Experiment 363049
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| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Pharmacology | |
| Administration route | ORAL |
| Organism | Hypericum perforatum (CLUSIACEAE) |
| Citation | HARRER,G: HUBNER,WD: PODZUWEIT,H:. (1994). EFFECTIVENESS AND TOLERANCE OF THE HYPERICUM EXTRACT LI 160 COMPARED TO MAPROTILINE: A MULTICENTER DOUBLE-BLIND STUDY.. 7(1) |
| Amount utilized | |
| Compound isolated | |
| Disease | A RANDOMIZED, DOUBLE-BLIND STUDY EXAMINING THE EFFECTIVENESS AND TOLERANCE OF A STANDARDIZED HYPERICUM PREPARATION WHEN COMPARED TO MAPROTILINE WAS PERFORMED IN A GROUP OF 102 PATIENTS WITH DEPRESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH ICD-10, F 32.1. THE STUDY WAS CONDUCTED IN THE OFFICES OF NEUROLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY SPECIALISTS. THE PATIENTS RECEIVED, OVER A PERIOD OF 4 WEEKS. EITHER 3 X 300 MG OF THE PHYERICUM EXTRACT OR 3 X 25 MG MAPROTILINE PILLS OF IDENTICAL APPEARANCE. EFFECTIVENESS WAS DETERMINED USING THE HAMILTON DEPRESSION SCALE (HAMD), THE DEPRESSION SCALE ACCORDING TO VON ZERSSEN (D-S), AND THE CLINICAL GLOBAL IMPRESSION SCALE (CGI). THE TOTAL SCORE OF THE HAMD SCALE DROPPED DURING THE 4 WEEKS OF THERAPY IN BOTH TREATMENT GROUPS BY ABOUT 50%. THE MEAN VALUES OF THE D-S SCALE AND THE CGI SCALE SHOWED SIMILAR RESULTS, AND AFTER 4 WEEKS OF THERAPY, NO SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES IN EITHER TREATMENT GROUP WERE NOTICED. |
| Dose amount | 900.0 MG |
| Number | 1 |
| Qualitative result | ACTIVE |
| Animal | HUMAN ADULT |
| Per unit | DAY |
| Dose expression | DOSE |
| Extract | HYDRO-ALCOHOLIC EXT |
| Gender | GIVEN TO BOTH SEXES |