Experiment 688650
Details
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Pharmacology | |
| Administration route | ORAL |
| Organism | Urtica dioica (URTICACEAE) |
| Citation | LOWE,FC: FAGELMAN,E:. (1999). PHYTOTHERAPY IN THE TREATMENT OF BENIGN PROSTATIC HYPERPLASIA: AN UPDATE.. 53(4) |
| Amount utilized | |
| Compound isolated | |
| Disease | A STUDY WITH A STINGING NETTLE EXTRACT USED A LIQUID PREPARATION. THE LIQUID PREPARTION HAS SUBSEQUENTLY BEEN REMOVED FROM THE MARKET BECAUSE ITS UNACCEPTABLE TASTE WAS REJECTED BY PATIENTS. IN THAT STUDY, 41 PATIENTS WERE RANDOMIZED TO RECEIVE EITHER PLACEBO OR THE STINGING NETTLE PREPARATION. THEY WERE TREATED FOR A PERIOD OF 3 MONTHS. TREATED PATIENTS HAD SUPERIOR IMPROVEMENT COMPARED WITH PLACEBO RECIPIENTS IN TERMS OF IPSS RESULTS. |
| Number | 3 |
| Qualitative result | ACTIVE |
| Animal | HUMAN ADULT |
| Dose expression | DOSE |
| Extract | HYDRO-ALCOHOLIC EXT |
| Gender | MALE |