Experiment 490528
Details
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Pharmacology | |
| Administration route | ORAL |
| Organism | Tripterygium wilfordii (CELASTRACEAE) |
| Citation | BAI,RX: LIU,X: WANG,XC: GUO,JL: YI,F:. (1988). A DOUBLE BLIND STUDY ON THE TRAEATMENT OF RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS AND ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS WITH LEIGONGTENG TINCTURE.. 8(4) |
| Amount utilized | |
| Compound isolated | |
| Disease | ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS AND RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS WERE TREATED WITH <LEIGONGTENG TINCTURE> PREPARED WITH THE STEM OF TRIPTERYGIUM WILFORDII <LEIGONGTENG> OR WITH A CONTROL TINCTURE OF THE STEM OF PIPER KADSURA <HAIFENGTENG>, RHIZOME OF HOSALOMENA OCCULTA <QIANNIANJIAN> AND STEM OF SARGENTODOXA CUNEATA <HONGTENG>. PATIENTS WERE TREATED WITH THESE DRUGS FOR 14 DAYS IN A DOUBLE-BLIND FASHION. THE DOSAGE WAS 30 ML PO DAILY. MORNING STIFFNESS AND HIGH ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE AND RHEUMATOID FACTOR WERE MORE SEVERE IN THE TREATMENT GROUP BEFORE TREATMENT. IN THE TREATMENT GROUP, ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE, SERUM IMMUNE COMPLEXES AND IMMUNOGLOBULINS G AND M WERE SIGNIFICANTLY DECREASED. NON OF THESE CHANGES OCCURED IN THE CONTROL GROUP. IMMUNOGLOBULIN A, PO2 AND PCO2 WERE NOT SIGNIFICANTLY ALTERED IN BOTH GROUPS. <LEIGONGTENG TINCTURE> WAS 100% EFFECTIVE FOR PAIN AND JOINT RIGIDITY, 86% EFFECTIVE FOR INPROVING WHOLE BODY FUNCTION. IT INCREASED THE GRIPING FORCE BY 7-9 KG AND WAS TWICE AS EFFECTIVE AS THE CONTROL DRUG FOR SWELLING. THE CONTROL DRUG PRODUCED NO SIGNIFICANT EFFECT ON PAIN, GRIPPING FORCE AND WHOLE BODY FUNCITON. |
| Dose amount | 30.0 ML |
| Number | 1 |
| Qualitative result | ACTIVE |
| Animal | HUMAN ADULT |
| Per unit | PERSON |
| Dose expression | DOSE |
| Extract | TINCTURE |