Phytomedicine in Otorhinolaryngology and Pulmonology: Clinical Trials with Herbal Remedies

Phytomedicine has become an important alternative treatment option for patients in the Western world, as they seek to be treated in a holistic and natural way after an unsatisfactory response to conventional drugs. Ever since herbal remedies have been introduced in the Western world, clinicians have...

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Autores principales: Moghadam, Koosha Ghazi, Inançlı, Hasan Mete, Bazazy, Nazanin, Plinkert, Peter K., Efferth, Thomas, Sertel, Serkan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2012
Materias:
Review
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3763668/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24280678
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ph5080853
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Sumario:Phytomedicine has become an important alternative treatment option for patients in the Western world, as they seek to be treated in a holistic and natural way after an unsatisfactory response to conventional drugs. Ever since herbal remedies have been introduced in the Western world, clinicians have raised concerns over their efficacy and possible side-effects. A PubMed (Medline) search was performed covering the last five years (01/07–04/12) and including 55 prospective clinical randomized control trials in the medical specialities Otorhinolaryngology and Pulmonology. In this review, we present evidence-based clinical data with herbal remedies and try to enlighten the question of efficacy and reliability of phytomedicine.

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