Patent ID: 8668941

Claim:
A method for preparing a dietary supplement comprising: soaking pettitoes or pig's head in cold water for about 24 hours to remove blood and washing the same to yield a prepared pettitoes or pig's head; preparing Zanthoxylum piperitum by collecting, sorting, and washing branches and fruits of the Zanthoxylum piperitum; heating a mixture of the prepared pettitoes or pig's head, the branches and fruits of Zanthoxylum piperitum and water in a water bath at about 150° C. to about 250° C. for about 10 hours to yield a pettitoes or a pig's head and Zanthoxylum piperitum extract; filtering the pettitoes or a pig's head and Zanthoxylum piperitum extract with a filter and then mixing the extract either with maple syrup or with an artichoke extract and a ginger extract to yield a filtered extract; and boiling the filtered extract at about 100° C. for about 5 minutes and packaging the same into a pouch to yield said dietary supplement.