title: 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.affiliation: Department of Medical Biochemistry, Post Graduate Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Madras, Taramani Campus, Chennai 600 113, India.
authors.forename: Sumathy S
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Kumar
authors.forename: K Radha
authors.initials: KR
authors.lastname: Shanmugasundaram
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000975:Antioxidants / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D001249:Asthma / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000378:metabolism; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D019587:Dietary Supplements; D016166:Free Radical Scavengers / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D006801:Humans; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D008515:Medicine, Ayurvedic
chemical_list: D000975:Antioxidants; D016166:Free Radical Scavengers