Table 1.

Schedule of enrollment, interventions, and assessments for the TOPMAC (Topical Oil Pooling with Kshirabala Taila and Supplementation of Ashwagandha Churna) study.

			Screening		Baseline		Intervention period											End of treatment
Timepoint					Day 1		Day 29		Day 57		Day 85		Day 113		Day 141		Day 169
	Potential participant identification and screening	✓
	Provision of participant information sheet	✓
	Eligibility assessment	✓
	Informed consent	✓
Interventions
	Ashwagandha Churna days 1-168			✓		✓		✓		✓		✓		✓
	Karnapurana: weeks 1,5,9,13,17,21			✓		✓		✓		✓		✓		✓
	Basic treatment and health education			✓		✓		✓		✓		✓		✓
Assessments
	Demographics			✓
	Tympanometry	✓
	Pure tone average	✓								✓						✓
	Speech recognition threshold	✓								✓						✓
	Speech discrimination score	✓								✓						✓
	Laboratory investigations	✓								✓						✓
	Brainstem Evoked Response Audiometry			✓						✓						✓
	Tinnitus Functional Index			✓						✓						✓
	Montreal Cognitive Assessment			✓						✓						✓
	Drug compliance (%)					✓		✓		✓		✓		✓		✓
	Concomitant medication					✓		✓		✓		✓		✓		✓
	Rescue medication					✓		✓		✓		✓		✓		✓
	Adverse reactions					✓		✓		✓		✓		✓		✓