DE19729143C2 - Herbal care ointment - Google Patents

Description

The present invention relates to an herbal care ointment for flaky and extremely dry skin.

Ointments are among the oldest cosmetic and medicinal forms and are in particular widely used as skin care products and dematics. Depending on the purpose the ointment base of hydrocarbon gel, waxes, fats, Hydrogels etc. a wide variety of medicinally or cosmetically active substances added. The active ingredients then come together with the ointment base or also into the skin alone and can thus develop their effectiveness.

A common skin disease is psoriasis, or psoriasis, earlier also called scabies or mange, which scaly, sometimes itchy herd ver of various sizes and shapes, and below that in Europe 1% to 2% of the Population suffer more or less frequently. Your treatment with ointments, which Containing a wide variety of active ingredients is the usual method. As active ingredients As chemical active ingredients are, for example, cortisone preparations, betametasone, Clo betason, calcipotriol, dittranol etc. known, ointments with coal tar extracts and Sulfur preparations are also used very frequently. Are natural products Extracts from Mahonia aquifolium and Pix juniperi as additives to common ointments basics known. (Compare Red List 1993, Chapter 31, Dermatics No. 31, 281 to 31, 295). These remedies have in common that they alleviate the acute symptoms and Decay after prolonged treatment, but periodic flare-up prevent the disease.  

It was therefore the task of finding a remedy that is suitable for dry and scaly skin, especially for psoriasis can, is dermatologically well tolerated and also has a long-term effect.

This task was surprisingly accomplished by the herbal care ointment Main claim solved and is by those listed in the subclaims Measures additionally funded.

The herbal care ointment according to the invention contains as effective principles Mixture of various plant extracts known per se, their main active ingredients are known and surprisingly in their combination in a skin ointment flaky and dry skin, especially in cases of psoriasis, not only one Heal during treatment, but also have a long-lasting effect Get better, d. H. cause the complaints to not flare up again.

The plant extracts used are:

The above plants are dried in an amount of about 1 up to 5 g per 100 g of ointment used. In addition oak bark, willow bark, whale The nutshell and the honorary prize are extracted by heating with water for a long time and the aqueous extract evaporated to dryness and then with the ointment base blended.

The remaining ingredients - meadow goatee, fumitory, marigold, nettle root and nettle herb and yarrow - are used as the ointment base in the fat is directly heated to extract the active ingredients it contains. The one from the Plant residues separated ointment base can then directly with the product described above can be mixed to the finished ointment.

The extraction of the components in both water and fat takes a long time res (5-24 hours) heating to temperatures up to 95 ° C to contain the Separate active ingredients from the insoluble plant components.

The ointment obtained in this way can also contain antioxidants such as ascorbic acid and emulsifier or wetting agents such as fatty acid salts, fragrances, vitamins, antibacterial substances, Glycerin and other auxiliaries customary for skin ointments can be added.

Surprisingly, pure fats have become the ointment base, in particular Pig fat, partially hardened peanut oil and similar products are particularly effective proven because they penetrate particularly well into the skin and thus the active ingredients in transport deeper layers of skin, while petroleum jelly and waxes do not get enough into the Penetrate skin and water-based ointment bases such as hydrogels or sal The plant active ingredients are based on oils and fats dispersed in water  do not extract appropriately. As a particularly preferred ointment base serves cleaned lard.

The herbal care ointment according to the invention is applied thinly once or several times a day the skin to be treated is spread so that it is absorbed quickly and the skin is not greased. The success of treatment proves to be in 80% of the treated patients very good, in 14% as good and in 6% as satisfactory to sufficient. At a Successful treatment has so far been none over a period of one year Recurrence of the complaints observed.

In the following example is the production of an herbal care according to the invention described in more detail without restricting it.

example a) aqueous extraction

1.1 g oak bark, 2.2 g willow bark, 1.5 g walnut shell and 2.1 g honorary award are dried powder in 100 ml of water (distilled) with stirring for 12 hours heated to 95 ° C in a water bath, the mixture cooled and filtered. The filtrate is evaporated to dryness and the residue in 50 g of purified pigs Lard mixed thoroughly, the mixture heated to 60 ° C and 8 hours at this Temperature maintained. After cooling, the mass was in the room for 12 hours temperature before being heated to 40 ° C again and further processed was done.

b) fat extraction

1.9 g meadow goatee, 1.8 g earth smoke, 1.4 g marigold, 1.9 g nettle root and 1.9 g of nettle herb and 1.4 g of yarrow were used as dried herbs in 50 g of lard are stirred and the mixture is heated to 40 ° C. for 12 hours. The mixture was then heated to 95 ° C. for 4 hours before the fat was removed from the unresolved herb residues was pressed.

The fat extract obtained is cooled to 40 ° C. and at this temperature mixed with the aqueous extract obtained under a).

Then 1.2 g of ascorbyl palmate and 2 g of phenylethanol and 1.2 g Added vitamin E acetate, mixed thoroughly again and poured into ointment containers fills.

The cooled ointment is very easy to spread, has a yellow-brownish appearance and a melting interval of over 40 ° C.

Claims (4)

1. Herbal care ointment for the care of dry and scaly skin and skin damaged by psoriasis consisting of Extracts of 1.1 g oak bark, 2.2 g willow bark, 1.5 g walnut shell, 2.1 g honorary award, 1.9 g meadow goatee, 1.8 g fumigation, 1.4 g marigold, 1.9 g nettle root, 1.9 g Nettle, 1.4 g yarrow as dried plants on 100 g of ointment, where as The ointment base serves an animal or vegetable fat. 2. Herbal care ointment according to claim 1, characterized gekennezichnet, that cleaned pork fat is used as the ointment base becomes. 3. Herbal care ointment according to claim 1 or 2, characterized characterized that oak bark, willow bark, Walnut shell and honorary price extracts dried aqueous Extracts are and meadow goatee, fumitory, marigold, Nettle and yarrow are fat extracts. 4. Herbal care ointment according to one of claims 1 to 3, characterized characterized that the ointment additional usual Auxiliaries such as antioxidants, emulsifiers, fragrances, Contains glycerin.