Experiment 635424
Details
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Pharmacology | |
| Administration route | ORAL |
| Organism | Tanacetum parthenium (ASTERACEAE) |
| Citation | VOGLER,BK: PITTLER,MH: ERNST,E:. (1998). FEVERFEW AS A PREVENTIVE TREATMENT FOR MIGRAINE: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW.. 18() |
| Amount utilized | |
| Compound isolated | |
| Disease | 72 PATIENTS RECEIVED EITHER ONE CAPSULE OF FEVERFEW OR PLACEBO FOR 4 MONTHS AFTER A 1-MONTH PLACEBO RUN-IN PEROID. WITHOUT A WASHOUT PERIOD PATIENTS WERE TRANSFERRED INTO THE OTHER GROUP FOR THE SECOND 4-MONTH PEROID. THE FEVERFEW TREATMENT WAS ASSOCIATED WITH A 24% REDUCTION (P<0.005) IN ATTACK FREQUENCY AND A SIGNIFICANT DECREASE (P<0.002) IN NAUSEA AND VOMITING COMPARED TO BASELINE. SUBGROUP ANALYSIS WAS PERFORMED IN PATIENTS WITH CLASSICAL (N=17) OR COMMON MIGRAINE (N=42). IN THE LATTER, FEVERFEW REDUCED THE NUMBER OF ATTACKS BY 21% (P=0.06), WHILE IT WAS REDUCED BY 32% (P<0.05) IN PATIENTS WITH CLASSICAL MIGRAINE. |
| Number | 2 |
| Qualitative result | ACTIVE |
| Animal | HUMAN ADULT |
| Dose expression | DOSE |
| Extract | CHROMATOGRAPHIC FRACTION |
| Gender | GIVEN TO BOTH SEXES |