A composition containing an extremely poorly water-soluble drug and
obtained by treating, with a supercritical fluid or subcritical fluid of
carbon dioxide, a mixture comprising a porous silica material and the
extremely poorly water-soluble drug; and its production process. The
porous silica material has an average pore diameter in a range of from 1
to 20 nm, pores having diameters within .+-.40% of the average pore size
account for at least 60% of a total pore volume of the porous silica
material, and in X-ray diffractometry, the porous silica material has at
least one peak at a position of diffraction angle (2.theta.)
corresponding to a d value of at least 1 nm. The composition according to
the present invention, which contains the extremely poorly water-soluble
drug, is excellent in the dissolution of the extremely poorly
water-soluble drug.