Enhanced gingerols for patients suffering from nausea and emesis
AssigneeAphios Corporation
InventorTrevor Percival Castor
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Abstract
This invention relates to a composition of matter using enhanced gingerols for treating nausea and emesis associated with cancer chemotherapy, pregnancy, elective surgery, radiation therapy, motion sickness, and drug medications, use and schedule of use as well as methods of making. A method of making the enhanced gingerols features supercritical, critical and near-critical fluids with and without polar cosolvents. The capsules include an enhanced extract of ginger rhizome wherein said ginger rhizome has a starting mass and said extract has a 6-gingerol, 8-gingerol, 10-gingerol, and 6-shogaol mass and said ratio of 6-gingerol, 8-gingerol, 10-gingerol, and 6-shogaol mass to starting mass is 90-100%.
Claims28
As a composition of matter an extract of ginger rhizome wherein said ginger rhizome has a starting mass and said extract has a 6-gingerol, 8-gingerol, 10-gingerol, and 6-shogaol mass and said ratio of 6-gingerol, 8-gingerol, 10-gingerol, and 6-shogaol mass to starting mass is 90-100%.
A composition of matter comprising a composition with an absolute purity of 28.78% total gingerols and shogaol (20.78% 6-gingerol, 2.50%;
- 8-gingerol, 4.00% 10-gingerol and 1.50% 6-shogaol) and wherein the product is chromatographed on solid phase columns to produce a product with an absolute purity greater than 90% total gingerols and shogaol.
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