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Main Authors: Marta Woźniak, Sebastian Makuch, Kinga Winograd, Jerzy Wiśniewski, Piotr Ziółkowski, Siddarth Agrawal
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-05-01
Series:BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12906-020-02913-8