Experiment 1086476
Details
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Pharmacology | |
| Administration route | ORAL |
| Organism | Hygrophila auriculata (ACANTHACEAE) |
| Citation | JAYATILAK,PG: SHETH,AR: MUGATWALA,PP: PARDANANI,DS:. (1976). EFFECT OF AN INDIGENOUS DRUG(SPEMAN) ON HUMAN ACCESSORY REPRODUCTIVE FUNCTION.. 38() |
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| Disease | THE PRODUCT CONTAINED A MIXTURE OF ORCHIS MASCULA,HYGROPHILA SPINOSA,LACTUCA SCARIOLA,MUCUNA PRURIENS,PARMELIA PARLATA ARGYREIA SPECIOSA,TRIBULUS TERRESTRIS AND LEPTADENIA RETICULATA(KNOWN AS SPEMAN) STUDY INVOLVING 21 INFERTILE OLIGOSPEMIC PATIENTS IN THE AGE GROUP 25-35 YEARS. DOSING WITH SPEMAN WAS TWO TABLETS THREE TIMES DAILY FOR FOUR WEEKS. SEMEN AND BLOOD SAMPLES WERE COLLECTED FOR ANALYSIS. 50% OF SUBJECTS SHOWED IMPROVEMENT OF PROSTATIC FUNCTION AS ASSESSED BY THE ACTIVITY OF MALTASE AND BY THE CITRIC ACID CONTENT, WITH INCREASE IN THE ACTIVITY OF AMYLASE AND MALTASE AND A DECREASE IN POST-TREATMENT LEVELS OF GLYCOGEN IN SEMINAL FLUID. NO MARKED CHANGE IN SEMINAL VESTICULAR FUNCTION WAS NOTED. |
| Dose amount | VAR |
| Number | 9 |
| Qualitative result | ACTIVE |
| Animal | HUMAN ADULT |
| Dose expression | DOSE |
| Gender | MALE |