Phytomedicine in otorhinolaryngology and pulmonology: Clinical trials with herbal remedies

Pharmaceuticals

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 853-874

  Ghazi Moghadam, Koosha ^a,b   Inançli, Hasan Mete ^c   Bazazy, Nazanin ^a   Plinkert, Peter K ^a   Efferth, Thomas ^d   Sertel, Serkan ^a,b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^c NEAR EAST UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Clinical trial; Evidence based; Herbal remedy; Otorhinolaryngology; Phytomedicine; Pulmonology

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BRONCHODILATING AGENT; BU ZHONG YI QI TANG; CAPSICUM SPRAY; CHLORHEXIDINE; CISTUS INCANUS EXTRACT; ECHINACEA EXTRACT; ECHINACEA PURPUREA EXTRACT; EUCALYPTUS OIL; FRENCH MARITIME PINE BARK EXTRACT; GINKGO BILOBA EXTRACT; HEDELIX; HERBACEOUS AGENT; JUICE PLUS; LIDOCAINE; LORATADINE; MAO TO; MOMETASONE FUROATE; NIGELLA SATIVA EXTRACT; NIGELLA SATIVA OIL; OSELTAMIVIR; PELARGONIUM SIDOIDES EXTRACT; PENTOXIFYLLINE; PLACEBO; PLANT EXTRACT; PROSPAN; PURPLE PASSION FRUIT PEEL EXTRACT; SHI BI LIN; TEN CHA; TOMATO EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG;

ACUTE RHINOSINUSITIS; ALLERGIC ASTHMA; ALLERGIC RHINITIS; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ANTIPYRETIC ACTIVITY; APHTHOUS STOMATITIS; ARNICA MONTANA; ASTHMA; ASTRAGALUS MEMBRANACEUS; BARK; BLACK CUMIN; BRONCHITIS; CHRONIC BRONCHITIS; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CHRONIC TINNITUS; CHRONIC TONSILLITIS; COMMON COLD; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; EAR NOSE THROAT DISEASE; ECHINACEA; ECHINACEA PURPUREA; EVENING PRIMROSE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FRENCH MARITIME PINE BARK; GINKGO BILOBA; GINSENG; HEARING LOSS; HERBAL MEDICINE; HISTAMINE RELEASE; HOUSE DUST ALLERGY; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; IDIOPATHIC HEARING LOSS; IDIOPATHIC RHINITIS; IMMUNOREGULATION; INFLUENZA A; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MANIPULATIVE MEDICINE; MEDICINAL PLANT; MOUTH CAVITY; MYRTLE; NEUTROPHIL; OLFACTORY LOSS; OPTIMAL DRUG DOSE; OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE; OTITIS MEDIA; OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGY; PASSION FRUIT; PERENNIAL RHINITIS; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PINE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PULMONOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; REVIEW; RHINITIS; RHUBARB; RUBUS SUAVISSIMUS; SINUSITIS; SMELLING DISORDER; SORE THROAT; SUDDEN DEAFNESS; SYMPTOM; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TEA; THYME; TINNITUS; TONSILLITIS; TONSILLOPHARYNGITIS; VIRAL UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION;

EID: 84865382590     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14248247     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ph5080853     Document Type: Review

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