| abstract |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a pharmaceutical composition containing hesperidin having improved water solubility. SOLUTION: Hesperidin is used as a prophylactic or therapeutic agent for viral diseases, bacterial diseases, traumatic diseases, immunological diseases, rheumatism, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases or malignant tumors containing hesperidin as an active ingredient. The object is achieved by using α-glycosyl hesperidin, which has excellent water solubility and is hydrolyzed in vivo into hesperidin and D-glucose, and in which hesperidin has a D-glucose residue α-bonded in equimolar or more. [Selection diagram] None |