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ReviewCurrent pharmaceutical design2024

Ayurvedic and Chinese Herbs against Coronaviruses.

Amin Gasmi, Sonia Kanwal, Petro Oliinyk, Roman Lysiuk, Mariia Shanaida, Asma Gasmi Benahmed, Walallawita Kankanamge Tharindu Dushmantha, Maria Arshad, Ivanna Kernychna, Larysa Lenchyk and 3 more

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Review in Current pharmaceutical design, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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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

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors.

Amin GasmiDépartement de Recherche, Société Francophone de Nutrithérapie et de Nutrigénétique Appliquée, Villeurbanne, France.
Sonia KanwalBiosciences Department, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan.
Petro OliinykDepartment of Disaster Medicine and Military Medicine, Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University, Lviv, Ukraine.
Roman LysiukCONEM Ukraine Life Science Research Group, Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University, Lviv, Ukraine.
Mariia ShanaidaDepartment of Pharmacognosy and Medical Botany, I. Horbachevsky Ternopil National Medical University, Ternopil, Ukraine.
Asma Gasmi BenahmedDépartement de Recherche, Académie Internationale de Médecine Dentaire Intégrative, Paris, France.
Walallawita Kankanamge Tharindu DushmanthaInstitute of Indigenous Medicine, University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Maria ArshadDépartement de Recherche, Société Francophone de Nutrithérapie et de Nutrigénétique Appliquée, Villeurbanne, France.
Ivanna KernychnaDepartment of Pharmacognosy and Medical Botany, I. Horbachevsky Ternopil National Medical University, Ternopil, Ukraine.
Larysa LenchykDepartment of Quality, Certification and Standardization of Medicines, Institute for Advanced Training of Pharmacy Specialists, National University of Pharmacy, Kharkiv, Ukraine.
Taras UpyrCONEM Ukraine Pharmacognosy and Natural Product Chemistry Research Group, National University of Pharmacy, Kharkiv, Ukraine.
Volodymyr ShanaidaCONEM Ukraine Natural Drugs Research Group, I. Horbachevsky Ternopil National Medical University, Ternopil, Ukraine.
Geir BjørklundDepartment of Research, Council for Nutritional and Environmental Medicine (CONEM), Mo i Rana, Norway.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a viral disease that infects the lower airways, causing severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and fatal pneumonia. The ripple effect of the COVID-19 outbreak has created serious problems in the healthcare systems of many countries and had far-reaching consequences for the global economy. Thus, effective control measures should be implemented for this coronavirus infection in the future. The ongoing episode of the SARS-CoV-2 sickness, COVID-19, in China, and the subsequent irregular spread of contamination to different nations, has alarmed the clinical and academic community primarily due to the deadly nature of this disease. Being a newly identified virus in the viral classification and having the highest mutation rate, rapid therapeutics are not readily available for treating this ailment, leading to the widespread of the disease and causing social issues for affected individuals. Evidence of Ayurveda and traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has been found in ancient civilizations, such as those of the Hindus, Babylonians, Hebrews, and Arabs. Although TCM and Ayurvedic herbs do not promise to be very effective treatments for this pandemic, they can reduce infectivity and virulence by enhancing immunity and showing effectiveness in rehabilitation after COVID-19 disease. Thus, they could be used as sources of inhibitor molecules for certain phenomena, such as viral replication, attachment to the host, 3CL protease inhibition, 3a ion channel inhibitors, and reverse transcription inhibition. Medicinal plants from TCM and Ayurveda and their biologically active phytoconstituents can effectively modulate the targets and pathways relevant to inflammation and immune responses in human bodies. The present review analyzes the role of certain TCM and Ayurvedic medicinal plants in healing COVID-19 infection. Medicinal plants such as

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Antiviral AgentsCOVID-19Drugs, Chinese HerbalMedicine, AyurvedicSARS-CoV-2AnimalsCOVID-19 Drug TreatmentHumansMedicine, Chinese TraditionalPandemicsAntiviral AgentsDrugs, Chinese HerbalAyurvedaCOVID-19curcumingingerol.glycyrrhizinimmunomodulationmedicinal plantsquercetinTCMvirucidal effect

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