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AssigneeCsir
InventorsRoelof Marthinus Horak, Ebrahim Wadiwala, Gerda Fouche, Marina Mikhailovna Van Der Merwe, Vinesh Jaichand Maharaj, Louis Gabriel Jozua Ackerman
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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.
A method for the treatment or prophylaxis of allergic diseases, comprising administering to a subject in need thereof a therapeutically effective amount of a medicament comprising an extract of the plant species Siphonochilus aethiopicus, the extract including, as an active ingredient, a compound selected from the group consisting of a compound having the structural formula 1,
A method for the treatment or prophylaxis of allergic diseases, the method including administering to a subject in need thereof a therapeutically effective amount of a medicament comprising a compound selected from the group consisting of, compounds having the structural formula 1,
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