COVID-19 Evolution and Alternative Medicine - A Review

COVID-19 Evolution and Alternative Medicine - A Review

Shubhangi Goel, Anjana Goel

The current global health emergency, COVID-19, is not the first time that coronaviruses have posed athreat to human world shrinking our numbers by thousands. Before this SARS-CoV in 2003 and MERSCoV in 2013 have caused epidemics. Four months in existence, and it has already affected 1,995,983people and taken over 131,037 lives worldwide, yet we do not have any specific treatment availablewith us and the management is purely empirical. Looking at the similarities between SARS-CoV andSARS-CoV-2 in origin, genomics, pathogenesis and epidemiology, we can bring the researches donefor SARS-CoV in use which can be our guide in finding an effective management strategy against SARSCoV-2. There are various researches and studies reporting the use and effect of various phytochemicalcompounds in SARS-CoV treatment. Already, the thought has been put into action and in-silico screeningfor various natural plant compounds have been done to find a potential candidate compound. Onesuch example is of curcumin, a secondary metabolite of turmeric, which is found to be effective againstCOVID-19 protease by molecular docking analysis.

2020

coronavirus, Complementary Medicine, Herbal medicine, SARS-CoV

DOI: 10.22207/JPAM.14.SPL1.21

Journal of Pure and Applied Microbiology

Journal of Pure and Applied Microbiology

Microbiology