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COVID-19 PREVENTIVE MANAGEMENT THROUGH GREENS IN SIDDHA SYSTEM OF MEDICINE –A REVIEW

Devaki R.* and Santhosh Kumar R.

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Worldwide, human anatomy is researched by Siddha saints and they changed the disease state by providing the diet regimen and they rarely used the medicines. This kind of excellent treatment was mentioned in “Tirukkural” a Global literature. COVID -19 is an illness caused due to the novel Corona virus-2 (nCoV-2/2019-nCoV), known as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Corona Virus-2 (SARS-CoV-2). Coronaviruses (CoVs) are a large family of viruses, several of which cause respiratory diseases in humans, from the common cold to more rare and serious diseases such as the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and the Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), shows high mortality rates. According to WHO, it is estimated that 80% of the world’s population still depend mainly on traditional medicines for their health care. Siddha system of medicine, Siddhar Theran has defined Vatham (Vali) to be responsible for the formation, Pittam (Azhal) for precautionary and Kabam (Sethumam / Aiyam) for distingeration. The clinical features of COVID-19 in the initial stage can be correlated with KabaSuram as per Siddha literature. Siddha System is one of the traditional systems of medicines practiced particularly in southern parts of India that has an enormous collection of classical literature, and has in store several herbals, metals, minerals, animal products, and from water that are prevention and treatment of infections of lungs. Medicines described with lot of curative effect in variety of diseases, and some can be related with symptoms of COVID-19 and the spinach of the herbs that possesses these properties.

Keywords: COVID-19, Siddha, Medicines, Preventive herbs, greens, Amaranthaceae.