Botanical therapies in chronic fatigue

Chronic fatigue often occurs in aging and in various neurological, psychiatric and systemic diseases. The available therapies in modern medicine are limited. The exploration of potential alternative therapies from traditional medicine is reviewed, as there are several botanicals with experimental evidence of efcacy based on animal models and clinical studies. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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