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Filter by:In allergic rhinitis patients with severe symptoms, control of severe allergic reactions is limited with saline nasal irrigation. Therefore, there have been several attempts to use saline nasal irrigation in combination with other treatments to treat allergic rhinitis. This study tries to explore the effect of nasal irrigation with Chinese herbal medicines on allergic rhinitis.
Research purpose: This study was a multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, post-marketing clinical study in Chinese patients with essential hypertension to evaluate the efficacy and safety of Qianglidingxuan tablets(QLT) in the treatment of blood pressure in patients with mild to moderate essential hypertension. 1. Subject: Patients diagnosed as essential hypertension with clinical grade 1-2. 2. Interventions: ①Basic treatment plan:Patients in both groups were required to have a low-salt, low-fat diet, quit smoking, limit alcohol, eat more vegetables, moderate exercise, control body weight, and amlodipine besylate tablets (5mg, QD). ②Treatment group: Based on the basic treatment, QLT was given 6 tablets/time, 3 times a day, and warm water was given for 12 weeks. ③Control group: Based on basic treatment, QLT mimetic were given 6 tablets/time, 3 times a day, and warm water was given for 12 weeks. 3. Treatment and follow-up cycle: Patients in both groups were treated for 12 weeks and followed up to the end of 48th week after treatment. 4. Provisions of concurrent treatment: Any combined treatment used during the study should be recorded in the CRF, including drug name (generic name/trade name), starting time, administration dose, method of administration, termination time, indication, etc 5. Efficacy evaluation: ①Primary outcome measure: the change from baseline in office blood pressure after 12 weeks of treatment. ②Secondary efficacy indicators: 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure, heart rate, blood lipids, homocysteine, CRP, baPWV. TCM syndromes (including vertigo, headache, impatience and irritability, red face, red eyes, dry mouth, bitter mouth, tinnitus, insomnia, multiple dreams, constipation, urination, etc.) ③Safety indicators: adverse events, vital signs, physical examination, laboratory examination 6. Statistics: SAS® 9.4 was used for all statistical analyses.
Spinocerebellar ataxia type 3 (SCA3) is one of autosomal dominant hereditary ataxias. Standing imbalance, unsteady gait, dysmetria, fatigue, and depression would occur gradually. There are no effective treatment or palliative methods for patients in the present days. However, low-dose growth hormone, or its downstream product, insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-1), may deter the progress of SCA3 in transgenic mice. The main bioactive constituent among the Chinese medicine WT possesses neuroprotective function against glutamate-induced toxicity, which is one major pathology of SCA3. It promotes neurogenesis, and increases the protein expression of IGF-1 in ischemic brains of rats. Thus, we designed a randomized, double-blind trial for patients with SCA3, if WT is a possible neuroprotective medicine. All the subjects will be recruited from Changhua Christian Hospital. Diagnosis is confirmed by gene test and magnetic resonance image by a neurologist. They will be assigned in random and double blind, prescribed with 3 grams concentrated powder of WT or placebo, twice a day, for 12 weeks. After the washout period of 4 weeks, there will be a crossover of placebo or WT for another 12 weeks. After that, another 4-week rest will be followed by the end of trial. Check items in five check points include: 1. Blood examination (serum IGF-1, Neurofilament light chain, mitochondria copy number, 8_OHdG, delta-Ct), 2.Neurological exam (Scale for the Assessment and Rating of Ataxia), 3. Questionnaires (Modified Fatigue Impact Scale, Epworth Sleepiness Scale), 4. Handgrip strength test (which is correlated to IGF-1 value in elderly), and 5. serum metabolites, . All the data will be disclosed after the end of trial. Paired-T test or Wilcoxon Ranked Sign Test will be operated in SPSS.