Experiment 67702
Worktypes
Details
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Pharmacology | |
| Administration route | ORAL |
| Organism | Echinacea purpurea (ASTERACEAE) |
| Citation | VONAU,B: CHARD,S: MANDALIA,S: WILKINSON,D: BARTON,SE:. (2001). DOES THE EXTRACT OF THE PLANT ECHINACEA PURPUREA INFLUENCE THE CLINICAL COURSE OF RECURRENT GENITAL HERPES?. 12(3) |
| Amount utilized | |
| Compound isolated | |
| Disease | THIS STUDY, A SINGLE CENTRE, PROSPECTIVE, DOUBLE BLIND, PLACEBO-CONTROLLED CROSS-OVER TRIAL SET OUT TO ASSESS WHETHER AN EXTRACT OF THE PLANT AND ROOTOF E. PURPUREA CAN PREVENT OR DECREASE THE FREQUENCY AND SEVERITY OF GENITAL HERPES RECURRENCES . THESE WERE ASSESSED USING A DETAILED HISTORY AND CLINICAL REVIEW OF SYMPTOMS. VISUAL ANALOGUE SCALES WERE USED FOR DOCUMENTATION AND HAEMATOLOGICAL AND IMMUNOLOGICAL PARAMETERS WERE MEASURED. OVER AONE-YEAR PERIOD, 50 PATIENTS TOOK PART IN THE STUDY RECEIVING 6 MONTHS' PLACEBO AND 6 MONTHS' ECHINAFORCE EACH. SUBJECTS RECEIVEE PLANT EXTRACT 800 MG TWICE A DAY OR PLACEBO. NO STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT BENEFIT COULD BE DETECTED IN THIS STUDY. A COMMERCIAL PRODUCT, ECHINAFORCE, WAS USED. |
| Dose amount | 1.6 GM |
| Number | 1 |
| Qualitative result | INACTIVE |
| Animal | HUMAN ADULT |
| Per unit | DAY |
| Dose expression | DOSE |
| Extract | HYDRO-ALCOHOLIC EXT |
| Gender | GIVEN TO BOTH SEXES |