US 2004/0170704 A1 · Process for the manufacture of a herbal composition

Abstract

The present invention is concerned with a process for the manufacture of a herbal composition, said process comprising: a. subjecting a matrine containing plant material, in the absence of a plant material derived from the species Dictamnus, to an extraction with an aqueous solvent, optionally followed by a concentration step, to produce a herbal extract I; b. subjecting a plant material derived from the species Dictamnus, to an extraction with an aqueous solvent, optionally followed by a concentration step, to produce a herbal extract II; c. mixing the herbal extracts I and II; d. provided the resulting mixture contains a significant amount of water, drying the mixture to a water content of less than 6 wt. %. The herbal composition according to the present invention may advantageously be used in a method of treating or preventing cancer, H. pylori infections, chronic inflammatory conditions, cardiovascular diseases or cerebral vascular diseases in mammals.

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Dependent claims

A process for the manufacture of a herbal composition, said process comprising:

a. subjecting a matrine containing plant material, in the absence of a plant material derived from the species Dictamnus, to an extraction with an aqueous solvent, optionally followed by a concentration step, to produce a herbal extract I;
b. subjecting a plant material derived from the species Dictamnus, to an extraction with an aqueous solvent, optionally followed by a concentration step, to produce a herbal extract II;
c. mixing the herbal extracts I and II;
d. provided the resulting mixture contains a significant amount of water, drying the mixture to a water content of less than 6 wt. %.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

10/468,894Filed 6 Feb 2004

Priority

US 0979325126 Feb 2001

Published

2 Sep 2004

Term ends

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Classification17 codes

A61K 36/489
Fabaceae or Leguminosae ; Caesalpiniaceae; Mimosaceae; Papilionaceae: sophora, e.g. necklacepod or mamani
A61K 31/4355
Ortho- or peri-condensed with heterocyclic ring systems: the heterocyclic ring system containing a five-membered ring having oxygen as a ring…
A61K 31/438
Having six-membered rings with one nitrogen as the only ring hetero atom: the ring being spiro-condensed with carbocyclic or heterocyclic ring systems
A61K 36/00
Medicinal preparations of undetermined constitution containing material from algae, lichens, fungi or

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Claims18