Abstract

EFFECT OF AYURVEDA TREATMENT FOR COVID 19 WITH HOME-BASED MANAGEMENT: A SRI LANKAN STUDY

Shazmin Hazari*, Sadungama MKNG, Kumara G.C., Perera HADDL, Endagamage D.M.

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Abstract

The world health organization declared COVID-19 as a global health emergency and pandemic in 2020. It is constantly monitoring, COVID- 19 is a rapidly changing and evolving situation and updating the information available regarding its spread, mortality, and morbidity. The objective of the current study was to reduce the risk to the life of COVID-19-infected people in the Bibila Pradeshiya Sabha by Ayurvedic treatments with home-based management. This study was a longitudinal study based on an observational analysis design to evaluate the effect of Ayurveda management in COVID-19 within the Bibila division. The study was carried out with 1369 patients of both sexes above one year old throughout the period of 21 days within the third wave of the pandemic in Sri Lanka. Descriptive analysis and the Friedman rank test were used to analyze these data. Despite the patient presenting with symptoms, namely fever, body pain, cough and sore throat along with many of the other associated symptoms of COVID-19, the progress of the disease could be arrested within a short period by being exclusively on Ayurvedic medicines. According to the results of the present study, it could be concluded that short-term administration of Ayurvedic medicines has shown a significant effect in decreasing the severity of the disease.

Keywords: COVID-19, Ayurvedic treatments, home-based management, severity of disease.