Drug – bio-affecting and body treating compositions – Antigen – epitope – or other immunospecific immunoeffector – Conjugate or complex
Patent
1999-04-26
2000-08-15
Prats, Francisco
Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions
Antigen, epitope, or other immunospecific immunoeffector
Conjugate or complex
A61K 3578, C11B 900
Patent
active
061032417
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
ESSENTIAL OIL AND METHODS OF USE
This invention relates to an essential oil and methods of use. Historically, essential oils have been used for medicinal and preservative purposes, and during the Middle Ages, were the basis of basically all pharmaceuticals.
Essential oils, generally, are obtained from the fruit, flower, leaves, bark and wood of plants and can be extracted in a number of ways, often by distillation, either by steam or under vacuum, or by cold pressing.
The object of the present invention is to provide a new essential oil which has beneficial properties.
The invention in its broadest sense includes an essential oil derived from plants of the genus Kunzea.
More specifically, it relates to the essential oil derived from the shrub Kunzea ambigua.
The essential oil is adapted for treatment of ailments of the human body, and is applied topically to relieve pain, minimize bruising and to assist in healing, and may be used either pure or in a carrier.
In order that the invention may be more readily understood, I shall describe one particular embodiment of it.
The shrub from which the oil is obtained, a member of the Myrtaceae family, genus Kunzea, species ambigua.
The shrub does not appear to be widely distributed, but is found in Tasmania, close to the 41st parallel, in a cool, temperate climate with a rainfall of the order of 850 millimeters.
The shrub is hardy and can be harvested by being topped mechanically with a forage harvester.
The harvester thus retrieves the leaves, small stems and seed bolls.
Because the plant is hardy, there will be substantial regrowth, and it is possible to re-harvest the plant after one or two years.
The material harvested is placed in a still and steam distillation is used to break down the cells of the plant to release the oil, and the oil is carried over with the steam, which is condensed and the oil/water so formed is passed into a container where the oil floats to the top and can be drained off.
The attached examples show the results of gas chromatograph analysis of the oil made from the shrub, and it will be seen that its principal components in each example are mono- and sesqui-terpenes.
Considering Example 1, the largest components are .alpha. pinene, 50.52 percent, 1-8-cineole, 14.08 percent, and sesquiterpene alcohols, globulol, 6.81 percent, and viridiflorol, 5.96 percent.
In Example 2, again the largest components are .alpha. pinene, 41.5 percent, 1-8-cineole, 12.1 percent and in this case, there are identified 3 sesquiterpene alcohols which together are 25.5 percent.
Whilst other analyses of the oils have varied in absolute percentage, the relative percentages of the various components are very similar, with a preponderance of the above components.
I have had trials done with the oil in a number of therapeutic applications, and although full trials has not been completed, I have found, qualitatively, that the oil has the ability to reduce pain caused by muscle and tendon strain and impact trauma, and it has also been found to reduce pain from gout, headache and bites, particularly insect and spider bites.
It has also had positive results in the treatment of rashes, skin irritations and acne.
It also seems to provide a positive result in relieving sinus congestion and as a result of this, aids in the return of the senses of smell and taste.
It also appears to have an ability to prevent the progress of cold sores, although to date the results in treating genital herpes have not been so positive.
One area which has provided a surprising reaction is in the treatment of bruising.
If applied to the area after the trauma and before bruising has started or is only incipient, I have found that it is almost completely ameliorated.
The oil appears to have no strongly adverse reaction with the skin, although as with all essential oils, people with sensitive skin should be careful before they apply it at full strength, but it can readily be applied, diluted in a carrier oil, preferably a pure vegetable oil, a lotion which can be an aqueous suspension, or an ointmen
REFERENCES:
patent: 4154823 (1979-05-01), Schutt
Lis-Balchin et al. (Acta Horticulturae, No. 426, pp. 13-30), Aug. 1995.
Douglas et al. (Horticulture in New Zealand, vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 22-25), 1994.
"Proceedings of the Essential Oils Planning Workshop," Jun.14-15 1995, Hobart, published by Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation, RIRDC Occasional Paper No. 96/1, pp. 4-17.
Coe Susan D.
Prats Francisco
Schindler Edwin D.
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