Title:
AGENT FOR SUPPRESSING ALCOHOL SICKNESS OR HANGOVER CAUSED BY ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE INTAKE
Document Type and Number:
WIPO Patent Application WO/2020/080398
Kind Code:
A1
Abstract:
The present invention provides a food composition or pharmaceutical composition that includes citric acid or a salt thereof as an active ingredient. Intake or administration of the food composition or pharmaceutical composition has been found: to suppress alcohol sickness or hangover caused by alcoholic beverage intake; to suppress increases in blood alcohol concentration, blood acetaldehyde concentration, or blood acetic acid concentration caused by alcoholic beverage intake; to suppress decreases in blood pyruvic acid concentration caused by alcoholic beverage intake; to suppress abnormalities in blood lactic acid/pyruvic acid ratios caused by alcoholic beverage intake; to suppress increases in blood alcohol concentration immediately after alcohol intake; to suppress alcohol absorption; to promote alcohol metabolism; or to increase blood ornithine concentration, blood serotonin concentration, blood taurine concentration, blood cystine concentration, or blood nicotinamide concentration.
Inventors:
KAWAGUCHI KAZUHIKO (JP)
YAMASAKI SATOMI (JP)
YAMASAKI SATOMI (JP)
Application Number:
PCT/JP2019/040653
Publication Date:
April 23, 2020
Filing Date:
October 16, 2019
Export Citation:
Assignee:
NIPPON CHEMIPHAR CO (JP)
International Classes:
A61K31/194; A23L33/10; A61P1/00; A61P3/00; A61P25/22; A61P39/00
Foreign References:
| JP2018020963A | 2018-02-08 | |||
| JPS6092215A | 1985-05-23 | |||
| US20110111060A1 | 2011-05-12 | |||
| JP2018195043A | 2018-12-06 | |||
| JP2019043861A | 2019-03-22 |
Other References:
KOKUBO ET AL., BIOPSYCHOSOCIAL MEDICINE, vol. 7, 2013, pages 6
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
TANAI Sumio et al. (JP)
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