Experiment 394696
Details
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Pharmacology | |
| Administration route | ORAL |
| Organism | Echinacea angustifolia (ASTERACEAE) |
| Citation | DORN,M:. (1989). MILDERUNG GRIPPALER INFEKTE DURCH EIN PFLANZLICHES IMMUNSTIMULANS. DOPPELBIND-STUDIE MIT 100 PATIENTEN.. 1989(2) |
| Amount utilized | |
| Compound isolated | |
| Disease | THE EFFICACY OF A PLANT IMMUNOSTIMULANT WAS EXAMINED IN A CLINICAL TRIAL WITH 100 PATIENTS SUFFERING FROM AN ACUTE INFECTION OF THE UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT. THE PATIENTS RECEIVED ON THE FIRST AND SECOND DAY OF TREATMENT 30 ML AND FROM THE THIRD TO SIXTH DAY 15 ML OF THE VERUM OR PLACEBO PREPARATION. THE CONTROL EXAMINATIONS WERE PERFORMED AT THE BEGINNING OF THE TRAIL, AS WELL AS AFTER TWO TO FOUR AND SIX TO EIGHT DAYS. AT THESE TIMES THE EXTENT OF SEVEN SYMPTOMS OF COMMON COLD, NAMELY EXHAUSTION, PAIN IN THE LIMBS, HEADACHE, RUNNING NOSE, COUGH, SORE THROAT AND PHARYNGITIS WERE EXAMINED USING A HALF QUANTITATIVE SCORE SYSTEM. THE SCORE VALUES DECREASED DURING THE CONTROL PERIOD AS WELL IN THE VERUM AS IN THE PLACEBO GROUP. THE SCORE DIFFERENCES WITH REGARD TO THE STARTING VALUES WERE SIGNIFICANTLY GREATER IN THE VERUM GROUP FOR THE SYMPTOMS SORE THROAT AND PHARYNGITIS (P<0.001) AND FOR THE SYMPTOMS RUNNING NOSE AND COUGH (P<0.01) AS COMPARED TO THE PLACEBO GROUP. THE EXTRACT CONTAINED ECHINACEA ANGUSTIFOLIA, ARNICA MONTANA, EUPATORIUM PERFOLIATUM AND BAPTISIA TINCTORIA. |
| Dose amount | VAR |
| Number | 1 |
| Qualitative result | ACTIVE |
| Animal | HUMAN ADULT |
| Dose expression | DOSE |
| Extract | HYDRO-ALCOHOLIC EXT |
| Gender | GIVEN TO BOTH SEXES |