Compositions for weight reduction

• Main Authors: HESSEL, LASSE, LUNDSGAARD, JORGEN SCHERNING
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 20.12.2002
• Edition: 7
• Subjects: FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS; FOODS, FOODSTUFFS, OR NON-ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES, NOT COVERED BYSUBCLASSES A23B - A23J; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HYGIENE; MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; PREPARATIONS FOR MEDICAL, DENTAL, OR TOILET PURPOSES; PRESERVATION OF FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS, IN GENERAL; SPECIFIC THERAPEUTIC ACTIVITY OF CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS ORMEDICINAL PREPARATIONS; THEIR PREPARATION OR TREATMENT, e.g. COOKING, MODIFICATION OFNUTRITIVE QUALITIES, PHYSICAL TREATMENT; THEIR TREATMENT, NOT COVERED BY OTHER CLASSES

A composition that produces weight loss in a patient comprising two or more selected herbal extracts wherein at least one herbal extract inhibits gastric emptying and another different herbal extract increases metabolic rate in the patients so that weight loss is produced.