Experiment 66763
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| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Pharmacology | |
| Administration route | ORAL |
| Organism | Valeriana officinalis (VALERIANACEAE) |
| Citation | SCHULZ,H: STOLZ,C: MULLER,J:. (1994). THE EFFECT OF VALERIAN EXTRACT ON SLEEPY POLYGRAPHY IN POOR SLEEPERS: A PILOT STUDY.. 27(4) |
| Amount utilized | |
| Compound isolated | |
| Disease | THE EFFECT OF ACUTE AND REPEATED TREATMENT (SEVEN DAYS) WITH A VALERIAN EXTRACT (VALDISPERT FORTE, 405 MG T.I.D) ON OBJECTIVE AND SUBJECTIVE MEASURES OF SLEEP WAS STUDIED. POLYSOMNOGRAPHY WAS CONDUCED IN 14 ELDERLY POOR SLEEPERS ON THREE NIGHT, AT ONE-WEEK INTERVALS (NO, N1, N2). NO WAS AN ADAPTATION NIGHT, N1 AND N2 THE FIRST AND LAST NIGHT UNDER TREATMENT. SIX SUBJECTS RECEIVED PLACEBO AND EIGHT SUBJECTS VALERIAN. SUBJECTS IN THE VALERIAN GROUP SHOWED AN INCREASE IN SLOW-WAVE SLEEP (SWS) AND A DECREASE IN SLEEP STAGE 1. DENSITY OF K-COMPLEXES WAS INCREASEE UNDER ACTIVE TREAMTENT. THERE WAS NO EFFECT ON SLEEP ONSET TIME AND TIME AWAKE AFTER SLEEP ONSET. REM SLEEP WAS UNALTERED. THERE WAS ALSO NO EFFECT ON SELF-RATED SLEEP QUALITY. WE HYPOTHESIZE THAT VALERIAN INCREASES SWS IN SUBJECTS WITH LOW BASELINE VALUES. |
| Dose amount | 405.0 MG |
| Number | 1 |
| Qualitative result | ACTIVE |
| Animal | HUMAN ADULT |
| Per unit | DAY |
| Dose expression | DOSE |
| Extract | ALKALINE EXT |
| Gender | GIVEN TO BOTH SEXES |