USE OF STEROIDAL GLYCOSIDES, PHARMACEUTICAL FORMULATIONS, USE OF FURCRAEA FOETIDA PLANT EXTRACTS, PROCESS FOR PRODUCING FURCRAEA FOETIDA PLANT EXTRACTS AND METHOD FOR TREATING SKIN DISORDERS

摘要

The present invention relates, in its broadest aspects, to steroidal glycosides useful in the treatment of skin disorders. Particularly, the invention relates to the use of certain steroidal glucosides, per se, or in the form aglycona, derivatives of spirostanol, of its precursor furastanol, or mixtures thereof, used in the treatment of skin disorders, for instance, psoriasis. The invention further relates to formulations containing steroidal glycosides, the process of obtaining extract from the Furcraea foetida plant, and a method of treating skin disorders.