TESTOSTERONE-5ALPHA-REDUCTASE INHIBITOR, PREVENTIVE AND REMEDY FOR PROSTATIC HYPERTROPHY AND INGESTA THEREOF

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a substance having high safety and capable of being a daily ingestible preventive for prostatic hypertrophy and to provide an ingesta containing the substance. SOLUTION: A curcuminoid such as curcumin, demethoxycurcumin or bisdemethoxycurcumin obtained from a plant of the family Zingiberaceae manifests an inhibiting action for testosterone-5α-reductase. This invention claims a utilization of the curcuminoid to prevention, remedy, etc., for prostatic hypertrophy.