Traditional Chinese Medicine Formula Liu-Wei-Die-Huang-Wan in the Treatment of Osteoarthritis.

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2013-10-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Through an eight-week randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trials formula to evaluate Chinese herbal compound OA2 improve osteoarthritis of efficacy and safety.

• Phase: Phase 2
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Chung Shan Medical University

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Age ≥20 years old

• Written informed consent obtained

• Been diagnosed with knee or hip osteoarthritis

• The physician interpretation of X-ray identification and joint space narrowing or bone spurs confirmed

• In randomized trials before entering if used steroids or non-steroid medications osteoarthritis stable doses required at least one week

• The WOMAC osteoarthritis index of the degree of pain assessment in the past two weeks at least> 4ppm pain

Exclusion Criteria:

• Pregnant or breast-feeding women.

• Chemotherapy or radiation therapy in cancer patients