Polysiloxane and Essential Oil Composition for Digestive Relief

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current medicinal approaches for treating digestive complaints and disorders often fail to provide sufficient therapeutic success and are associated with significant side effects, and natural ingredient-based preparations may not adequately address digestive issues.

Innovation Solution

A composition combining polysiloxane with a specific blend of essential oils, including peppermint, anise, and caraway oils, is used to effectively alleviate digestive complaints and disorders by reducing excessive gas formation and improving digestive function.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If chemical-synthetic active ingredients are used to treat digestive complaints, then therapeutic effectiveness is improved, but side effects increase

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

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines polysiloxane with a specific blend of essential oils (peppermint, anise, fennel, caraway) to create a composite pharmaceutical preparation. This composite approach integrates the gas-breaking properties of polysiloxane with the carminative and spasmolytic effects of essential oils, achieving therapeutic effectiveness while avoiding the side effects associated with purely synthetic chemicals.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #40Composite materials

Solution Approach 2:

The patent specifies precise concentration ranges for each component (polysiloxane: 60-99.9%, peppermint oil: 0.001-1%, anise oil: 0.0015-1.5%, fennel oil: 0.002-1.3%, caraway oil: 0.0005-0.8%) to optimize therapeutic effect while minimizing side effects. This parameter optimization ensures the preparation is both effective and well-tolerated.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Object-affected harmful factors

If natural ingredient-based preparations are used to treat digestive complaints, then side effects are reduced, but therapeutic effectiveness decreases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveside effectsVSAvoidtherapeutic effectiveness
Core Design Contradiction:
Object-affected harmful factorsVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent creates a composite preparation that combines the natural, well-tolerated essential oils with polysiloxane, a substance with proven gas-breaking efficacy. This composite formulation maintains the low side-effect profile of natural ingredients while achieving sufficient therapeutic effectiveness through the synergistic combination of multiple active components.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #40Composite materials

Solution Approach 2:

The patent merges the carminative properties of essential oils (peppermint, anise, fennel, caraway) with the defoaming and gas-breaking properties of polysiloxane. This combination allows the preparation to address multiple aspects of digestive discomfort simultaneously, thereby achieving adequate therapeutic effectiveness while maintaining good tolerability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

3Device complexity

If single-ingredient preparations are used, then formulation simplicity is maintained, but therapeutic effectiveness for multiple symptoms decreases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveformulation simplicityVSAvoidtherapeutic effectiveness
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent employs a composite formulation containing polysiloxane and four different essential oils, each contributing specific therapeutic properties. This multi-component composite allows the single preparation to address various digestive symptoms (gas accumulation, cramps, bloating, indigestion) simultaneously, achieving broad therapeutic effectiveness while maintaining formulation simplicity as a single integrated product.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #40Composite materials

Solution Approach 2:

The patent designs the preparation to be universally effective against multiple digestive complaints through the combined action of its components. Polysiloxane addresses gas bubbles and bloating, while the essential oils provide carminative, spasmolytic, and digestive-stimulating effects, making the single preparation suitable for treating various digestive symptoms concurrently.

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

Data Source

PatentEP2688577B1Digestive symptom ameliorating composition
Publication Date: 2014.07.23 MARIA CLEMENTINE MARTIN KLOSTERFRAU VERTRIEB GESELLSCHAFT MBH

AI summary

The invention relates to a composition, in particular a pharmaceutical preparation, preferably for the therapeutic or prophylactic treatment of digestive problems or disturbances, in particular digestive malfunctions, meteorism, flatulence, colic, bloating, stomach pressure, excessive gas formation in the stomach/intestinal tract, or the like, wherein the composition contains - in combination and each in effective amounts, in particular pharmaceutically effective amounts - (a) at least one polysiloxane, (b) peppermint oil, (c) anise oil, (d) fennel oil, and (e) caraway oil.