10. July 2016

We previously prepared and pharmaceutically evaluated ginger orally disintegrating (OD) tablets, opti- mized the base formulation, and carried out a clinical trial in healthy adults in their 20s and 50s to measure their effect on salivary substance P (SP) level and improved swallowing function. In this study, we conducted clinical trials using the ginger OD tablets in older people to clinically evaluate the improvements in swallow- ing function resulting from the functional components of the...