Experiment 66628
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| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Pharmacology | |
| Administration route | ORAL |
| Organism | Oenothera biennis (ONAGRACEAE) |
| Citation | PREECE,PE: HANSLIP,JI: GILBERT,L: WALKER,D: PASHBY,NL: MANSEL,RE: EVANS,B: HUGHES,LE:. (1982). EVENING PRIMROSE OIL (EFAMOL) FOR MASTALGIA.. 1982() |
| Amount utilized | |
| Compound isolated | |
| Disease | IN A DOUBLE-BLIND CROSS-OVER STUDY PATIENTS WITH MASTALGIA WERE GIVEN EITHER EFAMOL OR PLACEBO. DURING THE 6 MONTH STUDY ALL PATIENTS WERE GIVEN ASCORBIC ACID. PATIENTS WERE SEEN ON MONTHLY INTERVALS. RESULTS INDICATE THAT EFAMOL TAKEN WITH VIT C RESULTS IN A SIGNIFICANT REDUCTION IN BOTH SUBJECTIVE SYMPTOMS AND OBJECTIVE SIGNS IN PATIENTS WITH THE CYCLICAL PATTERN OF BENIGN BREASE DISESAS. SIDE EFFECTS WERE MINOR. A COMMERCIAL PRODUCT, EFAMOL, WAS USED. |
| Dose amount | 3.5 GM |
| Number | 1 |
| Qualitative result | ACTIVE |
| Animal | HUMAN ADULT |
| Per unit | DAY |
| Dose expression | DOSE |
| Extract | SEED OIL |
| Gender | FEMALE |