A pharmaceutical composition for the treatment and/or prophylaxis of
diseases caused by type I hypersensitivity reactions consisting
essentially of Glicophosphopeptical, or pure Nigella Sativa seeds, in a
concentration which stimulate Th1 lymphocytes and selectively switch-off
the eosinophilic airway inflammation
A method of treatment of allergy using Th1 stimulating agents, to be
administered to a mammal such as human in need of such treatment in a
shot of 5 days only, resulted in significant decrease in symptom score
started day 3, and in sputum eosinophils by day 14, followed by long-term
clinical remission of a mean of 6 months.
The BCG-like Th1 stimulation is also used in treating diseases in which
the body defensive mechanism is a Cell Mediated Immunity, including viral
infections, as but not limited to influenza and common cold, Chronic and
recurrent urinary tract infection, pelvic inflammatory diseases as
neuroimmune appendicitis, cancer, crohns disease and facial palsy.