Three case reports of moderate COVID-19 infection managed through Ayurvedic approach

Abstract

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), a global pandemic, is resulting in significant morbidity and mortality worldwide. The overburden of the disease is due to the vicious circulating virus characteristics, lack of potent vaccine, complications and limitations of the existing medicine and aggravation of disease along with comorbid conditions in elderly people, etc. In the present scenario, effective traditional treatment modalities should be scientifically applied to reduce the impact of massive disaster. Here is the necessity to develop an appropriate treatment protocol from the field of Ayurveda. This is a documentation of three confirmed COVID-19 cases managed with Ayurvedic medication with minimum number of hospital stay compared with the national average. Ayurvedic management has a significant positive impact on the mental and physical quality of life in COVID-19 patients. Both the physical and mental scores got improved of more than 50% percentage in each case after treatment. Ayurvedic science has a unique approach to COVID -19 and can be adopted wisely to overcome the current crisis. Marked radiological changes were observed in three cases. Ayurvedic interventions can be used to counteract the pathogenesis of SARS-CoV-2.