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    High phenol content in Ayurvedic herbs can brand them as superfoods abroad and multiply export & farmer income, as shown with the example of Lotus seed, Water chestnut, kang kong & spine gourd vegetables, now rising, after past ignorance.

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    14-12-2018

    Marginal crops to super-foods- lotus seed,


    Kang kong, Spine gourd, Water chestnut:-
    Ayurveda,
    export & rural development

    UTKARSH GHATE & HEMA KULKARNI **


    *- UNDP, Udyam Project, Talasari, Palghar district, MH
    **- Govt. College, Jamgao- R, Durg district, Chhattisgarh state.

    Superfoods- preventive healthcare


     Rise in NCD- non communicable/ lifestyle diseases
     Obesity, Diabetes, Hypertension. Heart………..
     Caused by- junk food, high sugar, salt, oil
     Rise in NCD- non communicable/ lifestyle diseases
     Rise in Ayurvedic/ traditional medicine use- Patanjali
     Many medicinal plants threatened/ some extinct
     SUPERFOODS emergence- globally- mostly cultivated/ garden
    herbs
     DRUMSTICK, Aloe vera, Turmeric, Pumpkin, Green tea,
    Pomegrenate…
     Preventive healthcare preferred- like Ayurveda principle
    14-12-2018

    Polyphenols & Antioxidants


     Polyphenols- aromatic compounds- secondary metabolites
     Produced by stess- heat, drought, fundal attack etc.
     Anitoxidants- scvange reactive oxygen species (ROS),
    reduce stress
     Top antioxidant herbs- ORAC value

    INDIAN FOREIGN
    Clove- 314,000 Sumac bran- 314,000
    Cinnamom- 267,000 Oragano, dry- 200,000
    Turmeric- 159,000 Cocoa- 80,000

    SIDE HERO/INS

    LOTUS SPINE- GOURD


     Nelumbo nucifera ROYLE.  Momordia dioica Roxb. ex Willd
     MODERN- anti-ageing, tonic,  MODERN- antioxidant, anti-
    Obesity, diabetes, inflammatory, BP, diabetes, anti-
    inflammation, cosmetics, microbial, bronchitis, fever, asthma,
    sexual issues, diarrhoea,
    insomnia, sedative, calming, aborti-facient, skin cure, piles,
    heart-care, BP, antispasmodic, analgesic, liver-protective
    digestive, urinary  TRADITIONAL- laxative, diuretic,
     TRADITIONAL- fertility, tonic, asthama, liver-care, depression
    fair skin, uterine etc.
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    RISING STARS- 2

    RIVER SPINACH/ KANG-KONG WATER- CHESTNUT


     Ipomea aquatic Forsk  Trapa natans L.= T. bispinosa
    Roxb.
     MODERN- diabetes, BP, Emetic-
    for opium and arsenic,  NEW- fertility, obesity, debility
    scorpion, nerve tonic, debility, Bleeding, Burning, nervine,,
    laxative, anti-microbial, Diarrhea, Fracture, urination
    cancer-care, anti-tumour,  PAST- tonic, digestive,
    depression, epilepsy lactative, bleeding, leprosy,
     TRADITIONAL- Jaundice, diarrhoea, cracks, fracture,
    debility, piles, Asthama, urinary
    hedache, tonic

    Antioxidant power and main


    phytochemicals

    SPECIES Antioxidant* Phytochemicals

    Lotus seed 76- 100 nelumbosides A–D , 5 flavanoids, 4


    alkaloids
    River spinach 6,847 myricetin, quercetin, luteolin,
    apigenin, and kaempferol,
    carotenoids
    Spine gourd 6# Calcium, Phosphorous, vitamin C

    Water chestnut 2.87 # flavonoids, alkaloids, saponins

    *- ORAC- mol TE/ 100 g FW,, #- DPPH assay (mcg/ml)- (Ascorbic acid 1.6 mcg/ ml),
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    FARMING PROMISE

    SPECIES Yield Quintal/ Price Rs./ Income Rs./


    acre quintal acre
    Lotus seed 20 3,500 70,000

    River spinach 22 5,000 110,000

    Spine-gourd 40 2,000 80,000

    Water chestnut 40 2,000 80,000

    CONCLUSION
     Learn the modern language to advertise old gold
     Identify modern disease profile & needs & target it
     Help farmers to earn more by intercropping herbs
     Clinical R & D, publications a must- like Chinese did
     Target NRI diaspora 1st but also Africa & Latin America
     Learn & Teach Ayurveda in Arabian, Russian, Spanish, French,
    Portugese, not just UK, USA- these 4 language nations are easier to
    sell, bigger economies
     This will multiply the Ayurveda growth than the current paradigm

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