Therapeutic copper compositions

• US 4,123,511 A
• Filed: 07/02/1975
• Issued: 10/31/1978
• Est. Priority Date: 07/11/1974
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Gertrude Fischer
• Original Assignee: Gertrude Fischer
• Inventors: Heintze, York
• Primary Examiner(s): Waddell, Frederick E.
• Application Number:
  US05/592,463
• Time in Patent Office: 1,217 Days
• Field of Search: 424/45, 424/46, 424/140, 424/141, 424/DIG. 13, 424/294, 424/195, 424/343, 424/350
• US Class Current: 514/63
• CPC Class Codes: A61K 8/19 containing inorganic ingredients
• CPC Class Codes: A61K 8/361 Carboxylic acids having more than seven carbon atoms in an unbroken chain; Salts or anhydrides thereof
• CPC Class Codes: A61K 9/12 Aerosols; Foams A61K9/0043, A61K9/0056, A61K9/006, A61K9/0073 take precedence; spray-films A61K9/7015
• CPC Class Codes: A61Q 19/00 Preparations for care of the skin

Abstract

Therapeutic copper compositions are described which are adapted to be applied as from an aerosol container to areas of human skin for the treatment of muscle spasms and cramps, mild burns and insect bites and to enhance healing by increasing blood circulation beneath the skin and to normalize the pH of the skin area being treated. The copper is in the form of a copper powder or copper oleate.

Claims

1. A non-staining, water-removable sprayable therapeutic copper-containing composition having anti-spasmodic and fungicidal activity for external application to human skin for the treatment of muscle spasms and cramps and athlete'"'"'s foot fungus which composition consists essentially of a therapeutically potentiating combination of about 2-10% of the composition of a suspension of metallic copper powder or about 0.25-0.75% of the composition of a solution of copper oleate, about 0.4-0.6% of the composition of colloidal silica and about 5% oil of rosemary in isopropyl or ethyl alcohol and methylene chloride, said percentages being by weight.

2. A composition of claim 1 wherein the copper powder is 98% 300 mesh.

3. A composition of claim 1 wherein the copper powder amounts to about 5% of the composition.

4. A composition of claim 1 wherein the copper oleate amount to about 0.50% pf the composition.

5. A composition of claim 1 wherein the colloidal silica is silica aerogel.

6. A composition of claim 1 filled into a valved aerosol container with a fluorocarbon or mixture of fluorocarbons as propellant under pressure.

7. A composition of claim 1 filled into a valved aerosol container with a CO₂ propellant under pressure.