| abstract |
The invention aims at providing medicines or physiologically functional or health foods which contain phenylpropanoid dimers resulting from natural products as the active ingredient and which have preventive and/or therapeutic effects against bone diseases. The invention provides medicines and physiologically functional or health foods containing at least one compound represented by the general formula (I) or a physiologically acceptable salt or hydrate thereof: (I) wherein R'1, R'2 and R'3 are each independently hydrogen, hydroxy, or alkoxy of 1 to 3 carbon atoms; and R1, R2 and R3 are each independently hydrogen or alkenyl of 3 to 5 carbon atoms. |