Pharmaceutical Composition and Functional Food for Suppressing and Relieving Itching and Inflammation

Abstract

It is intended to provide a drug and a functional food by which any itching such as common itching and intractable itching can be safely controlled and relieved and, furthermore, inflammation can be controlled and relieved. A medicine capable of controlling and relieving itching and inflammation which contains a highly lipophilic polyalkoxyflavonoid extracted from a press juice of a whole citrus fruit (a fruit having its peel), and a function food containing this medicine.

1 . A pharmaceutical composition for suppressing and relieving itching and inflammation, comprising highly lipophilic polyalkoxyflavonoid extracted from squeezed juice of a whole portion of a citrus fruit, including pericarp thereof. 
   
   
       2 . The pharmaceutical composition according to  claim 1 , wherein said citrus fruit is selected from a group consisting of Citrus tachibana, Citrus deliciosa, Citrus kinokuni, Citrus erythrosa, Citrus tangerina, Citrus sunki, Citrus depressa, Citrus tardiva, and Citrus retuculata which belong to Acrumen group, and Citrus hanayu and Citrus calamondin, a dwarf type of citrus cultivated in Southeast Asia, which belong to Osmocitrus group. 
   
   
       3 . A functional food for suppressing and relieving itching and inflammation, comprising the pharmaceutical composition according to  claim 1 . 
   
   
       4 . A functional food for suppressing and relieving itching and inflammation, comprising the pharmaceutical composition according to  claim 2 .