Status:
COMPLETED
Clinical Trial on the Effectiveness of Herbal Medicinal Mixture in Parkinson Disease
Lead Sponsor:
Fudan University
Collaborating Sponsors:
State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine of the People's Republic of China
Conditions:
Parkinson's Disease
Eligibility:
All Genders
50+ years
Phase:
PHASE2
PHASE3
Brief Summary
This study was designed to evaluate the symptomatic effects or potential disease progression slowing down effect of a kind of Herbal Medicinal Mixture in Parkinson's disease (PD) patients. The treatme...
Detailed Description
This study was designed to evaluate the symptomatic effects or potential disease progression slowing down effect of a kind of Herbal Medicinal Mixture in Parkinson's disease (PD) patients. The treatme...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Parkinson's disease according to the UK Brain Bank criteria
- Hoehn \& Yahr stadium Ⅰ～Ⅲ
- Age over 50 years
- Taking only levodopa and/or dopamine agonists when recruiting
- Consistent with the liver kidney deficiency type by Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) standard
- Patients voluntarily take part in this study and signed the informed consent
Exclusion
- Modified Hoehn-Yahr scale are higher than 4
- Had other serious illness such as liver/kidney failure, serious infection etc
- Allergic to the study drug
- Had been participated in other clinical trials during the last 3 months prior to study inclusion.
- Taking Coenzyme Q10, MAO-B inhibitors, or vitamin E, all of which might improve the symptom or slowdown the progression of PD.
- Taking herbal medicine that can nourish the liver and kidney by TCM standard.
- Had serious mental disorder and could not describe his/her symptom.
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
August 1 2008
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
February 1 2011
Estimated Enrollment :
158 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT00656253
Start Date
August 1 2008
End Date
February 1 2011
Last Update
March 22 2011
Active Locations (10)
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1
Department of Neurology, Xuanwu hospital, Capital University of Medical Sciences
Beijing, Beijing Municipality, China, 100053
2
Department of Neurology, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine
Shanghai, Shanghai Municipality, China, 200025
3
Department of Integrative Medicine, Zhongshan hospital, Fudan University
Shanghai, Shanghai Municipality, China, 200032
4
Department of Nuerology, Longhua Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Shanghai, Shanghai Municipality, China, 200032