Open AccessResponse to Covid-19 Disease in Ghana: A Review of the Herbs
Author(s) -
Nana Ama Mireku-Gyimah,
Paul Owusu Donkor,
Cindy Kitcher,
Joseph Adusei Sarkodie,
Emelia Oppong Bekoe,
Obed Kwaku Boateng
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of natural remedies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.154
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 2320-3358
pISSN - 0972-5547
DOI - 10.18311/jnr/2021/26515
Subject(s) - covid-19 , medicinal herbs , pandemic , traditional medicine , disease , medicine , infectious disease (medical specialty) , pathology
The majority of people living in developing countries rely on alternative medicine for many aspects of their healthcare needs. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, a lot of alternative treatments have been adopted in a bid to prevent contracting and sometimes purported to cure the disease. However, the adopted medicinal plants are mainly arbitrary and have not been captured nor reviewed in the light of available knowledge. In this review, we examined the herbs, fruits, vegetables and other alternative therapies that have been employed by many Ghanaians with the aim of COVID-19 disease prevention. The majority of these herbs are medicinal plants known to have antiviral activities, while others boost the immune system.