Bengaluru: Class 9 girl’s home remedies app gets top award
Bengaluru: Doctor-approved home remedies are now just a click away, thanks to 14-year-old Shraddha Vijay Raghavan, who runs her innovative app ‘Grandma’s Magic: Heal@Home’.
The app recently won the first prize in the National Science Exhibition 23-24 organized by Kendriya Vidyalaya.
Shraddha, now studying in Class 9 at Kendriya Vidyalaya, Indian Institute of Science (IISc) campus, was inspired by her grandfather V Babu Sathyan, a metallurgist.
Shraddha said that in her childhood she was often ill and had to stay indoors. However, this led to an innovative idea that helped not only him, but also others get easy access to healthcare.
“It is a platform where users can share their home remedies and access remedies listed by others. One can treat basic diseases at home without going to a clinic,” he said.
On the credibility of home remedies, Shraddha said that she has five doctors in Bengaluru to approve them before uploading them on the app. She guarantees no side effects from her home remedies.
The turnaround time for approval is one day and it works on a rating system. So if people feel the remedy works, they give it a good rating, he said.
Grandma’s Magic has over 200 home remedies and 600 downloads on PlayStore. According to analytics, around 60-100 people visit the app every day.
“The app also has an AI-based chatbot that will allow you to easily find treatments and tell you what remedy you should take based on your symptoms,” Shraddha said.
An aspiring botanist who has over 150 plant species in her backyard, Shraddha is also working on a prototype to help tackle air pollution. “Vayuputra, the device, converts polluted air into fertilizer. It can be installed at traffic signals, industrial chimneys and other such places. I used Bernoulli’s theorem to develop it. The device creates a vacuum and sucks the polluted air around it. The polluted air then undergoes a chemical process and releases oxygenated air, which also includes a byproduct in the form of fertilizer that can be used in agriculture,” she said.
Shraddha said that she suffered from respiratory ailments as a child, which inspired her to develop Vayuputra. “I want to get a patent for this device and make the prototype accurate. I hope one day I will tie up with the government or some private organization to produce it on a large scale,” said Shraddha.
The young innovator recently presented his science project at “Pariksha Pe Charcha” held in New Delhi on January 29. Prime Minister Narendra Modi appreciated his efforts.
