Patent ID: 7943602

Claim:
A pharmaceutical oral dosage unit containing at least 10 μg of an estrogen and at least 10 μg of a steroid selected from the group consisting of 15-hydroxytestosterones, precursors thereof, mixtures thereof and precursors of said mixtures; and a pharmaceutically acceptable excipient, wherein said oral dosage unit is selected from the group consisting of a tablet, a capsule and a chachet, wherein the precursors of the hydroxytestosterones are derivatives of the hydroxytestosterones wherein a hydrogen atom of at least one hydroxyl group has been substituted by an acyl radical of a hydrocarbon carboxylic, sulfonic or sulfamic acid of 1-25 carbon atoms; tetrahydrofuranyl; tetrahydropyranal; or a straight or branched chain glycosidic residue containing 1-20 glycosidic units per residue, and wherein the pharmaceutical oral dosage unit is orally active.