Experiment 369253
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| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Pharmacology | |
| Administration route | ORAL |
| Organism | Hypericum perforatum (CLUSIACEAE) |
| Citation | HANSGEN,KD: VESPER,J: PLOCH,M:. (1993). MULTICENTRE DOUBLE BLIND STUDY EXAMINING THE ANTIDEPRESSANT EFFECTIVENESS OF THE HYPERICUM EXTRACT L1 160.. 12() |
| Amount utilized | |
| Compound isolated | |
| Disease | 72 DEPRESSIVE PATIENTS OF 11 PHYSICIANS' PRACTICES WERE TREATED IN A DOUBLE-BLIND STUDY FOR A PERIOD OF SIX WEEK EITHER WITH HYPERICUM EXTRACT LI 160 OR WITH PLACEBO. INCLUSION CRITERIUM WAS A MAJOR DEPRESSION IN ACCORDANCE WITH DSM-111-R. THE CHANGES WERE CONTROLLED USING FOUR PSYCHOMETRIC SCALES (HAMD, D-S, BEB, GCI). THE STATISTIC EVALUATION REVEALED, AFTER FOUR WEEKS OF THERAPY, IN ALL FOUR PSYCHOMETRIC TESTS, A SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENT IN THE ACTIVE GROUP AS COMPARED TO THE PLACEBO GROUP. AFTER SWITCHING THE PLACEBO GROUP TO ACTIVE TREATMENT (5TH-6TH WEEK OF THERAPY), SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENTS WERE FOUND IN THE ORIGINAL PLACEBO GROUP. NO SERIOUS SIDE EFFECTS WERE OBSERVED. |
| 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 |