Influence of local therapy with essential oils on the dynamics of immune and hormonal parameters in patients with osteoarthritis
AUTHORS : Dashina T.A. | Derevnina N.A. | Agasarov L.G.
RELEVANT UNIVERSITIES : FGBU RSC of Medical Rehabilitation and Balneology, Moscow, Russia
YEAR : 2016
SUMMARY The study involved 60 women with OA, divided into 2 comparable groups. In the first group, OA patients were treated with applications of a 5% mixture of essential oils: lavender, ginger, peppermint, rosemary, pine, clove, nutmeg, eucalyptus, thyme, anise, in the control group, diclofenac 100 mg per day was taken. The results of treatment were assessed before and after treatment according to the dynamics of clinical indicators: the Leken index, the Likert
scale. The dynamics of laboratory parameters of general analysis and blood biochemistry was assessed before and after treatment. The dynamics of the state of the total number of leukocytes, CD4 +, CD8 +, CD4 + / CD8 +, CD19, IgG, IgA, IgM and the dynamics of indicators of the following hormones were studied before and after treatment: TSH, sT4, sT3, STH, PTH, TKT, OK, KORT, E2 , T, DHEA-s, IRI and the HOMA-IR index.
