Open AccessTraditional Indian practices: Time to revisit and re-adopt for a healthier lifestyle
Author(s) -
Ruchita Tyagi,
V. Gupta,
Rajiv Kumar,
Gurpreet Singh Wander
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of anaesthesiology-clinical pharmacology/journal of anaesthesiology clinical pharmacology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.466
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 2231-2730
pISSN - 0970-9185
DOI - 10.4103/joacp.joacp_299_20
Subject(s) - medicine , hygiene , isolation (microbiology) , pandemic , boosting (machine learning) , quarantine , covid-19 , social distance , environmental health , infectious disease (medical specialty) , disease , artificial intelligence , pathology , computer science , microbiology and biotechnology , biology
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected human life significantly. In spite of significant advancement of medical technology, management is still focused on preventive strategies due to non availability of vaccine or any definitive treatment. The preventive strategies include hand hygiene, social distancing, isolation/quarantine along with the methods for boosting immunity. The ancient literature and several traditional practices of our country guide a hygienic life style and address several preventive aspects of transmission of infection across the society. Furthermore, healthy eating habits and use of various herbs and spices as regular food ingredients has been proven for boosting the immunity. In this review, we have tried to correlate the traditional practices with the available scientific evidences.