subterranean fungus, moutan cortex); Hormone replacement therapy; Hot flashes; Laser Doppler fluxmetry; Peripheral blood flow

Indexed keywords

CINNAMOMUM EXTRACT; CONJUGATED ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN; KAMPO; KEISHI BUKURYO GAN; MEDROXYPROGESTERONE ACETATE; NEUROPEPTIDE; PAEONIA RADIX; PAEONIA SUFFRUTICOSA EXTRACT; PLANT EXTRACT; TONIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLIMACTERIUM; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG RESPONSE; FEMALE; FINGER BLOOD FLOW; HERBAL MEDICINE; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HOT FLUSH; HUMAN; JAW; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENOPAUSAL SYNDROME; PERIPHERAL CIRCULATION; POSTMENOPAUSE; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SENSORY NERVE CELL; TOE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASODILATATION;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ARM; DRUGS, CHINESE HERBAL; ESTROGEN REPLACEMENT THERAPY; FEMALE; HOT FLASHES; HUMANS; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; LEG; MEDICINE, KAMPO; MIDDLE AGED; POSTMENOPAUSE; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW;

EID: 18744390790     PISSN: 0192415X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0192415X05002813     Document Type: Article

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