Experiment 634063

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PropertyValue
Pharmacology
Administration routeORAL
OrganismValeriana officinalis (VALERIANACEAE)
CitationGEBNER,B: KLASSER,M: VOLP,A:. (1983). LONG TERM EFFECT OF A VALERIAN EXTRACT (HARMONICUM MUCHR) IN PERSONS WITH SLEEP DISORDERS.. 33()
Amount utilized
Compound isolated
DiseaseIN A DOUBLE-BLIND CROSS-OVER STUDY THE LONG TERM EFFECT OF HARMONICUM MUCHR WAS TESTED AT 12 FEMALE AND 9 MALE PROBANDS (19 TO 68 YEARS OF AGE). THE STUDY CONSISTED OF A 5-DAYS PREPHASE, A 9-DAYS MEDICATION PHASE, A 5-DAYS WASH-OUT-PHASE, A 9- DAYS PLACEBO PHASE, AND A 5-DAYS AFTERPHASE. THE PROBANDS REPEATEDLY HAD TO FILL IN HTE SLEEP QUESTIONNAIRES SF-A AND SF-B OF GORTELMEYER, AS WELL AS TH QESTIONNARIES VIS-A AND VIS-M OF OTT, OSWALD, FICHTE AND SASTRE. THE STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF THE QUESTIONNARIES BY MEANS OF ELECTRONIC DATA PROCESSING SHOWED SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENT OF QUALITY OF SLEEP, RECUPERATION VALUE AND SLEEPING DIS-POSITION AS WELL AS A SIGNIFICNAT DECREASE OF FREQUENCY OF WAKING-UP, SLEEP LATENCY, PEROID OF SLEEP DISTRUBANCES AND BAD DREAMS. SIDE EFFECTS OF THE PREPARATION WERE NOT REPORTED BHY THE PROBANDS IN REGARD TO THEIR SUBJECTIVE STATE DURING THE RANDOM TEST. THE RESULTS SHOW THAT THE PREPARATION EXAMINED LEADS TO CONSIDERABLE IMPROVMENTS OF THE SLEEPING STATE IN THE PARAMETERS MENTIONED WITH PERSONS SUFFERING FROM SLEEP DISTURBANCES.
Dose amountVAR
Number1
Qualitative resultACTIVE
AnimalHUMAN ADULT
Dose expressionDOSE
ExtractHYDRO-ALCOHOLIC EXT
GenderGIVEN TO BOTH SEXES