To obtain the subject agent having low toxicity against warm-blooded animals, inhibiting spore-forming activity of sporogenic fungi, terminating growth of its mycelium and re-growth of it, and hence applicable to sickrooms which house easily infections patients, by including essential oil land so on.
This agent is obtained by including an essential oil such as perilla oil, pieces of a plant (e.g. leaf of green perilla) containing an essential oil, or main components of an essential oil such as carvacrol and timor. A fungus such as Aspergillus fumigatus is exposed to the agent at 1-400 mg/l in a sealed space by heat evaporation and so on, preferably for 2-3 days to prevent spore-formation or for 10-30 min to suppress growth of its mycelium and re-growth of it. Other applicable places include ones to store crop/food and bath room.
JPH08333271 | ANTIVIRAL MASK |
JPH1099060 | HEALTH TEA |
JP2007230984 | FAT ABSORPTION INHIBITOR |
WATANABE MASANORI
TAKEO KANJI
AKAO MITSUTARO
NISHIYAMA YAYOI
YAMAGUCHI HIDEYO
INOUE SHIGEHARU
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