Experiment 67836
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| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Pharmacology | |
| Administration route | ORAL |
| Organism | Cimicifuga racemosa (RANUNCULACEAE) |
| Citation | JACOBSON,JS: TROXEL,AB: EVANS,J: KLAUS,L: VAHDAT,L: KINNE,D: LO,KMS: MOORE,A: ROSENMAN,PJ: KAUFMAN,EL: NEUGUT,AI: GRANN,VR:. (2001). RANDOMIZED TRIAL OF BLACK COHOSH FOR THE TREATMENT OF HOT FLASHES AMONG WOMEN WITH A HISTORY OF BREAST CANCER.. 19(10) |
| Amount utilized | |
| Compound isolated | |
| Disease | PATIENTS DIAGNOSED WITH BREAST CANCER WHO HAD COMPLETED THEIR PRIMARY TREATMENT WERE RANDOMLY ASSIGNED TO BLACK COHOSH OR PLACEBO, STRATIFIED ON TAMOXIFEN USE. AT ENROLLMENT, PATIENTS COMPLETED A QUESTIONNAIRE ABOUT DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS AND MENOPAUSAL SYMPTOMS. BEFORE STARTING TO TAKE THE PILLS AND AT 30 AND 60 DAYS, THEY COMPLETED A 4-DAY HOT FLASH DIARY. OF 85 PATIENTS, 69 COMPLETED ALL THREE HOT FLASH DIARIES. BOTH TREATMENT AND PLACEBO GROUPS REPORTED DECLINES IN NUMBER AND INTENSITY OF HOT FLASHES; THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE GROUPS WERE NOT STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT. |
| Dose amount | NNS |
| Number | 1 |
| Qualitative result | INACTIVE |
| Animal | HUMAN ADULT |
| Dose expression | DOSE |
| Extract | TYPE EXT NOT STATED |
| Gender | FEMALE |