摘要 |
PURPOSE:A denture cleaner, obtained by blending a specific crude drug, e.g. Phellodendri bark, etc., or a standard specimen thereof and capable of exhibiting specific fungicidal or fungistatic action on intraoral fungi which are causative fungi of stomatitis with slight influence on the human body. CONSTITUTION:A denture cleaner, obtained by blending a crude drug selected from Phellodendri bark, Coptidis Rhizoma, Scutellariae Radix, Magnoliae Cortex, Cinnamomi Cortex, Geranii Herba and Artemisiae capillaris Flos or a standard specimen thereof in an amount of preferably 0.5-60% in a denture cleaner, having improved fungicidal or fungistatic ability, etc., against fungi in denture plaques, particularly fungi of the genus Candida and useful for preventing stomatitis caused by the above-mentioned fungi. The use of (a) a foaming agent, (b) a surfactant, (c) a cleaning assistant, (d) an active enzyme generator, (e) a hypochlorite, (f) an enzyme and/or (g) an antibiotic substance, etc., particularly further (b) the surfactant with (c) the cleaning assistant together may add the action thereof to the above-mentioned cleaner and enhance the above-mentioned action on intraoral fungi at the same time.
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