A examine carried out by a group of scientists at Nationwide Botanical Analysis Institute (NBRI) right here has claimed that smoke emitted throughout havans reduces airborne micro organism to a big extent, minimising chance of infectious ailments.
“Burning wooden and medicinal herbs, higher often known as ‘havan samagri'(combination of wooden and odoriferous and medicinal herbs), can successfully scale back pathogens within the air,” NBRI’s senior scientist Chandra Shekhar Nautiyal mentioned.
The examine had already been revealed and accepted by Science Direct, a journal of ethnopharmacology.
“As described in Rigvedas, saints used to carry out agnihotra-yagnas to purify the setting by sublimating the havan samgri in fireplace,” he mentioned.
In a bid to review the precise influence of havans, an indoor examine was carried out by the NBRI group together with Prof Nautiyal, Puneet Singh Chauhan and a fellow of Asian Agri-Historical past Basis Yeshwant Laxman Nene.
A posh combination of over 5 dozen odoriferous and medical herbs was obtained from Gurukul Kangri Pharmacy in Haridwar and burnt in an indoor setting to review its influence on the setting.
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