'Havan' for bacteria-free homes: Study

LUCKNOW: Want to guide a healthy existence and unfastened your own home from bacteria? Perform 'havan' at common periods.

A find out about performed by a group of scientists at National Botanical Research Institute (NBRI) here has claimed that smoke emitted throughout havans reduces airborne bacteria to a big extent, minimising possibility of infectious illnesses.

"Burning wood and medicinal herbs, better known as 'havan samagri'(mixture of wood and odoriferous and medicinal herbs), can effectively reduce pathogens in the air," NBRI's senior scientist Chandra Shekhar Nautiyal mentioned.


The find out about had already been printed and approved by Science Direct, a journal of ethnopharmacology.


"As described in Rigvedas, saints used to perform agnihotra-yagnas to purify the environment by sublimating the havan samgri in fire," he mentioned.


In a bid to review the true have an effect on of havans, an indoor find out about was once performed by the NBRI group including Prof Nautiyal, Puneet Singh Chauhan and a fellow of Asian Agri-History Foundation Yeshwant Laxman Nene.


A fancy mix of over 5 dozen odoriferous and clinical herbs was once acquired from Gurukul Kangri Pharmacy in Haridwar and burnt in an indoor environment to review its have an effect on at the environment.
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