Safety Study of Chinese Herbal Therapy to Treat Asthma
Completed · Phase 1 · Has a placebo group
Conditions studied: Asthma
In brief
The purpose of this study is to determine the safety of an anti-asthma herbal medicine intervention (ASHMI) in adult asthmatics and to see what effects ASHMI has on certain parts of the immune system.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT00601263
- Run by
- Xiu-Min Li
- People needed
- 35
- Starts
- 2006-10-01
- Expected to finish
- 2008-07-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2018-01-23
Who can join
Age: 18 and older, up to 55. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Male and female subjects ages 18-40 and otherwise in good health as determined by medical history and physical examination
- History of asthma documented by a physician
- Documentation of allergy to two or more common environmental allergens as evidenced by positive prick skin or RAST testing
- The subject agrees to participate in the study
- Females of childbearing potential must be inactive sexually or take effective birth control measures, as deemed appropriate by the investigator, for the duration of the study.
You may not qualify if…
- Acute illness (such as cold, flu, etc.) within one week before the administration of study drug
- Any history of systemic disease that in the investigator's opinion would preclude the subject from participating in this study, including viral hepatitis infection (by patient self-report)
- Abnormal hepatic function
- Abnormal bone marrow function
- Abnormal renal function
- Clinically significant abnormal electrocardiogram
- Current uncontrolled moderate to severe asthma with FEV1 <80% predicted
- Participation in another experimental study within 30 days of this study
- History of alcohol or drug abuse (by self report)
- Pregnant or lactating female subjects. Females of childbearing potential will need a negative serum pregnancy test to be considered for this study
- Current smokers
Where it is running
- Mount Sinai School Medicine — New York, New York, United States
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