PURPOSE: The titled compsition useful as a drug for a throat disorder, or a hoarse voice, capable of releasing a medicinal component stably for a fixed time, not requiring the treatment of residuary substance, obtianed by blending an edible water-soluble high polymer compound with the medicinal component.

CONSTITUTION: An aqueous solution containing an edible water-soluble high polymer compound such as gelatin, starch, methyl cellulose, CMC, PVA, polyvinyl pyrrolidone, etc., and, if necessary, a viscosity builder, and a binder, is boiled down at high temperature 120W145°C, it is optionally blended with hardened fats and oils (e.g., cacao butter, cotton seed oil, etc.) and an emulsifying agent (e.g., glyceryl monostearate, lecithin), and mixed with a medicinal compound, kneaded fully at 60W100°C, injected into a mold, cooled, solidified, to give a chewing gum type compositionn for the oral cavity. A germicide, antiphlogistic, antitussive, expectorant, crude drug, etc. are used as the medicinal component.