Therapeutic opportunities of edible antiviral plants for COVID-19

The pandemic of Serious Acute Respiratory Syndrome Corona Virus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) that produces corona virus disease (COVID-19) has challenged the entire mankind by rapidly spreading globally in 210 countries affecting over 25 million people and about 1 million deaths worldwide. It continues to spread,...

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Published in:Molecular and cellular biochemistry 2021-06, Vol.476 (6), p.2345-2364
Main Authors: Patel, Bhoomika, Sharma, Supriya, Nair, Nisha, Majeed, Jaseela, Goyal, Ramesh K., Dhobi, Mahaveer
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Anti-inflammatory agents
Antiviral activity
Antiviral agents
Antiviral Agents - pharmacology
Antiviral Agents - therapeutic use
Biochemistry
Biomedical and Life Sciences
Cardiology
Coronaviruses
COVID-19
COVID-19 - drug therapy
COVID-19 - etiology
Dietary supplements
Disease transmission
Epidemics
Ethnopharmacology - methods
Food plants
Functional foods
Functional foods & nutraceuticals
Health aspects
Health services
Herbal medicine
Host-Pathogen Interactions - drug effects
Humans
Infectious diseases
Inflammation
Life Sciences
Medical Biochemistry
Medical treatment
Medicinal plants
Medicine, Botanic
Medicine, Herbal
Morbidity
Oncology
Pandemics
Plants, Edible - chemistry
Plants, Medicinal - chemistry
Prevention
Public health
Respiratory diseases
RNA viruses
SARS-CoV-2 - chemistry
SARS-CoV-2 - drug effects
SARS-CoV-2 - pathogenicity
SARS-CoV-2 - physiology
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome - drug therapy
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
Toxicity
Vincristine
Viral diseases
Virus diseases
Virus Internalization - drug effects
Virus Replication - drug effects
Virus Replication - physiology
Viruses
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Summary:The pandemic of Serious Acute Respiratory Syndrome Corona Virus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) that produces corona virus disease (COVID-19) has challenged the entire mankind by rapidly spreading globally in 210 countries affecting over 25 million people and about 1 million deaths worldwide. It continues to spread, afflicting the health system globally. So far there is no remedy for the ailment and the available antiviral regimens have been unsatisfactory for the clinical outcomes and the mode of treatment has been mainly supportive for the prevention of COVID-19-induced morbidity and mortality. From the time immortal the traditional plant-based ethno-medicines have provided the leads for the treatment of infectious diseases. Phytopharmaceuticals have provided potential and less toxic antiviral drugs as compared to conventional modern therapeutics which are associated with severe toxicities. The ethnopharmacological knowledge about plants has provided food supplements and nutraceuticals as a promise for prevention and treatment of the current pandemic. In this review article, we have attempted to comprehend the information about the edible medicinal plant materials with potential antiviral activity specifically against RNA virus which additionally possess property to improve immunity along with external and internal respiration and exhibit anti-inflammatory properties for the prevention and treatment of the disease. This will open an arena for the development of novel nutraceutical herbal formulations as an alternative therapy that can be used for the prevention and treatment of COVID-19.
ISSN:0300-8177
1573-4919
DOI:10.1007/s11010-021-04084-7