Terbinafine

Also known as:  Terbinafine Hydrochloride

Terbinafine is a type of synthetic Allylamine Derivative Anti-Fungal Pharmaceutical Drug.

Immune System

 Terbinafine inhibits/kills some types of Fungi - Detrimental (by increasing the permeability (“leakiness”) of the Cell walls of Detrimental Fungi) including:

 Candida albicans (inhibits)

 Epidermophyton floccosum (kills)

 Microsporum gypseum (inhibits)

 Microsporum nanum (inhibits)

 Pityrosporum orbiculare (inhibits)

 Scopulariopsis brevicaulis (inhibits)

 Trichophyton mentagrophytes (kills)

 Trichophyton rubrum (kills)

 Trichophyton verrucosum (inhibits)

Nails

 Terbinafine (1,000 mg per day for twelve weeks (toenails) or six weeks (fingernails)) kills the Detrimental Fungi that cause Onychomycosis (Tinea of the Nails).

Skin

 Terbinafine cures most forms of Tinea:

 Terbinafine (1% cream applied topically or 1% solution sprayed topically) cures Tinea corporis.

 Terbinafine (1% cream applied topically or 1% solution sprayed topically or 250 mg per day adminsered orally) cures Tinea cruris.  ^[1]

 Terbinafine (1% cream applied topically or 1% solution sprayed topically) cures Tinea pedis (in 86% of patients after one week of treatment).  ^[2]

 Terbinafine (1% solution sprayed topically) cures Tinea versicolor (in 81% of patients after eight weeks of treatment).