The effect of cinnamon on glucose of type II diabetes patients

Journal of Traditional and Complementary Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 171-174

  Hasanzade, Farzaneh ^a   Toliat, Maryam ^b   Emami, Seyyed Ahmad ^a   Emamimoghaadam, Zahra ^a  

^a MASHHAD UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b BIRJAND UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Cinnamon; Diabetes; Fasting blood sugar; Herbal medicine

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894519041     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22254110     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/2225-4110.114900     Document Type: Article

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