Patent ID: 8586112

Claim:
A dosage form composition for the therapeutic treatment of a parasitic infection in a human or animal, wherein the composition comprises an effective amount of at least one isolated asymmetrical sesquiterpene dimer having a molecular mass in the molecular mass range 230-539 atomic mass units, and wherein the asymmetrical sesquiterpene dimer is extracted from a starting material comprising roots of Dicoma anomala by an organic solvent selected from the group consisting of benzene, n-Butanol, butyl acetate, carbon tetrachloride, chloroform, 1,2 dichloroethane, dichloromethane, dioxane, ethyl acetate, di-ethyl ether, methyl-t-butyl ether, methyl ethyl ketone, n-propanol, di-iso-propanol, tetrahydrofuran, toluene, trichloroethylene, and xylene, and wherein the sesquiterpene dimer is selected from a group consisting of one of the following formulae: