申请人:Horak Roelof Marthinus
                            
                            
                                公开号:US20100168227A1
                            
                            
                                公开(公告)日:2010-07-01
                            
                            The invention provides the use of at least one plant selected from plants of the family Zingiberaceae in the preparation of a medicament for use in the treatment or prophylaxis of allergic diseases. The plant is optionally selected from the genera
Siphonochilus, Kaempferia, Cienkowskia
and
Cienkowskiella
and the species is optionally selected from
Siphonochilus aethiopicus, Siphonochilus natalensis, Kaempferia aethiopica, Kaempferia natalensis, Kaempferia ethelae, Cienkowskia aethiopica
and
Cienkowskiella aethiopica
. The allergic disease is selected from asthma and atopy.