  The theory describing action of medicines explored in this paper is based on
assumption that vital activity of the cell may be described in terms of the
model of two states: resting state and excitation. According to available
physiological data excitation state is dangerous for cell and may cause
different pathological changes, including "conformational" diseases, due to
protein aggregation. Normally, the excitation is completely reversible and the
key role is played here by ATP (adenosine-5'-triphosphate) which disaggregates
proteins of cytomatrix. The same effect ATP exerts during cell injury by
eliciting a "healing" effect. Damage of cell structures we consider as
"illness", whereas removal of pathological consequences caused by protein
aggregation of any origin we will call "a cure". The latter is considered as
physical process of cell recovering from excitation/injury to resting state,
which is analyzed in terms of our generalized thermodynamics. "Cure" results in
reduction of effective temperature of cell proteins due to binding
intracellular water which is present in the cell at concentration of
approximately 44 M. As a result of the sorption processes mobility of both
water and proteins is greatly reduced, and the corresponding reduction of the
effective temperature seen by us as a measure of treatment effect.
