Patent ID: 9693971
Date: 2017-07-04
CPC Classifications: A23K,A61K,A61P

Claim:
1. A method of improving gastrointestinal tract disorders the disorders to be improved being chosen from the group consisting of parturient paresis, grass tetany, rumen acidosis, Hoflund syndrome, systemic alkalosis, displaced abomasum, and laminitis, by modulation of a Transient Receptor Potential (TRP) channel in an animal from the suborder of the ruminants (Ruminantia) or the tylopods (Tylopoda) by a feed supplement containing at least one TRP agonist selected from the group consisting of allicin, allyl isothiocyanate, camphor, carvacrol, eucalyptol, geraniol, gingerol, hydroxyl-citronellal, icilin, isopropyl isothiocyanate, isopulegol, isovelleral, L-carvone, linalool, menthol, menthone, menthyl lactate, methyl salicylate, methyl isothiocyanate, mustard oil, olvanil, phenylethyl isothiocyanate, piperine, polygodial, thymol, vanillin, vanillotoxin 1, 2 or 3, vanillylacetone, and yellow mustard, and/or at least one TRP antagonist selected from the group consisting of borneol, cannabidiol, cannabis, capsazepine, carveol, drimenol, ginsenoside, grifolin, GsMTx4, merulidial, thapsigargin, and thymol.