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Integrating Medical Knowledge: Old Roots and a Modern Science-Based Approach at the University of Milan

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Complementary and Alternative Approaches to Biomedicine

Part of the book series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology ((AEMB,volume 546))

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Traditional phytotherapy is a complex system of skills and practice that belong to the wider system of traditional medicine. Traditional medicine includes great and ancient systems like traditional Chinese medicine, Ayurvedic medicine, Unani medicine and other ethnic systems such as African phytotherapy, Amazonic phytotherapy and so on.

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  1. WHO-Center for Traditional Medical Research in Biotechnology & Natural Medicine, University of Milan, Italy

    E. Minelli & U. Solimene

  2. Hepato-GI Dept., S. Giuseppe Hospital, Milan, Italy

    F. Marotta

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  1. University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA

    Edwin L. Cooper

  2. Kanazawa Medical University, Uchinada, Ishikawa, Japan

    Nobuo Yamaguchi

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Minelli, E., Marotta, F., Solimene, U. (2004). Integrating Medical Knowledge: Old Roots and a Modern Science-Based Approach at the University of Milan. In: Cooper, E.L., Yamaguchi, N. (eds) Complementary and Alternative Approaches to Biomedicine. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 546. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-4820-8_7

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