Korean J Psychopharmacol.
2010 Jan;21(1):35-39.
Panax Ginseng Extract in a Boy with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
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- 1Clinical Psychology Laboratory, Dankook Medical Center, Cheonan, Korea.
- 2Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, Dankook University, Cheonan, Korea. paperose@dku.edu
- 3Research Center for Environment and Children's Health, Dankook University Medical Center, Cheonan, Korea.
Abstract
- New treatment strategies to attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) have been introduced recently. We report and review the effect of Panax ginseng extract administration in a 7 year-old boy with drug naive ADHD. We administered Panax ginseng extract 1,800 mg/day to him for 8 weeks. There were improvement of scores in Attention Diagnostic System, Clinical Global Improvement, Conner's ADHD Rating scale and Dupaul ADHD Rating scale.
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