A CRITICAL REVIEW TO ENHANCE BOOSTING IMMUNITY TO RESIST COVID-19: IN SPICE AND AYURVEDA PERSPECTIVE

Coronavirus disease-2019 (abbreviated “Covid-19”) has spread across the globe within a short span of time, it was first detected in Wuhan, China, in December,2019. It is named as Serve Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-COV-2). The medicine for the treatment of covid-19 remains an unsolved matter. As the civilization advances the nature of disease changes the medicinal science has also adopted, men’s struggle achieved a new transformation against disease, history of medicine has a feasibility. Ayurveda is the oldest and most popular system of medicine that gradually developed in India with a sagacity and it wisely inherited from remote antiquity to modern era. Medicine is as old as systematic life itself since inception. The origin of Ayurveda was attributed to Atharva Veda. The Susruta Samhita is an important Sanskrit text on medicine, considered to be one of the earliest major works related to detailed study of medicine and surgery written by Sushruta and it is one of the foundational texts of Ayurveda. It is generally believed that Sushruta lived sometime around 600 B.C. Ancient Ayurvedic texts prescribe spices for curative and therapeutic purposes. Ayurvedic scripts dating back to 3000 years, list the preventive and curative properties of various spices. The chemical constituents present in the context of ayurveda medicine or plant and spices are a part of the physiological functions of living flora possesses strong antioxidant activity.