Complementary therapies for acne vulgaris

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2017, Issue 6, 2015, Pages

  Cao, Huijuan ^a   Yang, Guoyan ^a   Wang, Yuyi ^b   Liu, Jian Ping ^a   Smith, Caroline A ^c   Luo, Hui ^a   Liu, Yueming ^d  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE MEDICINE   (China)

^b Chongqing Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine   (China)

^c WESTERN SYDNEY UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; BEE VENOM; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CLINDAMYCIN PHOSPHATE; DA HUANG ZHE CHONG; DAN QUAN RICE WINE; DOXYCYCLINE; FU FANG ZHEN ZHU AN CHUANG; GLUCONATE ZINC; HERBACEOUS AGENT; ISOTRETINOIN; JIA WEI XIAO DU YIN; KEIGAI RENGYO TO EXTRACT; MINOCYCLINE; PLACEBO; PLANT EXTRACT; POLLEN BEE VENOM; QIN GAN JIE YU XIAO CUO; QING HA SAN; QINGRE CHUSHI JIEDU; RETINOIC ACID; ROXITHROMYCIN; SHENG JI ZHEN HUA SAN; TEA TREE OIL; TETRACYCLINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG; VIAMINATE; XIAO YAN XUAN SHI GAO; YIN QIAO LIANG XUE TANG; ZIYIN QINGGAN XIAO CUO; PLANT MEDICINAL PRODUCT;

ACNE VULGARIS; ACUPUNCTURE; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; BURNING SENSATION; CHINESE MEDICINE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRY SKIN; EMOTION; HAMILTON DEPRESSION RATING SCALE; HIGH GLYCAEMIC LOAD DIET; HUMAN; LIGHT EMITTING DIODE; LOW GLYCAEMIC LOAD DIET; MASSAGE; PHOTOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; QUALITY OF LIFE; REMISSION; REVIEW; SAFETY; SKIN DEFECT; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; WET CUPPING THERAPY; ADVERSE EFFECTS; META ANALYSIS; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SELECTION BIAS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACNE VULGARIS; ACUPUNCTURE POINTS; ACUPUNCTURE THERAPY; BEE VENOMS; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; HUMANS; PLANT PREPARATIONS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SELECTION BIAS; TEA TREE OIL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84925320944     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1469493X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD009436.pub2     Document Type: Review

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