摘要 |
PURPOSE:To obtain a obtain steroid therapeutic agent for dermatosis having high safety, comprising an extract of tea, especially oolong tea as an active ingredient. CONSTITUTION:Leaves of oolong tea are naturally dried to remove 30-50% of water and stirred for several hours. Then the tea leaves are roasted by a pot and redried while rubbing. The prepared oolong tea leaves are extracted with 10-20 times as much as deionized water at 50-100 deg.C for 5-30 minutes, the extracted solution is adjusted to about pH5.0 with ascorbic acid and concentrated under reduced pressure at 40-60 deg.C to give a concentrated solution having 10-20 Brix or further dried to give dried powder. The dried powder is dissolved in warm water for bath as it is for drinking with warm water or is properly mixed with an additive for medicine and pharmaceutically manufactured. The prepared steroid therapeutic agent for dermatosis shows thermo-keeping effect, moisture retaining effect, antipruritic effect, normalizing effect on acanthosis and a lichen state and anti-inflammatory effect and is also useful as a therapeutic agent for atopic dermatitis. |