JPH01202280A - Smoking tobacco and additive diluting article consisting of lonicera plant - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To obtain smoking tobacco and additional diluting article having texture feeling and feeling after smoking closely resemble to that of commercial tobacco of Nicotiana plant, by using a Lonicera plant as a raw material. CONSTITUTION:Leaf, flower, pine and stem of a Lonicera plant such as Lonicera japonica, Lonicera morrowii A. Gray or Lonicera affinis Hook. are each divided or whole the grass is together picked off, properly dried and aged and then finely cut and the cut pieces are used for smoking tobacco or as diluting article added to processing raw material of Nicotiana plant according to Tobacco project Raw.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION This invention is a use invention for using a plant that does not contain nicotine as a raw material for smoking or an additive excipient. In other words, the present invention falls under the invention for uses related to smoking bases.

The current evaluation of tobacco is generally viewed as ``all harm and no benefit.'' but,
Cigarettes are a luxury item that provides mental peace and improves the pace of life.
It is also true that it has played a role similar to that of a tranquilizer as a warm-up for "maai".

In this regard, if conventional cigarettes have any harmful effects, it is necessary to take a research stance to improve them even one step at a time.

The existence of ``tobacco'', a pastime that satisfies the truth by enjoying the pleasure of inhaling and exhaling smoke and by watching the smoke rise with the naked eye, is precious, and it is good to desire raw materials that do not contain nicotine. However, even the research team of the former Japan Monopoly Corporation went so far as to say, ``Until now, we have not found anything that can replace Nicotiana tabaci as a plant suitable for smoking among all plants.'' To this day, efforts have been made to reduce the amount of nicotine and other harmful substances in plants of the genus in the tobacco manufacturing process.

However, if nicotine is removed beyond a certain limit, the taste and other product values will deteriorate, so there has been no improvement.

In particular, although nicotine is ostensibly said to stimulate the human body's nerves, it has an insecticidal effect and can be used as an insecticide.
According to the regulations, nicotine itself is so poisonous that it is designated as a non-medicinal "poison," and some pharmacology textbooks even list it as a life-destroying drug. That's about it. By the way, the oral lethal dose of nicotine is said to be 50mg to 60mg, but for comparison, the dose of potassium cyanide used by international spies for suicide is 150mg to 60mg.
It is said to be 300mg. In other words, nicotine is three to six times more toxic than potassium cyanide.

When you smoke commercially available cigarettes, it is said that the smoke contains around 1.0% nicotine (2.0% for Peace), and fresh leaves contain as much as 4% to 7%. do.

Once absorbed into the body, nicotine is passed through the bloodstream to almost all organs and tissues. Furthermore, when smoking commercially available cigarettes, an increase in nicotine distribution in venous blood is observed 30 seconds after smoking the first cigarette. Therefore, even if we only consider nicotine in plants of the genus Nicotiana, there are too many harmful effects.

Plants that have been used for smoking include, in addition to currently commercially available tobacco plants, Japanese knotweed, Japanese hydrangea,
These include the sweetness of soybean lettuce, lettuce leaves, and cocoa beans.

Japanese knotweed (Polygonum cuspidatum)
SIEB et Zucc. ) is a plant belonging to the Polygonaceae family, and is known to contain oxyanthraquinone flavonoids and does not contain alkaloids. Tama hydrangea (
Hydranged involucr-ata SI
E.B. ) is a plant of the Saxifrage family, and there are no other examples of its use as a particularly useful plant. Both of these were once used as substitutes during and after the war from 1945 to 1944, when there was an extreme shortage of plants belonging to the tobacco genus.

The next Sawaftagi (Symplocos chinen)
sis Dru-ce var laucocarpa
ONWI. ) is a deciduous tree that grows naturally in the mountains, and is a plant belonging to the Cypress family, and no elements of useful or medicinal plants have been confirmed to have any special effects on the human body.

Lettuce leaves and cocoa bean cuticles are examples of tobacco substitutes marketed in the United States. There is no doubt that the aim was to make nicotine-free cigarettes, but the ones made from lettuce leaves have already been discontinued.

The present invention relates to the genus Caprifoliacea.
e-L. onicera L. ) plants, honeysuckle (Lonicera japonica THUNB.).
), L.hypogla-uca M
IQ. ), L. maackiiM
AXIM. ), but among these, Hana Hyoutanboku also has other varieties such as L. chinensis WA
TSON, L. similis HEMSL. ,L. t
ragophylla HEMSL. ,L. pampa
ninii LEVL, L. hypoglauca M
IQ, subsp. nu-diflora HSU e
t. H. J. WANG, L. macrantoid
s HAND. -MAZZ. ,L. confusa(S
WEET)DC. is included.

Honeysuckle is also known as Japanese honeysuckle, and overseas it is also called ``Japanese honeysuckal''. In particular, the flower parts of honeysuckle are called gold and silver flowers. In addition to honeysuckle, the imported gold and silver flowers are treated equally with flowers of the Japanese gourd (a cultivar in the future) and the flower of the Japanese chinensis, or are sometimes mixed together. For this reason, Kinginka is also sometimes called Doginka, Nanginka, Mitsuginka, and Toginka as similar aliases.

The composition of honeysuckle includes 8.0% tannins, 18.74% nitrogen-containing substances, and 7.66% ash, and more detailed organic analysis revealed monoterpenoid alkaloids, indole alkaloids, flavone glycosides, and tannins. ．． It has been confirmed that it contains inositol, etc.

When we look into the essence and origin of honeysuckle, we find that it is a useful plant that has long been suggested to be good for health.
In terms of food and drink - tea substitute (Ninto tea) and condiment sake (Ninto sake)
- It is also used in popular health-oriented concepts, and in folk medicine and Chinese medicine, it is known for its detoxifying, diuretic, and astringent effects. In this respect, they can be regarded as useful, non-toxic or effectively harmless plants, much the same as and slightly different from other animals and plants used for food and drink.

The structure of the present invention is to separate the leaves, flowers, vines, and stems of plants belonging to the genus Honeysuckle, or to pick the whole plant together, dry-ripen it, and chop it into pieces, which are then used as raw materials for smoking. The compositional types of raw materials are as follows.

(a) Whole plant (b) Mixture of leaves and flowers (c) Mixture of leaves, vines and stems (d) Leaves only (e) Flowers and buds (f) Flowers, buds and vines The form of smoking tobacco is ``tobacco'' and ``chopped tobacco.''

The most important advantage of the present invention is that it does not contain substances similar to highly toxic nicotine. Compared to conventional substitute raw materials, the flavor sensation is more similar to commercially available tobacco (Nicotine plants). The essence of the plant (honeysuckle, etc.) is one that can be used for general consumption. Compared to conventional plant substitutes, it has the advantage of being richer in alkaloids, and has excellent industrial value.

By the way, there are many substances that belong to the alkaloid class that generally have unique physiological effects, and some of them are used in trace amounts in medicines, and some are included in foods. It is also interesting that many of our favorite foods contain alkaloids. For example - (1) caffeine in tea leaves, (2) theophylline/caffeine in black tea, (3)
Theopromina caffeine in cacao beans, (4) caffeine in coffee, and (5) nicotine in commercially available cigarettes all fall under alkaloids.

Of these, nicotine is the only substance designated as a non-medicinal toxic ingredient, which is interesting, and it doesn't fit with the recreational food ``cigarettes''.

We have already pointed out the health hazards of nicotine, but recent research shows that when nicotine is absorbed into the body, it stimulates the adrenal glands and promotes the secretion of adrenaline. Because adrenaline has a strong constrictive effect on peripheral blood vessels, the blood flow inside the stomach wall after smoking commercial cigarettes is almost immediately suppressed.

Considering the various harmful effects that have been pointed out to commercially available cigarettes,
For the time being, we should eliminate the negative effects of nicotine and avoid it, instead of simply taking measures such as ``Be careful not to smoke too much for the sake of your health,'' which is currently displayed on commercially available products.

Even if the alkaloids contained in the plants of the genus Honeysuckle of the present invention are transferred into the smoke through smoking and absorbed into the body in the same way as nicotine, the concept of the alkaloids being harmless to the human body has already been empirically demonstrated through the use of food and drink. It can be said that it has been confirmed.

Among the smoking population, there are those who do not fall into the category of nicotine addicts, that is, those who smoke for the so-called ``hand-holding'', ``psychological comfort'', or just to look ``cool''. There are probably many people who smoke commercially available nicotine cigarettes just out of curiosity, and the present invention should be more than effective for such smokers as well.

When I actually tried smoking the product described in claim (1), I was left with an after-smoking feeling that was more similar to tobacco from the genus Nicotiana compared to the previous products based on Sawafta. For example, when smoke is inhaled through the mouth and expelled from the body through the nostrils through the upper respiratory tract, a bitter and irritating sensation remains in the mucous membranes deep within the nostrils, which can cause repeated smoking. The effectiveness can also be guaranteed by the fact that the odor that sticks to your hands and the residual odor of the butts is very similar to that of commercially available cigarettes.

Claims (3)

[Claims] (1) Plants of the genus Honeysuckle (Lonicera japonica, Honeysuckle japonica, and chinensis chinensis) are used for smoking. (2) Use of the material described in claim (1) as a raw material for smoking tobacco (3) A use in which the material described in claim (1) is mixed as an additive excipient into a processed raw material of plants of the tobacco genus based on the "Tobacco Business Act" and used for smoking tobacco.