Experiment 67703
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 ROOTE. 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 SCALESWERE USED FOR DOCUMENTATION AND HAEMATOLOGICAL ANDIMMUNOLOGICAL PARAMETERS WERE MEASURED. OVER A ONE-YEAR PERIOD, 50 PATIENTS TOOK PART IN THE STUDY RECEIVING 6 MONTHS' PLACEBO AND 6 MONTHS' ECHINAFORCE EACH. SUBJECTS RECEIVED 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 |