Beneficial effects of rikkunshito, a Japanese Kampo medicine, on gastrointestinal dysfunction and anorexia in combination with western drug: A systematic review

Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 2014, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Mogami, Sachiko ^a   Hattori, Tomohisa ^a  

^a TSUMURA AND CO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; ANTIPARKINSON AGENT; CARBIDOPA PLUS LEVODOPA; CISPLATIN; DIGESTIVE TRACT AGENT; DOCETAXEL; DOMPERIDONE; DONEPEZIL; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; FLUOROURACIL; FLUVOXAMINE; GEMCITABINE; GHRELIN; HERBACEOUS AGENT; LANSOPRAZOLE; LEVOFLOXACIN; NOBILETIN; OFLOXACIN; OLANZAPINE; PAROXETINE; PROTON PUMP INHIBITOR; RABEPRAZOLE; RIKKUNSHITO; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; SULPIRIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANOREXIA; BLOATING; CHEMOTHERAPY INDUCED NAUSEA AND VOMITING; CONSTIPATION; DIARRHEA; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM FUNCTION DISORDER; DRUG BIOAVAILABILITY; DYSPEPSIA; ENDOSCOPIC SUBMUCOSAL DISSECTION; GASTRIC DYSMOTILITY; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT FUNCTION; HUMAN; LOSS OF APPETITE; MONOTHERAPY; NAUSEA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; STOMACH EMPTYING; SURVIVAL; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

EID: 84897547712     PISSN: 1741427X     EISSN: 17414288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2014/519035     Document Type: Review

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