JP2005089397A - Health-promoting composition - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a health-promoting composition excellent in constipation-improving effect, fatigue-recovering effect, alcohol metabolism-promoting effect, visual power-recovering effect, sexual function-improving effect, complexion-improving effect, slimming effect, gastroenteric function-improving effect and hair growth-promoting effect. <P>SOLUTION: This health-promoting composition excellent also in hair growth-promoting effect in addition to conventional health-promoting effects such as constipation-improving effect, fatigue-recovering effect, alcohol metabolism-promoting effect, visual power-recovering effect, sexual function-improving effect, complexion-improving effect, slimming effect, gastroenteric function-improving effect can be obtained by formulating ingredients obtained from a plant of the family Empetraceae with a health-promoting composition. The plant of the family Empetraceae used in the present invention includes a plant of the genus Empetrum such as Empetrum nigrum L. var. japonicum K. Koch, Empetrum rubrum or Empetrum nigrum Linn or a plant of the genus Ceratiola such as Ceratiola ericoides. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  In addition to conventional health promotion effects such as constipation improvement effect, fatigue recovery effect, alcohol metabolism promotion effect, visual acuity recovery effect, sexual function improvement effect, facial color improvement effect, slimming effect, gastrointestinal function improvement effect, hair growth promotion effect The present invention also relates to an excellent health promotion composition.

  In an aging society in recent years, self-management and self-prevention, so-called self-medication, has become an era. For this reason, various health promotion compositions have been developed in which preparations based on Kampo medicines, preparations based on herbal medicines, multivitamin preparations, vitamins containing amino acids, herbal medicines, organ extracts and the like are blended. However, some of the conventional health promoting compositions have an unfavorable taste, and some have to be taken in large amounts in order to take an effective amount, which impedes normal eating.

Therefore, a health promoting composition excellent in taste and nourishing tonic effect is desired. In particular, plants that have been eaten since ancient times are expected to be safe and highly effective. For example, the Cree in North America is taking decoction of Empetrum nigrum as a diuretic, antipyretic, laxative, or tuberculosis drug (Non-patent document 1, Non-patent document 2).

Moreover, the Inuit group is taking the liquid which decocted the root of Empetrum nigrum as a cough stop and a child's heat cooling (nonpatent literature 3).

In addition, plants of the genus Empetrum have been studied for application as pharmaceuticals, and high antioxidant activity has been confirmed (Patent Document 1).

Russian patent 2203077 (C2) “Plants of the Western Boreal Forest & Aspen Parkland”, JOHNSON, KERSHAW, MacKINNON, POJAR, 1995, p74 “Western Medicinal Plants and Herbs”, Steven Foster and Christopher Hobbs, 2002, p277 "Aboriginal Plant Use in Canada's northwest Boreal Forest", Robin J. Marles, Christina Clavelle, Leslie Monteleone, Natalie Tays, Donna Burns, 2000, p171

  All of the conventional health promotion compositions have sufficient constipation improvement effect, fatigue recovery effect, alcohol metabolism promotion effect, visual acuity recovery effect, sexual function improvement effect, facial color improvement effect, slimming effect, and gastrointestinal function improvement effect. There wasn't. In addition, there is no hair growth promoting effect, and there has been a demand for the development of an active ingredient that is superior for beauty and health. The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and the subjects are constipation improvement effect, fatigue recovery effect, alcohol metabolism promotion effect, visual acuity recovery effect, sexual function improvement effect, facial color improvement effect, slimming effect, gastrointestinal function The object is to provide a composition for promoting health that is excellent in hair growth promoting effect in addition to the improvement effect.

In order to solve the above problems, the present inventors, in addition to constipation improvement effect, fatigue recovery effect, alcohol metabolism promotion effect, vision recovery effect, sexual function improvement effect, facial color improvement effect, slimming effect, gastrointestinal function improvement effect, As a result of earnest research to obtain ingredients with excellent hair growth promoting effects, the ingredients obtained from the plant of Empetraceae are constipation improving effects, fatigue recovery effects, alcohol metabolism promotion effects, visual acuity recovery effects, sexual functions The present inventors have found that the improvement effect, the facial color improvement effect, the slimming effect, the gastrointestinal function improvement effect, and the hair growth promotion effect are excellent, and have completed the present invention.

That is, the present invention provides a composition for promoting health characterized by containing a component obtained from a plant of the Empertraceae family, and the composition for promoting health has a high constipation-improving effect, fatigue It exhibits recovery effect, alcohol metabolism promotion effect, visual acuity recovery effect, sexual function improvement effect, facial color improvement effect, slimming effect, gastrointestinal function improvement effect, and hair growth promotion effect.

  An embodiment of the present invention will be described.

Gankouran Department (Empetraceae) plant is a herbaceous or small shrubs evergreen perennial distributed in the boreal from temperate, Gankouran genus in Japan (Empetrum), such as Keratiora genus (Ceratiola) is known.

Ganko uranium ( Empetrum nigrum Linn. Var. Japonicum K. Koch) is an evergreen small shrub distributed in Hokkaido, Kuril, Sakhalin, Siberia, Kamchatka, etc. Empetrum ). The fruits are an important harvest from the autumn mountain. The purple and black sweet and sour fruits are jammed or shochued into fruit wine.

In the southern part of South America, there is Empetrum rubrum , where the fruit ripens reddish brown, and Empetrum nigrum is widely distributed in the northern part of the northern hemisphere.

Ceratiola ericoides is a plant belonging to the genus Ceratiola and is found in dry forests and coasts in southeastern North America.

Next, a method for obtaining a component from an Empetraceae plant will be described. The above plants are one or more of various whole plants or their leaves, stems, stems, branches, branches and leaves, fruit skins, fruits, bark, sap, seeds, rhizomes, root barks, roots, spikes, head flowers, flowers, etc. The part is used raw or dried. As a method for obtaining a component from an Empetraceae plant, the plant body may be used as it is, a processed product such as squeezed may be obtained, or extraction may be performed using an extraction solvent. The extraction solvent is not particularly limited, and monohydric alcohols such as water, ethanol, methanol, isopropanol, isobutanol, n-hexanol, methylamyl alcohol, 2-ethylbutanol, n-octyl alcohol, glycerin, ethylene glycol, ethylene Polyhydric alcohols such as glycol monomethyl ether, propylene glycol, propylene glycol monomethyl ether, propylene glycol monoethyl ether, triethylene glycol, 1,3-butylene glycol, 1,2-pentanediol, isoprene glycol, hexylene glycol or derivatives thereof , Ketones such as acetone, methyl ethyl ketone, methyl isobutyl ketone, methyl-n-propyl ketone, esters such as ethyl acetate and isopropyl acetate, ethyl ether, Ethers such as pill ether, n-butyl ether, hydrocarbons such as squalane, petrolatum, paraffin wax, paraffin oil, plants such as olive oil, wheat germ oil, rice oil, sesame oil, macadamian nut oil, almond oil, coconut oil Examples include fats and oils such as beef tallow, pork tallow and whale oil. In addition, polar solvents to which inorganic salts such as phosphate buffered saline are added and solvents to which surfactants are added can also be used, and further, water, carbon dioxide, ethylene, propylene, ethane, propane, dinitrogen monoxide. One or more supercritical fluids such as chlorodifluoromethane, chlorotrifluoromethane, xenon, ammonia, methanol, ethanol, etc., or a subcritical fluid may be used without any particular limitation.

  The ratio of the plant and the solvent in the extraction is not particularly limited, but is preferably 0.1 to 1000 times by weight of the solvent with respect to the plant 1, and more preferably 0.5 to 100 times by weight in terms of extraction operation and efficiency. The extraction temperature is conveniently in the range from 0 ° C. to the boiling point of the solvent, and the extraction time is preferably in the range of 1 hour to 2 weeks, although it varies depending on the extraction temperature.

Ingredients obtained from the plant family ( Empetraceae ) thus obtained can be used as they are, but as long as the effect is not lost, purification operations such as deodorization, decolorization and concentration can be added, Furthermore, it may be used as a fraction using column chromatography or the like. These extracts, purified products, and fractions can be dried by removing the solvent from them, and can also be used in a form solubilized in a solvent such as alcohol, or in the form of an emulsion. it can.

In the present invention, by blending a component obtained from a plant of the family Gancolanaceae ( Empetraceae ) into a composition for promoting health, an excellent constipation improving effect and fatigue recovery effect, alcohol metabolism promoting effect, visual acuity recovery effect, sexual function improving effect, It can exhibit a face color improving effect, a slimming effect, a gastrointestinal function improving effect, and a hair growth promoting effect. Gankouran Department (Empetraceae) Among the plants, in particular, Gankouran (Empetrum nigrum Linn. Var. Japonicum K. Koch), Emupetorumu rubrum (Empetrum rubrum), Emupetorumu-Nigurumu (Empetrum nigrum Linn.), Keratiora-Erikoidesu (Ceratiola ericoides) Furthermore, the fruits of ganko uranium ( Empetrum nigrum Linn. Var. Japonicum K. Koch) and empetrum nigrum ( Empetrum nigrum Linn.) Are more preferred.

When the plant of the present invention ( Empetraceae ) is used as a pharmaceutical, it can be added to oral preparations, external preparations, injections, inhalants, nasal drops, eye drops, and the like. , Liquids, injections, ointments, creams, lotions, aerosols, suppositories and the like. Moreover, an excipient | filler, a base, an emulsifier, a stabilizer, a solubilizing agent, a corrigent, a preservative, a fragrance | flavor, a coloring agent, a coating agent, etc. can be suitably mix | blended as needed. The dose of the active ingredient is appropriately determined according to the symptom of the subject, the age of the recipient, sex, etc., but when administered to normal adults, about 10 to 5000 mg is about 1 to several times a day. Can be administered to a degree.

In addition, when the components obtained from the plant of the present invention ( Empetraceae ) are incorporated into various preparations such as oral preparations, external preparations, injections, inhalants, nasal drops and eye drops, the above ingredients are used as they are. The ingredients used in foods, quasi-drugs, and pharmaceuticals may be blended within a range that does not impair the effects of the ingredients. At that time, general excipients, bases, emulsifiers, stabilizers, solubilizers, flavoring agents, preservatives, fragrances, colorants, plasticizers, coating agents, binders, disintegrants, Additives such as oxidizing agents can also be incorporated, and dosage forms include powders, suppositories, emulsions, capsules, granules and the like in addition to liquids and tablets.

  Furthermore, as a food, in addition to nourishment and toughness, it can be blended in special-purpose foods such as foods for specified health use and foods for the sick, which are specialized for the purpose of maintaining and improving physical fitness and recovery from fatigue, and health foods. As the excipient in this case, food raw materials described in food regulations such as the Food Sanitation Law can be used.

The amount of the component obtained from the plant of Empetraceae used in the present invention is appropriately determined according to the symptom of the subject, the age of the recipient, sex, etc. Furthermore, 0.0001% by weight or more, preferably 0.001 to 90% by weight, in terms of solids, based on the total amount of quasi drugs and pharmaceuticals. If it is less than 0.0001% by weight, it is difficult to expect a sufficient effect, and if it exceeds 90% by weight, the effect cannot be expected to be uneconomical. In addition, the addition method may be added in advance or during the production, and may be appropriately selected in consideration of workability.

  Next, although an Example is given and this invention is demonstrated further in detail, it cannot be overemphasized that this invention is not limited only to these Examples.

First, a method for preparing a component obtained from an Empetraceae plant used in the present invention is exemplified. In addition, Table 1 lists the specific names and parts of the Emperaceae plants used in the present invention, and the extracts 1 to 12 extracted by the respective preparation methods.

<Preparation method 1>
400 g of purified water was added to 20 g of the dried plant and extracted at 95-100 ° C. for 2 hours, followed by filtration. The filtrate was concentrated and lyophilized to obtain an extract.

<Preparation method 2>
2 L of ethanol was added to 100 g of the dried plant, extracted at room temperature for 7 days, filtered, and the filtrate was concentrated and freeze-dried to obtain an extract.

<Preparation method 3>
The dried plant is put into the extraction tank of the supercritical fluid extraction device. After adding 0.003% ethanol as an entrainer, in a supercritical state while adjusting the flow rate of carbon dioxide of 15 MPa at 40 ° C. under atmospheric pressure at the outlet of the separation tank to 700 L / hour. Carbon dioxide was supplied. Then, the pressure of the extraction tank was reduced and the extract was taken out.

Therefore, we examined the incorporation of ingredients from this Empetraceae plant into a health promotion composition.

The liquid agent concerning the prescription example 1-prescription example 4 was prepared by the prescription shown in Table 2. This solution was prepared by dissolving components (1) to (11) in component (12) and mixing them uniformly.

In the prescription examples 1 to 4 of the present invention, the constipation improving effect, fatigue recovery effect, alcohol metabolism promotion effect, visual acuity recovery effect, sexual function improvement effect, facial color improvement effect, slimming effect, gastrointestinal function improvement effect, hair growth promotion In order to confirm the effect, a two-month actual use test was conducted. In addition, the prescription which did not mix | blend the component obtained from the plant of Empertraceae ( Empetraceae ) was made into the comparative example, and the implementation test was done similarly.

Panelists who conducted the actual use test consisted of 20 men and women in their 40s to 60s who were healthy but felt physical decline with age as a group, and each example and comparative example was blind in each group I took them twice a day in the morning and evening. Items for which an improvement effect was observed after the end of the use test were evaluated in three stages of “improvement”, “slight improvement”, and “no change”. The results are shown in Tables 3 to 5 in terms of the number of panelists that performed each evaluation.

As is clear from Tables 3 to 5, in Formulation Example 1 to Formulation Example 4 of the present invention, symptom improvement was observed in all panelists. On the other hand, in the comparative example that does not contain ingredients obtained from the plant of Empetraceae ( Empetraceae ), constipation, fatigue recovery, alcohol metabolism, visual recovery, sexual function, complexion, slimming, gastrointestinal function, and hair growth are clear. None of the panelists showed any improvement. In addition, no panelists who showed side-effect symptoms due to taking were found throughout this study.

  Next, the present invention will be described in more detail with reference to other prescription examples, but the present invention is not limited thereto.

<Prescription Example 5> Granules
(1) Remaining water tank (% by weight)
(2) Powdered sugar 30.00
(3) Extract 2 3.00
(4) Extract 11 1.00
(5) Corn starch 1.00
(6) Vitamin E 0.40
(7) Hydroxypropyl methylcellulose 2.00
(8) Fragrance 0.30
Production method: Components (1) to (8) are mixed and granulated.

<Prescription Example 6> Sugar-coated tablets
(1) Remaining sugar (wt%)
(2) Extract 5 50.00
(3) Lactose 20.00
(4) Crystalline cellulose 5.00
(5) Gelatin 1.50
(6) Talc 0.15
(7) Calcium carbonate 0.50
Production method: Components (1) to (7) are mixed and granulated, and then tableted.

<Prescription Example 7> Soft capsule
(1) Saflower oil remaining amount (% by weight)
(2) Vitamin E 15.00
(3) Extract 7 10.00
(4) Extract 3 4.00
(5) Extract 6 2.00
(6) Beeslow 3.00
(7) Glycerin fatty acid ester 1.00
(8) Gelatin 20.00
(9) Glycerin 10.00
Production method: The mixed components (1) to (7) are filled into gelatin capsules of components (8) to (9) to form soft capsules.

<Prescription Example 8>
(1) Remaining sugar (wt%)
(2) Minamata 40.00
(3) Brown sugar 8.00
(4) Extract 10 4.00
(5) Fragrance 0.20
Production method: Components (1) to (5) are heated, mixed and homogenized, and then molded.

<Prescription Example 9> Tablet
(1) Residual amount (% by weight) of crystalline cellulose
(2) Extract 4 60.00
(3) Magnesium aluminate metasilicate 2.50
(4) Magnesium stearate 1.00
Production method: Components (1) to (7) are granulated and then tableted.

<Prescription example 10> Medicinal liquor
(1) Eggplant extract 3.50 (wt%)
(2) Longan Meat Extract 1.00
(3) Apricot kernel extract 3.50
(4) Rakan fruit end 1.00
(5) Plum extract 10.00
(6) Eggplant extract 0.50
(7) Saitama Cordyceps Extract 0.10
(8) Saijo Red Scenic Extract 0.10
(9) Saijo Snow Lotus Extract 0.10
(10) Red Ganoderma Extract 0.20
(11) Black Reishi Extract 0.20
(12) Ginseng extract 0.30
(13) Licorice extract 0.40
(14) Yellow extract 0.10
(15) Yuri extract 0.10
(16) Hawthorn extract 0.10
(17) Oiso extract 0.50
(18) Meat Katsura Extract 1.50
(19) Evening primrose extract 0.05
(20) Birch extract 0.05
(21) Lotus extract 0.02
(22) Hop extract 0.01
(23) Marronie extract 0.01
(24) Fuquidan Popo Extract 0.02
(25) Milk thistle extract 0.02
(26) Tormentil extract 0.02
(27) Parsley extract 0.01
(28) Angelica extract 0.02
(29) Elderberry extract 0.02
(30) Fennel extract 0.02
(31) Chamomile extract 0.02
(32) Sage extract 0.02
(33) Tachikaku Sou extract 0.02
(34) Rosemary extract 0.02
(35) Achillea millefolium extract 0.02
(36) Koiusui mint extract 0.02
(37) Valerian extract 0.01
(38) Cilantro extract 0.01
(39) Rose extract 0.01
(40) Huckleberry extract 0.50
(41) Birch extract bamboo 0.05
(42) Agaricus extract 0.02
(43) Clove extract 0.01
(44) Gold and silver flower extract 0.01
(45) Yam extract 0.01
(46) Extract 1 0.02
(47) Extract 4 0.02
(48) Extract 8 0.02
(49) Honey 1.00
(50) Brown sugar 5.00
(51) Sucrose 15.00
(52) Alcohol for raw materials 15.00
(53) Purified water Remaining production method: Ingredients (1) to (52) are added to ingredient (53) and aged.

Claims (6)

A composition for promoting health, comprising a component obtained from a plant of Empetraceae . Components obtained from Gankouran family (Empetraceae) plant, Gankouran genus (Empetrum), Keratiora genus (Ceratiola) and characterized in that one or more components derived from plants belonging to claim any preceding claim Health promotion composition. The plant belonging to the genus Empetrum is one or more of the following species: Empetrum nigrum Linn. Var. Japonicum K. Koch, Empetrum rubrum , Empetrum nigrum Linn. The health promoting composition according to claim 1 or claim 2, wherein the composition is for health promotion. 3. The health promoting composition according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the plant belonging to the genus Ceratiola is Ceratiola ericoides .   A composition for promoting health comprising one or more of the components obtained from the plant according to any one of claims 1 to 4 as an active ingredient. A constipation improving effect, fatigue recovery effect, alcohol metabolism, comprising as an active ingredient one or more of the components obtained from the plant according to any one of claims 1 to 4 A health promoting composition having one or more of a promoting effect, an eyesight recovery effect, a sexual function improving effect, a facial color improving effect, a slimming effect, a gastrointestinal function improving effect, and a hair growth promoting effect.