Health-care food for preventing and treating senile constipation

Abstract

A health-care food for preventing and treating senile constipation is prepared from the sodium alginate extracted from edible seaweed and the glucomannan extracted from river giantarum.

Description

technical field [0001] The invention belongs to health food for preventing and treating senile constipation, in particular to a health food for preventing and treating senile constipation which is prepared from marine organisms and terrestrial plant extracts for both medicine and food. Background technique [0002] The elderly are prone to constipation, especially those over 60 years old. According to relevant investigations, the chronic constipation prevalence rate of people over 60 years old in most areas of northern my country is more than 15%; and women suffer from constipation more than men. Many elderly people have dry stools due to dryness of the body and intestines, and cannot defecate smoothly. Some people even cannot defecate for several days in a row, often suffering unspeakably. When encountering this situation, if you use violent laxatives to attack it, it is easy to cause more than diarrhea, and the constipation remains the same after stopping the diarrhea, wh...

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Problems solved by technology

Therefore, attention must be paid to controlling the dosage when taking medication; (2), the laxative health food based on medicinal and edible Chinese herbal medicines is actually a traditional Chinese medicine used for laxative, which stimulates the large intestine mucosa by the medicine to make the large intestine A large amount of water soaks the intestinal wall to the intestinal cavity, causing diarrhea, and there are also side effects of drugs; (3), advocating changes in eating habits, eating coarse grains and not refined processed foods; (4), health foods based on edible cellulose, this Fibrous substances are difficult to be decomposed by intestinal bacteria to promote the peristalsis of the large intestine and promote the wall of the large intestine to soak into the intestinal cavity. In addition, the fiber material plays a role in loosening the stool in the stool, which is better for mild constipation and constipation prevention, but it is not effective for long-term constipation. (5) Eating more nutrients such as vegetables and fruits can prevent senile constipation

[0006] At present, there are few natural and side-effect-free health foods that can improve constipation among the elderly consumer groups at home and abroad. The main reason is that it is generally believed that the medicines and health foods used by adults are common to the elderly, and they do not care about the health of the elderly. secondly, there is a lack of understanding of the physiological characteristics that cause senile constipation; in addition, it is limited by the selection of food sources suitable for the elderly

[0007] The inventor disclosed a drug made of sodium alginate, glucomannan and carrageenan in the patent "a medicine for treating diarrhea in children" (patent number: 200410026445.3), which is used to treat diarrhea in children , but no reports of their use in the prevention and treatment of senile constipation have been found