Chinese and Indian Medicinal Plants Against COVID-19

Abstract

As a life-threatening illness, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is associated with extreme acute respiratory syndrome, coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), and is considered a major public health crisis. COVID-19 therapy is mostly supportive and the function of antiviral agents has yet to be identified. There are, however, no clear anti-COVID-19 medications and vaccines yet. This study focuses on herbal medicine as a promising path to COVID-19, like medicinal plant extracts. Some herbs for the prevention, cure and recovery of diseases, like COVID-19, are indicated in ancient Chinese, Indian and Iranian medicines.Though viral replication suppression is known as a major mechanism for herbal extracts, several reports have shown that conventional active ingredients can connect with main viral proteins correlated with virus virulence. Few herb for the prevention, cure and recovery of diseases, like COVID-19, are indicated in traditional Chinese, Indian and Iranian medicine. Nevertheless, the positive effects of these conventional drugs and their clinical trials have remained uncertain. In this background, the present research discusses the recent updates on conventional medicines suggested for COVID-19 therapy.