Weight loss in animals and humans treated with "weighlevel", a combination of four medicinal plants used in traditional Arabic and Islamic medicine

Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 2011, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Said, Omar ^a,b   Saad, Bashar ^b,c   Fulder, Stephen ^a   Khalil, Khaled ^a   Kassis, Eli ^d  

^a Antaki Center for Herbal Medicine Ltd   (Israel)

^b Ono Academic College   (Israel)

^c ARAB AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (Palestine)

^d Sprunk Jansen A/S   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCHEMILLA VULGARIS EXTRACT; ANTIOBESITY AGENT; CUMINUM CYMINUM EXTRACT; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; MENTHA LONGIFOLIA EXTRACT; OLEA EUROPAEA EXTRACT; PLANT EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WEIGHTLEVEL;

ABSENCE OF SIDE EFFECTS; ADULT; AGED; ALCHEMILLA VULGARIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARABIC MEDICINE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; BROWN ADIPOSE TISSUE; CHICKEN; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUMIN; CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG SYNTHESIS; DRUG TOLERABILITY; ENZYME RELEASE; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST CULTURE; HUMAN; ISLAMIC MEDICINE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE BLOOD LEVEL; LD 50; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTHA LONGIFOLIA; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; OLIVE TREE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PLANT LEAF; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; THERMOGENESIS; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; TREATMENT DURATION; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

EID: 80052717949     PISSN: 1741427X     EISSN: 17414288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ecam/nen067     Document Type: Article

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