Experiment 66961
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| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Pharmacology | |
| Organism | Rheum palmatum (POLYGONACEAE) |
| Citation | GU,JW: ZHANG,X: FEI,Z: WEN,A: QIN,SY: YI,S: CHEN,Y: LI,X:. (2000). RHUBARB EXTRACTS IN TREATING COMPLICATIONS OF SEVERE CEREBRAL INJURY.. 113(6) |
| Amount utilized | |
| Compound isolated | |
| Disease | RHUBARB EXTRACTS IN ETHYL ALCOHOL AND WATER WERE USED TO TREAT 20 PATIENTS WITH SEVERE CEREBRAL INJURY CONMPLICATED BY HYPERTHEMIA, RENAL FAILURE, HEMORRHAGE IN THE UPPER DIGESTIVE TRACT, AND INCREASED INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE. VITAL SIGNS, VARIATIONS OF GLASGOW COMA SCALE (GCS) AND INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE (ICP) OF THE PATIENTS WERE OBSERVED. THE DEGREE OF HEMORRHAGE IN THE DIGESTIVE TRACT AND THE CHANGE IN CREATININE VALUE WERE ALSO OBSERVED. OTHER 20 PATIENTS SERVED AS CONTROLS. THE RESULTS OF THE TREATMENT GROUP WAS MORE MARKED THAN THAT OF THE CONTROL GROUP. THREE DAYS AFTER ADMINISTRATION OF TH RHUBARB EXTRACT, THE BODY TEMPERATURE DECREASED BY 1.1 C, ICP BY 0.4 KPA (1 MM HG=0.1333 KPA) ON AVERAGE, AND THE INCIDENCE OF HEMORRHAGE IN THE DIGESTIVE TRACT BY 30%. THE VOLUME FO HEMORRHAGE OF THE DIGESTIVE TRACT DECREASED BY 700 + 250 ML, AND THE TIME OF TUMING OCCULT BLOOD TO NEGATIVE BY 10%. |
| Dose amount | 2.0 GM |
| Number | 1 |
| Qualitative result | ACTIVE |
| Animal | HUMAN ADULT |
| Per unit | DAY |
| Dose expression | DOSE |
| Extract | AQUEOUS-ALCOHOLIC EXT |
| Gender | GIVEN TO BOTH SEXES |