The present invention relates to the obesity-curative or obesity-preventive effect of a Polygonum cuspidatum butanol fraction and a Polygonum cuspidatum ethylacetate fraction, and more particularly, to a pharmaceutical composition and a functional food for treating obesity, the pharmaceutical composition and the functional food comprising a Polygonum cuspidatum butanol fraction (POCU-1b) and an ethylacetate fraction as active ingredients, wherein the Polygonum cuspidatum butanol fraction and the ethylacetate fraction inhibit effectively the activity of pancreatic lipase, an important enzyme involving in fat absorption in a living body, and have excellent inhibitory effect on fat absorption in the short term fat absorption-inhibitory animal experiments using lipid emulsions.

Kim; Jin Sook

Jang; Dae Sik

Kim; Young Sook

Kim; Junghyun

Kim; Chan-Sik

KOREA INSTITUTE OF ORIENTAL MEDICINE

Compositions and functional foods for treating and preventing obesity using polygonum cuspidatum butanol fraction and ethyl acetate fraction

A method of treating a Th1-mediated disorder includes administering to a subject in need of the treatment an effective amount of a compound of the formula I: ##STR00001## wherein R.sub.1 is H, alkyl, aryl, or cyclyl; R.sub.2 is pyranose; R.sub.3 is H or alkyl; m is 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6; n is 0, 1, 2, or 3; o is 0, 1, 2, 3, 4; p is 1, 2, 3, or 4; and the Th1-mediated disorder is non-obese diabetes, Crohn's colitis, autoimmune hemolytic anemia, rheumatoid arthritis, autoimmune encephalitis, multiple sclerosis, or autoimmune myocarditis. Also disclosed is a pharmaceutical composition including a compound of formula I above and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier.

Academia Sinica

Butanol extract of Bidens pilosa

2 butanol

obesity

2 butanol/obesity

Compositions and functional foods for treating and preventing obesity using polygonum cuspidatum butanol fraction and ethyl acetate fraction

Butanol extract of Bidens pilosa

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