Purple Bamboo Salt Composition for Alzheimer's Prevention

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current methods lack an effective and easily consumable composition for preventing Alzheimer's disease, which effectively blocks its causative pathways.

Innovation Solution

A functional composition using heat-treated purple bamboo salt, produced by heating solar salt with bamboo at 800 to 1200°C, which induces hydrogen sulfide production, inhibiting Alzheimer's disease initiators and promoting inhibitors, thereby preventing the disease.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Object-affected harmful factors

If general salt is consumed, then blood pressure regulation and nerve transmission are maintained, but oxidative stress increases and metabolic syndromes occur

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveoxidative stressVSAvoidsalt consumption
Core Design Contradiction:
Object-affected harmful factorsVSQuantity of substance

Solution Approach 1:

The patent changes the chemical composition parameters of salt by heating solar salt at high temperatures (800-1200°C) to create purple bamboo salt, which contains different mineral compositions and lower sodium chloride content compared to general salt, thereby reducing oxidative stress while maintaining essential mineral intake

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Solution Approach 2:

The patent creates a composite salt product by combining solar salt with bamboo ash through high-temperature heating, resulting in purple bamboo salt that contains a complex mixture of minerals including potassium, calcium, magnesium, and trace elements, which work synergistically to reduce harmful effects while maintaining physiological functions

Inventive Principle:
Principle #40Composite materials

2Reliability

If salt is heat-treated at high temperature, then mineral-rich composition is produced with anti-oxidative activity, but production process complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveanti-oxidative activityVSAvoidproduction process
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent employs a self-service approach where the high-temperature heating process automatically transforms solar salt into purple bamboo salt with desired mineral composition and anti-oxidative properties, utilizing the natural chemical reactions that occur during heating without requiring additional complex processing steps or equipment

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

3Reliability

If purple bamboo salt is used, then Alzheimer's disease prevention is enhanced through hydrogen sulfide production, but salt availability and accessibility are reduced

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveAlzheimer's disease preventionVSAvoidsalt accessibility
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent makes purple bamboo salt multi-functional by using it both as a culinary seasoning to maintain ease of operation and as a therapeutic agent for Alzheimer's disease prevention through hydrogen sulfide production, thereby bridging the gap between accessibility and medical efficacy

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

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces hydrogen sulfide as an intermediary substance that is produced when purple bamboo salt is consumed, and this hydrogen sulfide then acts as the active mediator that prevents Alzheimer's disease by blocking amyloid beta aggregation and neurofibrillary tangle formation

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

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 significantly reduces the frequency of dementia-related disorders by substituting general salt with purple bamboo salt, providing essential minerals and enhancing food flavor, while reducing mineral deficiencies and side effects.

Implementation Method 1

salt that is heat-treated at 800 to 1200° C.

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectHeat treatment: Heat Treatment

Implementation Method 2

heating the solar salt with bamboo at 800 to 1200°C

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectThermal decomposition: Pyrolysis

Implementation Method 3

induces hydrogen sulfide production, inhibiting Alzheimer's disease initiators and promoting inhibitors

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectHydrogen sulfide production:

Data Source

PatentUS10124031B2Composition for preventing Alzheimer's disease, containing purple bamboo salt, and method for preparing purple bamboo salt
Publication Date: 2018.11.13 MOKPO NATIONAL UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY ACADEMIA COOPERATION GROUP
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AI summary

Provided is a functional composition for preventing an Alzheimer's disease, in which the composition includes heat-treated salt that is heat-treated at 800° C. to 1200° C. as an effective component and other pharmaceutically or sitologically acceptable components. The composition can prevent an Alzheimer's disease by effectively blocking the cause path of an Alzheimer's disease in a human body.