A pharmaceutical composition to be externally applied as a topical preparation for treating several diseases, the composition comprising dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO) and ozone. A method for obtaining the composition by ozonizing DMSO and a method for treating diseases by applying the composition are also provided.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

1. Field of the Invention

The present invention relates to a pharmacological composition for use in the treatment of a variety of diseases, the composition being preferably employed for treating a patient, such as a human being or animal, with ozone, and more particularly the invention relates to a composition comprising dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO), ozone or ozonized oxygen and a pharmaceutically acceptable vehicle, for use in the treatment of several diseases such as diseases affecting the feet in animals, such as the hooves in horses, arthritis, muscular affections, etc. in human beings, by applying the composition on an external part of the body of the patient, in the skin, nails, hair, for example, for treating not only external affections but also internal affections, such as in the tissues, wherein the composition is applied in preparations like ointments, creams, oleosus liquids, etc. The invention also relates to a method for obtaining the composition by ozonizing a mixture of DMSO and pharmaceutically acceptable vehicles and a method for treating diseases by applying the composition.

2. Description of the Prior Art

It is well known to subject a patient to an ozone-based treatment for treating several diseases. Ozone is a triatomic oxygen formed by the action of solar UV radiation on O.sub.2 or by electric discharges that condense normal oxygen atoms. Schoenbein discovered the ozone in 1839. Thereafter, the ozone entered the scientific world and in the 19th Century numerous researchers started investigating ozone and revealed properties thereof. During World War I the ozone was used in medicine applications. Dr. Wolf used ozone to heal wounds.

In the '30s, with the advent of antibiotics and drugs, the ozone fell into disuse and became an alternative therapy, especially in Germany since 1950. In the '60s, scientists in Cuba reintroduced the ozone in the medical field with success. Cuba's medical success, together with the problems posed by the abusive use of antibiotics and drug side effects, resuscitated Europe's interest in the medicinal ozone. Since then, ozone has been used routinely in clinical medicine. Toxicological studies have confirmed not only the absence of damage after the therapeutic application of ozonized oxygen but also a high percentage of satisfactory results, of about 70% to 80%, in those cases where the application of ozone is useful.

Ozone therapy is a highly valuable medical technology, very useful in several fields and against multiple pathologies. (Matassi R., 1981; Quinones M., 1988; Kramer F.; Santiesteban R., 1990; Rilling S., 1983). Ozone's bioactivity principles are based on ozone primary interactions with certain very active substances that are present in all living organisms. The feasibility to obtain such ozone metabolites is founded in the fact of having adequate model substances in the appropriate reaction conditions. This may be achieved through the special controlled ozonization of certain essential natural substances.

In Europe, ozonized cream is widely used in medicine and cosmetics in humans. The therapeutic effectiveness of these topical preparations are framed only within the treatment of several external affections, particularly skin disorders. Because of its general germicidal, viricidal, anti-parasitic and fungicidal action the ozone has been used to treat epidermophytosis, gingivostomatitis, external chronic otitis, genital herpes, vulvo-vaginal candidiasis, varicose ulcer, crusts, septic wounds. While ozonized cream is effective and tolerant, and has no adverse effects, such as allergic dermatitis or systemic allergies, these creams could not be used for treating internal diseases as long as the way for making the ozone enter the tissues had not been found.

Some therapeutic properties of the ozone may be generally listed as follows:

1. High germicidal power, namely bactericidal, fungicidal, viricidal and anti-parasitic.

2. Ozone improves the rheologic properties of blood and blood circulation through the capillaries.

3. Ozone increases erythrocytes' oxygen absorption capacity as well as oxygen transfer to tissues, thus improving oxygenation.

4. Ozone boosts oxygen metabolism processes through stimulation of several biochemical cycles.

5. Ozone modulates biological oxidative stress by activating the antioxidant-defense enzyme system.

6. Ozone provides Immuno-modulatory and immuno-restorative effects.

7. Ozone provides modulatory effect of biological response.

8. Ozone provides growth stimulation of granulation tissue and epithelization. Cicatrizant action.

9. Ozone revitalizes the epithelial tissue.

Today, ozone-therapy is employed medical treatments by using generally aggressive, invasive and complex techniques. Some of the treating techniques are the following:

Auto-hemotherapy: the patient must be hospitalized and intervened in a surgical room.

Injections: the ozone is injected by intramuscular or subcutaneous ways, however these injections provokes strong muscular pains in the patient because of the gaseous nature of the ozone entering into the muscular tissues.

Inter-disc injections: this consists of the injection of the ozone in the discs of the vertebral spine for treating disc hernias, however, this treatment must be excessively delicate and the needle must be guided towards and into the vertebrae disc by using computerized tomography.

Rectal administration: the ozone in gaseous form is injected via rectal, however the retention of the gas is very uncomfortable and difficult, particularly when treating animals and children.

Under the above circumstances it would be very convenient to have a preparations for administering ozone to a part of the body of a patient affected by a disease that may be treated by ozone, particularly a preparation for topical administration, i.e. in an external part of the body, that permits the ozone to enter the several skin layers and tissues to reach an inner zone of the body affected by the disease. It has been well known that ozone can not enter the skin layers and tissues to reach, for example, to an affection deep into an articulation with the ozone being applied in the external surface, namely the skin, close to the affected inner zone.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

It is therefore one object of the present invention to provide a new composition permitting to carry out a novel way of treating a patient by ozone or ozonized oxygen, making the ozone or ozonized oxygen to enter the through the tissues for reaching the affected internal zone of the body, by applying the composition via a topical way, in an external location of the body of the patient as close as possible to the site affected by a disease that can be treated by the composition.

It is still another object of the present invention to provide a pharmaceutical composition to be externally applied as a topical preparation for treating several diseases, the composition comprising dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO), ozone or ozonized oxygen and any pharmaceutically acceptable vehicle such as an oleous vehicle.

It is a further object of the present invention to provide a pharmaceutical composition for use in external topical application to treat diseases in human beings and animals, the composition comprising dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO), ozone and a pharmaceutical acceptable vehicle, wherein the vehicle may be a vegetal oil, a hydrocarbon derivative, a vaseline, a paraffin, a wax or a lanoline, and wherein the DMSO may be ozonized with ozono that is saturated into the composition, the composition preferably comprising between about 50% to about 90% of the vehicle, between about 10% to about 50% of DMSO and a concentration of about 24 mg to about 40 mg of ozone per liter of oxygen.

It is another object of the present invention to provide a pharmaceutical composition comprising dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO), ozone and a pharmaceutical acceptable vehicle, wherein the composition may comprise a preparation such as ointment, unguent, salve, cream, emulsion, suspension, emolient and oleosus solution, and wherein the composition may be presented in an application carrier such as a cloth, a pad, a paper, a fabric, a piece of wool, a controlled releasing support, a spray, an aerosol or a brush.

It is even another object of the present invention to provide a composition comprising dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO), ozone and a pharmaceutical acceptable vehicle, for treating diseases in a patient, such as a human being or an animal, wherein the diseases are preferably arthritis, muscular pain, articular pain, edema, fungus, mycosis, rheumatism, hematoma, corneous tissue dehydration, abscess, thinness, wound, arthritis, myositis, tissue and muscle tearing, edema, fibrosis, inflammation, phlebitis, bursitis, infections, folliculitis, microbian-origin tumor malformations, diseases of the podiatry field, diseases in animals such as horse feet diseases, diseases originated from nail fractures, hoof wall detaching, anthill formation, hoof decay and slow hoof growing.

It is still another object of the present invention to provide a method for obtaining a pharmaceutical composition for use in external topical application to treat diseases in human beings and animals, wherein the composition comprises dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO), ozone or ozonized oxygen and pharmaceutical acceptable vehicle, the method comprising:

i. providing a pharmaceutically effective amount of dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO);

ii. providing a pharmaceutical acceptable vehicle;

iii. mixing the DMSO and the vehicle until obtaining a mixture;

iv. ozonizing the mixture obtained in step (iii) until the mixture is saturated with ozone or ozonized oxygen, wherein the vehicle may be a vegetal oil, a hydrocarbon derivative, a vaseline, a paraffin, a wax, a lanoline or a mixture thereof.

It is a further object of the present invention to provide a method for treating a patient affected from a disease, the method comprising applying a composition comprising dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO), ozone or ozonized oxygen and a pharmaceutical acceptable vehicle onto an external portion of the body of the patient for reaching and treating with ozone and DSMO a portion of the body affected from the disease.

It is a further object of the present invention to provide a method for treating a patient, affected from a disease, with a composition comprising dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO), ozone or ozonized oxygen and a pharmaceutical acceptable vehicle, wherein the composition is applied onto an external portion of the body of the patient by placing the composition in an application carrier such as a cloth, a pad, a paper, a fabric, piece of wool, a controlled releasing support, a spray, an aerosol or a brush.

It is still another object of the present invention to provide a method for treating a patient with a composition comprising dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO), ozone or ozonized oxygen and a pharmaceutical acceptable vehicle, wherein the patient, either a human being or an animal, is affected by a disease such as arthritis, muscular pain, articular pain, edema, fungus, mycosis, rheumatism, podiatry diseases, hematoma, corneous tissue dehydration, abscess, thinness, wound, arthritis, myositis, tissue and muscle tearing, edema, fibrosis, inflammation, phlebitis, bursitis, infections, folliculitis, microbian-origin tumor malformations, a horse feet disease such as a disease from nail fractures, hoof wall detaching, anthill formation, hoof decay and slow hoof growing.

The above and other objects, features and advantages of this invention will be better understood when taken in connection with the following description.

DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

Now referring in detail to the invention the same provides a pharmacological or pharmaceutical composition in any topical desired preparation for treating several diseases by means of ozone or ozonized oxygen. More particularly, the composition makes the ozone to penetrates through the skin and dermal layers as well as the tissues to carry the ozone into the body of a patient for treating the disease.

The inventors did not found any known preparation that could be applied in localized external portions of the body of a patient for treating internal diseases, such as arthritic diseases. Therefore, the inventors have investigated to found a new composition, namely the inventive composition, for permitting, among other advantages, the ozone to penetrates into the body's patient. This is the result of combining ozone or ozonized oxygen with dimethylsulfoxide into the composition of the invention, preferably combined with a pharmaceutical acceptable vehicle. Prior to the present invention a patient affected by a disease treated by ozone-therapy was usually subject to aggressive and invasive treatment imposing, some times, a high risk for the patient. Treating a human being or an animal with the inventive composition is now simple, rapid and effective.

The preparation of the inventive composition is simple and involves low production costs. The composition may be obtained by mixing a pharmaceutically effective amount of dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO) with a pharmaceutical acceptable vehicle until obtaining a mixture, and the mixture is ozonized until the mixture is saturated with ozone.

The effectiveness of the novel composition is mostly due to the combination of DMSO and ozone, however it is also important to select a propper vehicle for facilitating the external application of the composition. While there are many vehicles known for any person skilled in the art, the vehicle is preferably selected from vegetal oil, hydrocarbon derivatives, vaseline, paraffin, wax, lanoline, mixtures thereof and others, all within the scope of the invention. According to the vehicle or vehicles employed in the invention the composition may be a preparation of the type comprising ointment, unguent, salve, cream, emulsion, suspension, emolient or oleous solution.

When applying ozone-therapy by applying the inventive composition onto the skin close to the affected site, analgesic, anti-inflammatory and germicidal effects and results have been observed and determined. The anti-inflammatory effect of the composition is due to improvement in the local micro-circulation, the increase of the erythrocytes elasticity, the decrease of the blood viscosity and the immune activation. In the presence of mucopolysaccharide the composition works by recovering the oxygen level for the inflammatory process and hence rehydrating the affected tissue.

In the cases of lesions with acute inflammatory processes, without tissue injures, the inventive composition provides the complete recovering of the tissue. When the lesion is chronic the composition works first as an analgesic and then as an anti-inflammatory agent because of the ozone or ozonized oxygen activity on the immune system. If the tissue is irreversibly injured the analgesic and rehydrating effect of the composition permits to stop the inflammatory process thus leading to a rapid recovering of the injured tissue.

In one of the experimental essays, ten (10) horses affected with tarsus acute arthritis were treated with the inventive composition and, after 10 days from the first application, all the horses were examined and a complete remission of the disease was confirmed in all the animals under testing.

In other examples of application, the composition of the invention was applied in and close to hooves of four (4) horses affected by different feet diseases. In all the cases the animals completely recovered from the diseases without side effects and contraindications being detected.

When employed in horses affected by lesions in their hooves the composition of the invention comprised preferably between about 50% to about 90% of an vegetal oil, some times replaced by other pharmaceutically acceptable vehicle, between about 10% to about 50% of DMSO and a concentration of about 24 mg to about 40 mg of ozone per liter of oxygen. While the above proportions have shown a desired effectiveness, any other proportion may be employed depending of the type of formulation is desired to use, such as unguent, emolient, cream, solution, liquid, spray, aerosol, etc.

The inventive composition has been preferably applied by a brush directly onto the hooves and skin of the horses, however the composition may be applied directly by spray or aerosol, or by means of any carrier well known for any person skilled in the art, such as by a controlled releasing support, a cloth, a pad, a paper, a fabric, wool or other supports containing the composition in a manner that the same may be free to penetrate into the body of the animal. An expert in the art may find other ways for topic application that fall within the scope of the invention.

The composition may be prepared by reactors of materials resistant to the ozone, wherein the gas molecules are incorporated to the solution, a mixture of vegetal oil and DMSO, for example, by a transference technique for transferring a mass of gas into a solution. The gas molecules are transferred until the obtained solution reaches the saturation with ozone. The saturation of the mixture is controlled by installing, in the discharge tube of the reactor, and for preventing the pressurization of the reactor, a detector for free ozone. Said detector may be a chemical, electrochemical, spectrographic or photometric detector. It is considered that the mixture is saturated with the ozone when ozone is detected in the mixture by any of the employed detectors.

Claim 1 of 6 Claims

1. A pharmaceutical composition for use in external topical application to treat diseases in mammals, the composition consisting of between about 50% to about 90% of a pharmaceutically acceptable vehicle selected from the group consisting of vegetal oil, petroleum jelly, paraffin, wax and lanolin, between about 10% to about 50% of dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO) and a concentration of ozone that saturates the DMSO and the pharmaceutically acceptable vehicle.

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