Immune-Boosting Composition for Bacterial and Viral Infections

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current treatments for bacterial and viral infections, such as antibiotics and antiviral drugs, face challenges like antibiotic resistance and limited effectiveness against rapidly mutating viruses, necessitating an alternative approach to enhance the immune system's ability to self-repair.

Innovation Solution

A pharmaceutical composition comprising an effective amount of vitamin C, zinc, vitamin A, vitamin D3, vitamin B6, garlic, and Echinacea, administered orally to stimulate the immune system and reduce symptoms of bacterial and viral infections like the common cold and influenza.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If antibiotics are prescribed to treat bacterial infections, then the infections are effectively treated, but antibiotic resistance develops leading to superbugs

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveeffectiveness of treatmentVSAvoidantibiotic resistance
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSObject-generated harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

Instead of using antibiotics to kill bacteria directly, the patent inverts the approach by using vitamin C, zinc, and other immune-boosting substances to enhance the body's own immune system, enabling it to fight and eliminate bacterial infections naturally, thereby avoiding antibiotic resistance

Inventive Principle:
Principle #13The other way round (Inversion)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent empowers the body's immune system to treat infections on its own by providing nutritional support through vitamin C, zinc, vitamin A, vitamin D3, vitamin B6, garlic, and Echinacea, allowing the immune system to self-regulate and eliminate pathogens without external pharmaceutical intervention

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

2Reliability

If antiviral drugs are prescribed to treat viral infections, then complications are reduced, but viruses develop resistance making treatments less effective

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveeffectiveness of treatmentVSAvoidviral mutation resistance
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The patent takes preliminary action by boosting the immune system before viral infections can establish themselves or mutate, using vitamin C, zinc, and other substances to create immune readiness that prevents viral takeovers and reduces the need for antiviral drugs

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The immune system is enabled to independently respond to and eliminate viral threats through enhanced immune cell function and activity, rather than relying on antiviral medications that viruses can resist through mutation

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

3Ease of operation

If conventional pharmaceuticals are used to treat infections, then symptoms are managed, but the body's natural immune response is not sufficiently stimulated

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesymptom managementVSAvoidimmune system stimulation
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent changes the chemical and biological parameters of treatment by replacing synthetic pharmaceuticals with natural substances like vitamin C, zinc, garlic, and Echinacea that directly stimulate immune cell proliferation, cytokine production, and pathogen elimination mechanisms

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS10149831B1Pharmaceutical composition for treating bacterial and viral infections
Publication Date: 2018.12.11 WICK EDWARD

AI summary

The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical; composition comprising an effective amount of vitamin C, zinc, vitamin A, vitamin D3, vitamin B6, garlic and Echinacea to treat bacterial and/or viral infections, and a method for treating bacterial and/or viral infections by orally administering the composition to a patient effective to reduce symptoms of bacterial and/or viral infections such a cold and influenza.