Natural Products and Homemade Remedies as COVID-19 Active Agents: An Overview

Authors: Pandey K

DOI: 10.23880/oajpr-16000215

Volume 4, Issue 3

Abstract

Several natural products, including marine natural products, have shown diverse biological activities.COVID-19, caused by SARS-CoV-2, is posing a big challenge against Humankind. Remdesivir, and other synthetic antiviral drugs, are being tried against the virus. Some Natural products, like Withanone, are also said be effective. At least 70% of Earth’s surface is covered with sea/salty water. World’s oldest, most revered and holiest texts, the Vedas, term the Ocean as ‘Ratnakar’, or the bestower of immense riches. In the nineteen fifties, potent bioactive, chemical compounds from marine organisms, for the first time. Even some home-based, traditional remedies, have also proved helpful, in allev

Keywords: Chinese virus; Wuhan virus; COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2, RNA virus; Remdesivir; Azithromycin, Withanone; Ivermectin; Tinospora cordifolia; Ara-C; Hydroxy Chloroquine; WHO; WHA, Herpes zoster opthalmicus; Post-Herpetic Neuralgia (PHN); 100% pure deshi ghee; Innate immunity system

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