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Dose-Response Relationship of Ginger Flour Footbaths in Healthy Volunteers

NCT04051476 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 16

Last updated 2020-04-28

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Summary

A study to explore whether different dosages of ginger flour in footbaths cause different effects on warmth development as well as on general well-being and the autonomic nervous system.

Conditions

  • Thermogenesis by Different-dosage Ginger Flour Footbaths

Interventions

OTHER

3-g footbath

A ten-minute pre-intervention rest period followed by a 20-minute footbath with 12 l of warm water (40 °C) and 36 g ginger flour (3 g per l), followed by a ten-minute post-intervention rest period.

OTHER

6-g footbath

A ten-minute pre-intervention rest period followed by a 20-minute footbath with 12 l of warm water (40 °C) and 72 g ginger flour (6 g per l), followed by a ten-minute post-intervention rest period.

OTHER

12-g footbath

A ten-minute pre-intervention rest period followed by a 20-minute footbath with 12 l of warm water (40 °C) and 144 g ginger flour (12 g per l), followed by a ten-minute post-intervention rest period.

OTHER

Warm water footbath

A ten-minute pre-intervention rest period followed by a 20-minute footbath with 12 l of warm water (40 °C), followed by a ten-minute post-intervention rest period.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University Hospital Tuebingen

    collaborator OTHER

  • ARCIM Institute Academic Research in Complementary and Integrative Medicine

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Jan Vagedes, Dr. · Arcim Institute

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
CROSSOVER

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
55 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-09-16
Primary Completion
2020-01-30
Completion
2020-01-31

Countries

  • Germany

Study Locations

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