Invitro Antioxidant Activity of Siddha Herbomineral Formulation Muthu Parpam

Abstract

Traditional medicines are recently gaining worldwide acceptance due to its health promotive and rejuvenating approach, less side effects, cost effectiveness and easy availability. Muthu parpam is a Siddha Herbo mineral formulation derived from marine mollusc pinctada. The traditional way of describing an antioxidant is a holistic medicine which has the ability to arrest/ delay ageing and age-related disorders and rejuvenating or revitalizing the functional body systems as a whole. Muthu Parpam is one such formulation in traditional Siddha text Theran tharu and has also been indicated in Siddha formulary of India-Part-1 a compendium of Siddha formulations The gem pearl (Muthu) has been indicated for a variety of acute and chronic diseases like otorrhoea, otitis media, asthma, diabetes, eye diseases, piles and urinary diseases and various neuro muscular diseases. Since most diseases and its complications are free radicals mediated and various scientific papers confirm the fact that administration of pearl powder causes substantial increase in antioxidant levels and suppresses the lipid peroxidation products that causes diseases, we have evaluated the antioxidant activity of Muthu parpam, a calcined ash of pearl gem through our present study.