Experiment 960689
Details
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Pharmacology | |
| Administration route | ORAL |
| Organism | Tripterygium wilfordii (CELASTRACEAE) |
| Citation | SHI,YM: YAO,HX: LI,KY: GU,WH: GUO,YQ:. (1985). TREATMENT OF INFANTILE NEPHRITIS WITH THE ROOT OF TRIPTERYGIUM WILFORDII.. 26(12) |
| Amount utilized | |
| Compound isolated | |
| Disease | 30 CASES OF INFANTILE KIDNEY DISEASE TREATED WITH FLUIDEXTRACT OF TRIPTERYGIUM WILFORDII ROOT INFUSION OR TABLETS. THERE WERE 18 CASES OF PURPURIC NEPHRITIS, 9 OF NEPHROTIC SYNDROME, 5 OF HEPATITIS B NEPHRITIS & 3 OF PERSISTING NEPHRITIS. PATIENTS (2.5-13 YRS) WERE TREATED FOR 13 DAYS TO 5 MONTHS(3 MOS AVG). OF THE 13 CASES OF PURPURIC NEPHRITIS TREATED, 11 CASES WERE REMITTED AND 1 CASE WAS SIGNIFICANTLY IMPROVED. ALL 6 OF SIMPLE NEPHRITIS WERE REMITTED. ONLY 1 OF 3 NEPHROTIC NEPHRITIS CASES REMITTED. OF THE 5 CASES OF HEPATITIS B NEPHRITIS TREATED, 3 WERE REMITTED AND 2 WERE SIGNIFICANTLY IMPROVED. OF THE 3 CASES OF PERSISTING NEPHRITIS TREATED, 1 REMITTED AND 1 SIGNIFICANTLY IMPROVED. SOME PATIENTS DEVELOPED SKIN RASH, ELEVATION OF SGPT, DECREASE OF LEUKOCYTE COUNT, GASTROINTESTINAL UPSET AND DELUSION: ALL OF THESE DISAPPEARED UPON WITHDRAWAL OF MEDICATION. |
| Number | 1 |
| Qualitative result | ACTIVE |
| Animal | HUMAN CHILD |
| Dose expression | DOSE |
| Extract | FLUIDEXTRACT |