PREVENTIVE AND THERAPEUTIC AGENT FOR GASTRITIS AND GASTRIC AND DUODENAL ULCER

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a drug which contains a specific naturally occurring herbal medicine or its extract of which safety is confirmed as an active ingredient, inhibits the growth of Helicobacter pylori and is effective for prevention and treatment of gastritis, gastric and duodenal ulcers and the like. ;SOLUTION: This preventive and treatment agent contains hop or its extract having the inhibitory action on the proliferation of Helicobacter pylori as an active ingredient. The hop can be used in the form of the whole plant, strobile, hop pellet, hop extract or isolated hop extract which are used in beer brewing. In addition, the hop extract is fractionated to the α-acid and/or β-acid fraction and they are further fractionated and concentrated and the products can be used. The daily dose of this medicine is about 1 2,000mg/adult, particularly 10-1,000mg/adult. This agent can be orally given as it is or may be added to beverage and food and daily ingested.;COPYRIGHT: (C)1998,JPO