Palliative care among Chumash people

Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 143-147

  Adams Jr , James D ^a   Garcia, Cecilia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Chumash Healer   (United States)

Author keywords

Breathing; Heat; Palliative care; Sleep

Indexed keywords

CINEOLE; ERIODICTYOL; FLAVONOID; HERBACEOUS AGENT;

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; BERRY; BREATHING EXERCISE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DATURA; DEPRESSION; DIETARY INTAKE; DREAM; DYING; ERIODICTYON; FAMILY; GARLIC; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; INFLUENZA; MASSAGE; NONHUMAN; NUTRITION; PAIN; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT COUNSELING; PLANT LEAF; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SALVIA; SAMBUCUS NIGRA; SLEEP; TEA; TOBACCO; UMBELLULARIA; WILLOW;

EID: 25844446176     PISSN: 1741427X     EISSN: 17414288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ecam/neh090     Document Type: Review

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