| Disease | THE EFFECTIVENESS OF A STANDARDISED GINKGO BILOBA WHOLE PLANT EXTRACT ON CEREBRAL, MENTAL AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY WAS STUDIED. NINETY-SEVEN ELDERLY PATIENTS PARTICIPATED IN THE PLACEBO CONTROLLED DOUBLE BLIND CROSSOVER STUDY. TWO DOSAGES OF
250 MG AND 500 MG GINKGO EXTRACT DAILY WERE COMPARED WITH PLACEBO IN A SEVEN-DAY CROSSOVER STUDY. IMPROVEMENTS AFTER THE SEVEN DAYS OF TREATMENT WERE ANALYSED ACCORDING TO A FIVE-DIGIT SCORE SYSTEM FOR THE PARAMETERS OF WELL-BEING, PHYSICAL
ACTIVITY, MENTAL ACTIVITY, VIGILANCE, INITIATIVE AND MOOD, SCORE IMPROVEMENTS WERE FOUND FOR ALL PARAMETERS, IN CASES WITH A CLEAR DOSE DEPENDENCY, SUCH AS FOR PHYSICAL AND MENTAL ACTIVITY. ALMOST COMPARABLE IMPROVEMENTS FOR BOTH DOSAGES WERE
FOUND FOR THE PARAMETERS VILIGANCE AND MOOD. SIGNIFICANT IMPROVMENTS WITH THE 250 MG DOSAGE WERE FOUND FOR WELL-BEING (P<0.05), VIGILANCE (P<0.05), INITIATIVE (P<0.05) AND MOOD (P<0.05). FOR THE 500 MG DOSAGE, SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES WERE
FOUND FOR PHYSICAL ACTIVITY, MENTAL ACTIVITY AND VIGILANCE (P<0.05) AND FOR WELL-BEING, INITIATIVE AND MOOD (P>0.001). THE OVERALL SCORE FOR THE SIX PARAMETERS INDICATES THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE GINKGO MEDICATION, WITH IMPROVEMENTS OF 162%
AND 314% FOR THE 250 MG AND 500 MG DOSAGES RESPECTIVELY COMAPRED WITH PLACEBO. |