A Randomized, Double-blind, Placebo-controlled, Multi-center Clinical Study of Saussurea Involucrata Liquid Tonic in the Treatment of Postpartum Rheumatism
Overview
- Phase
- Phase 4
- Intervention
- Saussurea Involucrata Liquid Tonic
- Conditions
- Postpartum Rheumatism
- Sponsor
- Quan Jiang
- Enrollment
- 128
- Primary Endpoint
- VAS (visual analog scale)
- Status
- Not yet recruiting
- Last Updated
- last year
Overview
Brief Summary
This study is a multi-center, randomized, double-blinded, controlled trial with two parallel arms. The study aims to evaluate the efficacy and safety of Involucrata Liquid Tonic in patients with Postpartum Rheumatism.
Investigators
Quan Jiang
chief physician
Guang'anmen Hospital of China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •Women experience joint and muscle pain, soreness, heaviness, numbness, etc. within 1 year after childbirth, miscarriage or induction of labor; with or without sensitivity to external stimuli such as wind, cold, moisture, etc., which may be induced or aggravated by emotional fluctuations
- •Meets the diagnostic criteria for Yang Qi deficiency and cold-dampness syndrome.
- •Age 18-50
- •Pain VAS score ≥4cm
Exclusion Criteria
- •Those in the puerperium (within 42 days after delivery).
- •Those who have rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, osteitis density, polymyalgia rheumatica, reactive arthritis, myofasciitis, fibromyalgia syndrome and other rheumatic immune diseases before pregnancy.
- •Severe abnormalities in blood routine and electrocardiogram, active liver disease or abnormal liver function, AST, ALT or GGT higher than 1.2 times the upper limit of normal value; abnormal renal function, serum creatinine (sCr) higher than 1.2 times the upper limit of normal value. Patients whose white blood cell count \< 3.0×109/L, or hemoglobin \< 90 g/L, or platelet count \< 100.0×109/L in routine blood examination
- •Combined with serious underlying diseases, primary diseases and postpartum diseases, such as uncontrollable hypertension, heart disease, kidney disease, puerperal fever, mastitis, moderate to severe postpartum depression diagnosed by a psychiatric department, etc.
- •Those who have a history of using glucocorticoids, immunosuppressants and other drugs within 4 weeks.
- •Those who are allergic to the ingredients of the test drug or have a high-sensitivity constitution.
- •Existing or past history of cancer.
- •Those who have participated in other clinical drug studies in the past 2 months.
- •Those who do not use the medication as prescribed, or who have incomplete information that affects the judgment of efficacy.
Arms & Interventions
Saussurea Involucrata Liquid Tonic
Saussurea Involucrata Liquid Tonic 20ml/time, 2 times a day, orally on an empty stomach. Total treatments 8 weeks, followed up to 12 weeks.
Intervention: Saussurea Involucrata Liquid Tonic
placebo of Saussurea Involucrata Liquid Tonic
placebo of Saussurea Involucrata Liquid Tonic 20ml/time, 2 times a day, orally on an empty stomach. Total treatments 8 weeks, followed up to 12 weeks.
Intervention: Saussurea Involucrata Liquid Tonic
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
VAS (visual analog scale)
Time Frame: 8 weeks
The number of cases with pain VAS (visual analog scale) improvement ≥30%/number of enrolled cases × 100%.
Secondary Outcomes
- SF-36(8 weeks)
- HADS(8 weeks)
- HAQ(8 weeks)
- VAS(8 weeks)