Roelof Marthinus Horak;Louis Gabriel Jozua Ackerman;Ebrahim Wadiwala;Marina Mikhailovna Van Der Merwe;Vinesh Jaichand Maharaj;Gerda Fouche
发明人:
Roelof Marthinus Horak,Ebrahim Wadiwala,Gerda Fouche,Marina Mikhailovna Van Der Merwe,Vinesh Jaichand Maharaj,Louis Gabriel Jozua Ackerman
申请号:
US12718190
公开号:
US08158165B2
申请日:
2010.03.05
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2012
代理人:
摘要:
The invention provides the use of at least one plant selected from plants of the family Zingiberaceae in the preparation of a medicament for use in the treatment or prophylaxis of allergic diseases. The plant is optionally selected from the genera Siphonochilus, Kaempferia, Cienkowskia and Cienkowskiella and the species is optionally selected from Siphonochilus aethiopicus, Siphonochilus natalensis, Kaempferia aethiopica, Kaempferia natalensis, Kaempferia ethelae, Cienkowskia aethiopica and Cienkowskiella aethiopica. The allergic disease is selected from asthma and atopy.