Randomized clinical trial of a phytotherapic compound containing Pimpinella anisum, Foeniculum vulgare, Sambucus nigra, and Cassia augustifolia for chronic constipation

BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Picon, Paulo D ^a   Picon, Rafael V ^a   Costa, Andry F ^a   Sander, Guilherme B ^a   Amaral, Karine M ^a   Aboy, Ana L ^b   Henriques, Amélia T ^b  

^a HOSPITAL DE CLÍNICAS DE PORTO ALEGRE   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASSIA AUGUSTIFOLIA EXTRACT; FOENICULUM VULGARE EXTRACT; LAXATIVE; PIMPINELLA ANISUM EXTRACT; PLACEBO; PLANT EXTRACT; POTASSIUM; SAMBUCUS NIGRA EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ANISE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; FENNEL; HUMAN; INTESTINE FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHYTOTHERAPY; POTASSIUM BLOOD LEVEL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SAMBUCUS NIGRA; SENNA; TEA; TREATMENT DURATION; X RAY; ANGIOSPERM; BLOOD; COLON; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFECATION; DRUG EFFECT; GASTROINTESTINAL TRANSIT; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; SAMBUCUS; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE;

ADULT; ANGIOSPERMS; CASSIA; COLON; CONSTIPATION; DEFECATION; FEMALE; FOENICULUM; GASTROINTESTINAL TRANSIT; HUMANS; LAXATIVES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYTOTHERAPY; PIMPINELLA; PLANT EXTRACTS; POTASSIUM; QUALITY OF LIFE; SAMBUCUS; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; X-RAYS;

EID: 77953659267     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6882-10-17     Document Type: Article

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