Asthma: A review of complementary and alternative therapies

Pediatrics in Review

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2008, Pages

  Bukutu, Cecilia ^a   Le, Christopher ^a   Vohra, Sunita ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ASCORBIC ACID; FATTY ACID; FISH OIL; HEDELIX; MINERAL; OMEGA 3 FATTY ACID; PETASITES HYBRIDUS EXTRACT; PROBIOTIC AGENT; TYLOPHORA EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VITAMIN;

ABDOMINAL DISCOMFORT; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUPUNCTURE; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ASTHMA; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; CHINESE MEDICINE; CHIROPRACTIC; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONJUNCTIVITIS; COUGHING; DEPRESSION; DIARRHEA; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DIET THERAPY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; DYSPNEA; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FLATULENCE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HAIR LOSS; HALITOSIS; HOMEOPATHY; HUMAN; HYPNOSIS; MASSAGE; NAUSEA; OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE; PROPHYLAXIS; REVIEW; RHINITIS; SIDE EFFECT; SNEEZING; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; VOMITING;

ASTHMA; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; HUMANS;

EID: 63849171304     PISSN: 01919601     EISSN: 15263347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/pir.29-8-e44     Document Type: Review

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