NCT05269511

Efficacy of Chinese Herbal Medicine to Prevent and Treat COVID-19 Close Contacts

Efficacy of Chinese Herbal Medicine to Prevent and Treat COVID-19 Close Contacts: A Randomized Controlled Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 2,163 (actual)
• Sponsor: Hong Kong Baptist University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 16 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This is a randomized, blank-controlled study in adults with household contact exposure to individuals with SARS-CoV-2 infection. All subjects in the study will be household contacts with close exposure to the first household member known to be newly infected with SARS-CoV-2. Subjects in each cohort will be randomly assigned to the Chinese herbal medicine treatment group or blank control group in a 4:1 ratio, followed by 1 week of the treatment period and 2 weeks of follow-up.

Conditions

• Healthy Participants

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DRUG	Chinese herbal medicine is in the form of granules (9 g/sachet), which is comprised of ten medicinal herbs.	Oral administration, twice per day.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-03-14
• Primary completion: 2022-06-22
• Completion: 2022-06-22
• First posted: 2022-03-08
• Last updated: 2023-04-20

Locations

1 site across 1 country: China