Love burning incense sticks? Or simply prefer using mosquito coils to get rid of those biting bests? Well, it might not be the healthiest idea. According to a recent finding, both incense sticks ...

Mosquito coils are widely used throughout Asia and in Africa and ... Initially, Ueyama mixed the flower powder into starch bases to create incense sticks that would repel insects.

When doctors advised her to use electric incense devices instead, her symptoms improved. Incense - in the form of coils, cones, powders or sticks - is widely used in religious and cultural practices.

“Burning one mosquito coil in a closed room amounts to smoking roughly 100 cigarettes,” Dr. Salvi said. While the emission from the burning of incense sticks, used commonly during religious ...