Fermented herbal health drink from plant andrographis

US6616950B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• COUNCIL OF SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH · IN

Inventors

• Palpu Pushpangadan · Sidhauli, IN
• Shanta Mehrotra · Lucknow, IN
• Ajay Kumar Singh Rawat · Lucknow, IN
• Sayyada Khatoon · Lucknow, IN
• Sharad Srivastava · Lucknow, IN
• Subha Rastogi · Lucknow, IN
• Manjoosha Chaubay · Lucknow, IN
• Adarsh Kumar Agnihotri · Lucknow, IN

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 14, 2002
• Grant date: Sep 9, 2003
• Expiry date: Jan 14, 2022

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C12G3/026
• WIPO field: Pharmaceuticals
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

The present invention relates to a fermented herbal health drink, comprising extract from plant Andrographis, extract from barley, wheat, and/or fruit and ethanol concentration ranging between 3 to 13% in the total health drink and optionally extract from plant Tinospora and other additives, said drink not containing hops and still having characteristic taste of a beer with no adverse effect and contributing to several medicinal properties comprising anti-oxidant, nervine relaxant, cholerectic, cardio-tonic, diurectic, digestive and immunomodulant, and a method of producing the herbal health drink, preferably a method of introducing bitterness into said health drink and using the same as a beer or to produce beer with said medicinal properties.