Clinical Trial on the Effectiveness of Herbal Medicinal Mixture in Parkinson Disease

NCT ID: NCT00656253

Last Updated: 2011-03-22

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

PHASE2/PHASE3

Total Enrollment

158 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2008-08-31

Study Completion Date

2011-02-28

Brief Summary

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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 treatment phase includes 12 months period of Herbal Medicinal Mixture per day or placebo and 1 month wash-out period without herbal medicine and placebo.

Detailed Description

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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 treatment phase includes 12 months period of Herbal Medicinal Mixture per day or placebo and 1 month wash-out period without herbal medicine and placebo.

The design of the study was a prospective, randomized, multicenter, double-blind placebo-controlled protocol. The intervention includes Herbal Medicinal Mixture Bid or matched placebo for 12 months plus 1 month wash-out period.

Participating study centers include Neurological University Outpatient Clinics and Neurological Departments of Community-based Hospitals experienced with PD patients.

The primary outcome measure was the combined Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale (UPDRS).

The hypothesis of this study was that Herbal Medicinal Mixture improves the overall wellbeing of PD patients and thus may leads to an improvement of parkinsonian symptoms in PD patients.

Conditions

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Parkinson's Disease

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

QUADRUPLE

Participants Caregivers Investigators Outcome Assessors

Study Groups

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A

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Herbal Medicinal Mixture (Roucongrong, Heshouwu etc.)

Intervention Type DRUG

12 months period of Herbal Medicinal Mixture per day plus 1 month wash-out period without herbal medicine

B

Group Type PLACEBO_COMPARATOR

Placebo

Intervention Type DRUG

12 months period of placebo plus 1 month period without placebo

Interventions

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Herbal Medicinal Mixture (Roucongrong, Heshouwu etc.)

12 months period of Herbal Medicinal Mixture per day plus 1 month wash-out period without herbal medicine

Intervention Type DRUG

Placebo

12 months period of placebo plus 1 month period without placebo

Intervention Type DRUG

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* 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 Criteria

* 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.
Minimum Eligible Age

50 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine of the People's Republic of China

OTHER_GOV

Sponsor Role collaborator

Fudan University

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Zhongshan hospital of Fudan University

Locations

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Department of Neurology, Xuanwu hospital, Capital University of Medical Sciences

Beijing, Beijing Municipality, China

Site Status

Department of Neurology, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine

Shanghai, Shanghai Municipality, China

Site Status

Department of Integrative Medicine, Zhongshan hospital, Fudan University

Shanghai, Shanghai Municipality, China

Site Status

Department of Nuerology, Longhua Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine

Shanghai, Shanghai Municipality, China

Site Status

Tongji Hospital of Tongji University

Shanghai, Shanghai Municipality, China

Site Status

Shanghai Chinese Medical Hospital

Shanghai, Shanghai Municipality, China

Site Status

Department of Nuerology, Xinhua Hospital, Affiliated to Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine

Shanghai, Shanghai Municipality, China

Site Status

The Sixth People's Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University

Shanghai, Shanghai Municipality, China

Site Status

Department of Neurology, Yueyang Hospital of Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine

Shanghai, Shanghai Municipality, China

Site Status

Department of Neurology, The second people's hospital of Wenzhou

Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China

Site Status

Countries

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China

Other Identifiers

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2006BAI04A11

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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