23/03/2020
COVID-19 TREATMENT BY USING PAKISTANI TRADITIONAL HERBS
Currently, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Corona virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2, formerly known as 2019-nCo, the causative pathogen of Corona virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)) has rapidly spread across Pakistan and around the world, causing an outbreak of acute infectious pneumonia. No specific anti-virus drugs or vaccines are available for the treatment of this sudden and lethal disease. The supportive care and non-specific treatment to ameliorate the symptoms of the patient are the only options currently. At the top of these conventional therapies, greater than 85% of SARS-CoV-2 infected patients in China are receiving Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) treatment.
According to the current clinical guideline in China and the experiences in the treatment of SARS or Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) patients, both conventional medicine and traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) are used for the treatment of patients with infection of SARS-CoV-2 in China. The COVID-19 patients showed typical respiratory symptom (such as cough, fever, and lung damage) and some other symptoms such as fatigue, myalgia, and diarrhea.
Overwhelming inflammatory responses are attributable to the deaths of patients with infection of SARS-CoV, or MERS-CoV, or COVID-19. Thus, anti-inflammatory agents presumably could reduce the severity and mortality rate.
Herbal medicines have high antioxidants, minerals, vitamin and alkaloids. These have very effective antiviral, antifungal, antibacterial, antiaging properties and are used as immunity booster. By using this medicine we can control and decrease the mortality rate of chronic diseases such as heart disease, diabetes kidney failure, asthma etc.
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