Peiyuan Guben Tongluo Ointment for Elderly Sarcopenia
Starting soon · Phase 2
Conditions studied: Sarcopenia in Elderly
In brief
With the agarose concentrating group of Peiyuan Guben Tongluo Ointment set as the parallel control and an external control established simultaneously, this study aimed to evaluate the increases from baseline in DXA-measured limb muscle mass after 12 weeks of medication in elderly sarcopenia patients treated with the Ejiao concentrating group of Peiyuan Guben Tongluo Ointment.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT07538674
- Run by
- Shanghai Yueyang Integrated Medicine Hospital
- People needed
- 60
- Starts
- 2026-04-01
- Expected to finish
- 2028-12-31
- Last updated by the study team
- 2026-04-20
Who can join
Age: 60 and older, up to 80. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Patients aged ≥ 60 years and ≤ 80 years, regardless of gender; ② Patients meeting the diagnostic criteria for sarcopenia in the elderly according to both traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and Western medicine;
- Patients meeting the TCM diagnostic criteria for Spleen-Kidney Deficiency Syndrome;
- Able to take oral medications, willing to comply with the study intervention protocol, able to attend follow-up visits on time, and have signed the informed consent form.
You may not qualify if…
- Patients with quadriplegia, long-term bedridden status, zero muscle strength due to severe cerebrovascular accident, muscle atrophy caused by various factors, or inability to perform activities of daily living;
- Patients with unclear consciousness, aphasia, delirium, inability to respond, or impaired time, location and orientation due to senile or vascular dementia;
- Patients with severe mental illness, depressive state, or receiving relevant psychotropic medication; ④ Patients complicated with tumors, severe infections, gastrointestinal bleeding, hepatic and renal insufficiency, cardiac insufficiency, or other diseases affecting nutritional status; ⑤ Patients with hypersensitivity to the study drugs; patients who have received or are receiving traditional Chinese medicine treatment within the past 1 month; patients who have received medications affecting muscle contraction/relaxation within the past 1 month.
Where it is running
- Shanghai Yueyang Integrated Medicine Hospital — Shanghai, Shanghai Municipality, China
Full record on ClinicalTrials.gov
Trial information comes from ClinicalTrials.gov and is refreshed daily. TrialsForMe does not provide medical care and does not run the studies it lists.