Drug – bio-affecting and body treating compositions – Plant material or plant extract of undetermined constitution...
Reexamination Certificate
2001-08-27
2002-09-03
Naff, David M. (Department: 1651)
Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions
Plant material or plant extract of undetermined constitution...
C424S093700, C424S549000, C424S770000, C424S777000, C426S531000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06444236
ABSTRACT:
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates, in general, to a composition of health foods for promoting the circulation of blood and, more particularly, to a composition made of medicinal herbs,
Lycium chinense
Miller,
Agastache rugosa
(Fischer et Meyer) O. Kuntze,
Pueraria lobat
Ohwi, Macrocarpium officinale Sieb. et Zucc.,
Gastrodia elata blume, Amomum xanthioides
Wallich,
Cratagegus pinnatifida
Bge., Aquillaria Agallocha Roxburgh,
Inula Helenium
L.,
Cassia obtusifolia
L., and
Rubus sachalinensis
Lev., and young antlers of
Cornu cervi
, suitable for use in health foods helpful in improving blood circulation.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PRIOR ART
At present, various electrical and electronic instruments are generally used in offices for office automation and even in home for home automation. On the whole, such instruments require the user to assume certain postures, for example, to maintain his or her arms at a distance from the body, for their operation. Accordingly, after operating the instruments for a long time of period, the user is liable to undergo stiffness at certain body sites, such as arms, legs, waist, etc. In most cases, stiffened muscles can be easily relieved simply by massaging them. However, once afflicted with muscular stiffness, those who operate such instruments every day have difficulty in healing the discomfort or pain.
In addition to the operation of OA instruments, exercise, physical work, inappropriate posture, and metal stress are found to cause muscular stiffness. Other causes of muscular stiffness are exemplified by cervical spondylosis, thoracic outlet syndrome, hypertension, asthenopia, autonomous dysmyotonia, and menoposal disorder. Symptoms of the stiffness include characteristic chronic pain, irritability, and, in severe cases, headache and emesis.
The circulation of blood is the movement of blood, driven by the heart, throughout the body through defined channels and tissue spaces, performing a variety of functions, including carrying oxygen to tissues and releasing carbon dioxide to the lungs, supplying nutrients, taking away metabolites from cells, transporting hormones from various endocrine glands to control the functions of tissues, immune activity, and controlling body temperature, osmosis, and water content, etc.
Blood vessels are classified into arteries, veins and capillaries. Arteries can be broken down into: tunica interna composed of simple asquamous epithelium, subcutaneous layer, and internal elastic lamina; tunica media composed of smooth muscle and elastic tissue; and tunica advantitia composed mostly of fibrous connective tissue. Serving as exchange vessels for nutrients, waste and fluids, and connecting the arteries and veins, capillaries carry blood from the arterioles to the venules. With a diameter of as small as 0.008-0.02 mm, capillaries are invisible and allow only one or two rows of red blood cells to pass therethrough. Forming nets, capillaries are composed of tunica interna only. Veins are separated into: tunica interna composed of an internal layer comprising valves for preventing the retrograde movement of blood; tunica media composed of smooth muscle, which is thin in veins; and tunica externa which is a heavy layer in many veins.
Circulatory disturbance, meaning an uneven movement of blood through vessels, is caused by narrowing of the lumen of non-elastic vessels, owing mainly to deposition of cholesterol therein. In many cases, circulatory disturbance leads to circulatory diseases. Of them, cerebral apoplexy is representative, which is caused by the rupture or occlusion of cerebral vessels. Cerebral apoplexy is classified into hemorrhagic apoplexy and ischemic apoplexy. Causes of a sudden onset of intracranial hemorrhage or bleeding are hypertension, aneurysm, bleeding into a tumor, and the like. Hemorrhagic apoplexy is subclassified into cerebral hemorrhage and subarachnoid hemorrhage. Ischemic apoplexy is caused by ischemia or inability to obtain necessary amounts of oxygen for the needs of the brain tissues, owing usually to the narrowing or blockage of a major or smaller crucial artery in the brain. Ischemic apoplexy is further classified into cerebral infarction and transient ischemic attack.
General causes of cerebral hemorrhage are hypertension and arteriosclerosis. Hypertension is a disorder characterized by high blood pressure; generally this is characterized by systolic blood pressure consistently higher than 140, or diastolic blood pressure consistently over 90. Hypertension is subclassified into mild hypertension with a diastolic blood pressure of 90 to 104, moderate hypertension with a diastolic blood pressure of 105 to 110, and heavy hypertension with a diastolic blood pressure of higher than 110. As much as 90% of all hypertension patients suffer from essential (primary) hypertension, which means that the high blood pressure has no identifiable cause. The rest comprise consecutive (secondary) hypertension sufferers whose cause is identifiable. On the whole, older persons tend to have higher blood pressures. Some research results disclose the hereditary nature of hypertension. Impatient persons are liable to suffer from hypertension. Obesity, salt ingestion, mental stresses, smoking, drinking, renal diseases, pheochromocytoma, use of oral contraceptives, and primary aldosteronemia are found to be causes of hypertension.
Arteriosclerosis is a vascular disease of the arteries in which fatty materials are deposited on vessel walls, resulting in narrowing of the vessel lumen and eventual impairment of blood flow. The elderly are more liable to be afflicted with arteriosclerotic diseases. Once a person suffers from arteriosclerosis, there occurs dysfunction of of various organs of his or hers. When it occurs at cerebral vessels, apoplexy results.
Additionally, heart diseases and diabetes mellitus are also associated with hypertension and/or arteriosclerosis.
Muscle stiffness, even though its etiology is not established firmly, is found to be attributed, at least in part, to the excessive contraction of peripheral vessels and circulatory disturbance and congestion within muscles, which result from excessive stimulation of nerves, muscle fatigue and/or autonomous dysmyotonia. Accordingly, relieving muscle stiffness is an effective way to improve blood circulation. With other therapies, such as massaging, warm-bath therapy, fomentation, electric stimulation and pharmacotheraphy, a desirable healing effect is difficult to obtain. In addition, some of these therapies are annoying because the patients have to go specialized hospitals.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
Leading to the present invention, the intensive and thorough research to develop health foods for promoting the circulation of blood, conducted by the present inventor aiming to overcome the problems encountered in prior arts, resulted in the finding that certain wild herbs promote the functions of the organs relevant to the circulation of blood, and are medicinally effective for the treatment of arteriosclerosis and disturbance of blood circulation.
Therefore, it is an object of the present invention to provide a composition of health foods for promoting the circulation of blood, which is safe to the body and effective for treating diseases attributed to the disturbance of blood circulation.
In accordance with the present invention, the above object could be accomplished by a provision of a composition of health foods for promoting the circulation of blood, comprising: 5-13 wt % of
Lycium chinense
Miller, 5-13 wt % of young antlers of
Cornu cervi,
5-13 wt % of
Agastache rugosa
(Fischer et Meyer) O. Kuntze, 5-13 wt % of
Pueraria lobat
Ohwi, 4-12 wt % of Macrocarpium officinale Sieb. et Zucc., 4-12 wt % of
Gastrodia elata blume,
4-12 wt % of
Amomum xanthioides
Wallich, 4-12 wt % of
Cratagegus pinnatifida
Bge., 4-12 wt % of Aquillaria Agallocha Roxburgh, 4-12 wt % of
Inula Helenium
L., 4-12 wt % of
Cassia obtusifolia
L., and 4-12 wt % of
Rubus sachalinensis
Lev.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
The present invent
Goldberg Joshua B.
Naff David M.
Nath Gary M.
Nath & Associates PLLC
Ware Deborah K.
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