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DENVER - A daily dose of an extract from the plant Petasites hybridus prevents migraines, results from a new clinical trial suggest.
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The longer patients took petasites, the fewer migraines they had. After one month of taking 75 mg of petasites twice per day, the number of migraines was reduced by 38% from baseline.
After four months, the number of migraines was reduced by 51%.
"This study is very similar in design to the clinical trials being conducted with conventional pharmaceuticals, and I think this study pretty convincingly shows this natural plant product does work for migraine," said Dr. Richard Lipton, lead investigator of the study and professor of neurology, epidemiology and social medicine at the Albert Einstein School of Medicine in New York. Dr. Lipton is also the president of the American Headache...