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Horny Goat Weed/Epimedium

E Lyn Lee 1 , Jo Barnes https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1522-8433 2 *
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1 Independent contractor to the School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland, 85 Park Road, Grafton, Auckland, New Zealand.

2 School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland, 85 Park Road, Grafton, Auckland, New Zealand.

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

Journal of Primary Health Care https://doi.org/10.1071/HC24183
Submitted: 11 December 2024  Accepted: 17 December 2024  Published: 11 February 2025

© 2025 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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