Tuesday, November 30, 2021

Lupine Publishers | Swarna Prashana-an Ayurvedic Immunization

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Opinion

A child is an asset & hope not only for Parents and family but also for the whole nation as “Children of today are the citizens of tomorrow”. Many infectious diseases and developmental disorders are prevailing among the children. Ayurvedic medicines are of greater value in combating and preventing many diseases of modern era. Swarna Prashana-a unique Ayurvedic way of boosting the immunity in newborn & other children has been successfully practiced by different Institutions and many Ayurvedic practitioners throughout the country from the last 2 decades. It has improved the quality of life of children by showing marked improvement in the developmental milestones, IQ levels and immunity. It has been clinically observed that there was a marked decline in the recurrent attacks of respiratory, digestive and other systemic disorders. Not only infants but also children of age group between 10-16yrs have shown significant improvement in their day to day activities, performed well in exams, and so on.
Swarna prashana is a safe ayurvedic combination, prepared with pure Gold Bhasma and other special herbs. This is beneficial for growing children, who face strong need for improving their mental function along with physical strength and who want to be first at every step in today competitive life. This medicine is given on the day of Pushyami (Pushya) Nakshatra, every month to impart greater efficacy.

Benefits

A. Boost memory and enhances grasping power,
B. Increases attention and improves concentration,
C. Refines learning abilities,
D. Gives strong protection from infections and different kinds of allergies,
E. Helps in preventing diseases that occur during teething phase,
F. Protects from diseases that occur due to seasonal changes,
G. Improved physical development can be seen,
H. Improved sense of hearing, speech and visual ability,
I. Growth of mind and body becomes faster. Improves appetite,
J. Improve digestion Tones up skin color.

 

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Thursday, November 25, 2021

Lupine Publishers | Thanks Giving Day

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We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count.

 

 

Monday, November 22, 2021

Lupine Publishers | The Study on Repellent Activities of Four Kinds of Plant Essential Oils

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Abstract

Objective: To evaluate the mosquito repelling effects of four plant essential oils. Methods National standard method was adopted to test the mosquito repelling effects of four plant essential oils. Response surface methodology was used to analyze the optimum ratio of the essential oils.

Results: The repellent effects ranked as follows:

Chrysanthemum oil>Calendula oil>Holly oil>Anise-star oil. And the synergistic effects were regarded with the combination of chrysanthemum and calendula oil. The mosquito repelling effect was up to (93.33±2.57)% when 50ฮผL chrysanthemum oil and 18.49ฮผL calendula was mixed together in the 0.075m3 cylinder.

Conclusion: The four plant essential oils all have good mosquito repelling effect and show synergism when they are mixed

Keywords: Plant essential oil; Mosquito repelling effect; Complex with; Synergism; Response Surface methodology

Introduction

Every spring and summer, the mosquito breeding speed increases, which brings great trouble to people’s life and work. Not only it itches badly after the mosquito biting, but also it can spread malaria, dengue fever, yellow fever and other diseases [1- 3]. In daily life, people will use a variety of mosquito repellents. Repellents are divided into chemical synthesis and plant source repellents. Among all these chemical syntheses, DEET has the most widely use [4,5]. But in recent years, Research have shown that DEET has a negative effect upon human body and is harmful to the environment. As the mosquitoes have been producing resistance to chemical repellents and the environmental pollution of chemical repellents has been worse [6]. People are paying more and more attention to environmentally friendly plant repellents [7]. Therefore, how to look for some new plant repellents taking place of DEET has become a hot topic.
Plants essential oils have the following advantages: low toxicity, without injury to the human body, environment-friendly and easily degradable. However, the repellency and permanence of plants essential oils are lower than synthetic repellents. Peppermint leaf and basil extracts have high repellent activity, but still below DEET’s [8] & Kwaka et al. [9] found that the protective rates on anopheles arabiensis mosquitoes of sweetscented basil leaf oil, african basil oil and DEET was respectively 91.98%, 89.75% and 93.40%, and the protection rate of culex pipiens fatigans was 88.65%, 90.50% and 91.30%. Weibin M [10] has studied the fumigation activity of holly essential oil against culex pipiens pallens. Holly essential oil had a good knockdown activity against culex pipiens pallens and KT50 was 3.91min with 12ฮผL/L concentration.
Holly oil, chrysanthemum essential oil, calendula and star anise oil these four kinds was chosen and assessed the repellent against aedes albopictus for their broad source. The plant essential oils with good repellent ability were screened out by the combination of essential oils. It will provide experimental datum for finding natural mosquito repellent substances.

Experimental Materials and Instruments

Experimental material

Plant essential oils: chrysanthemum essential oil, holly oil, calendula, star anise oil. The four plant essential oils were all extracted by steam distillation and should be stored in cool 4 ℃ and dark condition. All oils were provided by Ningbo Dayang Limited Company.

Test mosquitoes: Aedes albopictus female adults (3-4days old) were taken for the research. Larvae were reared at 12:12 light/ dark photoperiod, 70±2% RH, and 26 ℃ in an insectary in Ningbo Dayang Limited Company.

Experimental instrument

Mosquito cage(40cm×30cm×30cm), Cylinder (The cage is composed of three cages which diameter 25cm and length 50cm. The three cylinders are separated by baffles). The fittings were all our own making.

Experimental Method

Determination of mosquito repellent properties of essential oils[11]

Determination of laboratory mosquitoes and workers: Using aggressivity experiment, 300 mosquitoes were placed in the mosquito cage. Experimenter (men and women are not limited. Don’t drink alcohol, tea or coffee during the test and fragrance products are not used). The dorsum of the hand was exposed to a 40mm×40mm area and the rest of skins were sheltered closely. The experimenters extend their hands into the mosquito cage, shaking their hands to disperse the mosquitoes before the mosquito mouthparts pierce the skin, as 1 mosquito stop. The number of mosquitoes stopping on the skin during 2min were observed. More than 30 mosquitoes were stopped, the experimenters and mosquitoes, attack was up to standard.

Determination of effective protection time: Four qualified experimenters (male and female were half each) were selected. Apply a certain amount of plant essential oils being tested to a hand which exposed to 40mm×40mm skin (closely masking the rest). After 5 minutes, put the experimenters’ hands into the mosquito cage for 2 minutes. Observe whether it has any mosquitoes came landing frequency and blood feeding. Than the essential oils were tested every fifteen minutes after that. The essential oils were judged to invalid as long as a mosquito comes to suck blood. Record effective protection time(min) for plant essential oils repellents. The other hand was served as blank control.

Determination of repellent rate of compound plant essential oil: To select the essential oils with effectively repellent from “2.1.2”, and use Optimal in Design-Expert 8.0.6 software to design compound experiment of essential oils of plant.100 female mosquitoes were placed in the middle cylinder of three 0.025m3 cylinders (separated by baffles). Put the test oil in the other side of the cylinder. Two pieces of baffle between 3 cylinders are drawn at the same time in 2 minutes. Plug the bezel back in 10 minutes. Record the number of mosquitoes on both sides of the cylinder. Calculate the rate of essential oil repellent according to the following formula.

Results

The results of plant essential oil effective protection time

The effective time of four plant essential oils to repel mosquitoes: Four essential oils showed different repellent effects to Aedes albopictus. The repelling effectiveness time of the four essential oils ranked as follows: Chrysanthemum oil> Calendula> Holly oil> Anise-star oil. The repelling effectiveness time of chrysanthemum essential oil was up to 151.67 minutes (Table 1).

The repellent efficiency of mosquitoes to compound plant essential oil: According to the experimental results of four essential oils repellent effective protection time and considering the adaptation of essential oils aroma to the population. The essential oil of chrysanthemum and marigold was screened and compounded to test the rate of mosquito repellent. The results are shown in Table 2, 3 and Figure 1.

According to Table 3, the quadric polynomial fitting equations of the effect of plant essential oils on the rate of insect repellent was obtained.

Figure 1: RSM analysis for interactive effects of chrysanthemum oils and calendula complexed

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Table 1. The effective protection time of mosquitoes on plant essential oils.

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Table 2. The experimental results of chrysanthemum oils and calendula complex.

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Table 3. ANOVA for response surface quadratic model analysis of variance table on chrysanthemum oils and calendula complex.

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The repellent rate=85.91+15.05A+13.51B-24.76AB-10.44A2- 21.57B2, R2=0.9646

The result shows that the regression model (P<0.01) has very significant statistical significance. The two kinds of essential oils on the repellent rate have a significant impact (The P value of A、B、AB、B2 was less than 0.05). The influence sequence is as follows: Combination of chrysanthemum and marigold essential oil AB>Chrysanthemum oil A>Calendula oil B. From the experimental data and statistical analysis, there is obvious interaction between the two essential oils, compound essential oil repellent rate was significantly stronger than that of chrysanthemum and Calendula essential oil and the two essential oils have synergistic effect.
According to the analysis of the software, the mosquito repelling effect was 91.99% when 50ฮผL chrysanthemum oil and 18.49ฮผL calendula was mixed in the 0.075m3 cylinder. Under this condition, three verification experiments were carried out. The average mosquito repelling rate was 93.33%, the RSD was 2.57%(n=3). This result was close to the value predicted. It shows that the regression model has a certain prediction reliability.

Discussion

The research and development of plant essential oil repellent products cannot meet the current market demand. In this experiment, four essential oils were used to do mosquito repellent test on Aedes albopictus. The essential oils of Chrysanthemum oil, Calendula, Holly oil and Anise-star oil have repellent effects on Aedes albopictus. Among them, effects of chrysanthemum oil and Calendula repellent are good. The combination of the two has synergistic effect on mosquito repellent. Chrysanthemum and Calendula belong to the composite. They smell alike and are popular with the public. It has the potential to develop into a new generation of mosquito repellents and insect repellents. As a purely natural extract, it has an obvious advantage over chemically synthesized insecticides of the same kind.

Conclusion

The composition of essential oils is very complex. Now most of the studies focus on the use of plant essential oils as a whole or as a single ingredient in essential oils. However, there are few studies on the interaction between various components and essential oils. The synergistic effects between different essential oils and different active components need to be studied.

 

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