The safety of herbal medicinal products derived from Echinacea species: A systematic review

Drug Safety

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 387-400

  Huntley, Alyson L ^a   Coon, Joanna Thompson ^a   Ernst, Edzard ^a  

^a PENINSULA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; AMOXICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; CENOVIS; CONTRAINFEKT; CORTICOSTEROID; CYANOCOBALAMIN; ECHIHERB; ECHINACEA ANGUSTIFOLIA EXTRACT; ECHINACEA EXTRACT; ECHINACEA HEVERT PURP FORTE; ECHINACEA PALLIDA EXTRACT; ECHINACEA PURPUREA EXTRACT; ECHINACIN; ECHINAFORCE; ECHINATRUW; ESBERITOX MONO; GARLIC EXTRACT; HERBACEOUS AGENT; HYPERICUM PERFORATUM EXTRACT; IBUPROFEN; IMMUNOPRET; IRON; LORATADINE; MYOECHINACIN; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; ONION EXTRACT; PASCOTOX 100; PASCOTOX FORTE INJEKTOPAS; PRIMROSE OIL; PROMETHAZINE; RESPLANT; SKIN CLEAR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VITAMIN B COMPLEX;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ALLERGIC REACTION; ALLERGY; ANAPHYLAXIS; ANGIONEUROTIC EDEMA; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTHRALGIA; ARTHRITIS; ASTHMA; BAD TASTE IN MOUTH; BELCHING; BILIARY TRACT DISEASE; BLEEDING DISORDER; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BONE DISEASE; BRONCHOSPASM; BURNING SENSATION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CHEST TIGHTNESS; COMMON COLD; CONFUSION; COUGHING; DEPRESSION; DIARRHEA; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISORIENTATION; DIZZINESS; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; DYSPHAGIA; DYSPNEA; DYSURIA; ECHINACEA; ECHINACEA ANGUSTIFOLIA; ECHINACEA PALLIDA; ECHINACEA PURPUREA; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; ERYTHEMA; ERYTHEMA NODOSUM; ERYTHROCYTE DISORDER; EYE DISEASE; FACE EDEMA; FATIGUE; FEVER; FLUSHING; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GYNECOLOGIC DISEASE; HEADACHE; HEARING DISORDER; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART PALPITATION; HEARTBURN; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HEPATOMEGALY; HERBAL MEDICINE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; INJECTION PAIN; INSOMNIA; JAUNDICE; LACTATION; LEUKOCYTE DISORDER; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LIVER DISEASE; LYMPHADENOPATHY; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; MACULOPAPULAR RASH; MALAISE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM DISEASE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MENTAL DISEASE; METABOLIC DISORDER; MICTURITION DISORDER; MONOCYTOSIS; MOUTH BURNING; MUSCLE DISEASE; MYALGIA; NAUSEA; NERVOUSNESS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NOSE CONGESTION; NUTRITIONAL DISORDER; OCULAR PRURITUS; PAPULAR SKIN DISEASE; PARESTHESIA; PERIPHERAL EDEMA; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; PSORIASIS; PUBLICATION; RASH; RECURRENT INFECTION; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RETICULOENDOTHELIAL SYSTEM DISEASE; REVIEW; RHINORRHEA; SHIVERING; SKIN ALLERGY; SKIN APPENDAGE DISEASE; SKIN DISEASE; SKIN EXFOLIATION; SNAKEBITE; SORE THROAT; STOMACH PAIN; STOMATITIS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TASTE DISORDER; THIRST; THORAX DISEASE; THORAX PAIN; THROAT BURNING; THROMBOCYTE DISORDER; UNPLEASANT TASTE; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT; URINARY FREQUENCY; URINARY TRACT DISEASE; URTICARIA; VASCULAR DISEASE; VESTIBULAR DISORDER; VISUAL DISORDER; VOMITING; WATERY EYE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADULT; ADVERSE DRUG REACTION REPORTING SYSTEMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLINICAL TRIALS; ECHINACEA; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT PREPARATIONS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 19544370551     PISSN: 01145916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/00002018-200528050-00003     Document Type: Review

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