Abstract:
The present invention relates to a composition for preventing, ameliorating, or treating hyperuricemia or metabolic disorders related with hyperuricemia comprising an extract of Alpinia oxyphylla as an effective ingredient. Because the extract of Alpinia oxyphylla of the present invention can reduce the uric acid amount in blood of an animal model and is derived from natural products, and the raw materials can be easily obtained, it can be widely used in industries that are related to hyperuricemia or metabolic disorders related with hyperuricemia. It can be effectively used for prevention, amelioration, or treatment of gout or gouty arthritis, in particular.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to: a pharmaceutical composition for preventing or treating menopausal disorders, containing a Tetragonia tetragonoides (Pall.) Kuntze extract or a fraction thereof; a method for preventing or treating menopausal disorders, comprising a step of administering the pharmaceutical composition; and a food composition containing the extract or a fraction thereof. The Tetragonia tetragonoides (Pall.) Kuntze extract of the present invention shows effects of alleviating obesity, which is representative of glucose metabolism disorders and lipid metabolism disorders, osteoporosis, which is representative of bone homeostasis disorders, and flushing, which is representative of energy metabolism disorders, and thus the extract can be used in food, a medicine and the like so as to prevent, alleviate or treat menopausal disorders.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a skin-moisturizing or wrinkle-improving external composition or cosmetic composition which contains, as an active ingredient, a compound represented by Formula 1, which can be extracted from Anemarrhena asphodeloides Bunge, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. The composition prevents skin moisture loss and thus suppresses skin tissue damage induced by UV rays and so has a skin-wrinkle preventing or alleviating effect.
Abstract:
The extract of a mixture of cinnamon twig and moutan root bark, cinnamon twig and peony root, or cinnamon twig and poria according to the present invention has been confirmed to inhibit the excessive generation of advanced glycation end-products, which occurs under chronic diabetic conditions, exhibit the effect of fragmentizing a cross-link between the advanced glycation end-products and matrix proteins, have an excellent effect in inhibiting the generation of the advanced glycation end-products in a human retinal pigment epithelial cell line subjected to a hyperglycemic or aging environment, and have excellent effects in delaying, preventing, and treating diabetic complications, muscular degeneration, commotio retinae, and lower extremity edema in various animal models of diabetic complications, macular degeneration, and lower extremity edema, and thus the mixture extract can effectively be used as an active ingredient for a composition for preventing and treating diabetic complications, including diabetic retinopathy, diabetic nephropathy. and diabetic neuropathy, and angioedema, including macular (retinal) edema, macular degeneration, and varicose veins.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a composition including an Elsholtziae Herba extract as an active ingredient, which can be used for the prevention, improvement, or treatment of acute renal failure.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a pulse depth index extraction device and method using pressure at a constant velocity. A device comprises: a pressure applying unit for applying a pressure at a constant velocity to a confirmed pulse location in a direction perpendicular to the skin; a pressure pulse wave signal measuring unit for measuring a pressure pulse wave signal generated based on the applied pressure; and a measured signal analysis unit for deriving the pulse depth index (PDI) by using the measured pressure pulse wave signal.
Abstract:
A composition including Yukgunjatang as effective component is effective for improving memory and preventing, alleviating, or treating cognitive disorder. Yukgunjatang, which is prepared by boiling a mixture of Gingseng Radix, Atractylodes rhizoma alba, Hoelen, Glycyrrhizae Radix, Aurantii Nobilis Pericarpium, Pinelliae Rhizoma, Zingiberis Rhizoma, and Zizyphi Fructus in water, exhibits superior neuroprotective effect compared to individual extracts of Gingseng Radix, Atractylodes rhizoma alba, Hoelen, Glycyrrhizae Radix, Aurantii Nobilis Pericarpium, Pinelliae Rhizoma, Zingiberis Rhizoma, and Zizyphi Fructus, and, in an animal model of cognitive decline induced by scopolamine, administration of Yukgunjatang shows the effect of improving memory and cognitive function. Thus, the composition can be advantageously used as a food product, a medicinal product, or the like for preventing or treating brain diseases including Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and mild cognitive impairment.
Abstract:
A method for determining a sharpness index of a pulse wave signal includes receiving a pulse wave signal; determining a first reference line starting point and a second reference line starting point on the basis of a curvature of the pulse wave signal; determining a first reference line connecting the first reference line starting point and a first reference line ending point by determining the first reference line ending point by applying an intersecting tangent method to the first reference line starting point, and determining a second reference line connecting the second reference line starting point and a second reference line ending point by determining the second reference line ending point by applying the intersecting tangent method to the second reference line starting point; and determining a sharpness index by using a peak point of the pulse wave signal, the first reference line, and the second reference line.
Abstract:
A method for treating a sleep disorder according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes administering a composition comprising an extract of Hibiscus syriacus as an effective ingredient to a subject in need thereof. Because the Hibiscus syriacus extract of the present invention has an effect of improving sleep time deteriorated by stress, and an effect of reducing the content of corticosterone, which increases due to stress, and increasing the content of serotonin in blood. In addition, the composition has an effect of enhancing in a significant sense the expression of GABAR A α1 in cerebral cortex, which decreases due to stress, in a group administered with Hibiscus syriacus extract. As such, the composition comprising Hibiscus syriacus extract as an effective ingredient as an effective ingredient can be advantageously used as a functional health food composition or a pharmaceutical composition for preventing, ameliorating or treating sleeping disorders.
Abstract:
A method for treating sleep disturbance according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes administering to a subject in need thereof a composition including saponarin of Chemical Formula 1, a salt thereof acceptable for use in food, or a hydrate thereof as an effective component: In an animal model with lack of sleep caused by caffeine, saponarin of the present invention restores the travel distance, mobility time, mobility frequency, and immobility time to normal as well as increases the mRNA expression of neuropeptide Y, cholecystokinin, and GABA A α1 receptor, thereby alleviating sleep disturbance. Therefore, the saponarin of the present invention can be advantageously used as a raw material for a functional health food or a pharmaceutical product for preventing, alleviating, or treating sleep disturbance.