Method for making a guar flour chewable dosage unit

US4828839A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Boehringer Mannheim GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Berthold Stemmle · Burgdorf, DE
• Alexander Wirl · Heuchelheim, DE
• Fritz Demmer · Hirschberg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 29, 1988
• Grant date: May 9, 1989
• Expiry date: Jan 29, 2008

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A61K9/2009
• WIPO field: Pharmaceuticals
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

The present invention provides a composition containing guar flour in the form of tablets for oral administration, said tablets having been produced by dry pressing guar flour with a particle size of 60 to 500 .mu.m. in admixture with 5 to 30% of highly dispersed silica gel.