Chapter 11 Traditional medicines and the new paradigm of psychotropic drug action

Advances in Phytomedicine

Volumn 1, Issue C, 2002, Pages 133-144

  Elisabetsky, Elaine ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

CNS ethnopharmacology; pharmaceutical industry; psychopharmacology; traditional remedies

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EID: 33544468709     PISSN: 1572557X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1572-557X(02)80020-4     Document Type: Chapter

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