Integrative medicine and gastrointestinal disease

Primary Care - Clinics in Office Practice

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 255-267

  Michelfelder, Aaron J ^a,b   Lee, Kit C ^a,b   Bading, Eva M ^a,b  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

^b LOYOLA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Complementary and alternative medicine; Gastroenterology; Gastroesophageal reflux disease; Gastrointestinal; Integrative medicine; Irritable bowel syndrome; Liver disease; Nausea

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; AYURVEDIC DRUG; CHINESE DRUG; CYCLOSPORIN; GINGER EXTRACT; GLYCYRRHIZA GLABRA EXTRACT; GLYCYRRHIZA URALENSIS EXTRACT; HERBACEOUS AGENT; INTERFERON; PEPPERMINT OIL; PLACEBO; PROBIOTIC AGENT; PYRIDOXINE; RIBAVIRIN; SILYBUM MARIANUM EXTRACT; SIMVASTATIN;

ACUPRESSURE; ACUPUNCTURE; ACUTE HEPATITIS; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; BLOATING; BLOOD PRESSURE; BURNING SENSATION; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIETARY FIBER; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG FORMULATION; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG METABOLISM; DRUG SAFETY; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HEARTBURN; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; HYPNOSIS; HYPOKALEMIA; INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE; IRRITABLE COLON; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER DISEASE; MOTION SICKNESS; MUSIC THERAPY; NAUSEA; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOMMENDED DRUG DOSE; REVIEW; SIDE EFFECT; SODIUM RETENTION; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; VISUAL DISORDER; VOMITING; WATER RETENTION;

COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HUMANS; INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE; IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME; LIVER DISEASES; PHYTOTHERAPY;

EID: 77952947236     PISSN: 00954543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pop.2010.02.003     Document Type: Review

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