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Abstract

Adverse inflammatory reactions can be treated by administrating to an organism a composition having diglucosylamine as the active ingredient. The preferred compound is di-Beta-D-glucopyranosylamine. A simple method for making diglucosylamine in high purity is obtained by reacting glucose, a nitrogen containing base, and either methanol or ethanol to form the diglucosylamine and then recovering the diglucosylamine preferably with the use of charcoal. The preferred diglucosylamine, di-Beta-D-glucopyranosylamine, has extraordinary anti-inflammatory activity. It can be formulated with a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier to make pharmaceutical compositions which are effective in treating inflammations. This pharmaceutical composition can also be used to treat adverse inflammatory reactions that are the result of the disruptions of a dynamic network of cellular mechanisms in organisms. In addition, application of this composition also serves to reestablish the balance of the cellular defense network in an organism which has its cellular defense network out of balance. In this unbalanced case, the composition serves to treat the pathology of inflammation and activates the inflammatory control system in vivo. These adverse inflammatory reactions can also be treated by administrating to the organism glucose in the presence of NH.sub.3.sup.+ ions and at a pH of about 7.0 or greater. The glucose can preferably be applied by orally administrating an enteric-coated form of glucose, alone or in combination with other medicaments.

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