Kidney Tonifying Nutritional Composition via Food-Medicine Homology
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current kidney-tonifying health-care products in the market often have chaotic food matching and poor taste, failing to effectively nourish the kidney while minimizing side effects.
Innovation Solution
A nutritional composition comprising rice, yellow millet, gordon euryale seed, Chinese yam, lycium barbarum, poria, and a Chinese herbal medicine extract (perilla, raspberry, cinnamon, fennel, and ginger) is developed, processed through purification, frying, grinding, extrusion, drying, and packaging, to create a balanced and palatable tonifying kidney food.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If traditional Chinese herbal medicine is used for tonifying kidney, then curative effects are achieved, but side effects and damages to other body aspects occur
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transforms concentrated herbal medicine into a diluted food-form preparation with modified dosage parameters. By changing the concentration and delivery form from medicinal to nutritional, the curative effect is maintained while side effects are reduced through the food-medicine homology principle.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces food materials as intermediaries that carry the tonifying kidney function. Foods like Chinese yam, goji berry, and gordon euryale seed act as mediators between the need for kidney tonification and the body's acceptance, providing therapeutic effects through dietary intake rather than direct medicine consumption.
2Reliability
If existing kidney-tonifying health-care products are produced, then kidney tonifying function is provided, but food matching is chaotic and taste is poor
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a composite food preparation combining multiple ingredients (rice, yellow millet, gordon euryale seed, Chinese yam, lycium barbarum, poria, and herbal extracts) that work synergistically. This composite approach ensures balanced food matching according to traditional Chinese medicine theory while improving overall taste and nutritional value.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent assigns specific functional roles to different ingredients in the composition. Each material contributes particular properties: rice provides base nutrition, Chinese yam tonifies spleen and kidney, goji berry nourishes liver and kidney, creating a balanced profile where each component has optimized local quality for its intended function.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The composition effectively tonifies the kidney, supports healthy energy, and is suitable for long-term consumption with minimal side effects, improving kidney function and overall health without disrupting the body's balance.
Implementation Method 1
extruding the rice powder obtained in step 3 through a double-screw extruder, followed by gelatinization and granulation, to obtain mixed rice grains
Implementation Method 2
drying the mixed rice grains through a microwave dryer, wherein a water content of the material is kept below 12%
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AI summary
The present application discloses a nutritional composition for tonifying kidney. The nutritional composition comprises the following components of raw materials in parts by weight: rice 50-90, yellow millet 7-25, gordon euryale seed 3-14, Chinese yam 2-11, lycium barbarum 0.4-1.6, and poria 0.3-1.5. The present invention, in view of the kidney's main function of reserving and storing the essence of internal organs of the body, complies with the functional characteristics that it is appropriate to reserve rather than consume the kidney, and provides the prescription for more nourishment and less loss and suitable to cooperate with staple foods for long-term consumption, and it is easily accepted by people due to the good taste, and can achieve certain efficacies of tonifying the kidney and disinhibiting the body.