Ashtasudaya Churn: To Give Relief from Congestion Due to Airborne Diseases

Abstract

Everyone in the world adopts natural remedies to cure any kind of disease condition. People have faith in natural remedies. To enhance the trust of people here we came with a herbal Churn which you can take at any time to treat your disease condition. To help and improve your health by boosting your immunity. This Churn contains eight different Ayurvedic Aushadhi which you can take at any time in the day with a specified dose. In the Churn preparation, we used Ginger (Zingiber officinale), Lemongrass (Cymbopogon), Long pepper (Piper longum), Tulsi (Ocimum tenuiflora), Cinnamon (Cinnamomum), Clove (Syzygiumaromaticum), Giloy (Tinospora cordifolia), Cardamom (Elettaria cardamomum) this eight herbs. This Ayurvedic formulation is evaluated for flow properties, microbial contamination, and different spectroscopic analysis. You can just boil the required amount of Churn in water and have a healthy sip minimum of thrice a day which boosts your immunity and give relief from congestion due to air born diseases.

Introduction

I. INTRODUCTION

Churn is a powder derived from a crude drug. All the ingredients are collected in dried form and their size is reduced. There are many types of Churn in the market. The churn is dried powder and can be stored  one year if preserved in airtight containers. In today's world due to many airborne diseases like Influenza, Covid 19, the Common cold, etc., hence we prepared a churn with natural ingredients commonly used by mankind for culinary purposes. This churn is proposed to relieve sore throat, and headache helps to boost immunity and other symptoms of the common cold, and improves digestion-related problems like indigestion, vomiting etc.  Thus the present study examined the favourable influence of eight spices formulated into churn said to have different medicinal properties. The common ingredients of this churn were Ginger (Zingibrin officinale),  Lemongrass (Cymbopogon), Long pepper (Piper longum), Tulsi (Ocimum tenuiflorum), Cinnamon (Cinnamomum), Clove (Syzgiumaromaticum), Giloy (Tinospora Cordifolia), Cardamom (Elettaria cardamomum). The churn made from the above components is said to have many biological activity .[8][7][6]

A. Ginger

Ginger is one of the spices that is being cultivated in India and other part of asia. Indian or Chinese ginger is used in the formulation of this churn. Ginger is obtained from Zingiber officinale.[14] Ginger belongs to a tropical family, it is more abundant in Indo malasian region, consisting of more than 1200 plant species in 53 genera. Ginger contain many important chemical componants like Zingerberine and Bisabolene. The other ingredient are gingeraol  and 6-shogaols.[24] The other know components are nerol, geraniol, d-camphor, Beta-Phellandrene, linalool, alpha-farnesene, Shagoal, and also such as zingerone A&B. It has anticancer properties, analgesic effect, respiratory problems, cardiovascular effect, anti-inflammatory effect and antiplatelet effect, etc.[11]

B. Lemon Grass

Popularly know as citronella grass is a member of the Poaceae family and belongs to the genus Cymbopogon  it is widespread over the semi-temperate and tropical region of Asia, American and African continents. Lemon grass contains citral, borneol, citronellal, neral, geranial, nerol, citronellol, geranic acid, humulene, alpha guaiene, t-cadinol. It as biological  activity like antibacterial, respiratory problems, anti-inflammatory activity, antifungal activity. [15][25]

C. Long Pepper

The other world for long pepper is pippali in Sanskrit. Long pepper (Piper longum). It belongs to family Piperaceae, Its fruit if dried and  used as spices. Longpepper grows in the evergreen forest of india .

It is cultivated on aa large scale in limestone soil in a humid climate with more amount of water. Clove contains a large number of different alkaloids like piper nonaline, piperine,piperenttine, asarinine, pellitorine, pipe rundecalidine, longamide, dehydropipernonaline piperidine, etc. it is shown to have many medicinal properties like anti-inflamatory agents, respiratory problems, anticancer agents, antimicrobial agents, etc. [16]

D. Tulsi

Tulsi is a evergreen plants with most of the medicinal properties . it belongs to the family Lamiaceae and is most abundant in Indian subcontinent, it is used in ayurvedic medicines for over 3000 years . tulsi also know has holy basil is carminative, galactagogue and stomachic. It is mostly used to treat the upper respiratory disorders  it helps to reduce the elevated sugar levels and helps th reduce the risk of diabetics. Tulsi helps to contal the cholesterol, treat sore throat,  it also reduces the blood pressure. Tulsi leafs contain eugenol, eugenol, ursolic acid, carvacrol, linalool, limatrol, caryophyllene, and carvicol, etc.[17]

E. Cinnamon

The bark of cinnamon trees of various species is one of the most important and popular spices used worldwide not only for cooking and in traditional and modern medicines. Overall, approximately 250 species have been identified among the cinnamon genus, with trees scattered all over the world. The barkCinnamaldehyde and Eugenol. It has anti-Inflammatory activities, to treat throat infections, antidiabetic activity, treats cardiovascular diseases anticancer activity, etc..[18][3]

F. Clove

These are mainly grow in a rich and fertile soil in a humid climate with ample amount of water in a tropical  region. It is mainly found on the hilly terrain of western ghats at a higher altitude in most parts if Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. It is the precious spice of the world. Clove is the unopened bud of plants belonging to the family Myrtaceae which is same to that of guavas, these have  a strong aroma .

Clove has many medicinal uses like antibacterial properties and is used in various dental preparations  like creams, toothpastes, it is anti-inflamatory in nature, maintains oral health. The chemical compositions of clove are carbohydrates, proteins, cellulose, pentosans and, stem volatile oil, fixed oils and some vitamins, etc.[19]

G. Giloy

“Guduchi" in Sanskrit belonging to the family Menispermaceae is a genetically diverse, large, deciduous climbing shrub with greenish-yellow typical flowers, found at higher altitudes. Nowadays, the plant has more importance for research to preparing several dosage forms. because of its medicinal properties like anti-diabetic, anti-periodic,  anti-spasmodic, anti-inflammatory,  anti-arthritic,  anti-oxidant,  anti-allergic,  anti-stress,  anti-leprotic,  anti-malarial, hepatoprotective, immune-modulatory and anti-neoplastic activities. Active compound glycosides of tinocordiside, and a cardioid found stem is proven to treat neurological disorder like Parkinson's.[10][1][22]

H. Cardamom

(Elettaria cardamomum Maton) the Queen of Spices is indigenous to the southern stretch of evergreen forests of Western Ghats. The seeds contain 3 to 6% of volatile oil along with fixed oil, a colouring agent, nitrogenous mucilage, an acrid resin, starch, ligneous fibre, and ash.[3][9]

The active constituent of the volatile oil is cineole. Other aromatic compounds present are terpinyl acetate, terpineol, borneol, itronellol, nerol, geraniol, methyl eugenol and trans-nerolidol, terpinene, etc.[23] It is used as carminative, stimulant, expectorant, diaphoretic, digestive, appetizer, and flavouring agent. It is used in the treatment of respiratory disorders like asthma, bronchitis, cough, nausea, vomiting, indigestion, headache, diarrhoea, used in respiratory disorders, and colds, for flatulence, and is also used as a spice in cooking. [21][13]

II. OBJECTIVES

Objectives of the present research are as follows

1. A better alternative to the synthetic formulation.
2. To avoid irritation of synthetic and chemical substances.

III. MATERIALS AND METHODS

The raw materials used for this formulation were purchased from the Poona Ayurvedic and herbals, in Pune. Green Pharmacy, Pune, and Patanjali Ayurveda, Pune. All evaluation parameter was performed at TMV’S Lokmanya Tilak Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Pune

A. Plant Collection and Identification

The plants and raw materials were collected from the Pune market's different stores and identified at the Department of Botany, SPPU, Pune.

B. Preparation of Churn

Some powders we purchased from the local vendor of Pune City and some dried species we collected along with are cleaned to remove damaged particles. Then leaves, fruit, and bark were crushed into fine powder separately. Per quantity of each ingredient mentioned in the following table which was equivalent to 70g approx was taken and prepared a Churn and calculated value for approx equivalent to 1tsp.

V. DISCUSSION

Flow property analysis was done of the Churn and found that bulk density was 0.38, tap density 0.52, Hausner’s ratio 1.36, Carr’s index 26.4, angle of repose 31.79, the porosity of the Churn was found to be 95.5%. An organoleptic evaluation of Churn was done and found that the colour was dark brown, the odour characteristic tasted sweet, and the texture smooth. This Churn has minimum moister content that is less than 0.5%w/w,  no microbial growth occurs, pH was found to be 6.51, and total ash value 9.5%w/w.

VI. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

The authors thank TMV'S Lokmanya Tilak Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Pune to provide all facilities. Also thanks to SPPU Pune for its support and service.

A. Conflict of Interest

The authors do not have a conflict of interest.

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