Experiment 387899
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| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Pharmacology | |
| Administration route | ORAL |
| Organism | Hypericum perforatum (CLUSIACEAE) |
| Citation | KASPER,S:. (1997). TREATMENT OF SEASONAL AFFECTIVE DISORDER (SAD) WITH HYPERICUM EXTRACT.. 30() |
| Amount utilized | |
| Compound isolated | |
| Disease | A RANDOMIZED SINGLE BLIND CONTROLLED STUDY EVALUATED THE EFFICACY OF HERBA HYPERICI IN THE TREATMENT OF SEASONAL EFFECTIVE DISORDERS (SAD) IN CONJUNCTION WITH LIGHT THERAPY. TWENTY PATIENTS WHO FULFILLED THE DIAGNOSTIC CRITERIA FOR SAD WERE TREATED WITH 900 MG OF A HYDROALCOHOLIC EXTRACT OF THE HERB COMBINED WITH EITHER BRIGHT (3000 LUX) OR DIM LIGHT (<300 LUX) CONTIDIONS. LIGHT THERAPY WAS APPLIED FOR 2 HOURS DAILY. A SIGNIFICANT REDUCTION OF THE HAMILTON DEPRESSION SCALE SCORE IN BOTH GROUPS BUT NO STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE TWO GROUPS WAS 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 |