Exploring novel risk factors for progression of Acute COVID-19 and their management based on Ayurvedic principles, with emphasis on diet-lessons for future pandemics
a retrospective comparative study
Keywords:
Acute COVID-19, anorexia, Ayurveda, Diet, disease severity, GI symptoms, mortality reductionAbstract
BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic hurled a huge avalanche of questions towards humanity and medical science, in terms of its understanding of new or emergent infections, the mechanisms for progression, and the spectrum of severity and their management in the absence of a proven anti-microbial. These questions shall always remain relevant due to the constant threat of the next pandemic. OBJECTIVES: This study intends to look at the factors discussed by ayurveda, as causes of progression to severe Jawara /infection, viz. whether presence of G.I symptoms like anorexia(indicative of agni-mandya), alone, or in combination with a disproportionate diet, and anxiety with insomnia(ca use of aama), can cause severe disease in acute covid-19 infected patients; and whether the modification of the diet as described in ayurvedic classics, alone, or in combination with medications, reduces its severity.
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