Flu for You? The Common Cold, Influenza, and Traditional Medicine

Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 252-255

  Lee, Roberta ^a   Balick, Michael J ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMANTADINE; ANDROGRAPHIS PANICULATA EXTRACT; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; ASTRAGALUS MEMBRANACEUS EXTRACT; ECHINACEA ANGUSTIFLORA EXTRACT; ECHINACEA PURPUREA EXTRACT; FOMITOPSIS OFFICINALIS EXTRACT; GANODERMA LUCIDUM EXTRACT; GINSENG EXTRACT; GRIFOLA FRONDOSA EXTRACT; INFLUENZA VACCINE; INFUSION FLUID; LENTINUS EDODES EXTRACT; OSELTAMIVIR; PLACEBO; PLANT EXTRACT; POLYPHENOL DERIVATIVE; POLYSACCHARIDE; POLYSACHAROPEPTIDE; SAMBUCUS NIGRA EXTRACT; SHIKIMIC ACID; TRAMETES VERSICOLOR EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ANDROGRAPHIS PANICULATA; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ANTIVIRAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; ASTRAGALUS MEMBRANACEUS; AYURVEDA; BRONCHITIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMMON COLD; DYSENTERY; ECHINACEA; ECHINACEA PURPUREA; EPIDEMIC; FLUID INTAKE; FOMITOPSIS OFFICINALIS; FOOD INTAKE; GANODERMA LUCIDUM; GINSENG; GRIFOLA; GRIFOLA FRONDOSA; HOMEOPATHY; HUMAN; ILLICIUM VERUM; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VIRUS; LARIX; LENTINUS EDODES; MALARIA; NERVOUSNESS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; REST; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; SAMBUCUS NIGRA; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEIZURE; SIDE EFFECT; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; TRAMETES VERSICOLOR; TUBERCULOSIS; VIRUS INHIBITION; VOMITING;

COMMON COLD; HUMANS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL;

EID: 33646515316     PISSN: 15508307     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.explore.2006.03.009     Document Type: Article

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