Open AccessAn Insight into Ayurveda and Yogic Practices Sustain Physical and Mental Health in COVID-19 Pandemic
Author(s) -
Devidas S. Bhagat,
Ranjitsingh Nimbalkar,
Sampada K Shejul,
Wasudeo B. Gurnule,
Aparna Gunjal,
Gurvinder Singh Bumbrah
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
letters in applied nanobioscience
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2284-6808
DOI - 10.33263/briac104.29182932
Subject(s) - pandemic , medicine , outbreak , middle east respiratory syndrome , middle east respiratory syndrome coronavirus , pneumonia , coronavirus , public health , disease , transmission (telecommunications) , covid-19 , infectious disease (medical specialty) , virology , nursing , electrical engineering , engineering
The worldwide public health disaster caused due to a viral outbreak of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 or SARS-CoV-2) challenges the entire healthcare system. The COVID-19 is a highly pathogenic viral transmittable infection that causes the severe acute respiratory syndrome. It is a kind of pneumonia virus and the third type of coronavirus after severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and the Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS). In December 2019, the third coronavirus was discovered in patients with infectious respiratory disease in the capital city Wuhan, Hubei province, and initiate a global pandemic. It has a very high human-to-human transmission ability, which results in spread rapidly all over the world. Today's necessary to understand the physiopathology of COVID-19, which causes a global pandemic and infects more than 136 million people. The COVID-19 genome sequence is similar to the other two coronaviruses, with about 80% sequence identical with SARS-CoV and about 50 % with MERS-CoV. Remarkably, COVID-19 has a 90% similar whole-genome sequence with bat coronaviruses. The worldwide mortality rate of COVID-19 is 1 to 2%. Ayurvedic remedies; yogic practices like yogasanas, breathing pranayama, and meditation; other traditional Indian practices include decoction and drinking of herbal remedies. The Ayurveda, Yogic science, and other ancient practices boost the immune system, improve lung function, improve physiological strengths, normalize cognitive functions, and reduce the pandemic's community speeding. Ayurvedic remedies and yogic practices help to cope up with the COVID-19 pandemic. Yoga and ayurvedic were elements of daily routine practices of peoples in ancient times to keep themselves healthy.