Patent ID: 6572883
Filing Date: 2003-06-03
Classification: A23K,A61K,A61P,Y02A

Abstract:
A composition for curing states of illness in the digestive system,comprising an effective amount of fish fermented by a fermentation process in brine, for treating the digestive illness, the fermented fish, together, where appropriate, with the brine or the extract thereof, is encased in capsules made of edible material, which capsules are essentially impermeable to the unpleasant smell emitted by the fermented fish, and lactic acid bacteria as active micro-flora, serving to generate lactic acid, reducing pH value of the fish and inhibiting activity of pathogenic bacteria in the digestive system with said low pH tending to act selectively bacteriostatic, such that bacteria of families Lactobacillus and Escherichia being favored by said low pH and pathogenic bacteria Salmonella and Vibrio being inhibited by said low pH.