The Therapeutic Effect of Dau-Di-Wu-Gong in Patient With Ankle Fracture

Summary

Ankle fracture is one of most common bone fracture in Taiwan, although ankle fracture can be treated by surgical operation, local edema, pain and wound poor healing always is noted, according to the investigator's knowledge, no good therapeutic methods to treat mention-above symptoms until now. Helminthostachys zeylanica(L.)Hook, also called Dau-Di-U-Gon has anti-inflammation, calm down heat and detoxication, and anti-edema. People in Taiwan often uses Helminthostachys zeylanica(L.)Hook to treat bone and tendon pain, and its Ugonin component of Helminthostachys zeylanica(L.)Hook also is proved that has analgesia and ant-inflammation. Therefore, the purpose of the present study was to design a randomized, double-blind, controlled study to evaluate functional recovery effect of Helminthostachys zeylanica(L.)Hook after surgical operation in patients with ankle fracture.

Timeline

Start

2020-12-12

Primary completion

2021-01-11

Completion

2021-01-11

Publications

• Background Huang YL, Shen CC, Shen YC, Chiou WF, Chen CC. Anti-inflammatory and Antiosteoporosis Flavonoids from the Rhizomes of Helminthostachys zeylanica. J Nat Prod. 2017 Feb 24;80(2):246-253. doi: 10.1021/acs.jnatprod.5b01164. Epub 2017 Feb 7.

Drugs

Indications

No indication recorded.