Is aromatherapy a therapeutic option in modern wound care?;Stellt die aromatherapie eine option für die moderne wundbehandlung dar?

Forschende Komplementarmedizin

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 123-125

  Steflitsch, Wolfgang ^a  

^a Otto Wagner Spital ^*  (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CARVACROL; CETRIMIDE; CICATRIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANGIOGENESIS; AROMATHERAPY; ASTHMA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; LETTER; NEURODERMATITIS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RHINOCONJUNCTIVITIS; SKIN IRRITATION; WOUND CARE; WOUND INFECTION;

AROMATHERAPY; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; OILS, VOLATILE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING; WOUND INFECTION; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 67649170629     PISSN: 16614119     EISSN: 16614127     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000209276     Document Type: Letter

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