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ReviewPhytomedicine : international journal of phytotherapy and phytopharmacology2021

Herbal immune-boosters: Substantial warriors of pandemic Covid-19 battle.

Kanika Khanna, Sukhmeen Kaur Kohli, Ravdeep Kaur, Abhay Bhardwaj, Vinay Bhardwaj, Puja Ohri, Anket Sharma, Ajaz Ahmad, Renu Bhardwaj, Parvaiz Ahmad

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Review in Phytomedicine : international journal of phytotherapy and phytopharmacology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 72 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
72citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
26.7field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

72 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 197 citations in OpenAlex.

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  16. Natural Ingredients to Improve Immunity.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
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  20. Natural Products as a Potential Source of Promising Therapeutics for COVID-19 and Viral Diseases.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2023
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12 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 4 institutions in 4 countries.

Kanika KhannaPlant Stress Biology Lab, Department of Botanical and Environmental Sciences, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar 143005, Punjab, India.
Sukhmeen Kaur KohliPlant Stress Biology Lab, Department of Botanical and Environmental Sciences, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar 143005, Punjab, India.
Ravdeep KaurPlant Stress Biology Lab, Department of Botanical and Environmental Sciences, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar 143005, Punjab, India.
Abhay BhardwajDepartment of Bio-organic and Biological Chemistry, Kharkiv National Medical University, Kharkiv 61000, Ukraine.
Vinay BhardwajDepartment of Bio-organic and Biological Chemistry, Kharkiv National Medical University, Kharkiv 61000, Ukraine.
Puja OhriDepartment of Zoology, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar 143005, Punjab, India.
Anket SharmaPlant Stress Biology Lab, Department of Botanical and Environmental Sciences, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar 143005, Punjab, India; State Key Laboratory of Subtropical Silviculture, Zhejiang A&F University, Hangzhou 311300, China.
Ajaz AhmadDepartment of Clinical Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy, King Saud University, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia.
Renu BhardwajPlant Stress Biology Lab, Department of Botanical and Environmental Sciences, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar 143005, Punjab, India. Electronic address: renubhardwaj82@gmail.com.
Parvaiz AhmadDepartment of Botany and Microbiology, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia. Electronic address: parvaizbot@yahoo.com.
Guru Nanak Dev University · INKharkiv National Medical University · UAKing Saud University · SAZhejiang A & F University · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Current scenario depicts that world has been clenched by COVID-19 pandemic. Inevitably, public health and safety measures could be undertaken in order to dwindle the infection threat and mortality. Moreover, to overcome the global menace and drawing out world from moribund stage, there is an exigency for social distancing and quarantines. Since December, 2019, coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) have came into existence and up till now world is still in the state of shock.At this point of time, COVID-19 has entered perilous phase, creating havoc among individuals, and this has been directly implied due to enhanced globalisation and ability of the virus to acclimatize at all conditions. The unabated transmission is due to lack of drugs, vaccines and therapeutics against this viral outbreak. But research is still underway to formulate the vaccines or drugs by this means, as scientific communities are continuously working to unravel the pharmacologically active compounds that might offer a new insight for curbing infections and pandemics. Therefore, the topical COVID-19 situation highlights an immediate need for effective therapeutics against SARS-CoV-2. Towards this effort, the present review discusses the vital concepts related to COVID-19, in terms of its origin, transmission, clinical aspects and diagnosis. However, here, we have formulated the novel concept hitherto, ancient means of traditional medicines or herbal plants to beat this pandemic.

Indexed as

COVID-19 Drug TreatmentAdjuvants, ImmunologicCOVID-19Dietary SupplementsHumansImmune SystemMedicine, AyurvedicMedicine, Chinese TraditionalPandemicsPhytotherapyPlant PreparationsPlants, MedicinalSARS-CoV-2Adjuvants, ImmunologicPlant PreparationsHerbal plantsImmune-System RebootingNatural therapeuticsPAK-1 BlockersSARS-CoV-2Traditional medicine

Identifiers

PMID33485605
PMCPMC7532351
OpenAlexW3091294912

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