DaHuang GangTsao Tang to Improve the Appetite Loss Condition of Cancer Patients

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2013-03-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Appetite loss is a severe and common symptom among late-stage cancer patients, and it causes great the anxiety for the patient's family. In TCM theory, the investigators call these patients are in block and repulsion condition. The investigators try to set a study to use the herbal medicine solution taken in frequent small amounts by cancer patients in late-stage to improve the appetite loss condition. Through this method, the investigators not only want to improve the quality of life of cancer patients in late-stage but also set a valuable treatment.

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Changhua Christian Hospital; Yu-De Liu
• Collaborator: Changhua Christian Hospital

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Terminal cancer patients in hospice ward

• Patients with appetite loss condition

• Ages between 20 to 80 years old

• No history of diabetes

Exclusion Criteria:

• Entered the stage of dying patients

• Receiving other traditional Chinese medicine