Common Cold
Conditions
Sponsors
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: (1) Meet the diagnosis of common cold according to Western medicine; (2) Meet the diagnosis of common cold with qi deficiency syndrome according to Traditional Chinese Medicine; (3) Repeated colds every year, more than 4 times; (4) Symptom presenting within 48 hours; (5) Aged between 18 and 70 years; (6) Voluntarily participate and provide signed informed consent.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: (1) Influenza; (2) Patient's body temperature over 39 degree C; (3) White blood cell count > 12.0 x 10^9/L and/or neutrophil percentage > 80%; (4) Patients with other infectious diseases of the respiratory tract, such as acute herpetic pharyngitis, acute viral pharyngitis, acute herpetic laryngitis, acute viral laryngitis, acute tonsillitis, and pneumonia; (5) Liver function levels (alanine aminotransferase (ALT) and aspartate aminotransferase (AST)) 1.5 times higher than the upper limit of normal or abnormal serum creatinine; (6) Allergic or possibility of being allergic to the ingredients in the study drug; (7) Patients with severe cardio-cerebrovascular, lung, kidney or hematopoietic system diseases; (8) Patients who have participated in other drug clinical trials within one month or are participating in other drug clinical trials; (9) Other medicines (including cold, antibiotics, antivirals and similar traditional Chinese medicines) that have been used to treat the disease since symptom presenting within 48 hours; (10) Pregnant and lactating women; (11) Psychiatric patients; (12) Identified by the investigator as inappropriate to participate in this study.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Duration of all symptoms to resolve or heal from treatment.;Single symptom duration;Improvement in primary symptoms; | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Improvement in secondary symptoms;Changes of TCM symptom score; | — |
Countries
China
Contacts
Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine