Chinese herbal medicine for acute mountain sickness: A systematic review of randomized controlled trials

Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 2013, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Wang, Jie ^a   Xiong, Xingjiang ^a   Xing, Yanwei ^a   Liu, Zhen ^a   Jiang, Wenrui ^a   Huang, Junyi ^a   Feng, Bo ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHINESE MATERIA MEDICA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHINESE DRUG; DANHONG; FUFANG YI HAO; GINKGO BILOBA EXTRACT; PLACEBO; RHODIOLA ROSEA EXTRACT; SHENG NAO KANG; SHU LI KANG; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; XING NAO JING;

ALTITUDE DISEASE; CHINESE MEDICINE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA EXTRACTION; DRUG FORMULATION; HERBAL MEDICINE; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

EID: 84896291924     PISSN: 1741427X     EISSN: 17414288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2013/732562     Document Type: Review

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