Women's health among the Chumash

Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 125-131

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Artemisia douglasiana; Childbirth; Dysmenorrhea; Menopause

Indexed keywords

ABSINTHOL; ANEMOPSIS CALIFORNICA EXTRACT; ANTHOCYANIN; ARTERMISIA DOUGLASIANA EXTRACT; BETA PINENE; CAMPHENE; CINEOLE; CUCURBITACIN GLYCOSIDE; EPHEDRA CALIFORNICA EXTRACT; EPHEDRA VIRIDIS EXTRACT; ESCHSCHOLZIA CALIFORNICA EXTRACT; ESTRAGOLE; HYPTIS EMORYI EXTRACT; LEYMUS CONDENSATUS EXTRACT; LIMONENE; LINALOOL; METHYLEUGENOL; PAEONIA CALIFORNICA EXTRACT; PARA CYMENE; PHORADENDRON MACROPHYLLUM EXTRACT; PINENE; PLANT EXTRACT; ROSA CALIFORNICA EXTRACT; SALVIA APIANA EXTRACT; SAPONIN DERIVATIVE; SCIRPUS ACUTUS EXTRACT; TRICHOSTEMA LANATUM EXTRACT; UMBELLULARIA CALIFORNICA EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VITIS CALIFORNICA EXTRACT;

ABORTION; ANEMOPSIS CALIFORNICA; AROMATHERAPY; ARTEMISIA DOUGLASIANA; ARTICLE; CHILD CARE; CHILDBIRTH; CONTRACEPTION; DRUG DEPENDENCE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; DYSMENORRHEA; EPHEDRA VIRIDIS; ESCHSCHOLTZIA; GONORRHEA; HUMAN; HYGIENE; HYPTIS EMORYI; INFERTILITY; LACTATION; LEYMUS CONDENSATUS; MEDICINAL PLANT; MENOPAUSE; MENORRHAGIA; MENSTRUATION DISORDER; NONHUMAN; PAEONIA CALIFORNICA; PHORADENDRON MACROPHYLLUM; PREMENSTRUAL SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROSA CALIFORNICA; SALVIA APIANA; SCIRPUS ACUTUS; SEIZURE; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; TRICHOSTEMA LANATUM; UMBELLULARIA; UMBELLULARIA CALIFORNICA; UNITED STATES; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VITIS CALIFORNICA; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 33745698808     PISSN: 1741427X     EISSN: 17414288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ecam/nek021     Document Type: Article

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