Drug for anorexia improvement of patients in the low nutritional status

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a medicine for ameliorating anorexia so as to recover a patient in low nutritional state caused by chronic reduction in oral intake of nutrition resulting from serious anorexia not related to organic diseases such as digestive system diseases, etc., transient symptoms such as cold, fever, sleep deprivation, stress, etc., especially a patient of elderly person in a low nutritional state.;SOLUTION: The medicine comprises essential oil of black pepper as an active ingredient. A person can get rid of nutrition supplement therapy by infusion solution, intubation/nutrition tube insertion by using essential oil of black pepper so as to ameliorate anorexia in a patient in a low nutritional state by a serious anorexia and to recover a lower nutrition state. The risk of senility syndrome by infection associated with low nutritional state, bedsore and fracture by fall, etc., is reduced. Consequently, burden of caregiver is reduced and a health care cost is controlled.;COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT