Natural Extract Composition for Immune Disease Treatment

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current treatments for allergies, particularly in children, are inadequate, with existing medications often causing side effects and not effectively addressing the underlying immune responses, leading to a need for alternative solutions from natural substances that can suppress allergic reactions without toxicity.

Innovation Solution

A composition comprising extracts from kaladana, cassia seeds, spurge, spikenard, wrinkled giant hyssop, Phytolaccaceae roots, Castanea crenata skin, white pharbitis seeds, Rosa multiflora fruits, and rhubarb, which suppress IL-4 production, degranulation of mast cells, and allergen penetration, while inducing Treg cell differentiation, thereby addressing Th1 and Th2-mediated immune diseases and histamine-mediated conditions.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If conventional allergy medications are used, then allergic symptoms are suppressed, but serious side effects occur

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveallergy treatment effectivenessVSAvoidside effects
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent changes the chemical composition parameters by using natural plant extracts instead of synthetic pharmaceutical compounds. The composition includes extracts from kaladana, cassia seeds, spurge, spikenard, wrinkled giant hyssop, Phytolaccaceae roots, Castanea crenata skin, white pharbitis seeds, Rosa multiflora fruits, and rhubarb, each containing specific bioactive compounds that modulate immune responses through natural mechanisms rather than forced pharmacological suppression.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Solution Approach 2:

The patent employs a composite formulation combining multiple natural plant extracts with different immunomodulatory properties. This composite approach allows the composition to address multiple aspects of allergic responses simultaneously - suppressing Th2 cytokines, inhibiting mast cell degranulation, and promoting Treg cell differentiation - while the natural origin of each component ensures safety and lack of serious side effects.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #40Composite materials

2Reliability

If steroids are used to treat allergies, then allergic reactions are suppressed, but serious side effects occur

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveanti-allergy effectVSAvoidtoxicity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent converts the concept of immunosuppression from a harmful side effect into a beneficial mechanism by naturally promoting Treg cell differentiation. Instead of forcing immune suppression through steroids that damage healthy tissues, the composition uses natural plant compounds to guide immune cells toward a regulatory phenotype, turning potential harm into therapeutic benefit.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #22Blessing in disguise (Convert harm into benefit)

Solution Approach 2:

The natural plant extracts act as intermediaries that mediate immune modulation through multiple pathways. Rather than directly suppressing immune responses like steroids, these compounds work through intermediate mechanisms - modulating cytokine production, influencing cell differentiation, and regulating inflammatory pathways - to achieve anti-allergic effects without the toxic side effects of conventional steroids.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Object-affected harmful factors

If natural substances are used to treat allergies, then side effects are reduced, but treatment effectiveness must be verified

Engineering Contradiction:
ImprovetoxicityVSAvoidtreatment efficacy
Core Design Contradiction:
Object-affected harmful factorsVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the complex allergic response into distinct pathways - Th1/Th2 cytokine balance, mast cell degranulation, and Treg cell differentiation - and addresses each segment with specific natural compounds from the plant extracts. This segmented approach ensures comprehensive coverage of allergic mechanisms while maintaining the safety profile of natural substances.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The natural plant extracts in the composition exhibit multi-functionality, simultaneously affecting multiple aspects of allergic responses. The same compounds that suppress Th2 cytokines also inhibit mast cell degranulation and promote Treg differentiation, providing broad-spectrum anti-allergic activity from natural substances with verified effectiveness across multiple therapeutic targets.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS10016475B2Composition for preventing, improving, or treating immune diseases comprising natural extracts as active ingredients
Publication Date: 2018.07.10 KOREA FOOD RES INST
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AI summary

The present invention provides a composition for preventing, improving, or treating Th1-mediated immune diseases or Th2-mediated immune diseases, an antihistamine composition, and an anti-inflammatory composition. The present invention provides a method for preventing, improving, or treating Th1-mediated immune diseases or Th2-mediated immune diseases, a method for inhibiting the release of histamine, and a method for preventing, improving, or treating inflammatory disorders. The composition according to the present invention has excellent inhibitory activities for IL-4 generation, the degranulation of mast cells, COX-2, 15-NOX, and the passing of allergens from through an intestinal epithelial cell layer, or an excellent Treg cell inducing activity. Further, the present invention provides a detailed mechanism of action of a natural substance and a food-drived antiallergenic substance, and provides stability, a reduction in production costs, and improved convenience of use by using a natural substance as a material.