Comparative efficacy of fumes of some weeds and oleo-gum resin of guggul {Commiphora wightii) on air microflora

摘要

With rapid industrialization and urbanization, environmental pollution has become a serious problem. There are various types of pollution e.g. air, water, soil and sound. Chemical fumigation is used as an adjunct for environmental cleaning of indoors,hospital isolation rooms and other critical areas. For healthy living and to check unwanted microflora, often people use cleaning products, which have substantial risk particularly with the products containing volatile organic compounds (Nazaroff and Weschler 2004).Various chemical fumigants, viz. formaldehyde gas, hydrogen peroxide, chlorine dioxide etc. (Knapp and Battissi 2001) are used to manage air pollution. Although, chemical fumigation is effective, but possess many hazardous effects, which maybe responsible for serious illness. It is evident that fumigation with formaldehyde causes sulfhydryl poisoning, protein aggregation and cancer (Rengaramanujum et al. 2009). The acute renal, liver, myocardial and skeletal muscle injury can also be developed in cases of severe intoxication by chemical fumigation (Arora et al. 1995). Moreover, these chemicals as fumigants also cause damage to the surfaces and equipments.