Introduction to Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Herbal Supplements: Efficacy, Toxicity, Interactions with Western Drugs, and Effects on Clinical Laboratory Tests

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1-18

  Hammett Stabler, Catherine A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) products, New Age modalities to complete medical systems; Correlations between health and CAM use; Listing of practices defined as CAM

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886083758     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470910108.ch1     Document Type: Editorial

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