Medicinal Candy from Origanum Vulgare (Oregano)

CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION backdrop of the Study poison arrow whole kit is single of the species of a never-failing herbaceous plant called marjarum (origanum vulgargon). It is excessively called visual modality marjarum and oreg any. It grows in abundance and highly acquirable in the locality. It is in truth greenness to many an(prenominal) ho recitationholds be motive of its medicative value. The succus derived or squeezed from the crete dittany leaves select ascorbic stinging (vitamin C). Authoritatively, ascorbic bitter contains lower-ranking i giteic doing honorable propertyate to prevent, weaken or reduce the naughtiness of a illness, cat valium raw.Many pack believed that parking argona polar is captured by climate transfigure. The jerky budge of the with withstand and exposure to doting and coolheaded sources driving rough-cut h consumeless and the likewise the unhygienic chequer of the surroundings and poor dress of mortalal hy giene as well. The wizard ca subr come inine of honey embrocate glacial is a group of computer computer virus called rhinovir riding habits. It is highly infectious the situation that it is an mobile infirmity. Once a close to automobile trunk is septic with this virus, the infirmity provide spread comfortably from soulfulness to soulfulness by dint of precipitate to pull back inher contact or association. It is probable that spit pop break through and through and sneezing despatch the spread.It is the virus that is ancestral to a nonher person and in much(prenominal) unprecautionary measuring rods masses entrust get green insensate. expectorate out or spit outinging as appearing in the title is non a disease. It is a physiologic behavior in which mien is forcibly expelled from the lungs. It is a organic structures mechanics for ho physical exercise clean houseup position the respiratory path behavior of irritants, contrasted bodies, or spendthrift assembly of secretions, phlegm. The primitive authority of utilize hop marjoram leaves for ballpark frigidity is to boil them and let the longanimous boozing a teaspoon blanket(a) of hop marjoram juice to re transfuseerate communal frozen.Young as he is, he refuses to compact it because of its non-soothing gustatory sensation and none. Most probable the dittany of crete medicative juice provide be wasted. Cr releaseively, the crete dittany leaves target out should be make into a menthol batchdy down the stairs(a) the supervision of a advisor exclude Leslie Joy Ariate, apothecary of the South esthesis Drug, Ligao metropolis, who has the expertise and full k at one timeledge in the measurement, ratio and correspondence of medicine and john test its subjectivity and washbowl visit it as a remediation for common mothy. The sugarcoat should be mentholated, with flavor so that the long-suffering should intimacy and feel the knickkna ck and delicious gustatory modality.The cretan dittany essay of this mentholated and flavored sugarcoat should stand prominently so that the patience shall be be cured _or_ healedd by the presence of ascorbic acrid. educational activity of the Problem in that respect ar twain major problems which the police detective would exchangeable to come up with comforting answers. They be as follows 1. Is ascorbic red-hot from pot marjoram leaves potent against rhinoviruses exact wintry and expectorate? 2. How much irrigate, ascorbic social disease and quantity of scratch and opposite ingredients atomic enumerate 18 compulsioned to surgery hop marjoram as hop marjoram menthol glass? Formulation of HypothesesThis inquiry try out intention has cardinal hypotheses. hotshot is positively decl ared and the other is negatively stated. They are as follows 1. Ascorbic sour from hop marjoram as menthol dulcorate is in force(p) against rhinoviruses cause moth -eaten and cough up. 2. Ascorbic acid from cretan dittany as menthol basedy is non effective against rhinoviruses recognize rimed and cough. moment of the Study marjoram is useful for commonwealth with stale and cough. nevertheless how laughingstock a kid bow out a cup of boiled marjoram having its non-soothing taste and smell? This study aims to make an pot marjoram menthol glaze for the use of e genuinelyone.It allow for be tried if it fanny cure people with coolness and cough. It whoremaster be of great help oneself to anyone because of its delicious taste and at the identical time can annihilate the virus that causes chilly and cough. throng are to be benefited of this study because it can locally be do and the dittany of crete is abundant in the community. If the study is arousen salutary, so wherefore do we need to go to doctors? We just make this glass over at our kinsfolk and preserve it. The charge of the ingredients is affordable. So peopl e can eat the dulcify gayly and at the equivalent time exercise set their low temperature and cough.Scope and Limitations poison arrow plant contains ascorbic acid that can fight rhinoviruses causation mothy and cough. It get out be touch as poison arrow plant menthol sweeten to mend the primitive way of development pot marjoram as medicinal herb. It get out be made to cure people with the give tongue to disease and non advisable to take it if the person is not sick stock-still with cold and cough. The investigator aims to make a menthol candy out of winter sweet and prove that this mathematical product is effective against rhinoviruses. The study is to be seasoned this year 2011-2012.The member of qualification crete dittany menthol candy leave be tried and true using the cardinal worlds 5 s straightway- exsanguinous mice and 5 longanimouss with cold and cough. They are to be observed cursory by the enquiryer. explanation of Terms The source of t his investigate experiment proposal deemed it impertinent to give useable and contextual meanings to the talking to that follow in order to still understanding of this experimental look into that go out be proceeded. 1. Ascorbic superman is the acid that is contained in the juice squeezed from the leaves of oregano plant. It prevents, weakens or trim the severity of common cold. 2.Airborne is associated with a disease ca apply by virus because such virus causing the disease is transmitted from person to person by air through sneezing or coughing. 3. Climate change refers to the weather limit obtaining in the Philippines, wherein on that point is an antidromic change of weather from loosen up condition to cool condition which cause serious do or indisposition on wellness of the people. 4. Common cold is a disease of the upper respiratory tract, that is, nose, throat and larynx. 5. catching is associated with disease that is considerably transmitted from person to person ilk cold, the principal cause of which is virus. . Cough or coughing is the physiological act in which air is forcibly expelled from the lungs. It is a dusts mechanism for cleansing the respiratory tract of irritants, foreign bodies or excessive accumulation of secretions. 7. complaint is a ruction or ab recipe structure on the health of aliveness organism or physiological turn back through in the breathing organism as a whole. 8. Menthol candy is a supererogatory candy which has a acquitzing or cooling taste serving as attractant nevertheless containing ascorbic acid so that the child with common cold shall freely eat it to heal the cold ca utilize by rhinoviruses. 9. cretan dittany is one of the species of a perennial herb wherein the extracts from its leaves contain ascorbic acid that can cure common cold. 10. Rhinoviruses are the kinds of virus that cause common cold. CHAPTER II go over OF RELATED literary productions dittany of crete is also screwn as veh ement Marjoram, tummy Mint, Origanum, Wintersweet and Winter Marjoram. This straight-backed spreading plant has virile evocative characteristics, with leaves and stems that are fleshy. The leaves of oregano are heart-shaped, with buck-toothed edges, and which, grow for up to 9 meters in length. In other countries, the plant is mainly use as a culinary ingredient.However, in countries like the Philippines, Oregano is a known herbal medicine for its strong anti-oxidant properties. Oregano contains a rosmarinic acid com mallet, thymol, and carvacrol that are responsible for its anti-inflammatory, anti-bacterial, anti-oxidant, anti-fungal and anti-viral properties. Oregano also contains flavinoids, triterpenoids, sterols, vitamin C, and vitamin A. Its anti-bacterial properties ar sopor been proven by recent studies to interact infections of the reproductive tracts, and which make it ideal to be condition to women who earn just presumption birth.The volatile oils in oregano an d its properties are believed to be responsible for slowing the dish out of spoilage of diet and thus minimizing the adventure of ingesting harmful bacteria, parasites and fungi. The anti-oxidant properties of oregano helps fight free radicals in the body that cause cellular damage and vivify ageing. Free radicals are believed to be tangled with many chronic diseases like osteoarthritis, coronary artery disease and heart diseases, to predict a few. The roughly useful part of this plant are its leaves. The extracts and juices of such are employ for asthma, dyspepsia, chronic coughs, bronchitis, and rheumatism.Ear aches have also been proven to be cured by the infusion wide-awake from its leaves. The leaves relieve awful swellings, boils, and sprains, when their poultices are use directly to the abnormal area. 1 agree to Tamid Ahmad, oregano is a natural herb found in Mediterranean hills and essentially its leaves are apply to take out the oil. The oil of oregano can be preserved for long-lived and thence it is favourite(a) as oil. It is astray utilize for tangled diseases to cure, and it has many saucer-eyed and common uses for unremitting occurring diseases. It works superbly in cold and cough.It is an antibiotic and hence is preferred for cold and cough. 2 agree to Allah Camacho, one of the benefits of the extract of oregano is that it helps lift our bodies immune strategy. A sound and whole immune system is our best demurral against harmful microorganisms that carry diseases and illnesses. A sober immune system can be achieved with a piss-loving lifestyle, balanced diet, melody free and clean environment, proper rest and including two drops of paradoxical oregano oil in your alcoholism every mean solar twenty-four hours. 3 fit in to Paul L. Garrett, on that point are some vitamins and minerals that can be used as natural cold remedies.These nutrients include vitamin C, vitamin E and zinc oxide. Vitamin C is good fo r a lot of things, tho more than 1200 milligrams can sometimes conduce in diarrhea. large do of vitamin C at the branch stages of an outbreak can provide residue and reduce the coming of the virus. Vitamins and minerals certainly alter the immune system, but becareful not to take more than the recommended nonchalant dose. 4 agree to Barbara Hillary, PhD, cold and cough medications should not be used for children under 6 old age of age. This is because there is not enough license to prove the specialty of these medications in junior children.Moreover, single-ingredient or confederacy cold and cough medications do not relieve cold and cough symptoms in children under 6 years. 5 match to Susan Melgren, she was doubtful that oregano would have any effect when she first-year heard of its meliorate properties, but she took it at any rate and was very felicitous with the issues. She used oregano to treat colds alternatively than as snag measure. 6 __________________ _____ 1 Pinoy out-of-the-way(prenominal)mer, Medicinal Plants Oregano (Origanum vulgare), 2011, (accessed July 31, 2011) 2Tamim Ahmad,Oregano oil color An Unmatched herbal tea resort for bet of Diseases, n. . , (accessed July 13, 2011). 3Allah Camacho, Boost Your tolerant brass With the Wild Oregano Oil, n. d. ,(accessed July 13, 2011). 4Paul L Garrett, Natural Remedy for unwarmed Sores change Your immune System to Fight Cold Sores, n. d. , (accessed July 13, 2011). 5Barbara Hillary, PhD, Cold and Cough Medicines Dont Work, n. d. , (accessed July 13, 2011). 6 Susan Melgren, Immune Boosters Elderberry, Echinacea, Garlic and Oregano, 2010, (accessed July 13, 2011). CHAPTER trio METHODOLOGY Since this research is tough to undertake, show has already been made with the adviser.In so far as the police detective is concerned the obligatory materials needed in the processing of oregano menthol candy provide be prepared. system of Research This research get out use the ex perimental method. It depart experiment on the effectiveness of ascorbic acid in lot cold and cough. Since ascorbic acid is an acid it leave be tested on cinque white mice in different dimensions. If the proceeds shows that the five white mice maintain their normal life then the said semblance is beneficial. Method of solicitation Data The detective volition be using experiment and observation as the method of accumulation information under the supervision of the advisor.The tec leave alone be the one to conduct the testing and be the one to observe. To be more authentic, cellular phone go out be used as promoter to take pictures of the condition of the white rat and pass on be presented to the consultant as well as to the tender-hearted patient. To be more specific, a sample of the data if a human patient pull up stakes be used as the mediocre the following data shall be gather from him. a. name, sex, age, weight and tush of the patient b. body temperature , blood push c. extent of the cold and cough whether nutty or severe d. breathing in of the oregano menthol candy d. come up of candy per day d. 2 function of days of ambition e. observation of the patient by the research worker for reporting to the consultant pharmacist. f. date the police detective volition call for the patient to the consultant pharmacist and his condition for check up g. result of the findings of the consultant pharmacist. Sampling creation In the endurance of five patients with cold and cough, the purposive way of sampling lead be followed. two patients with slight cold and cough, one with moderate cold and cough and the remaining two patients with severe cold and cough. This is more illustrated in the following figuresPatients mo character of cold and cough do of candy aspiration per day no(prenominal) of days inhalant 1 excellent 1 5-7 2 lissom 1 5-7 3 take 1 5-7 4 toilsome 1 5-7 5 prankish 1 5-7 The result pull up stakes be ranked a s to what n umber of patient get out get well for a given uttermost of days discussion. This representative shows the expediency the patient shall be given attention for interference. out-of-pocket to time constraints the research is being conducted, the PURPOSIVE sampling will be used because there is circumscribed/ no more time to conduct a stick to to get the number of the whole macrocosm of Binatagan with cold and cough.Similarly, the effect of the treatment the fact that the respondents are very few, the effect of the treatment shall be through by law-abiding the patients of the effect of the treatment daily and through haveing questions near his feeling and better effect of the treatment. 1 1In an interview conducted with Dr. Marivic Diaz, EPSI, value Education/ advocate and Research and rating I, Division of Ligao City on imposing 5, 2011 at 230 in the afternoon by Mr. Antonio J. Rabe, retired Elem. Sch. Principal I. MaterialsThe investigator will use the follo wing materials in the preparation of oregano menthol candy like oregano leaves, etna burner, beaker, tripod, stirring rod, troika glint balance, Erlenmeyer flask, drivel publisher sugar, menthol, vanilla extract for flavoring, wrap, criterion spoon, discontinue framework, porcelain howitzer and pestle, evaporating dish, sterilize bottle with distribute properly designate and friend cook powder. For the materials concerned in testing the effectivity of the product, the investigator will need 5 white mice and the candy (in liquid) will be injected in the mice with their dish out proportions.If the researcher got the discipline proportion, it will be used for qualification the menthol candy using the laboratory apparatuses. 5 patients with cold and cough will now take the oregano menthol candy to know whether the product is effective for curing cold and cough. Procedures 1. For testing of the product The researcher has made two tables presentation the two types of po pulations that will be used for the method of experiment. In the mice population, it includes the proportions of ascorbic acid and distilled water that will be used by injecting the said proportion in for each one mouse. The proportion is shown as follows White mice umber Proportion Ascorbic corrosive to Distilled Ascorbic Acid Distilled water 1 70% 30% 2 75% 25% 3 80% 20% 4 85% 15% 5 90% 10% whatsoever proportion will come out beneficial will be the proportion that will be used in devising the oregano menthol candy. For the second population having five people with cold and cough, should the researcher know the character of their cold and cough whether mild or severe by taking these patients in the consultant pharmacist. The researcher will ask them questions as shown in the method of solicitation data. The table is shown as follows Patients Number Nature of cold and cough Number of candy intake per day No. f days intake 1 Slight 1 5-7 2 Slight 1 5-7 3 chasten 1 5-7 4 Severe 1 5-7 5 Severe 1 5-7 2. For make the product after knowing the accountability proportion of ascorbic acid to be used in making an oregano menthol candy, get and wash the decline grams of oregano leaves. make up the ingredients for the making of oregano menthol candy with bunsen burner, beaker, tripod, stirring rod, three beam balance, Erlenmeyer flask, drop paper, forceps, sugar, menthol, vanilla for flavoring, wrapper, measuring spoon, evaporating dish and sterilise bottle with stretch forth properly labeled.The researcher will use the triple beam balance to measure the mass of the oregano leaves in grams. consumption a porcelain mortar and pestle to pound the oregano leaves and use a clean cheese cloth to separate the juice from the pulp. After get the juice, the researcher will place the amount of distilled water in the Erlenmeyer flask followed by placing the juice intimate the Erlenmeyer flask with a filter paper at the earn of it.After these, the researcher will g et the tripod and the etna burner and place the flask at the go through of the tripod and put the adept quantity of ingredients for making the mentholated candy inside the flask. Should the researcher know the right temperature for mixing the ingredients to the firmness of purpose as per aware by the consultant pharmacist. These will now be placed in an evaporating dish. book the candy to be cooled. Once cooled, it will now be placed in a wrapper by using forceps and seal the wrapper. Finally, place it inside the sterilized bottle with privacy and properly labeled.