Pelargonium sidoides extract for treating acute respiratory tract infections

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2013, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Timmer, Antje ^a   Günther, Judith ^b   Motschall, Edith ^c   Rücker, Gerta ^c   Antes, Gerd ^c   Kern, Winfried V ^c  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR PREVENTION RESEARCH AND EPIDEMIOLOGY BIPS   (Germany)

^b Pharmafacts GmbH Research and Consulting in Drug Care   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PELARGONIUM SIDOIDES EXTRACT; PLACEBO; PLANT EXTRACT;

ACUTE SINUSITIS; BRONCHITIS; CHILD HEALTH; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COMMON COLD; CONVALESCENCE; COUGHING; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG INDICATION; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; NASAL DISCHARGE; NONHUMAN; NOSE DISEASE; NOSE OBSTRUCTION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PELARGONIUM; PELARGONIUM SIDOIDES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; REVIEW; SORE THROAT; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT DURATION; ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; CHEMISTRY; CHILD; META ANALYSIS; PHYTOTHERAPY; PROCEDURES; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; SINUSITIS; METHODOLOGY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; BRONCHITIS; CHILD; COMMON COLD; HUMANS; PELARGONIUM; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT EXTRACTS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; SINUSITIS;

EID: 84890490250     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1469493X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD006323.pub3     Document Type: Review

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