A Retrospective Analysis of Ayurvedic Clinical Management of Symptomatic COVID-19 Patients

Abstract

Background: The COVID-19 virus is a new pathogen that is highly contagious which has made a huge impact on health, economic and societal of our country. Prevention and control of COVID-19 infection focuses on early recognition, immediate isolation and implementation of appropriate infection prevention and control (IPC) measures. As of now symptomatic care is given to the patients. This particular retrospective study is done to analyze and understands the outcome of Ayurvedic Interventions in the management of mild symptomatic COVID-19 patients.Objective: To analyze the outcome of Ayurvedic interventions in managing mild symptomatic COVID-19 infected cases Materials and methods: Lab confirmed COVID-19 infected patients admitted at Shri Dhanwantry Ayurvedic College and hospital, Chandigarh was treated with Ayurvedic interventions. The data was collected and has been analyzed retrospectively. Data collected was being systematically analyzed and presented using appropriate software (SPSS version 21).Result: The interventions were administered in this particular study were aimed at dissipating the pathogenesis based on Ayurvedic principles of management. Increased clinical recovery rate was observed in major symptoms of COVID-19 i.e. Fever, cough and sore throat. Conclusion: The clinical recovery rate was observed in this study is 94.3% which is comparatively high in reference to current clinical recovery rate i.e. 69.5% in Chandigarh.Ethical Clearance Number: 8-55/2020-CARIRD/TECH/COVID/149 (Dated: 02/07/2020)