High school female students' 3-in-1 antiseptic drugs from natural medicinal herbs

Not only antiseptic, your two solutions also work to stop bleeding, blurring scars and stimulate new skin tissue formation. In particular, the ingredients for making medicines come from completely natural sources.

Natural hemostatic solution, antiseptic

In folklore, ink grass, mugwort, turmeric are used to rub wounds and sores . Therefore, Mai Thi Kieu Nhi and Pham Thi Khanh Ha (Phu Da secondary school, Phu Vang district, Thua Thien Hue has the idea of ​​combining these three herbs to form a completely natural hemostatic and antiseptic solution.

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Mai Thi Kieu Nhi and Pham Thi Khanh Ha next to their products.(Photo: NVCC).

Within 5 months, the children made the product by manual method. First, they choose raw materials for squid, wormwood, washed turmeric to drain. Puree the ingredients according to each type with the ratio: 100 grams of grass in combination with 200ml Ethanol alcohol 90 0 , 100 grams of mugwort combined with 200ml Ethanol alcohol 90, 500g turmeric combined with 100ml Ethanol alcohol 90 0 .

After grinding, place the ingredients in a plastic bottle for two days. Then, filter the extract, replace the new solvent and soak for another two days. Next, allow the solvent to evaporate in a wide-open container until the extract becomes thick and viscous. This process takes about 10 days. Then, purify the essence of the ingredients by type and mix 40% of the essence of the squid solution plus 40% of the solution of wormwood and turmeric.

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The ability to stop bleeding, antiseptic is tested on animals and everyone has quality.(Photo: Nhat Tuan).

'Using Ethanol alcohol solvent 900 to avoid the material during storage is stale, rotten, unconscious, discoloured, help keep the quality of the original material, meet the good preservation stage' , Kieu Nhi added.

The solution was tested at the Center for testing drugs, cosmetics and foods under Thua Thien Hue Department of Health. Results, microbiological criteria and physiological criteria for heavy metals are not detected. The solution can stop bleeding, antiseptic after about 10-20 seconds when the solution is small on the wound.

The solution is applied to the wound, the sore has just been bleeding and antiseptic and stimulates the formation of new skin tissue. The product is compact, convenient to carry to first aid when having a bleeding wound without any medicine or medical station nearby to bandage the bleeding.

Get positive feedback from users

According to Khanh Ha, grass squid, mugwort, fresh turmeric is a natural grass growing everywhere, easy to grow, easy to find, very convenient to meet processing raw materials and has high applicability.

The product does not cause any side effects to health because the ingredients are benign, of natural origin, without chemical ingredients, safe and environmentally friendly.

The cost to make the product is not much, because grass squid, mugwort collect from the locality themselves, no need to buy. Estimated, to make 100ml of the solution costs about 15,000 - 20,000 VND.

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The project has won the second prize in Thua Thien Hue province's Youth and Children Innovation Contest 2018 and is attending the National Youth and Children's Youth Competition.(Photo: Nhat Tuan).

Khanh Ha said: 'We have introduced this product to friends, teachers and some households where we live. The result is a positive feedback from users. Most people complimented the convenience and good health effectiveness when treating first aid. "

Talking to Discovery Magazine, Ms. Phan Thi Thanh Huong - instructor, said that Ha and Nhi are two good and good students.

'Your results today are worthy of hardship, perseverance and importantly, you have a passion for research and creativity. Products are cheap so it is easier to consume because it meets the needs of buyers and contributes to bring high economic benefits to producers, ' Huong said.