Role of ethno-phytomedicine knowledge in healthcare of COVID-19: advances in traditional phytomedicine perspective.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 virus, ethnomedicinal plants have been used in diverse geographical locations for their purported prophylactic and pharmacological effects. Medicinal plants have been relied on by people around the globe for centuries, as 80% of the world's population rely on herbal medicines for some aspect of their primary health care needs, according to the World Health Organization.

Main body

This review portrays advances in traditional phytomedicine by bridging the knowledge of ethno-phytomedicine and COVID-19 healthcare. Ethnomedicinal plants have been used for symptoms related to COVID-19 as antiviral, anti-infective, anti-inflammatory, anti-oxidant, antipyretic, and lung-gut immune boosters. Traditionally used medicinal plants have the ab

SUBMITTER: Nasir Ahmed M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9362587 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature