Complementary medicine pharmacist?

Pharmaceutical Journal

Volumn 273, Issue 7311, 2004, Pages 197-198

  Ernst, Edzard ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AESCULUS HIPPOCASTANUM EXTRACT; CYNARA SCOLYMUS EXTRACT; EPHEDRA EXTRACT; GARLIC EXTRACT; GLUCOSAMINE; HERBACEOUS AGENT; HOMEOPATHIC AGENT; HYPERICUM PERFORATUM EXTRACT; KAVA EXTRACT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PYGEUM AFRICANUM EXTRACT; SABAL EXTRACT; TANACETUM PARTHENIUM EXTRACT;

ACUPUNCTURE; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTHRITIS; CANCER; CHINESE MEDICINE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTINUING EDUCATION; DEPRESSION; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DRUG CONTAMINATION; FOOD ALLERGY; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPNOSIS; INFECTION; MANIPULATIVE MEDICINE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MIGRAINE; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PHARMACIST; PNEUMOTHORAX; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SIDE EFFECT; STROKE; VEIN INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 4444255067     PISSN: 00316873     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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