{"id":10426,"date":"2011-09-03T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-03T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/09\/03\/fight-mosquitoes-the-ayurvedic-way\/"},"modified":"2011-09-03T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-03T12:00:00","slug":"fight-mosquitoes-the-ayurvedic-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/09\/03\/fight-mosquitoes-the-ayurvedic-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Fight Mosquitoes the Ayurvedic Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ibnlive.in.com\/news\/fight-mosquitoes-the-ayurvedic-way\/173235-60-123.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, INDIA, August 5, 2011 (The New Indian Express): Mosquitoes are vicious in Kerala. The Kochi Corporation and Tripunithura municipality routinely fog for mosquitoes, and one must use a mosquito repellant in order to sleep. Neither measure provides control; and the toxicity of the fog and repellants is a constant worry. But a nontoxic, fully ayurvedic repellent has now been developed by the Asha Workers in Udayamperoor panchayat.<\/p>\n<p>The herbal repellant is fumed in coconut shells or earthen pots. It kills mosquitoes instantly but is believed to be nontoxic to humans. &#8220;The fumes of this unique mix have no health hazards. It is safe for even those suffering from diseases like acute asthma,&#8221; said M. K. Anilkumar, ward member of 19th ward Udayamperoor panchayat.The kits are being distributed free of cost in his ward.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are planning to distribute the mix to other parts of the panchayat also through Asha workers,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, INDIA, August 5, 2011 (The New Indian Express): Mosquitoes are vicious in Kerala. The Kochi Corporation and Tripunithura,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}