Medicina Tradicional y Naturopatía Clínica

Abstracto

Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Ayurveda Practice and Research

Ashok Kumar Panda

Impacts of diseases can be assessed through various changes in society after a insurgence of new disease. It remarkably influences the existing system and can be interpreted as positive, negative or neutral based on the sensible variables. Although negative impacts are noted in terms of lock down of Ayurveda hospital and Ksharasutra and panchakarma centers. There is a significant drop of OPD strength due to lock down and shut down process. IPD services of most of Ayurveda hospital is closed down. There is a mass drop out/partial drop out of subjects from ongoing clinical trial and new patients’ recruitment is not possible for close down of clinical laboratories. But positive impact is more as it creates awareness to opt Ayurveda kwatha, nasya, pranayama and yagasana to prevent COVID-19 which already reached every house of India.