Experiment 1219481
Details
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Pharmacology | |
| Administration route | ORAL |
| Organism | Cryptolepis sanguinolenta (ASCLEPIADACEAE) |
| Citation | BOYE,GL:. (1990). STUDIES ON ANTIMALARIAL ACTION OF CRYPTOLEPIS SANGUINOLENTA EXTRACT.. () |
| Amount utilized | |
| Compound isolated | |
| Disease | 22 PATIENTS WITH P.FALCIPARUM MALARIA PARTICIPATED IN AN OPEN CLINICAL TRIAL OF CRYPTOLEPIS SANGUINOLENTA EXTRACT VS.CHLORQUINE. 10 TOOK CHLOROQUINE AND 12 TOOK CRYPTOLEPIS EXTRACT. EXTRACT DOSING WAS FOR 3 DAYS, 25 ML/KG, 3 TIMES DAILY. ALL PATIENTS RESPONDED AND A SEXUAL PARASITEMIA WAS CLEARED IN 7 DAYS. NO RECRUDESCENCE WAS SEEN IN 28 DAYS. CLINICAL SYMPTOMS CLEARED FASTER IN THE EXTRACT GROUP AND NO ANTIPYRETICS WERE NEEDED IN THE EXTRACT GROUP. 20% OF PATIENTS RECEIVING CHLOROQUINE REPORTED PRURITIS WHICH NEEDED TREATMENT IN HALF OF THEM. THIS WAS NOT SEEN IN THE EXTRACT GROUP. THERE WERE NO CHANGES IN BLOOD CHEMISTRY OR URINALYSIS. |
| Dose amount | 25.0 MG |
| Number | 1 |
| Qualitative result | ACTIVE |
| Animal | HUMAN ADULT |
| Per unit | KG |
| Dose expression | DOSE |
| Extract | DECOCTION |