Anti-asthmatic and anti-anaphylactic activities of Blatta orientalis mother tincture

Homeopathy

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 138-143

  Chandrakant Nimgulkar, Chetan ^a   Dattatray Patil, Savita ^b   Dinesh Kumar, B ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NUTRITION   (India)

^b R C PATEL INSTITUTE OF PHARMACEUTICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Anaphylaxis; Asthma; Blatta orientalis; Eosinophil; Homeopathy; Mast cell

Indexed keywords

ANTIALLERGIC AGENT; ANTIASTHMATIC AGENT; ATROPINE; BLATTA ORIENTALIS EXTRACT; CHLORPHENIRAMINE; HOMEOPATHIC AGENT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; PREDNISOLONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANAPHYLAXIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BLATTA ORIENTALIS; BRONCHOSPASM; COCKROACH; CONTROLLED STUDY; EOSINOPHIL COUNT; EOSINOPHILIA; EXPERIMENTAL GUINEA PIG; FEMALE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; MAST CELL DEGRANULATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; RAT;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANAPHYLAXIS; ANIMALS; BRONCHIAL HYPERREACTIVITY; BRONCHIAL SPASM; BRONCHODILATOR AGENTS; COCKROACHES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; GUINEA PIGS; HISTAMINE RELEASE; HOMEOPATHY; MICE; PULMONARY EOSINOPHILIA; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 79960643161     PISSN: 14754916     EISSN: 14764245     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.homp.2010.08.006     Document Type: Article

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