Experiment 69451
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| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Pharmacology | |
| Administration route | ORAL |
| Organism | Echinacea purpurea (ASTERACEAE) |
| Citation | TAYLOR,JA: WEBER,W: SLANDISH,L: QUINN,H: GOESLING,J: MC GANN,M: CALABRESE,C:. (2003). EFFICACY AND SAFETY OF ECHINACEA IN TREATING UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS IN CHILDREN.. 290() |
| Amount utilized | |
| Compound isolated | |
| Disease | PLACEBO (P=.89). THERE WAS ALSO NO DIFFERENCE IN THE OVERALL ESTIMATE OF SEVERITY OF URI SYMPTOMS. PLACEBO. THERE WERE 79 CHILDREN WHO COMLPETED THEIR STUDY PERIOD WITHOUT HAVING A URI. THE MEDIAN DURATION OF URIS WAS 9 DAYS (95% CONFICENCE INTERVAL, 8-10 DAYS); THERE WAS NO DIFFERENCE IN DURATION BETWEEN URIS TREATED WITH ECHINACEA OR DAYS OF PEAK SEVERITY, NUMBER OF DAYS OF FEVER, AND A GLOBAL ASSESSMENT OF SEVERITY OF SYMPTOMS BY PARENTS OF STUDY CHILDREN. DATA WERE ANALYZED ON 707 URIS THAT OCCURRED IN 407 CHILDREN, INCULDING 337 URIS TREATED WITH ECHINACEA AND 370 WITH THE ONSET OF SYMPTOMS AND CONTINUED THROUGHOUT THE URI, FOR A MAXIMUM OF 10 DAYS. PRIMARY OUTCOMES WERE DURATION AND SEVERITY OF SYMPTOMS AND ADVERSE EVENTS RECORDED BY PARENTS; SECONDARY OUTCOMES INCLUDED PEAK SEVERITY OF SYMPTOMS, NUMBER OF PRACTICE-BASED NETWORK AND AN ALTERNATIVE MEDICAL CENTER IN 4-MONTH PERIODS FROM 2000 THROUGH 2002. STUDY PATIENTS WERE RANDOMIZED TO RECEIVED EITHER ECHINACEA OR PLABEBO FOR UP TO 3 URIS OVER A 4-MONTH PERIOD. STUDY MEDICATION WAS BEGUN AT EFFECTIVE IN REDUCING THE DURATION AND/OR SEVERITY OF URI SYMPTOMS IN CHILDREN AND TO ASSESS ITS SAFETY IN THIS POPULATION. RANDOMIZED, DOUBLE-BLIND, PLACEBO-CONTROLLED TRIAL OF HEALTHY CHILDREN 2 TO 11 YEARS OLD RECRUITED FROM A REGIONAL ECHINACEA IS A WIDELY USED HERBAL REMEDY FOR TREATMENT OF UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS (URIS). HOWEVER, THERE ARE A FEW DATA ON THE EFFICACY AND SAFETY OF ECHINACEA IN TREATING URIS IN CHILDREN. TO DETERMINE IF ECHINACEA PURPUREA IS |
| Dose amount | VAR |
| Number | 1 |
| Qualitative result | INACTIVE |
| Animal | HUMAN CHILD |
| Dose expression | DOSE |
| Extract | HYDRO-ALCOHOLIC EXT |
| Gender | GIVEN TO BOTH SEXES |