This invention relates to the field of chemical-pharmaceutical industry, specifically a new tuberculosis treatment that contains, as an active ingredient, 4-thioureido-iminomethylpyridinium perchlorate at a therapeutically effective and safe level and pharmaceutically acceptable excipients. In addition, this treatment relates to a method of the preparation of the new drug, providing a high yield of the new treatment. The new treatment has a higher tuberculostatic activity (200 times as high) and lower toxicity (2.4 times as low), as compared to a prototype drug, and is stable during long-term storage. This medicament may be used for treating and preventing all forms of pulmonary and extrapulmonary TB by using the new treatment in combination with other TB drugs.
