FIELD: steroids, pharmaceutical technology. SUBSTANCE: invention describes method of isolation of phytosterols composition involving β-sitosterol, campesterol and stigmastanol from soap as pulp obtained by treatment of wood chips that includes: at the first stage soap as pulp is mixed with solvents mixture containing ketone taken among the group of the general structure RCO-R1 where R and R1 are alkyl groups, aliphatic hydrocarbon taken among C5-C10-hydrocarbon and water and alcohol free at temperature from 25 C to 150 C to form cream-like deposit; at the second stage cream-like deposit is purified to obtain phytosterol composition. Prepared composition is used for treatment of patients with dislipidemia and atherosclerosis including diseases of heart coronary vessels. EFFECT: enhanced purification degree of phytosterols and effectiveness of composition. 13 cl, 23 dwg, 12 tbl, 7 ex
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2001-04-20—Published
1995-09-29—Filed