Abstract: A muscle-strengthening, anti-inflammatory, antiasthmatic, antidiarrheal or an antidepressant method, or a method for the treatment of diminution of vision, hepatitis, inflammatory intestinal syndrome, functional enteropathy, functional hepatopathy, functional nephropathy, dementia, climacteric symptoms, senile dementia and/or Alzheimer disease, said method comprising: administering to skin a composition comprising (a) at least one member selected from the group consisting of isoflavones and isoflavone glycosides, (b) curcumin, and (c) cholic acid or at least one member selected from the group consisting of scymnol and scymnol esters.

Abstract: A muscle-strengthening, anti-inflammatory, antiasthmatic, antidiarrheal or an antidepressant method, or a method for the treatment of diminution of vision, hepatitis, inflammatory intestinal syndrome, functional enteropathy, functional hepatopathy, functional nephropathy, dementia, climacteric symptoms, senile dementia and/or Alzheimer disease, said method comprising: administering to skin a composition comprising (a) at least one member selected from the group consisting of isoflavones and isoflavone glycosides, (b) curcumin, and (c) cholic acid or at least one member selected from the group consisting of scymnol and scymnol esters.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a pharmaceutical agent or composition useful as a muscle-strengthening drug, an anti-inflammatory drug, an antiasthmatic, an antidiarrheal, an antidepressant, or a drug for the treatment of secondary diseases following cerebral infarction, motor paralysis, diminution of vision, hepatitis, inflammatory intestinal syndrome, functional enteropathy, functional cardiopathy, functional hepatopathy, functional nephropathy, dementia, climacteric symptoms, senile dementia and/or Alzheimer disease, and a dermatological agent or composition suitable for skin applications, which can treat or prevent muscle weakening and inflammation, in particular arthritis, by its muscle-strengthening and/or anti-inflammatory actions, said agent or composition comprising isoflavone and/or isoflavone glycoside in combination with a pungent substance, a bitter substance or a sour substance, and cholic acid, and/or scymnol and/or a scymnol ester.