Experiment 639051
Details
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Pharmacology | |
| Administration route | ORAL |
| Organism | Aesculus hippocastanum (HIPPOCASTANACEAE) |
| Citation | HITZENBERGER,G:. (1989). THE THERAPEUTICAL EFFICACY OF HORSE CHESTNUT SEED EXTRACT.. 139(17) |
| Amount utilized | |
| Compound isolated | |
| Disease | 2 GROUPS OF 20 PATIENTS EACH FOR 4 WEEKS IN A RANDOMIZED MODEL VERSUS PLACEBO ON A DOUBLE-BLIND BASIS WERE TESTED HERE, THE REDUCTION IN EDEMA VOLUME COMPARED WITH PLACEBO WAS SIGNIFICANTLY (P 0.001) MORE PRONOUNCED, ALTHOUGH NO DIFFERENCE WAS FOUND AS REGARDS VENOUS CAPACITY. HOWEVER, THE MEASUREMENTS OF THE RADII OF ANKLE AND LOWER THIGH SHOWED IN TURN A REDUCTION ON COMPARISON WITH PLACEBO. BUT THERE WAS A CLEARLY SIGNIFICANT SUPERIORITY OF VENOSTASIN VERSUS PLACEBO WHEN IT CAME TO ESTABLISHING SCORE RATINGS IN THE FOLLOWING SUBJECTIVE CRITERIA: PAINS, TIREDNESS, FEELING OF TIGHTNESS AND PRURITUS. |
| Number | 10 |
| Qualitative result | ACTIVE |
| Animal | HUMAN ADULT |
| Dose expression | DOSE |
| Extract | HYDRO-ALCOHOLIC EXT |