Ashwagandha

Xin Yi Lim; Joanne Barnes

doi:10.1071/HC23172

RESEARCH ARTICLE (Open Access)

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Ashwagandha

Xin Yi Lim

¹ , Joanne Barnes

¹ ^*

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¹ School of Pharmacy, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.

^* Correspondence to: j.barnes@auckland.ac.nz

Journal of Primary Health Care 16(1) 112-114 https://doi.org/10.1071/HC23172

Submitted: 18 December 2023 Accepted: 8 January 2024 Published: 8 February 2024

© 2024 The Author(s) (or their employer(s)). Published by CSIRO Publishing on behalf of The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND)

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