World Health Day – 7 April 2011
The theme for World Health Day 2011 is
“Antimicrobial resistance and its global spread”
We live in an era of medical breakthroughs with new wonder drugs available to treat conditions that a few decades ago, or even a few years ago in the case of HIV/AIDS, would have proved fatal. In the World Health Day 2011, WHO is going to launch a worldwide campaign to safeguard these medicines for future generations. Antimicrobial resistance and its global spread threatens the continued effectiveness of many medicines used today to treat the sick, while at the same time it risks jeopardizing important advances being made against major infectious killers.
We live in an era of medical breakthroughs with new wonder drugs available to treat conditions that a few decades ago, or even a few years ago in the case of HIV/AIDS, would have proved fatal. In the World Health Day 2011, WHO is going to launch a worldwide campaign to safeguard these medicines for future generations. Antimicrobial resistance and its global spread threatens the continued effectiveness of many medicines used today to treat the sick, while at the same time it risks jeopardizing important advances being made against major infectious killers.
Modern medicine and its treatment greatly depend on antibiotics and other microbial medicines. These medicines have been a great boon to life threatening diseases like pneumonia, T.B, malaria, HIV/AIDS etc. The treatment of serious and infectious diseases has been a major breakthroughs in development of drugs in the last century. However , this advantage could be lost through the spread of antimicrobial resistance.Many infectious diseases may resurface again , become uncontrollable and rapidly spread all over the world and the world of medicine may regress to the pre-antibiotic era.The use of antimicrobial agents and antibiotics in animal that provide food can create resistance problems for human beings. WHO is launching a six point combat in the spread of antimicrobial resistance.
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is resistance of a microorganism to an microbial medicine to which it was previously sensitive. Resistant organism like bacteria , viruses and parasites withstand attacks by antimicrobial medicine , such as antibiotics, and anti-malarials. Thus , standard treatment become ineffective and infections persist and may spread to others.AMR is the result of the use and misuse of antimicrobial medicines and develops when a microorganism mutates or acquires resistance gene.
Antimicrobial Activity of Some Important Siddha Medicinal Plant Against Plant and Human Pathogens The methanol leaf extracts of Acacia nilotica(karuvel), Sida cordifolia(chitramutti), Tinospora cordifolia(seenthil),Withania somnifera(amukkara) and Ziziphus mauritiana(semai illanthai) showed significant antibacterial activity against Bacillus subtilis,Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas fluorescens, Staphylococcus aureus and Xanthomonas axonopodis pv.malvacearum and antifungal activity against Aspergillus flavus, Dreschlera turcica and Fusarium verticillioides when compare to root/ bark extracts. A. nilotica and S. cordifolia leaf extract showed highest.antibacterial activity against B. subtilis. and Z. mauritiana leaf extract showed significant activity against X. a. pv. malvacearum. Root and leaf extract of S. cordifolia recorded significant activity against all the test bacteria. A. nilotica bark and leaf extract showed significant antifungal activity against A. flavus,Ziziphus mauritiana and Tinospora cordifolia recorded significant antifungal activity against D. turcica Themethanol extract of Sida cordifolia exhibited significant antifungal activity against F. verticillioides.
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Ingredients
Kasakasa -one cup
Jaggery -1\2 cup
Cashew nuts -25 grams
Dry grapes -25 grams
Ghee -50grams
Method of preparation;
Fry the Kasakasa in a dry vessel and allow it to cool, mix it with jaggery and grind it minimally. Add Cashew and Dry grapes fried in ghee. With the help of ghee make them into small sized spheres.
Medicinal uses;
It is a very good cooling agent, it helps to cure sleeping disorders, and also control diarrhea and dysentery.
Intake Kasakasa urundai instead of sleeping pills
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