European Journal of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences

A REVIEW ON AYURVEDIC APPROACH ON PATHOGENESIS OF CLINICAL FEATURES OF COVID -19

Perera KPDC*, De Silva RHSK and Perera HADDL

ABSTRACT

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is the virus that causes novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19). The world health organization declared COVID-19 as a global health emergency and a global pandemic in 2020. The symptoms and signs of the disease vary from asymptomatic to severe stages and eventually in some cases death is caused by pneumonia or multi organ failure due to cytokine storm. Ayurveda as one of the oldest systems of medicine has given more priority to jvara nidāna and cikitsā. The symptoms and signs of COVID 19 are more relevant to the jvara rōga and sometimes can be correlated with sannipāta jvara, all three doṣās are in vitiated and driven by obstructed vāta functions. Within this context, this study aims to review Ayurvedic approach on pathogenesis of clinical features of COVID - 19 and build up a proper correlation between Ayurvedic principles and COVID - 19 based on authentic Ayurveda texts. The data was gathered from Ayurveda authentic text where a special priority is given to jvara nidāna and cikitsā. Results revealed that the authentic text describe jvara rōga in a broad aspect and diverse manner. Ayurveda emphasizes the importance of avoiding, neutralizing, reducing and eliminating āma produced by autoimmune reactions that eventually cause the cytokine storm in the critical stage of COVID-19. All the outcomes of review show that Ayurveda is capable of providing viable and effective solutions for managing COVID-19 in both preventive and curative aspects at early stages to avoid developing critical symptoms or complications.

Keywords: SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19, jvara, ?ma, immunity.