Experiment 639070
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| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Pharmacology | |
| Administration route | ORAL |
| Organism | Oenothera biennis (ONAGRACEAE) |
| Citation | HEDEROS, CA: BERG,A:. (1996). EPOGAM EVENING PRIMROSE OIL TREATMENT IN ATOPIC DERMATITIS AND ASTHMA.. 75() |
| Amount utilized | |
| Compound isolated | |
| Disease | IN A RANDOMIZED DOUBLE BLIND, PLACEBO-CONTROLLED PARALLEL CLINICAL TRIAL, 58 CHILDREN WITH ASTHMA AND ATOPIC DERMATITIS WERE TREATED WITH EITHER PLACEBO OR EVENING PRIMROSE OIL(2 OR 3 GRAMS PER DAY) FOR 16 WEEKS. THE PLASMA CONCENTRATIONS OF ESSENTIAL FATTY ACIDS INCREASED SIGNIFICANTLY IN THE SEED OIL TREATED GROUP. SYMPTOMATIC IMPROVEMENTS OCCURRED IN BOTH GROUPS, HOWEVER NO SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE WAS FOUND BETWEEN THE TWO TREATMENTS. A SIGNIFICANT FLAW OF THIS PARTICULAR CLINICAL TRIAL WAS THE USE OF A "PLACEBO" CONTAINING SUNFLOWER OIL, WHICH HAS A SIMILAR SPECTRUM OF ESSENTIAL FATTY ACIDS AS EVENING PRIMROSE OIL. |
| Dose amount | VAR |
| Number | 1 |
| Qualitative result | ACTIVE |
| Animal | HUMAN CHILD |
| Dose expression | DOSE |
| Extract | SEED OIL |
| Gender | GIVEN TO BOTH SEXES |