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KMID : 0381920090390040311
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Korean Journal of Microscopy
2009 Volume.39 No. 4 p.311 ~ p.317
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The Efficacy Evaluation of Tourmaline-Ionized Water in Animal Study
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Yoon Yang-Suk
Kim Dong-Heui
Qi Xu-Feng
Song Soon-Bong
Jung Jong-Ho
Joo Kyung-Bok
Teng Yung-Chien
Lee Kyu-Jae
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Abstract
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This study was performed using animals to confirm the effect of tourmaline-ionized water (TIW) the properties of which were changed by tourmaline energy and electric discharge. In the ICR mice fed high-fat diet, body weight increasing rate of the TIW-treated group (Exp) was generally decreased and moreover exhibited significance at 11th week (P?0.05) compared with the control (Con) group fed distilled water, although water intake of the Exp group was lower than that of the Con group. In the ICR mice with CCl4-induced hepatotoxicity, AST and ALT activities of the Exp group were not significant but showed some decreasing trend, and histological damage of liver was less compared with thatof the Con group. On the study of ethanol-induced hangovers in Sprague-Dawley rat, blood alcohol concentration was significantly decreased (P?0.01), activity of GST, antioxidant enzyme related to the alcohol metabolism, was increased in liver tissue (P?0.05), and AST and ALT show a tendency to be decreasedin the Exp group. These results suggest that drinking TIW has not only some obesity preventing effect but also an alcohol detoxification effect and liver protecting effect in vivo. It is supposed due to a structural change of water cluster and a property which maintains the changed structure through tourmaline energy and electric discharge. Therefore, TIW has a potentiality to be developed as functional water with several beneficial effects as well as for daily drinking, but further study on the mechanism related with efficacy will be necessary.
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KEYWORD
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Tourmaline-ionized water, Liver-protecting, Hangover, Obesity
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