Patent ID: 6331565
Filing Date: 2001-12-18
Classification: A61K,A61P

Abstract:
A method for the treatment of Hepatitis B and disease associated with retrovirus by administering to a patient in need thereof, a dicaffeoylquinic acid derivative of the formula: ##STR7##in which R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 may be the same or different and represent OH or caffeoyloxy group, when R.sub.1 is caffeoyloxy group, both R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 represent OH; or when R.sub.2 is caffeoylxy group, both R.sub.1 and R.sub.3 represent Oh; when R.sub.3 is caffeoyloxy group, both R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 represent OH.