Chasteberry

American Family Physician

Volumn 72, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 821-824

  Roemheld Hamm, Beatrix ^a  

^a ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGNUSIDE; ANTIPARKINSON AGENT; BROMOCRIPTINE; BROMOCRIPTINE MESILATE; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; FEMAPRIN; METOCLOPRAMIDE; PYRIDOXINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VITEX AGNUS CASTUS EXTRACT;

AMENORRHEA; BREAST DISCOMFORT; BREAST TENSION; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIZZINESS; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG COST; DRUG DOSAGE FORM; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG FORMULATION; DRUG POTENTIATION; DRUG TOLERABILITY; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; FATIGUE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GYNECOLOGIC DISEASE; HEADACHE; HERB DRUG INTERACTION; HERBAL MEDICINE; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; LACTATION; LIBIDO DISORDER; MENSTRUATION DISORDER; PREMENSTRUAL SYNDROME; REVIEW; TREATMENT INDICATION; VITEX AGNUS CASTUS; XEROSTOMIA;

FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; LACTATION; LIBIDO; MENSTRUATION DISTURBANCES; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT EXTRACTS; VITEX;

EID: 24344479122     PISSN: 0002838X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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