Use of Herbal Medicines on Coronavirus
Tanya Dudani, Ayush Saraogi
Abstract
Corona virus is caused by rapidly dividing virus which works by injecting it's genome into other's gene and multiplies there hence it depends on other organisms for its growth and therefore makes it more difficult to vanish the disease-causing agent and it is becoming a great topic of research among the drug developers, researchers and scientists.When a patient is treated with a herbal drug, the continuous observation of treatment and it's effect becomes prerequisite to alter the dose as and when required on the basis of effects observed by the herbal practitioner.There is no scientific evidence for any of these alternative remedies like TCM (traditional Chinese medicine) and herbs to prevent or cure the illness caused by this virus, in fact, some of them may cause side effects.After the outbreak, Guangdong had reported a mortality of just 0.1% of infected people -compared with Wuhan's rate of 2.6% -and none of the confirmed patients in Zhejiang had died, the reason is that the patients in Guangdong and Zhejiang were given herbal drinks to relieve symptoms even before they were testing positive.When observed the areas were herbal treatment was administered, reported less number of deaths as compared to the areas were herbs were not administered.There is plenty of data supporting the effectiveness of herbs in treating viral infection but it is difficult to tell exactly how well herbs perform because in most cases they are administered with modern pills and some patients in critical condition are also supported with technical life support such as artificial lungs.The combination of modern and traditional therapy can no-