Health food for preventing and treating articular cartilage defects and use thereof

Abstract

The invention discloses a health food for preventing and treating articular cartilage defects and a use thereof. The health food comprises, by mass, 4-51 parts of brown rice, 0-20 parts of purple sweet potatoes, 5-10 parts of fructus psoraleae, 0-8 parts of achyranthes root, 0-8 parts of bark of eucommia, 5-10 parts of rhizoma drynariae, 1-5 parts of semen cuscutae, 5-10 parts of dry rehmannia root, 1-5 parts of white peony root, 1-5 parts of radix astragali, 5-15 parts of radix angelicae sinensis, 5-10 parts of dried orange peel, 0-5 parts of peach seeds and 1-5 parts of licorice root. An experiment proves that the health food has a function of obvious restoration of articular cartilage defects, can be used for preventing and treating articular cartilage defects, can protect joints and improving physique through long-term eating and provides the optimal approach for articular cartilage defect prevention and treatment.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to a health food, in particular to a health food for preventing and treating articular cartilage defect and its application, and belongs to the technical field of functional food. Background technique [0002] Articular cartilage is hyaline cartilage, mainly composed of chondrocytes, cartilage matrix and type I collagen. It is a layer of bright connective tissue covering the articular surface and is an important structural and functional unit of synovial joints; its function is to conduct and distribute loads, Sustain and withstand contact stress. It has good mechanical properties such as good elasticity and low friction coefficient, and is extremely important for the functional activities of joints. Diseases such as joint injury and inflammation often cause damage to articular cartilage. Due to the limited regeneration capacity of articular cartilage, once damaged, it is difficult to repair itself, resulting in dysfunction and e...

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Problems solved by technology

After a large number of long-term research and observation by many scholars, it has been confirmed that the healing ability of articular cartilage is very limited. If the diameter of the articular cartilage defect exceeds 2-4mm, even if the damaged joint adopts continuous passive movement, it can rarely promote the articular cartilage. Healing effect; knee joint injury can cause intra-articular hemorrhage, and intra-articular hemorrhage further damages the articular surface cartilage, resulting in arthritis; although elderly patients over 65 years old with knee osteoarthritis have symptoms after total knee arthroplasty Significant relief can be obtained: joint pain relief and functional recovery, but young patients with osteoarthritis (age less than 4 years old and between 40 and 60 years old), after total knee arthroplasty, the surgical failure rate of symptom relief is higher than that of Elderly patients, indicating that osteoarthritis currently has a large group of patients covering a wide age group and still needs to find reliable and effective treatments other than joint replacement (Chinese Orthopedics, Volume 14, Issue 8, August 2001, P497)

In addition, studies have found that the current treatment methods for articular cartilage defects are prone to many complications, and the treatment cycle is long and expensive, which will bring pain and burden to the lives of patients and their families; The food with repairing function for defects can not only reduce the suffering of patients and family burden, but also avoid complications. It will be the most ideal way to prevent and treat articular cartilage damage (or disease), but there has been no report of related technologies so far.

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