Experiment 1270060
Details
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Pharmacology | |
| Administration route | ORAL |
| Organism | Cucurbita pepo (CUCURBITACEAE) |
| Citation | ANON:. (1966). THERAPEUTIC EFFECT OF CHARRED STEM OF SQUASH IN TREATMENT OF ASCITES IN LATE STAGE SCHISTOSOMIASIS.. 1966(3) |
| Amount utilized | |
| Compound isolated | |
| Disease | THIRTY-FOUR PATIENTS WITH/ATE STAGE SCHISTOSOMIASIS WERE TREATED FOR ASCITES. A DOSE OF 0.5 GM. WAS GIVEN 3 TIMES PER DAY FOR 2 TO 3 WEEKS. THERE WAS EVIDENT IMPROVEMENT IN 20 PATIENTS, PARTIAL IMPROVEMENT IN 10, AND NO RESPONSE IN 4. THE PATIENTS WITH EVIDENT IMPROVEMENT EXHIBITED A DISAPPEARANCE OF ASCITES AS SEEN IN A LOSS OF 11 LBS, A 10 CM. DECREASE IN WAISTLINE, AN INCREASE IN URINE VOLUME AND AN INCREASED APPETITE. PATIENTS WITH PARTIAL IMPROVEMENT EXHIBITED A SLOW DISAPPEARANCE IN ASCITES. THERE WAS NO EVIDENT INCREASE IN URINE VOLUME, THOUGH THERE WAS A DECREASE IN WEIGHT AND WAISTLINE AND AN INCREASED APPETITE. NO TOXIC EFFECTS WERE NOTED. |
| Dose amount | 1.5 GM |
| Number | 1 |
| Qualitative result | ACTIVE |
| Animal | HUMAN ADULT |
| Per unit | DAY |
| Dose expression | DOSE |
| Extract | STEM |