Role of ayurvedic drugs as immunity boosters in novel corona virus: a conceptual study

The novel corona virus (SARS-CoV-2) infection, which first appeared in Wuhan, China in December 2019, has now spread to over 222 countries and territories. The ever-growing list of patients with corona virus-19 disease (Covid19) has demonstrated the high rate of transmission among humans. To avoid or survive a Covid-19 pandemic, one will need a lot of good immunity. Ayurveda explains to us how to evolve our physiological responses in order to strengthen our immune system. In Ayurveda, the preventive aspects of pandemic situations are defined in sufficient details. They must be researched scientifically and fine-tuned for precision. As prevention is always better than cure, the Ayurveda ways can be considered for future strategies to avoid pandemics such as Covid-19. Ayurveda has described many herbal and compound drugs for improving the immunity like single herbs guduchi, marich, ashwagandha, yashthimadhu, rasona and compound medicines like chyawanprasa, chitraka haritaki, agastya haritaki rasayana, giloy ghanvati, kanakasava, kantakary avaleha, haridra etc. In this pandemic scenario, this conceptual study shows how immunity can be strengthened as a preventive and curative measure.