COMPOSITION AND METHOD FOR TREATING, RELIEVING OR PREVENTING NEUROPATHIC PAIN, CONTAINING CHOLINE ALFOSCERATE AS ACTIVE INGREDIENT

摘要

Choline alfoscerate is useful for treating cognitive dysfunction associated with cerebrovascular diseases and degenerative brain diseases. It is a drug with proven safety, which has no effect on the kidney and liver and with no severe side effect reported. When administered to a patient with neuropathic pain, it can significantly reduce the pain intensity and the occurrence of neuropathic pain. Accordingly, it may be used as an active ingredient in a pharmaceutical composition for treating or preventing neuropathic pain and a health functional food composition for improving neuropathic pain and may also be used for a method for treating neuropathic pain by administering choline alfoscerate. In addition, choline alfoscerate may also be used to prepare a medication for treating neuropathic pain.