4991 results about "Diuresis" patented technology

The present invention provides one composite medicine for treating chronic heart failure. The composite medicine has the functions of invigorating vital energy, dredging meridian, promoting blood circulation and diuresis. The medicine composition has 11 kinds of Chinese medicinal materials including astragalus root or white atractylodes rhizome, mankshood, ginseng or Dangshen, red sage, pepperweed seed, etc. The pharmacological test shows that the capsule of the present invention has obvious improving effects to heart failure of dog caused by Pentobarbital sodium.

The present invention discloses proteinaceous compounds that comprise at least a biologically active portion of a taipan natriuretic peptide (TNP) or a variant or derivative thereof. The invention also relates to the use of these compounds in methods for stimulating vasodilation, natriuresis, diuresis, renin-suppression, bactericidal activity, weight-loss or bone growth in a mammalian host. In specific embodiments, the compounds are useful in the treatment of congestive heart failure.

Devices, systems and methods using feedback from sensors for the treatment of pathological conditions such as Kidney Disease (KD) alone, Heart Failure (HF) alone, KD with concomitant HF or cardiorenal diseases syndrome (CRS) are described. The devices, systems and methods monitor and gather patient information and administer one or more diuretic or natriuretic molecules.

The invention relates to a capsule for forcedly improving the immunity, which is a capsule formulation prepared by traditional Chinese medicines of parasites detoxifying and destroying type, heat dry dampness clearing, detoxifying and blood cooling type, cough and asthma relieving and phlegm reducing type, temperature cooling and exterior relieving type, kidney warming and yang enhancing type, health building type, resolving damp with aromatics and blood enriching type, qi invigorating type, spleen and stomach strengthening and interior warming type, invigorating blood circulation by removing blood stasis type, liver soothing and qi regulating type, yin tonifying and converging type, digestion helping type, liver clearing, vision helping and resuscitation inducing type, deswelling and pain stopping type, heart nourishing as well as fever reducing and fire purging type according to a certain preparation method. The capsule has the functions as follows: forcedly improving the immunity, clearing away heat and toxic material, detoxifying and destroying parasites, soothing the liver and regulating qi, invigorating blood circulation by removing blood stasis, building health, invigorating qi and enriching blood, regulating qi and stopping pain, inducing diuresis and excreting dampness, eliminating phlegm, relieving cough and asthma, warming kidney and enhancing yang, invigorating the spleen and stomach and the like. The capsule has effects for various headaches, dizzy and neurasthenia, and various intestinal tract diseases, abdominal pains and abdominal distension, and various waist and leg pains and various tumors, and can cure diseases when in ill, build body when not in ill, and can achieve the goal of healthy and long life if the long-term or discontinuous taking is carried out.

The invention discloses a fruit and vegetable juice, a fruit and vegetable juice beverage and a preparation method of the fruit and vegetable juice. The preparation method of the fruit and vegetable juice comprises the following steps: (1) selecting and cleaning fruits and vegetables; (2) preparing raw fruit and vegetable juice; (3) carrying out cold enzyme deactivation and color protection treatment on the raw juice; (4) carrying out enzymolysis treatment; (5) carrying out refined filtration and hollow filtration; (6) carrying out low-temperature vacuum concentration; and (7) carrying out a cold sterilization procedure. According to the fruit and vegetable juice and the fruit and vegetable juice beverage prepared by the method, cold enzyme deactivation and cold sterilization technologies are adopted for the fruit and vegetable juice in enzyme deactivation and sterilization, so that the prepared fruit and vegetable juice and the fruit and vegetable juice beverage completely reserve nutritive value and health functions of fresh fruits and vegetables, and have the health functions of clearing heat, removing internal heat, promoting the secretion of saliva or body fluid, quenching thirst, moistening the lung, removing fat, lowering pressure, detoxifying, dispelling the effects of alcohol, inducing diuresis, reducing swelling, and losing weight.

The acne treat medicine composition contains the extractive of medicine material for clearing away heat, the extractive of medicine material for promoting blood circulation to disperse blood clots, the extractive of medicine material for promoting diuresis and the extractive of medicine material for regulating vital energy. It contains no medicine component for expelling surficial evils and medicine component for nourishing blood.

The present invention relates to the antagonism of the effects of melanin-concentrating hormone (MCH) through the melanin concentrating hormone receptor which is useful for the prevention or treatment of eating disorders, weight gain, obesity, abnormalities in reproduction and sexual behavior, thyroid hormone secretion, diuresis and water / electrolyte homeostasis, sensory processing, memory, sleeping, arousal, anxiety, depression, seizures, neurodegeneration and psychiatric disorders.

The invention provides a Chinese herbal feed additive and a manufacturing method of the feed additive, and belongs to the field of animal feed additives. The Chinese herbal feed additive is prepared by mixing the following raw materials: radix bupleuri, astragalus mongholicus, codonopsis, poria, atractylodes, licorice, angelica, rehmannia glutinosa, white peony root, glossy privet fruit, hawthorn, medicated leaven, malt, rhizoma atractylodis, oriental wormwood, dodder, fructus cnidii, herba epimedii, pulsatilla, golden cypress, folium isatidis, folium artemisiae argyi, ash bark, cortex ailanthi, vitamin E, vitamin B2 and methionine. When pestilence happens, based on the formula above, the following raw materials can be added: dandelion, honeysuckle and fructus forsythiae. The manufacturing method comprises the steps of drying, weighing, mixing, crushing, screening and mixing the Chinese herbal raw materials. When applied to the feed of laying ducks, the Chinese herbal feed additive has the functions of replenishing Qi to invigorate the spleen, regulating and enriching blood, retaining Yin and nourishing blood, nourishing liver and relieving pain, helping digestion and invigorating stomach, clearing away heat and toxic materials, and inducing diuresis and reducing edema, can improve resistance of the laying ducks, prevent intestinal tract and oviduct inflammation, obviously improve the laying rate of the laying ducks, and reduce the feed-gain ratio.

This invention relates to a method for producing Hypericum perforatum hyperoside and hypericin. This invention comprehensively utilizes Hypericum perforatum fruits which are rich in our country to produce both hyperoside and hypericin pharmaceutical active components with high recovery rate, high product purity, and low cost. During the producing process, it achieves the recovery and cycling use of many solvents like ethanol and ethyl ether, and also achieves the regeneration and cycling use of micelle reextracting agent and absorption resin. The plant biological active compounds produced by this invention can be broadly used in heat-clearing and detoxifying, astringing to arrest bleeding and promote diuresis, and antidepressant drug.

The invention discloses herbal tea for improving human immunity. The herbal tea comprises the following composition by weight: 1-5 parts of tea leaf, 2-19 parts of mulberry leaf, 5-20 parts of chrysanthemum, 3-8 parts of henom bamboo leaf, 2-20 parts of white hyaciath bean flower, 3-6 parts of lotus leaf and 5-15 parts of pagodatree flower. The herbal tea has a prescription of neutral edible medicines and has no cool or hot property. Vegetable foods play functions of moisturizing intestines, detoxifying, eliminating toxicant and diuresis, relieving inflammation, activating blood circulation to dissipate blood stasis and improving immunity on subjects after neutralizing with each other; the herbal tea is designed according to holistic medical care of traditional Chinese medicine and made from raw materials of herb-food-homologous vegetable foods. According to different prescription methods of monarch, minister, assistant and guide, the herbal tea has different preventative and curative effects on diseases.

The invention relates to a beverage having multiple health-care functions. The beverage having multiple health-care functions is characterized in that lotus, lotus leaf, haw, reed rhizome, gynostemma pentaphylla, chrysanthemum, licorice, ginkgo leaf, malt, cassia seed, coix seed, wolfberry, fleece-flower root, honeysuckle flower, root of kudzu vine, mint, Chinese yam, common curculigo rhizome and drinking water are utilized as raw materials; white sugar, honey, lemon essence, sodium citrate, mint essence, sodium cyclamate, caramel and jujube juice are utilized as seasonings; the raw materials are subjected to water boiling extraction by a conventional traditional Chinese medicine boiling extraction method; the extract is concentrated, is added with the seasonings and is stirred; and the mixture is added with drinking water to form the beverage having multiple health-care functions. The beverage having multiple health-care functions is a high-grade nutriment having a scientific and reasonable formula, functions of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, clearing and activating channels and collaterals, consolidating basis and recovering promordial qi and relieving uncomfortable symptoms, no toxic and side effects, a good taste, no any bitterness taste, and effects of sunstroke prevention, temperature reduction and diuresis.

The invention relates to a kind of medical wine that possesses functions of nourishing the liver to improve visual acuity, blood-nourishing, kidney tonifying and removing dampness by diuresis and the preparation method. It mainly comprises following raw materials: boxthorn fruit, red date, astragalus root, Poria cocos, Cistanche deserticola, safflower, nelumbo nucifera gaertn and nelumbo nucifera gaertn and etc. The pharmacological effect is pretty good, especially for treating symptoms of deficiency of qi and blood in the heart and spleen, dyspepsia, dry cough, be constipated, cold of insufficiency type, deficiency of the liver and kidney and hyphemia. The product can aslo be used as normal health-care beverage, which is non side effect, and possesses good economic and social benefit.

The invention relates to an industrial application technology of lycium ruthenicum fruit. The fresh or dry lycium ruthenicum fruit is sorted, wherein the raw materials with color and weight reaching the standard are prepared into oral capsules or fresh juice, and the disqualified raw materials are prepared into condensed juice, brewed drinks or oral chewable tablets. The fresh lycium ruthenicum fruit which contains more than 3.5% of total flavonoids and more than 3.0% of procyanidine is the qualified lycium ruthenicum fruit. The produced industrial product has the efficacies of protecting the liver, keeping the cardiac muscle healthy, supplementing energy, nourishing brain, enhancing the immunity of the human body and delaying ageing, has the effects of reducing cholesterol in the body, reducing blood fat, preventing and treating cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, cancer and diabetes mellitus, and also has the efficacy of promoting digestion, inducing diuresis, relieving constipation, activating collaterals and relieving pain. The produced industrial product consumes the least energy, keeps the strong wild natural flavor of the lycium ruthenicum fruit, has remarkable functions of resisting oxidation and fatigue and can serve as an important healthcare food and a nutritional food additive.

The present invention is directed to compounds of formula (I), which antagonize of the effects of melanin-concentrating hormone (MCH) through the melanin concentrating hormone receptor which is useful for the prevention or treatment of eating disorders, weight gain, obesity, abnormalities in reproduction and sexual behavior, thyroid hormone secretion, diuresis and water / electrolyte homeostasis, sensory processing, memory, sleeping, arousal, anxiety, depression, seizures, neurodegeneration and psychiatric disorders.

Assessing decongestive therapy delivered to a heart failure patient involves use of an implantable sensor configured to sense a physiologic parameter indicative of the patient's diuresis status and a processor coupled to the implantable sensor. The sensor may comprise a thoracic fluid sensor, a heart sounds sensor, a cardiac chamber or arterial pressure sensor, a respiration sensor, or a blood chemistry sensor, for example. The processor is configured to determine if a target level of patient diuresis has been achieved based on a relationship between the sensed physiologic parameter and a threshold developed for the patient, and to produce an output in response to determining that the target level of patient diuresis has been achieved. The processor may be disposed in an implantable housing, in a patient-external housing, or in a network server system.

The invention discloses a traditional Chinese medicine drink which is prepared from the following raw materials in parts by weight: 30-60 parts of radix puerariae, 35-50 parts of flower of kudzuvine, 10-25 parts of dried ginger, 15-30 parts of fructus forsythiae, 10-25 parts of fructus amomi, 20-39 parts of liquorice, 30-60 parts of hovenia dulcis thumb, 18-30 parts of dried tangerine or orange peel, 15-30 parts of Indian buead, 10-28 parts of cassia twig, 18-35 parts of honewort, 5-20 parts of hawthorn, 10-28 parts of mint, 8-18 parts of red date, 15-30 parts of gypsum and 5-10 parts of sweetening agent. The traditional Chinese medicine drink is prepared by decocting the natural traditional Chinese medicinal materials with effects respectively, and a proper amount of sweetening agent is added into the drink, the drink is unique in mouthfeel and fresh and cool in taste, has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials and relaxing the bowels and promoting diuresis, accelerates alcohol metabolism, fulfills the aim of dispelling the effects of alcohol, relieves the uncomfortable feelings such as gaseous distention and nausea, headache and brain swelling and dryness of the mouth caused by drunkenness, relieves heart rate acceleration and blood pressure rise caused by excessive drink and prevents liver injury caused by alcohol.

The present invention relates to a Chinese medicine compound for curing nephropathy syndrome, which is made from milk veteh, dried orange peel, salvia, dangshen, largehead atractylode, cortex eucommiae, motherwort herb, gordon euryale seed, parasite scurrula, coix seed, Chinese yam, imperatae rhizome, poria skin, epimedium powder, slenderstyle acanthopanax bark, cooked rehmannia root and / or acceptable carriers in pharmacology. The present invention also relates to a preparation method of the Chinese medicine compound. The Chinese medicine compound of the present invention has the effects of reinforcing the spleen and replenishing qi, removing heat and toxic substance, promoting diuresis and eliminating dampness, nourishing liver and kidney, etc., which is used for curing such symptoms as a large amount of albuminuria, serious edema, hypoproteinemia and hyperlipidemia caused by nephropathy syndrome.

The invention discloses an alcohol-relieving healthcare product which has functions of relieving alcohol and removing dampness, replenishing qi and invigorating spleen and activating qi for diuresis. The alcohol-relieving healthcare product is prepared from the following medicinal plants in parts by weight: 20-60 parts of raisin tree seed, 20-50 parts of flower of kudzuvine (or kudzuvine root), 10-30 parts of chrysanthemum, 5-20 parts of rhizoma imperatae, 5-20 parts of semen phaseoli, 5-10 parts of dark plum, 5-10 parts of dried ginger, 5-20 parts of hawthorn and 5-20 parts of coloured malt; in addition, 5-10 parts of largehead atractylodes can be also added. In the formula, the raisin tree seed and the flower of kudzuvine (or the kudzuvine root) have efficacy of relieving alcohol; the chrysanthemum has efficacy of dispersing the stagnated liver energy; the rhizoma imperatae and the semen phaseoli can accelerate alcohol metabolism; and the dark plum, the dried ginger, the hawthorn and the coloured malt have efficacy of harmonizing spleen and stomach; and meanwhile the additional largehead atractylodes has effects of strengthening spleen and stomach and activating qi for diuresis. The formula can regulate functions of internal organs by compatibility of medicines and comprehensive application of functions of activating qi for diuresis, reinforcing sufficiency, regulating stomach, enlivening spleen and the like; and the healthcare product has the advantages of quick and obvious alcohol-relieving effect and no any toxic side effects.

The invention relates to a medicinal combination for relieving alcoholism and protecting liver and a functional chewing gum prepared therefrom. The medicinal combination is prepared by mixing the following components in portions by weight: 10-25 portions of flower of kudzuvine, 6-15 portions of kudzu root, 10-20 portions of Hovenia dulcis, 5-13 portions of chrysanthemum, 2-6 portions of kuh-seng, 2-8 portions of loquat leaf, 3-8 portions of mulberry leaf, 4-8 portions of fructus amomi, 2-5 portions of nutmeg, 1-4 portions of white lablab bean, 1-6 portions of galangal, 4-10 portions of Fructus Tsaoko, 6-16 portions of cogongrass rhizome and 3-12 portions of bamboo leaf. The alcoholism-relieving chewing gum prepared from the extract of the medicinal combination has high alcoholism-relieving effect, inhibiting effect of antagonizing ethylism, accelerating effects on ethanolysis and diuresis and health care effects on digestive system and liver.

The invention discloses a Chinese medicine composition for treating acute sinusitis. A medicament for oral administration, of Chinese medicine composition comprises the raw ingredients in parts by weight: 10 to 20 parts of spreading hedyotis herb, 10 to 20 parts of pipewort, 10 to 20 parts of fistular onion stalk, 10 to 20 parts of angelica, 10 to 20 parts of siberia cocklebur, 10 to 20 parts of small centipeda herb, 10 to 20 parts of forsythia, 10 to 20 parts of Chinese waxgourd seed, 10 to 20 parts of Sichuan lovage rhizome, 10 to 20 parts of balloonflower root, 10 to 20 parts of cicada slough, 10 to 20 parts of houttuynia cordata, 10 to 20 parts of milkvetch root, 10 to 20 parts of flower bud of lily magnolia, 10 to 20 parts of angelica root, 10 to 20 parts of baikal skullcap root, 10 to 20 parts of dandelion, 10 to 20 parts of reed rhizome and 10 to 20 parts of herba schizonepetae; and a medicament for external application, of the Chinese medicine composition comprises the raw ingredients in parts by weight: 10 to 20 parts of catechu, 10 to 20 parts of small centipeda herb, 10 to 20 parts of angelica root, 10 to 20 parts of honeysuckle, 10 to 20 parts of dandelion, 10 to 20 parts of borneol, 10 to 20 parts of mint, 10 to 20 parts of Manchurian wild ginger, 10 to 20 parts of safflower, 10 to 20 parts of bletilla tuber and 10 to 20 parts of divaricate saposhnikovia root. The Chinese medicine composition disclosed by the invention has the efficacies of dispelling wind for clearing heat, ventilating lung qi for promoting the restoration of consciousness, clearing gallbladder-heat, clearing nasal passage, clearing away heat and promoting diuresis and dissolving turbidity for promoting the restoration of consciousness, and has the advantages of simpleness and convenience for use and easiness for preparation.

The invention relates to the field of livestock farming, in particular to a feed additive for improving swine reproductive performance and a preparation method thereof.The feed additive comprises the following materials for preparation: leaves of Artemisia Argyi, leaves of Moringa oleifera, bark of Eucommia, fruit of Momordica grosvenori, pine needle meal, yeast powder, beta-mannosidase and a milk flavoring agent.The additive of the invention has the effects of preventing miscarriage, fighting bacteria and diminishing inflammation, relaxing the bowels, inducing diuresis, expelling parasite and improving sleep and also improves appetite of a pig, increases feeding quantity of the pig and promotes growth and development by improving the tasting and smelling sensations of the pig for feed.The additive of the invention can significantly increase litter size of a sow, reduce miscarriage and reduce fetal mortality, can increase milk volume of a sow and daily weight gain of a piglet, has significant effect of improving swine reproductive performance, and is simple to prepare, high in safety, free of irritation and worthy of popularization.

The invention discloses a traditional Chinese medicine composition for preventing and treating heat stress of livestock and poultry, which comprises the following raw materials in parts by weight: 1-50 parts of gypsum, 1-20 parts of mint, 1-18 parts of sweet wormwood, 1-15 parts of isatis leaf, 1-25 parts of hawthorn, 1-15 parts of dried orange peel, 1-18 parts of ageratum, 1-10 parts of tuckahoe, 1-10 parts of corydalis tuber and 1-15 parts of milk vetch. In the invention, by considering the influence of heat stress on the physiological functions of bodies and considering the generated clinical symptoms, pure traditional Chinese medicines are combined to prepare the traditional Chinese medicine composition. The traditional Chinese medicine composition has the functions of removing summer-heat and relieving exterior syndrome, removing summer-heat evil, eliminating dampness and heat, excreting dampness and promoting diuresis, strengthening the spleen and stomach, relieving mental stress, regulating the flow of qi and lowering the adverse flow of qi, removing dampness to reduce phlegm, promoting the production of body fluid to quench thirst, conditioning the spleen and stomach, supplementing qi and invigorating splenic yang, resisting bacteria and diminishing inflammation, enhancing the body immunity and the like, can be used for treating both principal and secondary aspects of the disease, has a better effect on treating heat stress of livestock and poultry caused by high temperature in summer, and has the advantages of low cost, obvious effect and no toxic side effects.

The invention provides a uric acid reducing food composition which comprises the following components in parts by weight: 22-28 parts of marine fish oligopeptide powder, 25-35 parts of lophatherum gracile powder, 18-22 parts of poria cocos powder and 450-550 parts of soybean peptide. The composition provided by the invention has the following technical effects: 1) uric acid is reduced, and gout is relieved; 2) the composition is safe without side effects and causes no burden to body; and 3) the component marine fish oligopeptide can inhibit the synthesis of uric acid, the diuresis effect of lophatherum gracile and poria cocos can promote excretion of uric acid, and the soybean peptide supplements the proteins necessary to body and improves the basic metabolic capability and has a function of accelerating metabolism of uric acid in body.

The invention relates to health tea with effects of decreasing uric acid and protecting the liver and the kidney and a preparation method thereof. The health tea is prepared from the following raw materials in parts by weight: 20 to 30 parts of kudzuvine roots, 20 to 28 parts of coix seeds, 20 to 25 parts of herba lophatheri, 15 to 25 parts of Poria cocos, 10 to 15 parts of radix glycyrrhizae, 10 to 15 parts of fresh rhizoma imperatae, 8 to 15 parts of folium mori, 5 to 10 parts of fructus lycii, 5 to 10 parts of cordyceps militaris and 1 to 2 parts of enzyme powder. The health tea has the effects of decreasing uric acid and protecting the liver and the kidney, and the functions of clearing away heat and toxic materials, decreasing uric acid and the like are achieved through the effective ingredients; the ingredients such as the herba lophatheri and Poria cocos contained in the health tea are relatively high in diuretic effects, and are absorbed by intestines and stomach when tea water enters the human body, so that the effect of neutralizing alkaline substances in blood is achieved, the alkaline substances are discharged metabolically in a urine form, urate dirty in the kidney can be cleaned, and the capacity of the kidney for filtering out uric acid is increased.

The present invention is one kind of medicine for treat gouty arthritis and its preparation process. The medicine is prepared with giant knotweed 6-10 weight portions, plantain herb 5-8 weight portions, privet fruit 5-8 weight portions and honeycomb 1-4 weight portions. The medicine may be prepared into capsule, tablet, granule, injection, instilled liquid, externally applied preparation, etc. It has the functions of clearing away heat, promoting diuresis, removing blood stasis and invigorating liver and kidney and thus can cure gout radically. In addition, it has also functions of lowering blood fat, lowering blood sugar, strengthening immunity, etc.

The invention discloses a Chinese medicinal herb preparation for treating chronic cervicitis, which mainly comprises 39 Chinese medicinal herbs such as prickly knotweed, paniculate swallowwort root, pomelo leaf and the like. The Chinese medicinal herb preparation takes distilled spirits as a carrier, has the effects of clearing heat and detoxicating, inducing diuresis and arresting leukorrhagia, removing necrosis and promoting granulation and dispelling wind and arresting itching, and is mainly used for treating the chronic cervicitis. The clinical verification and the pharmacological study for many years of an inventor indicate that the Chinese medicinal herb preparation has the effects of resisting bacteria, diminishing inflammation, resisting viruses, improving local blood circulation and promoting tissue repair.

The invention relates to a Chinese medicinal composition for treating coronary heart disease, which is prepared from radix glycyrrhizae preparata, fragrant solomonseal rhizome, white paeony root, cortex acanthopanacis, dwarf lilyturf tuber, red sage root, immature bitter orange, tuckahoe, dried ginger, endothelium corneum gigeriae galli, cassia twig, dried rehmannia root, radix bupleuri, donkey-hide glue, stephania tetrandra, szechuan lovage rhizome, adenophora stricta, motherwort herb, Chinese angelica, radix astragali preparata, and / or a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. The invention also relates to a preparation method for the Chinese medicinal composition. The Chinese medicinal composition has the efficacies of removing dampness by diuresis and eliminating phlegm, promoting blood circulation by removing blood stasis, tonifying middle-Jiao and Qi, and invigorating Yang and open vessels, and can be used for treating thoracic pain, chest tightness and heart palpitations, cold sweat and other symptoms which are caused by the coronary heart disease resulting from Yang deficiency, Yin-cold of evil invasion.

The invention provides a semi-skimmed trichosanthes kirilowii maxim protein beverage which comprises the following components as per part by weight: 35 to 40 parts of trichosanthes kirilowii maxim seed protoplasm, 6 to 10 parts of cane sugar, 0.15 to 0.2 part of compound emulsion agent, 0.15 to 0.2 part of composite complexing agent, 0.001 to 0.002 part of flavoring agent and the balance of soft water, wherein the pH is adjusted to be 6.5 to 6.8, and the soft water is added to achieve 100 parts. The preparation method comprises the following steps of raw materials selection, shucking, peeling, drying, cold pressing, soaking, pulping, filtration, homogenization, auxiliary material allocation, second homogenization, package and sterilization. The semi-skimmed trichosanthes kirilowii maxim protein beverage has a soft and smooth taste and effects of hairdressing and nourishing, can achieve the functions of invigorating the stomach and moistening the lung, relaxing bowel to relieve constipation, inducing diuresis, loosening the chest, relieving the heart and refreshing the spirit, resisting bacteria and building body after being drunk for a long time, and has a strong inhibiting effecton choriocarcinoma cell proliferation in vitro and Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). The preparation method has scientific, simple and convenient processing technology, and keeps the nutritional ingredient of trichosanthes kirilowii maxim seed furthest; and the prepared semi-skimmed trichosanthes kirilowii maxim protein beverage has a low fat content, a high protein content, and can be drunk toenjoy better health.

The invention discloses a sweet-and-sour ginger production method. Superior fresh ginger is treated through the processes of cleaning, peeling, sousing, dehydrating and exposing in sunlight, and then dipped in sweet and sour liquid for a month. The sweet-and-sour ginger produced with the method includes no additive and is all-natural green food; the sweet-and-sour ginger tastes sweet and sour, crisp and refreshing, lingering and unique. Being eaten constantly, the sweet-and-sour ginger can strengthen the spleen to improve appetite, help digest well, promote production of body fluid and induce diuresis, expel blood stasis and remove stagnancy and has effects of health keeping, skin maintaining, disease preventing and curing, and life lengthening. The invention provides a novel tasty food for family life, traveling and appetizing and creates wide prospect for ginger deep processing, having great potential economic benefit and social benefit.

The present invention relates to the antagonism of the effects of melanin-concentrating hormone (MCH) through the melanin concentrating hormone receptor which is useful for the prevention or treatment of eating disorders, weight gain, obesity, abnormalities in reproduction and sexual behavior, thyroid hormone secretion, diuresis and water / electrolyte homeostasis, sensory processing, memory, sleeping, arousal, anxiety, depression, seizures, neurodegeneration and psychiatric disorders.