JPH05310584A - Hot compress - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide an easily usable hot compress having excellent effect and completely safe to human body. CONSTITUTION:Water or organic solvent extract of rice is used as it is or as a component of the objective hot compress. A temperature-raising effect on cuticle and a blood circulation improving effect such as vasodilating effect can be attained by applying the hot compress to the skin or coating the skin with the agent.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a hot poultice which is characterized by using an extract obtained by extracting rice with water or an organic solvent, and which has an effect of increasing temperature and an effect of improving blood circulation such as vasodilation. Is.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Heretofore, cold limbs and stiff shoulders due to poor blood circulation have been important problems. In addition to this, recently, from a healthy life that moves the body as usual, blood circulation is caused by uncomfortable posture, continuous work, deterioration of living environment such as cooling and air pollution, and stress. There are more and more health problems caused by getting worse.

In order to solve these problems, a hot compress using hot water has heretofore been used as an extreme one. However, these are not often used because they are troublesome, their effects are deteriorated over time, and there are drawbacks such as skin breakage due to continuous use.

Therefore, a warm poultice containing easily usable camphor, menthol and the like as an active ingredient and a hot poultice containing a crude drug extract such as capsicum and tincture are used. However, in the case where the effect is obtained by mixing the isolated substances, the effect is observed during use because the direct effect is exerted, but the effect is extremely lost after the use is discontinued and the effect is fundamental. It has not been improved. In addition, although it is effective, it may cause irritation such as itching on the skin, or may cause a rash or severe red swelling. In addition, some crude drug ingredients used as raw materials improve physical constitution and have a gradual effect, but their use is limited because the raw materials are not stable or cannot be easily manufactured. The current situation is that it is done only in the field.

[0005]

As described above, there are rapidly increasing opportunities to use hot compresses having an effect of improving blood circulation such as a vasodilator effect. Despite the rapid increase in utilization opportunities, safe and effective hot compresses have not yet been developed. Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide a hot poultice which is highly effective, completely safe for the human body, and easy to use.

[0006]

[Means for Solving the Problems] From the viewpoint of animal and plant harmony, the present inventors have conducted research on various plant components centering on rice, which is a staple food. In the process, it has become clear that rice has many unpredictable possibilities and effects. Therefore, we have conducted comprehensive research on the comprehensive utilization of rice, using rice as the staple food, which has been proven to be the safest for thousands of years, as the theme. As one of the themes, as a result of intensive research on a hot compress for rice, when the rice extract as it is or a product containing it was applied to the skin by a compress and applied, an excellent compress effect was obtained. It was found that the present invention was completed.

[0007] That is, the present invention is a warm poultice preparation characterized by containing a water extract or an organic solvent extract from rice as it is or containing it, wherein the rice is extracted with water (acid, alkali). By extraction (including extraction) or with an organic solvent such as alcohol, it is possible to obtain a very excellent warm poultice which exhibits the above effects simply and inexpensively and completely safely.

In the present invention, when the extraction operation is carried out, crushing or pulverizing the rice increases the surface area, so that the extraction efficiency is improved. This method may be a general method using a crusher or a rice mill. Although it is not necessary to grind, in this case, it takes a long time to decompose and extract the rice tissue.

In the water extraction, rice is hydrated as it is, preferably crushed or powdered. The rice may be brown rice or white rice. About the amount of water, 2 to rice
It is efficiently extracted in a 5-fold amount, but may be appropriately selected depending on the yield, workability, end use purpose and the like. After that, the mixture is heated and the extraction is completed at the time of boiling. After the extraction is completed, depending on the purpose of use, if you squeeze and filter,
A clear extract is obtained. Note that hot water may be added from the beginning to perform extraction.

Although the active ingredient in the extract has not been clarified, it has been confirmed that this unknown active ingredient is stable to heat. Therefore, the extraction temperature in water extraction is efficiently high. If it is left at a low temperature for a long time, it can be sufficiently extracted. However, at a low temperature of 40 ° C. or lower, it is necessary to make the pH acidic or alkaline or to add a preservative. The extraction time may be several minutes in the case of boiling extraction, but several hours to one day is required for medium temperatures below that. When the temperature is low, it takes several days to one month depending on the crushed state of rice. However, even in this case, it is more effective to heat at the end as much as possible.

In the case of water extraction, the most problematic is the gelatinization phenomenon. If it becomes pasty, not only the extraction efficiency will deteriorate, but it will be extremely difficult in actual work. In order to prevent this, the reaction may be carried out by adding amylase or by acidifying it with hydrochloric acid or the like to decompose the starch. By using this method, it can be sufficiently solved and there is no problem in practice.

Since the active ingredient in the extract is stable to acids and alkalis, acid extraction or alkali extraction is also effective. Further, in the case of water extraction, a method of pre-treating with an acid or alkali or reacting with an enzyme (for example, amylase) that acts on rice tissue to pre-treat and then extracting is effective. This is probably because the pretreatment makes it easier for the active ingredient to be extracted.

Furthermore, it has been found that an extract having this effect can be extracted even by extraction with an organic solvent. This is extremely effective in promoting the elucidation of the active ingredient, and also in the usage of extracting the active ingredient into a concrete or blending it with a substance insoluble in water. In this case, it is preferable to pulverize or pulverize as much as possible. In addition, it is desirable that the organic solvent used here is one that is safe to administer to the human body, such as alcohol.

Extraction of the product of the present invention from rice is more effective if it is subjected to organic solvent extraction or water extraction as described above and the active ingredient in the extract is further subjected to solvent extraction. But,
It seems that this is because a concentrated state is obtained, and the same effect can be obtained by concentrating. In addition, depending on the application, the presence of sugar may cause stickiness or hinder the effect. In that case, the sugar may be removed by feeding it to yeast, fractionating the active ingredient with an adsorbent, or extracting with an organic solvent. In any case, the effect is obtained only by performing extraction, and therefore, unnecessary components may be removed by various methods depending on the application.
Furthermore, it was more effective if the extract was subjected to fermentation treatment such as alcoholic fermentation and lactic acid fermentation.

Since rice is eaten every day as a staple food, it was so close to us that even the concept of using it as a hot poultice was unimaginable. In addition, it has been used for sake, shochu, vinegar, etc. other than eating, but the idea and method of extracting rice have not been taken. This may be due to the fact that when rice is extracted by heating, it becomes pasty as a characteristic of rice, which is very difficult in the conventional way of thinking. Therefore, in the present invention, organic solvent extraction,
Acid or alkali extraction is used, and in the case of water extraction, by making amylase etc. act to facilitate extraction,
It made it possible to achieve the purpose. An extremely excellent warm poultice is obtained for the first time by performing sufficient extraction operation as described above, and the specific effect thereof will be described based on the test results.

First, 0.5 ml of the product of the present invention was applied directly to the backs of the hands of 6 panelists, and it was determined that 5 out of 6 panelists had a warm compress effect. Also, 3 out of 6 panelists said that the blood vessels seemed to have expanded slightly.

Therefore, in order to experimentally demonstrate the hot compress effect of the product of the present invention, the skin surface temperature after application of the product of the present invention was examined using a thermography device. 15 panelists were used, and the average value of the skin surface temperature in the main test read from the thermogram and the target test (water application) is shown in Table 1.

[0018]

[Table 1] Note 1 As the product of the present invention, the product obtained in Example 1 was used. Note 2 The thermogram measurement method is described below.

In an examination room where there is no air flow at room temperature of about 20 ° C. ± 1 ° C., the subject's forearm is exposed to room temperature for about 30 minutes, and then the infrared rays radiated from the human body surface are detected. A thermogram device that detects temperature information from the intensity was used to take a thermogram of the right upper arm and back of the subject. Next, 5 ml of the product of the present invention was applied evenly to the right forearm elbow of the subject. Shooting interval is 2 minutes, 5 minutes, 10 minutes, 15 minutes, 20 minutes, 2 minutes after applying the product of the present invention.
The time was 5 minutes, 30 minutes, and 40 minutes, and the change with time of the skin surface temperature was observed. As a control test, water was applied instead of the product of the present invention, and then a thermogram was similarly taken. The temperatures during the control test and the main test are shown in Table 1.

As is clear from Table 1, the measurement results with the forearm as the measurement site show a difference from the case of applying water after 10 minutes, and a difference of 0.5 ° C. after 20 minutes. Was recognized. In addition, according to the individual time-lapse data of the panelists, some people showed immediate effect after 2 minutes, and some people showed a difference after 10 minutes, but 40 minutes later, in the case of water application, before treatment, In contrast to the surface temperature, the coating of the present invention showed a surface temperature as high as 0.5 to 1.5 ° C. before the treatment. As a result, it was revealed that the product of the present invention has an excellent warm compress effect of raising the temperature of the epidermis.

Further, the product of the present invention is applied to the ear of a mouse,
The vasodilatory action by the addition of the product of the present invention was objectively observed.
The test method was to apply the product of the present invention to the ears of 10 DDY mice 10 times a day for 2 weeks. The application amount of one time was such that the product of the present invention was applied twice to a cotton swab on one ear. Further, as a control experiment, physiological saline was used instead of the product of the present invention. The determination was made by a specialist doctor. As a result, in the case where physiological saline was used as a control, no difference was visually observed before and after the application, whereas in the case where the product of the present invention was applied, the application was quicker.
The effect was recognized after about a minute, and a clear effect was observed until 60 minutes after application. Further, it was found that when the product of the present invention was applied for 2 weeks continuously, the vasodilatory effect of the application of the product of the present invention continued for a long time. From these results, it was found that the product of the present invention has an extremely excellent effect of improving blood circulation such as vasodilatory effect, and further has a hot compress effect by improving blood circulation.

[0022]

As is clear from the above results, it is easy to extract rice by water extraction or organic solvent extraction,
Moreover, a very excellent warm poultice having the effect of improving the blood circulation such as the effect of increasing the temperature and the effect of expanding the blood vessel was obtained completely safely. Since rice has been the staple food until now, new production methods and uses have hardly been developed.
Furthermore, rice has been the staple food until now, and its safety has been proven. That is, the present invention is
The present inventors have found that not only it has a very excellent effect as a hot poultice, but also its safety is sufficiently demonstrated. In addition, it is extremely significant to find out new uses of rice, which is said to be overproduction of rice, and to increase consumption by improving the image of rice.

[0023]

EXAMPLES Next, examples of the present invention will be described. Example 1 15 kg of white rice was crushed well, 45 liters of warm water at 60 ° C and 50 g of liquefied enzyme were added thereto, and the mixture was stirred well. afterwards,
Gradually raise the temperature, boil and extract for 5 minutes, then 30
Cooled to ° C. Then, the product was squeezed with a squeezing machine to obtain 41 liters of the product of the present invention and 16 kg of residue.

Example 2 1 kg of white rice was well pulverized, 5 liters of 0.1% hydrochloric acid water was added, well stirred, and left for 6 hours. Then, it was squeezed with a squeezing machine to separate 4.6 liters of compressed liquid and 1.2 kg of residue. The compressed liquid was neutralized with 1N NaOH to obtain 4.7 liters of the product of the present invention.

Example 3 1 kg of white rice was crushed well, 3 liters of 95% alcohol was added, and the mixture was left under stirring well. Four days later, the product was squeezed with a squeezing machine to obtain 2.5 liters of the pressing liquid and 1.2 kg of the residue. A part of 1 liter of the compressed liquid was added with 500 ml of water and alcohol was completely removed by a rotary evaporator to obtain 480 ml of the product of the present invention.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A warm poultice preparation comprising a water extract or an organic solvent extract of rice as it is or containing it.