LEISHAMANICIDE COMPOSITION CONTAINING GINGER EXTRACT AND ITS DERIVATED FRACTIONS

摘要

LEISHAMANICIDE COMPOSITION CONTAINING GINGER EXTRACT AND ITS PURIFIED FRACTIONS. The present technology describes pharmaceutical compositions comprising aqueous extract of ginger (Zingiber Officinalis Roscoe) and purified fractions derived therefrom. These compositions have high leishmanicidal activity on Leishmania (Leishmanis) amazonensis, do not present cytotoxicity on mammalian cells and are effective in the treatment of macrophages infected with such a parasite species. Such compositions can be used to solve problems related to the current treatment of leishmaniasis.