Patent ID: 7368136

Claim:
A method for remedying a disease caused by an infection in humans or animals comprising the step of: orally administering an amount of a sugar cane-derived extract as an active ingredient to a human or animal after infection with the disease, which amount is effective to remedy said disease and wherein said infection is an Escherichia coli infection, and the sugar cane-derived extract is a fraction obtained by passing a raw material selected from the group consisting of sugar cane juice, a liquid extract from sugar cane, and sugar cane-derived molasses, through a column packed with a synthetic adsorbent as a fixed carrier, and eluting substances adsorbed on the synthetic absorbent with a solvent selected from the group consisting of water, methanol, ethanol and mixtures thereof, said sugar cane derived-extract containing less sugar than said raw material, wherein the sugar cane-derived extract comprises a component having a molecular weight less than 1,000 as an active ingredient and is a fraction which absorbs light of a wavelength of 420 nm.