Immunomodulatory Effects of a Herbo-Mineral Ayurvedic Formulation in Experimental Models.

Background: Ayurveda, an ancient Indian system of medicine, encapsulates comprehensive principles and formulations for disease prevention and treatment. A herbo-mineral Ayurvedic formulation, IMMBO, comprising and 18 herbs has shown promising results in treating allergic rhinitis in clinical studies.

Objective: This discussed series of experimental studies were conducted to explore the immuno-modulatory potential of IMMBO.

Observational research on the effect of an Ayurvedic treatment protocol in patients of hereditary pancreatitis.

Background: Hereditary pancreatitis (HP) is a chronic and recurrent inflammatory disorder caused by genetic abnormalities, often accompanied by severe symptoms and complications. Conventional treatments offer limited relief but fail to halt disease progression. An Ayurvedic Treatment Protocol has been reported to be effective in treating various types of pancreatitis.

Proof of Efficacy Study to Evaluate an Ayurvedic Formulation in the Treatment of Allergic Rhinitis: An Open Label Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial.

Background: Allergic rhinitis is largely treated by using antihistamines and nasal sprays, either alone or in combination. However, these measures ease out the symptoms but do not address causative factors, and have their share of side effects and limitations. An Ayurvedic herbo-mineral formulation, IMMBO, has been reported to be effective in treating allergic rhinitis.

Ayurvedic Treatment Protocol for Hereditary Pancreatitis: A Case Report Demonstrating Disease Arrestation.

The case report presented here highlights the use of an Ayurvedic treatment protocol (ATP) in managing hereditary pancreatitis (HP) in a 14-year-old boy. HP is a rare form of pancreatitis caused by specific gene mutations that are inherited within families. It is known to be aggressive and can lead to pancreatic cancer in later stages.

Burden of Disease, Unmet Needs in the Diagnosis and Management of Atopic Dermatitis: An Indian Expert Consensus.

Background: Atopic dermatitis (AD) is a chronic inflammatory, non-communicable, and relapsing skin disease that affects all age groups. There is a dearth of literature that reports the disease burden, and epidemiology and highlights unmet needs in the diagnosis and management of AD in India.

Methods: A total of ten specialists including dermatologists, pediatric dermatologists, and pediatricians with more than ten years of experience and practicing in different parts of India served as the expert panel during the virtual meet conducted on January 24, 2021.

Kinetics of Carbon Dioxide Removal Using -Acetylglucosamine.

Glucosamine, the amino sugar made from glucose, is a safe and natural reagent for post-combustion carbon dioxide capture. Its most plentiful derivative, -acetylglucosamine (or NAG), was studied in this work with respect to its reaction kinetics in aqueous solutions. A stirred cell reactor with a flat gas-liquid interface was used, and it was found that CO reacts with NAG via a pathway similar to that with alkanolamines.

Iron-catalyzed wet air oxidation of biomethanated distillery wastewater for enhanced biogas recovery.

In the present work, catalytic wet air oxidation (WAO) technique was applied to biomethanated spent wash from a local sugar factory. This wash water exhibited high biological oxygen demand (BOD = 8100 mg/L) and chemical oxygen demand (COD = 40,000 mg/L). The objectives of oxidative pre-treatment were two-fold, viz.

Wet air oxidation of cresylic spent caustic - A model compound study over graphene oxide (GO) and ruthenium/GO catalysts.

Wet air oxidation (WAO) is a candidate technique for the effective treatment of spent caustic wastewater. In this work, cresols were chosen as model compounds to represent cresylic spent caustic wash. Graphene oxide (GO) is a promising catalyst as well as support for the wet oxidation process, due to its unique structure and properties.

Response to Ayurvedic therapy in the treatment of migraine without aura.

Migraine patients who do not respond to conventional therapy, develop unacceptable side-effects, or are reluctant to take medicines resort to complementary and alternative medicines (CAM). Globally, patients have been seeking various non-conventional modes of therapy for the management of their headaches. An Ayurvedic Treatment Protocol (AyTP) comprising five Ayurvedic medicines, namely Narikel Lavan, Sootshekhar Rasa, Sitopaladi Churna, Rason Vati and Godanti Mishran along with regulated diet and lifestyle modifications such as minimum 8 h sleep, 30-60 min morning or evening walk and abstention from smoking/drinking, was tried for migraine treatment.

Sustainable effect of Ayurvedic formulations in the treatment of nutritional anemia in adolescent students.

Objectives: Anemia is a serious health problem in Indian school children. High prevalence of anemia has been reported in nonpregnant adolescent girls. An investigation was initiated to study the effect of two non-iron-containing Ayurvedic preparations-Sootshekhar Rasa plus Sitopaladi Churna-in improving nutritional anemia among adolescent students.

Kinetics of removal of carbon dioxide by aqueous solutions of N,N-diethylethanolamine and piperazine.

N,N-Diethylethanolamine (DEEA) is a very promising absorbent for CO(2) removal from gaseous streams, as it can be prepared from renewable resources. Aqueous mixtures of DEEA and piperazine (PZ) are attractive for the enhancement of CO(2) capture, due to the high CO(2) loading capacity of DEEA and high reactivity of PZ. In the present work, for the first time, the equilibrium and kinetic characteristics of the CO(2) reaction with such mixtures were considered.