Amrita Bindu--an antioxidant inducer therapy in asthma children.

Abstract

Studies all over the world on the therapeutic use of antioxidants as supplements has revealed their capacity to control inflammatory processes. Amrita Bindu an Ayurvedic health food supplement has already shown to be an antioxidant inducer and to combat free radical-mediated tissue damage studied in rats. Amrita Bindu is a salt-spice herbal mixture designed for positive health. It was tested as a supplement to therapy for a period of 12 months in 36 children suffering from asthma. Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease with excessive free radical generation in lungs and blood cells. The patients were followed up by monitoring their clinical conditions, therapeutic doses of anti-asthmatic drugs, free radical generation, lipid peroxidation (LPO) and antioxidants in blood. At the end of 3 months of Amrita Bindu supplementation, the patients had stopped all anti-asthmatic medications and were free from attacks of asthma.

• Authors: Sumathy S Kumar, K Radha Shanmugasundaram
• Journal: Journal of ethnopharmacology (J Ethnopharmacol) Vol. 90 Issue 1 Pg. 105-14 (Jan 2004) ISSN: 0378-8741 [Print] Ireland
• PMID: 14698517 (Publication Type: Clinical Trial, Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't)

Chemical References

• Antioxidants
• Free Radical Scavengers

Topics

• Adolescent
• Antioxidants (therapeutic use)
• Asthma (drug therapy, metabolism)
• Child
• Child, Preschool
• Dietary Supplements
• Free Radical Scavengers (therapeutic use)
• Humans
• In Vitro Techniques
• Medicine, Ayurvedic