Medicinal plants as antiemetics in the treatment of cancer: A review

Integrative Cancer Therapies

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 18-28

  Haniadka, Raghavendra ^a   Popouri, Sandhya ^b   Palatty, Princy Louis ^a   Arora, Rajesh ^c   Baliga, Manjeshwar Shrinath ^a  

^a FATHER MULLER MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^b SRI SIDDHARTHA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^c DRDO   (India)

Author keywords

anti emetic; chemotherapy; medicinal plants; nausea; radiotherapy; vomiting

Indexed keywords

ANTIEMETIC AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CISPLATIN; DEXAMETHASONE; GANODERMA LUCIDUM EXTRACT; GINGER EXTRACT; GINGEROL; GINSENG EXTRACT; GINSENOSIDE; GRAPE SEED EXTRACT; MENTHA SPICATA EXTRACT; PANAX QUINQUEFOLIUS EXTRACT; SCUTELLARIA BAICALENSIS EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIEMETIC ACTIVITY; CHEMOTHERAPY INDUCED NAUSEA AND VOMITING; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG RECEPTOR BINDING; DRUG SAFETY; HUMAN; LOW DRUG DOSE; MEDICINAL PLANT; NAUSEA; NEOPLASM; NONHUMAN; PANAX QUINQUEFOLIUS; PICA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION SICKNESS; REVIEW; VOMITING;

ANIMALS; ANTIEMETICS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; HUMANS; NAUSEA; NEOPLASMS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; RADIOTHERAPY; VOMITING;

EID: 84861832825     PISSN: 15347354     EISSN: 1552695X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1534735411413266     Document Type: Review

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