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Evaluating the therapeutic efficacy, tolerability, and safety of an aqueous extract of Costus speciosus rhizome in acute pharyngitis and acute tonsillitis

A pilot study

Zainab A. Bakhsh, Talal A. Al-Khatib, Saad M. Al-Muhayawi, Sufian M. ElAssouli, Iman A. Elfiky and Samiha A. Mourad
Saudi Medical Journal August 2015, 36 (8) 997-1000; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2015.8.11377

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vol. 36 no. 8 997-1000
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2015.8.11377
PubMed 
26219454
Published By 
Saudi Medical Journal
Online ISSN 
1658-3175
History 
  • Received January 27, 2015
  • Accepted May 14, 2015
  • Published online August 1, 2015.
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Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Author Information

  1. Zainab A. Bakhsh, MBBS⇑,
  2. Talal A. Al-Khatib, MD, FRCSC,
  3. Saad M. Al-Muhayawi, MD, FRCSC,
  4. Sufian M. ElAssouli, PhD,
  5. Iman A. Elfiky, MD, MSc and
  6. Samiha A. Mourad, MD
  1. From the Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery (Bakhsh, Al-Khatib, Al-Muhayawi), Faculty of Medicine, the Department of Biological Sciences (ElAssouli), King Fahd Medical Research Center, and the Department of Hematology (Elfiky, Mourad), Yousef Abdullatif Jameel Research Chair for Prophetic Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
  1. Address correspondence and re-prints request to: Dr. Zainab Bakhsh, Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, PO Box 51894, Jeddah 21553, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail: zabakhsh{at}kau.edu.sa
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