Open AccessDiagnosis and Possible Use of Traditional Medicinal Plant to combat COVID-19
Author(s) -
M. Beyau Konyak,
Richa Naredi,
Ekta Rana,
Ramendra Pati Pandey
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
coronaviruses
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2666-7975
pISSN - 2666-7967
DOI - 10.2174/2666796702666210127111351
Subject(s) - coronavirus , covid-19 , case fatality rate , risk analysis (engineering) , pandemic , outbreak , disease , public health , adaptability , product (mathematics) , intensive care medicine , medicine , computer science , business , environmental health , virology , biology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , pathology , ecology , population , geometry , mathematics
The novel Coronavirus disease 2019 has turned into a serious public health concern around the globe. Due to itshigh adaptability in every environment, this novel virus has outspread like fire as compared to SARS and MERS but thefatality rate is lower. This outbreak has caused illness to many people worldwide. Specially, people with lung problems andother chronic diseases are at high risk. Although there has been a convincing result in the use of chemically synthesis drugs,it has various limitations and needs performance for the treatment of the novel coronavirus. Therefore, a medicinal plantmight provide a solution for the novel virus along with the recent advancement in computational methods that have paved anew path to operate complex molecules which will ultimately result in discovering new and advanced drugs.In this review, we have summarized and analyze plant-based natural product which can be used to boost the immune systemor act as a remedy for patients suffering from a novel virus. This review also focuses on the structure of COVID-19, variousdiagnostics tools, preventive measures, and data analysis of the novel Coronavirus of India.