Effect of cream containing Melia azedarach flowers on skin diseases in children

Phytomedicine

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 231-236

  Saleem, Rubeena ^a   Rani, Rizwana ^b   Ahmed, Muhammad ^a   Sadaf, Farzana ^a   Ahmad, Syed Iqbal ^a   ul Zafar, Navaid ^c   Khan, Sobia Sajida ^d   Siddiqui, Bina Shaheen ^d   Lubna, ^d   Ansari, Farheen ^d   Khan, Shakeel Ahmed ^d   Faizi, Shaheen ^d  

^a HAMDARD UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^b Hamdard Al Majeed College of Eastern Medicine and Surgery   (Pakistan)

^c Hamdard Laboratories   (Pakistan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KARACHI   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Bacterial skin diseases; Cream; Melia azedarach flowers; Meliaceae; Neomycin

Indexed keywords

MELIA AZEDARACH EXTRACT; NEOMYCIN; PLACEBO;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL SKIN DISEASE; CELLULITIS; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CREAM; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG POTENTIATION; DRUG SYNTHESIS; FEMALE; FLOWER; HERBAL MEDICINE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MALE; MELIA AZEDARACH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUSTULE; PYOGENIC BACTERIUM; SKIN DISEASE;

ADMINISTRATION, CUTANEOUS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; FEMALE; FLOWERS; HUMANS; MALE; MELIA AZEDARACH; NEOMYCIN; OINTMENTS; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT EXTRACTS; SKIN DISEASES, BACTERIAL; STAPHYLOCOCCAL SKIN INFECTIONS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MELIA AZEDARACH; MELIACEAE;

EID: 44549087325     PISSN: 09447113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.phymed.2008.02.002     Document Type: Article

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