Further consideration of Asian medicinal plants in treating common chronic diseases in the West

Journal of Medicinal Plants Research

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 125-130

  Thomson, Graeme E ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Chronic disease; Ethnopharmacology; Plant

Indexed keywords

HERBACEOUS AGENT;

APOCYNUM; ARTICLE; ASIAN; ASTRAGALUS MEMBRANACEUS; CHINESE MEDICINE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CODONOPSIS PILOSULA; CURCUMA LONGA; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; GARLIC; GINKGO BILOBA; GINSENG; HUMAN; HUPERZIA; LYCIUM; MEDICINAL PLANT; STEPHANIA TETRANDRA; TEA; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; TRICHOSANTHES;

ALLIUM SATIVUM; APOCYNUM VENETUM; ASTRAGALUS MEMBRANACEUS; CAMELLIA SINENSIS; CODONOPSIS PILOSULA; CURCUMA LONGA; FALLOPIA MULTIFLORA; GINKGO BILOBA; HUPERZIA SERRATA; LYCIUM BARBARUM; LYCIUM CHINENSE; PANAX GINSENG; STEPHANIA TETRANDRA; TRICHOSANTHES KIRILOWII;

EID: 76149103897     PISSN: 19960875     EISSN: 19960875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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