Assessment of Vitex agnus- castus L. extract effect on treatment of premenstrual syndrome

Journal of Medicinal Plants

Volumn 8, Issue 32, 2009, Pages

  Pakgohar, M ^a   Moradi, M ^a   Jamshidi, A H ^b   Mehran, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND MEDICAL EDUCATION   (Iran)

Author keywords

Herbal treatment; Premenstrual syndrome; Vitex

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO; VITEX AGNUS CASTUS EXTRACT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERVIEW; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; PREMENSTRUAL SYNDROME; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RATING SCALE;

VITEX; VITEX AGNUS-CASTUS;

EID: 77952795705     PISSN: 2717204X     EISSN: 27172058     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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