Medicinal plants for therapeutic and preventive purposes of COVID-19 used in Nepal.
Medicinal plants are used in traditional medicine in Nepal and have a history of being an expanding genre since 1995. medicinal plants are also used in the COVID-19 pandemic for therapeutic and preventive purposes, but many people misunderstand their effects and they are spreading throughout Nepal. However, many people misunderstood the effects of these plants and they are now spreading throughout Nepal. The purpose of this study was to document the current use of medicinal plants and to make important recommendations to the concerned authorities.
Contents of the Study
A web-based survey was used to collect primary data related to medicinal plants used during COVID-19 and a total of 774 respondents participated in the study. In this study, the relative citation frequency of recorded medicinal plants was calculated and the relationship between recorded plants and various covariates was assessed using Kruskal-Wallis and Wilcoxon tests.
In addition, the relationship between the sources of information that people follow and the characteristics of the respondents was assessed using the Chi-square test.
Results.
It was found that the use of medicinal plants increased during the COVID-19 pandemic and most of the respondents recommended medicinal plants for preventive purposes. From the response results a total of 60 plants belonging to 36 families were recorded and leaves of the plants were most frequently used. Ginger officinale was the most cited and most of the respondents (45.61%) obtained these through home cultivation. Relevant items were found to be education level, location of house, primary treatment, gender and age group and sources of information were found to be significantly associated with education, gender, treatment method, occupation, living with family and location of house during blockade.
Thus, what was stated in the conclusion was the need to test the efficacy of medicinal plants and control the flow of misinformation by the concerned authorities, as they would tend to use more medicinal plants than usual, claiming that they can prevent or treat COVID-19.
Khadka, D., Dhamala, MK, Li, F. etal . Use of medicinal plants to prevent COVID-19 in Nepal. J Ethnobiology Ethnomedicine 17, 26 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13002-021-00449-w
Summary.
The study showed that people recommend medicinal plants despite the fact that their efficacy and other factors have not been confirmed. In Japan as well, there are non-specialists who recommend optimizing immune function through folk remedies, and fake news is flying around.
Will what has been available and used be a special treatment for COVID-19? Please reconsider. If they were effective, they would have already been converged, right?
