HEALTH: Ginseng helps speed recovery from acute attacks of chronic bronchitis

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Ginseng helps speed recovery from acute attacks of chronic bronchitis

 

Adjunctive treatment with standardized ginseng extract G115® increased

the speed of bacterial clearance in patients undergoing treatment with

antibiotics for chronic bronchitis. The study participants were 75

Italians with acute attacks of chronic bronchitis who received treatment

with 875 mg amoxicillin and 125 mg clavulanic acid twice daily for 9

days and were then randomized into two groups. One group (37 patients)

received only the antibiotic treatment, and the other (38 patients) took

the antibiotics in combination with ginseng extract at a dose of 100 mg

twice daily. In the 44 patients who were evaluable at the end of the

study, the time to complete clearance of bacteria was significantly

shorter in the group receiving the combination treatment (median 6

days/mean 5.9 days vs. median 7 days/mean 6.7 days). The researchers

suggest, " Patients in whom the elimination of bacteria from the

bronchial system is particularly difficult may benefit from the use of

ginseng. "

 

Scaglione R, Weiser K, Alessandra M. Effects of the standardised ginseng

extract G115 in patients with chronic bronchitis.

Clin Drug Invest 2001; 21(1): 41-45.

 

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http://www.herbs.org/current/ginsbronch.htm