Beneficial effects of plant volatile oils
AssigneeThe Scottish Agricultural College
InventorsStanley Gordon Deans, Raymond Clifford Noble
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Abstract
Plant volatile oils have been found to have certain beneficial effects on the body of a human or non-human. The effects described relate to the maintenance of levels of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs), the prevention or mitigation of deleterious changes in nervous tissue, elevation of protein levels, and the prevention or mitigation of retinal degeneration.
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A method of producing elevated PUFA levels in nervous tissue in a human or animal body, said method comprising administering a plant volatile oil or an active constituent thereof to said body in a physiologically effective amount.
A method of treating nervous tissue in a human or animal body, said method comprising administering a plant volatile oil or an active constituent thereof to said body, in an amount sufficient to elevate the PUFA levels in the nervous tissue.
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