Abstract

COVID 19 AND TEA

*Siddhartha Sharma, Ph.D.

Abstract

Covid 19 has created quite a pandemic on the Globe. The virus being of a different migrant of Corona Virus - SAR-CoV-2, does not have any specific medicine or vaccine till date. The virus has been known to affect the respiratory system very similar to the influenza virus. Apart from the normal medicines available to treat influenza and respiratory ailments, tea {Camellia sinensis, (L.) O. Kuntze}has been in use for ages. The medicinal use of tea has either been as a beverage or found its way through extracts of specific biochemicals present in tea. The benefits of tea has been experimented and documented over time. This review article makes an effort to go through some established reports pertaining to the benefit of tea extracts in the treatment of diseases showing similar symptoms to Covid 19 with an attempt to give an im petus to researchers in this field to try and see if these compounds can specifically be used against Covid19.

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