Overview of Covid-19; its prevention and management in the light of Unani medicine.
Covid-19
Influenza
Nazla-e-wabaiya
SARS-CoV-2
Unani medicine
Waba
Journal
The Science of the total environment
ISSN: 1879-1026
Titre abrégé: Sci Total Environ
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 0330500
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
01 Aug 2020
01 Aug 2020
Historique:
received:
15
04
2020
revised:
18
04
2020
accepted:
19
04
2020
pubmed:
26
4
2020
medline:
25
6
2020
entrez:
26
4
2020
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Since December 2019, a respiratory pandemic named as coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) caused by a new coronavirus named as SARS-CoV-2, has taken the world by storm. The symptoms are fever, malaise, and cough which resolve in a few days in most cases; but may progress to respiratory distress and organ failure. Transmission is through droplet infection or fomites, but other modes such as airborne transmission and oro-fecal transmission are also speculated. Research is underway to develop effective vaccines and medicines for the disease. In such a scenario, we present the measures described in Unani system of medicine for health protection during epidemics. Unani is a traditional system of medicine developed during the middle ages, which employs natural drugs of herbal, animal and mineral origin for treatment. In Unani medicine, during an epidemic, apart from isolation and quarantine, three measures are of utmost importance, (i) purification of surroundings using certain herbal drugs as fumigants or sprays, (ii) health promotion and immune-modulation, and (iii) use of health-protecting drugs and symptom-specific drugs. Drugs such as loban (Styrax benzoides W. G. Craib), sandroos (Hymenaea verrucosa Gaertn.) za'fran (Crocus sativus L.), vinegar etc. are prescribed in various forms. Scientific researches on these drugs reveal the presence of a number of pharmacologically active substances, which may provide a new insight into the management of infections and epidemics.
Identifiants
pubmed: 32334163
pii: S0048-9697(20)32376-7
doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.138859
pmc: PMC7174982
pii:
doi:
Substances chimiques
Plant Preparations
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Types de publication
Journal Article
Review
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
138859Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
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