Open AccessHerbal Medicine for the Treatment of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19): A Systematic Review
Author(s) -
S Rehan Ahmad
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
indian journal of pure and applied biosciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2582-2845
DOI - 10.18782/2582-2845.8757
Subject(s) - hand sanitizer , coronavirus , covid-19 , personal protective equipment , transmission (telecommunications) , medicine , hand washing , pandemic , chlorhexidine , face shield , infection control , face masks , virology , hygiene , intensive care medicine , disease , computer science , dentistry , infectious disease (medical specialty) , health care , pathology , telecommunications , economics , economic growth
Till now Coronavirus (COVID-19) has taken ~ 0.43 million lives and infected ~ 7.6 million people and the process is continuing. Face masks and regular hand-washing are the two main ways to help prevent the transmission of Coronavirus. But wearing face masks and regular hand-washing have not sufficient to stop the transmission of Coronavirus. This leads a modification needed for the procedure of prevention from Coronavirus infection. Thus the knowledge about spreading and infecting mechanism by the Coronavirus is desired (Garai, 2020). Instead of using soap and alcohol base sanitizer NaHCO3 solution can used for hand-washing to prevent from Coronavirus infection. As NaHCO3 is very cheap and less hazardous than soap and alcohol base sanitizer so this change will be economically profitable and environmentally safer (less hazard). NaHCO3 solution can also be used as nasal drop and gargle solution for the protection of nose mucus and mouth saliva from Coronavirus infection. Thus NaHCO3 solution give extra protection from Coronavirus infection when it used with mask (Garai, 2020). Beside that considering the biological immovability of NaHCO3 (mainly in human blood plasma), it is strongly recommended to use NaHCO3 for the treatment of Coronavirus patients too.