Traditional Chinese medicine for epilepsy

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn , Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Li, Qifu ^a   Chen, Xiaoyan ^b   He, Li ^a   Zhou, Dong ^a  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SECOND MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CHINESE DRUG; DIANXIANNING; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; TIANMADINGXIAN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VALPROIC ACID; XIAXINGCI; ZHIXIAN I;

ANOREXIA; ATAXIA; CHINESE MEDICINE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DIARRHEA; DISEASE DURATION; DIZZINESS; DROWSINESS; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG ERUPTION; DRUG SAFETY; EPILEPSY; FATIGUE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GINGIVA DISEASE; GINGIVAL THICKENING; HEADACHE; HIRSUTISM; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LIVER FUNCTION; MORBIDITY; NEUROPATHY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RESTLESSNESS; REVIEW; SEIZURE; SIDE EFFECT; STOMACH PAIN; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; VOMITING;

EID: 70049096222     PISSN: 1469493X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD006454.pub2     Document Type: Review

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