Patent ID: 8715735

Claim:
A powdery pharmaceutical composition comprising a steroidal molecule; a pharmaceutically acceptable amorphous silica carrier having a specific surface area of greater than 200 m 2 /g; and a pharmaceutically acceptable solvent said solvent being present on the surface of said pharmaceutically acceptable carrier and said solvent comprising an amount of the steroidal molecule sufficient to provide a supersaturated concentration thereof wherein said powdery pharmaceutical composition is prepared by a) dissolving said steroidal molecule in said solvent in an amount that equals the saturation concentration of the steroidal molecule, mixing the resulting saturated solution with said pharmaceutically acceptable carrier and evaporating off a part of the solvent so as to provide a supersaturated concentration thereof or b) dissolving said steroidal molecule in said solvent in an amount that exceeds the saturation concentration of the steroidal molecule and mixing the resulting saturated solution with said pharmaceutically acceptable carrier so as to provide a supersaturated concentration thereof.