Inflammation and Ethnomedicine: Looking to our Past

Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing

Volumn 1, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 389-392

  Balick, Michael ^a   Lee, Roberta ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ALPINIA GALANGA EXTRACT; ANTHOCYANIN; BLACK WILLOW EXTRACT; CAROTENOID; COCONUT OIL; COMMELINA EXTRACT; CORIANDRUM SATIVUM EXTRACT; CURCUMA LONGA EXTRACT; CURCUMIN; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2 INHIBITOR; FLAVANOID; GINGER EXTRACT; GINGEROL; HYPTIS EXTRACT; IBUPROFEN; LINSEED EXTRACT; MULTIVITAMIN; MUSA PARADISIACA EXTRACT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PLACEBO; PLANT EXTRACT; PLUCHEA ODORATA EXTRACT; ROFECOXIB; ROSMARINUS OFFICINALIS EXTRACT; SHOGAOL; SPHAGNETICOLA TRILOBATA EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG; URTICA DIOICA EXTRACT; VALDECOXIB;

ALLERGIC CONJUNCTIVITIS; ARTICLE; AYURVEDA; BLACK WILLOW; BREAST CANCER; CHINESE MEDICINE; CHRONIC INFLAMMATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLON CANCER; FEVER; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HEADACHE; HEART INFARCTION; HERBAL MEDICINE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; MEDICINAL PLANT; MUSA PARADISIACA; NEPHRITIS; OSTEOARTHRITIS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PARASITOSIS; PLUCHEA ODORATA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; SKIN CANCER; SKIN IRRITATION; SPHAGNETICOLA TRILOBATA; SPRAIN; STROKE; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE;

ETHNOBOTANY; ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL;

EID: 33745481614     PISSN: 15508307     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.explore.2005.06.018     Document Type: Article

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