Treatment of idiopathic Parkinson's disease with traditional chinese herbal medicine: A randomized placebo-controlled pilot clinical study

Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 2011, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Li, Min ^a   Kum, Wan Fung ^a   Durairajan, Siva Sundara Kumar ^a   Bian, Zhao Xiang ^a   Man, Sui Cheung ^a   Lam, Yuen Chi ^a   Xie, Li Xia ^a   Lu, Jia Hong ^a   Wang, Yan ^a   Huang, Xian Zhang ^a  

^a HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIPARKINSON AGENT; CHINESE DRUG; HERBACEOUS AGENT; JIA WEI LIU JUN ZI TANG; PLACEBO; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHINESE MEDICINE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CLINICAL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; GERIATRIC DEPRESSION SCALE; HERBAL MEDICINE; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARKINSON DISEASE; PARKINSON DISEASE QUESTIONNAIRE; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SHORT FORM 36; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNIFIED PARKINSON DISEASE RATING SCALE;

EID: 80052758891     PISSN: 1741427X     EISSN: 17414288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ecam/nep116     Document Type: Article

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