Plant Fat Composition for Joint Pain Relief
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current treatments for joint pain, swelling, and deformity often come with significant adverse effects, and natural extracts face challenges with miscibility and bioavailability when combined with non-vegetal bases, requiring additional emulsifiers and preservatives that increase risks and costs.
Innovation Solution
A composition using a base of plant fats and dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) enhances the efficacy and safety of natural extracts, eliminating the need for emulsifiers and preservatives by improving miscibility and bioavailability, while potassium alum or chloride can enhance analgesic and antimicrobial effects.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Stability of the object's composition
If plant extracts are mixed with mineral fats or non-vegetal fatty substances, then the base provides good consistency and stability, but the miscibility is low requiring emulsifiers that increase allergic reactions and manufacturing costs
Solution Approach 1:
The patent removes emulsifiers and preservatives from the composition by using plant fats that naturally provide both consistency and miscibility with plant extracts, eliminating the harmful substances while maintaining base stability
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the base composition from mineral fats to plant fats, which fundamentally alters the miscibility parameters and allows natural integration of plant extracts without requiring additional emulsifying agents
2Object-affected harmful factors
If topical ointments are used instead of oral drugs, then adverse effects are reduced, but the availability of active substance in affected tissue is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a composite topical formulation combining plant fats with specific plant extracts (willow bark, devil's claw, arnica) that work synergistically to enhance penetration and tissue availability while maintaining the safety advantages of topical application
Solution Approach 2:
The plant fats serve as an intermediary carrier that facilitates deep penetration of active substances into joint tissues, bridging the gap between topical application and effective tissue delivery
3Stability of the object's composition
If emulsifiers and preservatives are added to maintain miscibility, then plant extracts remain evenly dispersed, but the number of ingredients increases manufacturing costs and adverse reaction risks
Solution Approach 1:
The plant fats naturally provide emulsifying properties that enable even dispersion of plant extracts without requiring additional emulsifier ingredients, allowing the base itself to perform the stabilization function
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
The composition effectively alleviates joint pain and swelling with reduced side effects, improving joint function and mobility, and promoting rapid recovery from joint traumas and surgeries, with enhanced absorption and anti-inflammatory properties.
Implementation Method 1
The base includes a fatty substance extracted from one or more plants, dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO)... Our composition overcomes this problem and adds to the benefits of fatty acids for treating articular problems
Implementation Method 2
The miscibility of plant extracts with mineral fats or non-vegetal fatty substances is low. Thus, emulsifiers are required in such mixtures... The plant (vegetal) fats contains ample amounts of fatty acids which have been by themselves used successfully to treat arthritis and joint pain
Implementation Method 3
The plant (vegetal) fats contains ample amounts of fatty acids which have been by themselves used successfully to treat arthritis and joint pain... forms up to 70% of the composition, the base forms up to 90% of the composition
Implementation Method 4
while potassium alum or chloride can enhance analgesic and antimicrobial effects
Implementation Method 5
while potassium alum or chloride can enhance analgesic and antimicrobial effects
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AI summary
The present invention relates to a composition for improving the health status of various joints in the human body. The composition includes at least one plant extract as fatty base with active role, at least one extract from plants with anti-microbial properties, at least one extract from plants with analgesic and/or anti-inflammatory properties, and at least one extract from plants with anti-rheumatic and regenerative properties, to which dimethylsulfoxide, allantoin and/or potassium alum may be added. The composition may be used to treat osteoarthritis, rheumatic joint disease, joint swelling, pain, hallux valgus, traumatic conditions of the joints including sprains, strains, post-surgical recovery, bone edema, and speed up the recovery of athletes post-injury.