Patent TW-200502007-A (TW)
Title: Chinese medicine reduce inflammation and relief somatic pain
Inventor: CHENG HUI-CHEN
Filed: 2003-07-15
Abstract: Ruyi Jinhuang Gao (Plaster) is an ointment prepared from boiled and concentrated water extracts of Ruyi Jinhuang San, a traditional formulation of powder type Chinese Medicine, standardized and registered in the Pharmacopoeia of China, and was usually used in the anti-inflammatory analgesic care for Chinese patients with myofacial, arthritis, trauma, shoulder, tendonitis, neuropathic, and various somatic pains. Ruyi Jinhuang San is composed of 10 kinds of herbal source, including Trichosanthes Root (320 part), Angelicae Dahuricae Radix (160 part), Phellodenri Cortex (160 part), Rhei Rhizoma (160 part), Curcuma Zedorarica Rhizoma (160 part), Glycyrrhizae Radix (64 part), Magnoliae Cortex (64 part), Atractylodis Lancea Rhizoma (64 part), Arisaematis Rhizoma (64 part), and Auranti Nobilis Pericarpium (64 part). Furthermore, menthol was Lawful added in the pain-relief patch of Chinese Medicine, including Ruyi Jinhuang Patch (Sinlix RuyiR Patch), to increase the analgesic activity of patch in Taiwan. This hydrophilic ointment Ruyi Jinhuang Gao, for producing hydrophilic Ruyi Jinhuang Patch, coated on a semi-plastic cloth, combine these herbal extracts with pharmaceutical recipients, such as vegetable oil ester, fatty acid, water, menthol (5%), various natural and semi-synthetic cellulose, polyacrynamides and their esters. In the practice of clinical therapy performed by a Chinese Medicine doctor, Ruyi Jinhuang San is traditionally mixed with cold water, coated on a gaze and applied together to the somatic surface of damaged painful muscle of patients. Newly formulated Ruyi Jinhuang Patch has proven clinically useful to satisfy patients with various pains following patching without significant itchy and redness response on the skin. 12 hours patching by Sinlix RuyiR Patch indicates it with long-acting anti-inflammatory analgesic benefits. The rubber type resin, usually causing itchy and redness responses on the skin, is not used as binding agent in the formulation of patch. Pain-relief patch of Chinese Medicine, prepared from Taur Houng Shy Wuh Tang and its modification, is also formulated in a similar method to produce hydrophilic ones. Characteristics of the patch (Sinlix RuyiR Patch), prepared from Ruyi Jinhuang San, are as following: 1. Clinically proven pain-relief 2. Targeted and comfortable to myofacial, shoulder, arthritis, tendonitis and trauma pains 3. Improves patient quality of life and nicely sleep during pain-relief 4. No risk of systemic effects, local irritation and obvious adverse events 5. Traditional and lawful in the mainland of China 6. Standardized and registered in the Pharmacopoeia of China 7. From natural and herbal resource 8. Not sticky when cleaned with bath water 9. Yellow residue on skin is removable by wet paper, cotton, and cloth 10. Hydrophilic and detachable by the help of water or bath water 11. Naturally perfuming and cooling on the skin 12. Relief of local muscle tension 13. Trans-dermal absorption and delivery releasing system 14. Easily handled, in comparison with powder type Ruyi Jinhuang San 15. Naturally bacteriostatic and fungal aseptic 16. Sustained satisfaction to pain-relief patients (90%) 17. Non-significant itchy and redness responses on the skin following 16 horn patching.