Chinese proprietary herbal medicine listed in 'China national essential drug list' for common cold: A systematic literature review

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Chen, Wei ^a   Lewith, George ^b   Wang, Li Qiong ^a   Ren, Jun ^a   Xiong, Wen Jing ^a   Lu, Fang ^a   Liu, Jian Ping ^a  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE MEDICINE   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAIHU; GANMAO QINGRE; HERBACEOUS AGENT; HUOXIANG ZHENGQI; QINGRE JIEDU; SHUANGHUANGLIAN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; XIAOER BAOTAIKANG; XIAOER RESUQING;

ALLERGIC REACTION; ARTICLE; CHINA; CHINESE MEDICINE; CHINESE PROPRIETARY HERBAL MEDICINE; CLINICAL STUDY; COMMON COLD; DIZZINESS; DRUG EFFICACY; HERBAL MEDICINE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; QUALITY CONTROL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); STUDY DESIGN; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; CLASSIFICATION; DRUG DATABASE; MEDLINE;

CHINA; COMMON COLD; DATABASES, PHARMACEUTICAL; DRUGS, CHINESE HERBAL; HERBAL MEDICINE; HUMANS; MEDICINE, CHINESE TRADITIONAL; MEDLINE;

EID: 84908213034     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0110560     Document Type: Article

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