Medicina Tradicional y Naturopatía Clínica

Abstracto

Ayurvedic Immune Boosting Therapy against COVID-19

Md Nazmul Huda

Background: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and result to pneumonia. The first case was identified in Wuhan city of Hubei Province, China at the end of 2019. On 11 March 2020, the World Health Organization has declared COVID-19 outbreak as global pandemic. Already more than 55 million people affected in 213 countries, areas, or territories globally and died approximately 3.4 million more. Moreover, currently there is no specific treatment protocol justified for long term remedy and prevention against COVID-19. So, this review study attempted to define the practice of Ayurvedic immune boosting therapy may fight against COVID-19 for long term prevention.

Methods: Qualitative methods including various Ayurvedic classic texts and scientific journals have been used for this study as source materials.

Result: The burden of COVID-19 is affecting many countries worldwide, so a special attention is devoted to immune boosting therapy through the knowledge of Ayurveda.

Conclusion: This conceptual study emphasizes the importance of some Ayurvedic procedures like avoiding of causative factors, nasal instillation, rejuvenation therapy, behavioural therapy, yoga, and meditation as daily regimen and seasonal regimen are very supportive to boost up immunity and these measurers may help to prevent COVID-19.