The present invention relates to physiologically active substances extracted from infected tissues inoculated with a poxvirus. The substances of the present invention have excellent actions to improve blood flow and recover functions of diseased tissues, thus are useful as drugs for various diseases caused by blood flow disorders.

A pharmaceutical composition comprising a pyrimidine represented by the following formula ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 represents a hydrogen atom, an acyl group having 2 to 4 carbon atoms, an alkoxycarbonyl group having 2 to 5 carbon atoms, an alkoxycarbonylmethyl group having 3 to 5 carbon atoms, a 3,4-dimethoxybenzoyl group or a 3,4-methylenedioxybenzyl group, R.sup.2 represents a hydrogen atom, an amino group, a monoalkylamino group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, an alkoxy group having 1 to 5 carbon...

A pharmaceutical composition for treating periodontal diseases which comprises one or more of therapeutically active ingredients admixed with a polymer capable of dissolving in an aqueous medium of pH 4.0 or higher.

The invention relates to an oral hygiene composition for treating or preventing anaerobe infections in humans and lower animals.

This invention relates to the treatment of rheumatic diseases. More particularly, this invention relates to processes and compositions for treating rheumatic diseases by administering to a patient a pharmaceutically effect amount of gamma interferon.

Remedies, preventives and functional diets for diabetic diseases, esp., diabetes, contain phytic acid or its salt or salts. The salt of phytic acid is a non-toxious metal salt, or a non-toxious salt with an organic base, a basic amino acid or an organic ester residue, and has a compositional form together with or separately from phytic acid.

The invention concerns chemical compounds consisting of the buty hydroxyanisoles and their salts for use in a method of therapeutic treatment of the human or animal body, in particular for use in a method of prophylactic or curative treatment of retroviral diseases, such as AIDS.

Skin diseases with keratinization and allergic or inflammatory skin diseases are treated by orally or parenterally administering to an adult human patient from 40 mg to 4 g/day of a polyprenyl compound having the formula (I): ##STR1## in which each of n and m is 0, 1, or 2, n+m is 0, 1 or 2, A is ##STR2## and B is ##STR3## [in which R represents the hydroxyl group, a lower alkoxy group, or ##STR4## (wherein each of R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 is the hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group or an aryl group)];...

The present invention relates to combined preparation containing as active substance the following individual components, in the form of a kit-of-parts: monocyte derived cells, particularly cytotoxic macrophages, chemotherapy or immunotherapy drugs, for the simultaneous, separate or sequential use, for the treatment of cancer or infectious diseases.

This invention relates to the treatment of various diseases such as such as those characterized by tumorigenic or neoplastic cell growth, malignant hematological systemic diseases, viral diseases, carcinomas, sarcomas, myelomas, melanomas, lymphomas, papillomas, degenerative diseases, allergic diseases, asthma, psoriasis and pain. More particularly, this invention relates to processes and compositions for treating these diseases by administering to a patient a pharmaceutically effective low dose...