Antihypertensives and food and drinks

摘要

The present invention relates to antihypertensives and food and drinks, containing as effective component polysaccharide-glycopeptide complexes derived from cell wall of Gram positive bacteria (also referred to as peptidoglycan). The present invention provides extremely strong and safe antihypertensives and food and drinks, which may exert hypotensive effects if administered orally to spontaneous hypertensive rats and renal hypertensive rats at a single dose as low as 1 mg/kg.