Evening primrose oil

American Family Physician

Volumn 80, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1405-1408

  Bayles, Bryan ^a   Usatine, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; GAMMA LINOLENIC ACID; OMEGA 6 FATTY ACID; PHENOTHIAZINE DERIVATIVE; PLACEBO; PRIMROSE OIL; VEGETABLE OIL;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ASTHMA; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; CHRONIC DISEASE; CHRONIC INFLAMMATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC NEUROPATHY; DIARRHEA; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG INDUCED HEADACHE; DRUG TOLERABILITY; EVENING PRIMROSE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HUMAN; INTESTINE MOTILITY; LABOR INDUCTION; MASTALGIA; MENOPAUSAL SYNDROME; NAUSEA; PREECLAMPSIA; PREMENSTRUAL SYNDROME; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SIDE EFFECT; SYSTEMIC DISEASE; UTERINE CERVIX RIPENING; ARTICLE; FEMALE; MENOPAUSE; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PREGNANCY;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; DERMATITIS, ATOPIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MENOPAUSE; OENOTHERA BIENNIS; PLANT OILS; PREGNANCY; PREMENSTRUAL SYNDROME;

EID: 74049118938     PISSN: 0002838X     EISSN: 0002838X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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