Recent progress and prospects in Sasang constitutional medicine: A traditional type of physiome-based treatment

Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 76-80

  Kim, Jong Yeol ^a   Noble, Denis ^b  

^a Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine (KIOM)   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biology; Constitutional; MedicineSasang; MedicineSystems; Oriental

Indexed keywords

EID: 84912523212     PISSN: 00796107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2014.09.005     Document Type: Article

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