Experiment 490544
Details
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Pharmacology | |
| Administration route | ORAL |
| Organism | Gynostemma pentaphyllum (CUCURBITACEAE) |
| Citation | WANG,J: CAO,BZ: YING,XH: ZHOU,ZH:. (1989). IMMUNOLOGIC EFFECTS OF JIAOGULAN GRANULE IN 19 CANCER PATIENTS.. 24(10) |
| Amount utilized | |
| Compound isolated | |
| Disease | 19 CANCER PATIENTS AT MID-STAGE OR TERMINAL STAGE WERE TREATED WITH JIAOGULAN GRANULE , A PREPARATION OF THE WHOLE PLANT OF GYNOSTEMMA PENTAPHYLLUM JIAOGULAN. EACH SACHET CONTAINED 40 MG OF GINSENOSIDES. THE DOSAGE WAS 2 SACHETES THRICE DAILY FOR 1 MONTH AS ONE THERAPEUTIC COURSE. CHEMOTHERAPEUTIC AGENTS WERE NOT GIVEN DURING THE TREATMENT PERIOD. THERE WERE 10 PATIENTS MARKEDLY IMPROVED AND 7 SIGNIFICANTLY IMPROVED, THE TOTAL EFFECTIVE RATE BEING 89.5%. THE LYMPHOCYTE TRANSFORMATION RATE WAS INCREASED IN 17 PATIENTS BUT WAS DECREASED IN 2 PATIENTS. SERUM IMMNOGLOBULINS WERE WITHIN NORMAL RANGES DESPITE SIGNIFICANT DECREASE IN SERUM IGG AND IGN. KS HEALTH SCORE WAS SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASED (P<0.05). WBC COUNT SHOWED A TENDENCY TO INCREASE. NO ADVERSE EFFECT WAS OBSERVED. |
| Dose amount | 40.0 MG |
| Number | 1 |
| Qualitative result | ACTIVE |
| Animal | HUMAN ADULT |
| Per unit | PERSON |
| Dose expression | DOSE |
| Extract | SAPONIN FRACTION |