Patent ID: 8470373

Claim:
A method of treatment or prophylaxis of neuroimmunogenic inflammatory diseases at the level of peripheral organs, and/or neuroinflammatory diseases, also associated to neurodegeneration at the level of the spinal cord and/or brain, the method comprising administering to a patient in need thereof a therapeutically effective amount of palmitoylethanolamide in the ultra-micronized form, wherein said palmitoylethanolamide has an MDSC spectrum with exothermal transition at temperatures ranging between 101° C. and 103° C., and a spectrum XRD as reported in the following table: Peak [2-Theta (°)] 6.155 8.194 12.271 18.438 20.844 21.780 22.532 24.003 25.256 31.289 36.770 38.759.