Abstract:
PURPOSE: A composition for preventing and treating diseases caused by lack of sleep is provided to prevent nerve cell damage due to a stress inducer in nerve cells (SH-SY5), to suppress stress, and to obtain a pharmaceutical composition or a health food for suppressing, treating, preventing, and alleviating diseases caused by stress. CONSTITUTION: A pharmaceutical composition for preventing and treating stress-related diseases contains a Rosa rugosa extract as an active ingredient. The extract is prepared from Rosa rugosa stems, flowers, roots, or plants using water, spirit, C1-C4 alcohols, or a mixture thereof. The stress-related diseases are depression, insomnia, hypersomnia, hypnolepsy, circadian rhythm sleep disorder, incubus, or somnambulism. [Reference numerals] (AA) Rosa rugosa
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a composition comprising a combined extract of Curcuma longa L. and Nelumbo nucifera as active ingredients for alleviating and treating hypercholesterolemia or obesity. More specifically, the combined extract of Curcuma longa L. and Nelumbo nucifera has a more synergistic fat suppression effect; a greater synergistic total cholesterol suppression effect in vitro; a greater synergistic CETP deactivating effect; and a greater synergistic total cholesterol suppression effect in vivo than a herbal medicine extract of combining Curcuma longa L. and Nelumbo nucifera which treats Curcuma longa L. and Nelumbo nucifera separately. Accordingly, the composition can be used as a pharmaceutical composition or a health functional food for alleviating and treating hypercholesterolemia or obesity.