Study of the Effects of Chinese Herbal Medicine on Chronic Urticaria
Status:
Completed
Trial end date:
2015-11-01
Target enrollment:
Participant gender:
Summary
Urticaria is a common dermatology disease. Urticaria affects nearly 25% of the population at
some time in their lives. Recurrent skin itch, insomnia, daily activities limitation greatly
affect the quality of life. Some patient with chronic urticaria who had poor response to
antihistamine may need second line medication. In United States, up to 54% chronic urticarial
patient use oral corticosteroid to control. However, long-term use of oral steroids still
needs to consider the impact of its side effects. Therefore, patients may seek for
alternative medicine as an adjuvant therapy.
It is still lack large-scale clinical trials in Traditional Chinese Medicine research of
chronic urticarial. The aim of this study is to conduct a double-blind, randomized clinical
trial to analyze the effectiveness of Chinese medicine in chronic urticaria and its possible
mechanisms.