The effect of warming of the abdomen and of herbal medicine on superior mesenteric artery blood flow - A pilot study

Forschende Komplementarmedizin

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 195-201

  Takayama, Shin ^a   Seki, Takashi ^a   Watanabe, Masashi ^a   Takashima, Shigeru ^b   Sugita, Norihiro ^c   Konno, Satoshi ^d   Iwasaki, Koh ^a   Yambe, Tomoyuki ^d   Yoshizawa, Makoto ^d   Nitta, Shin Ichi ^d   Maruyama, Shigenao ^b   Yaegashi, Nobuo ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Institute of Fluid Science   (Japan)

^c Graduate School of Engineering   (Japan)

^d TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Abdomen; Blood flow; Daikenchuto; Herbal medicine; Moxibustion; Superior mesenteric artery; Thermal therapy

Indexed keywords

PLANT EXTRACT;

ABDOMEN; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; DRUG EFFECT; ECHOGRAPHY; HEART RATE; HEAT; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PHYTOTHERAPY; PILOT STUDY; REFERENCE VALUE; SUPERIOR MESENTERIC ARTERY;

ABDOMEN; ADULT; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; HEART RATE; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; MALE; MESENTERIC ARTERY, SUPERIOR; PHYTOTHERAPY; PILOT PROJECTS; PLANT EXTRACTS; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 77956566593     PISSN: 16614119     EISSN: 16614127     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000317845     Document Type: Conference Paper

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