FIELD: medicine, pharmaceutics.
SUBSTANCE: invention refers to pharmaceutical industry, particularly an antitussive and expectorant drug. The antitussive and expectorant composition containing the extract Coptidis rhizoma as an active ingredients wherein the extract represents a crude extract which is prepared by the use of one or more solvents specified in a group consisting of water and linear or branched alcohol having 1 to 4 carbon atoms as an extractant, or a solvent-soluble extract which is produced by adding an aqueous solution of linear or branched alcohol having 1 to 6 carbon atoms to the crude extract. The composition for treating a respiratory disease containing the antitussive and expectorant composition. A healthy functional foodstuff for relieving the respiratory disease containing the composition containing the extract Coptidis rhizoma as an active ingredient.
EFFECT: compositions and functional foodstuff are effective as the antitussive and expectorant composition.
8 cl, 5 dwg, 20 tbl, 6 ex
