The Therapeutic Effect of Dau-Di-Wu-Gong in Patient With Ankle Fracture
Status:
Completed
Trial end date:
2021-01-11
Target enrollment:
Participant gender:
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.