Successful treatment of restless legs syndrome with the herbal prescription Yokukansan

Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 252-253

  Shinno, Hideto ^a   Yamanaka, Mami ^a   Ishikawa, Ichiro ^a   Danjo, Sonoko ^a   Inami, Yasushi ^b   Horiguchi, Jun ^b   Nakamura, Yu ^a  

^a KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SHIMANE UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLONAZEPAM; HERBACEOUS AGENT; PRAMIPEXOLE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; YOKUKANSAN;

ADULT; AGED; BEDTIME DOSAGE; CASE REPORT; DISEASE COURSE; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MECHANISM; EVENING DOSAGE; FEMALE; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; LETTER; MALE; NAUSEA; REMISSION; RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME; SEROTONINERGIC TRANSMISSION; SLEEP AROUSAL DISORDER; SOMNOLENCE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTICONVULSANTS; ANTIOXIDANTS; BENZOTHIAZOLES; CLONAZEPAM; DRUGS, CHINESE HERBAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME;

EID: 73649089600     PISSN: 02785846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pnpbp.2009.11.007     Document Type: Letter

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