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Promoting medicinal herbs amid Corona pandemic

by Asmita Bhusal | 23-04-2020 21:05 recommendations 0

Artemisia used hand sanitizer 
Namaste everyone.
During this pandemic, what we all need before anything else is preventing infection of the fatal virus. For this, major precautions we all are doing must be washing our hands frequently or using hand sanitizer bought from the market. 
Yesterday, a fantastic news made me realize that our herbs can also be used as weapons in this battle with pandemic. The news was about hand sanitizer manufactured by Agriculture and Forestry University, Rampur, Chitwan. The major ingredients used were Ethanol, Glycerol, Hydrogen peroxide and Titepati (Scientific name: Artemisia vulgaris) also known as mugwort which is a beneficial aromatic medicinal herb and can be grown in marginal lands. This plant has a long history of being used by humans for various purposes. This hand sanitizer is made according to the standards of United World Health Organisation. Though it is first trial on hand sanitizer, the manufacturers (professors involved) ensured that the sanitizer is effective enough for sanitisation, not less than sanitizer available on the market.
 One must have thought of a question, why to add Artemisia when it has alcohol? In ordinary sanitizer, 80%alcohol(ethanol), 1.5% glycerine, 0.25% hydrogen peroxide and remaining are some other chemicals. But the Artemisia used Sanitizer has included Artemisia oil(0.12%), that has anti-bacterial property. As we all know, farmers have to work on fields and their hands might contain lots of bacteria. Ordinary sanitizer can kill virus, but it¡¯s not sure that it kills all bacteria too. Most importantly, farmers usually might have many wounds in their hands that might host bacteria. Application of Sanitizer with more alcohol may cause more irritation in wounds and also increases further risks of delay in wound healing. But, Artemisia helps in killing bacteria and makes healing faster. This sanitizer was made mainly for farmers and small agro-marketers. 
Thus, amidst this Corona pandemic everyone of us should not delay on concluding the fact that loving and promoting our flora and fauna is the major urgency of this century. We can conserve our environment for our children only if we start living an eco-friendly life.
Source: janatapati

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11 Comments

  • Paras Kunwar says :
    Thaks for sharing
    Posted 07-05-2020 13:33

Prakriti  Ghimire

  • Asmita Bhusal says :
    Thank you everyone.
    Posted 26-04-2020 16:45

  • Asmita Bhusal says :
    Hello Sandesh,
    You're right.

    Posted 26-04-2020 16:45

  • Asmita Bhusal says :
    You're welcome sudha
    Posted 26-04-2020 16:44

  • Asmita Bhusal says :
    Hello Sahara,
    Great to hear you too studying on Artemisia.
    Thank you!
    Posted 26-04-2020 16:43

  • Sahara Shrestha says :
    Hello Asmita,

    Artemisia is also known as doctor of home. I am also reading article related to it. Truly an invaluable plant.


    Regards,

    Sahara Shrestha
    Posted 25-04-2020 02:20

Sonika Pariyar

  • Sonika Pariyar says :
    Hello Asmeeta!!

    I hope you are doing great!

    I enjoyed reading your report!!
    Artemisia is plant used for various purpose like pain relief,treatment of fever.Its great to know that it is used to prepare hand sanitizer .It is great news in this pandemic period,

    Thank you for sharing!!

    GREEN CHEERS!

    Regards,
    Sonika!
    Posted 24-04-2020 21:41

  • Sudha Bhandari says :
    Hello Asmita,
    Glad to know about this
    Nice report
    Thanks for sharing
    Regards
    Sudha
    Posted 24-04-2020 10:15

  • sandesh thapa says :
    Hello Asmita,
    Nice to know about this. Artemisia are also used widely as plant botanicals. i think this plant is gifted with multi purpose uses, isn't it.

    thank you for the report

    Regards,
    Sandesh
    Posted 23-04-2020 23:42

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