Panchkarma in Janpadodhwansa w.s.r. COVID-19 and Its Documentation from Ayurvedic Texts

Abstract

COVID-19 has emerged as a public health crisis and has done caused a disaster at multiple -levels. Manual retrieval of ancient books of Ayurveda was carried out. In From an Ayurvedic point of view, its very difficult to correlate COVID-19 with Aayurvedic terminology, on the basis of causes, symptoms, and complications., Iit can be correlated with various diseases like Janpadodhwansha(~epidemic), Shwasa(respiratory disease), pranaavrit vata(subtype of vata that is seated in head), dushi-visha(~cumulative), jwara-sannipattika (~severe fever), vata-kaphaja jwar (fever) , shwasana (~pneumonia), Abhisangaj jwar ( ~fever caused by virus or evil spirit), majjadhatugata jwar (~vitiated regulatory factors are located in structural component of bone marrow ) &and kasa roga (coughing). Treatment in such conditions is mentioned as Panchkarma (~detoxification procedure) . The main goal in such type of condition is to remove avarana (overlapping) so that Vayu (air) returns to normal functioning. Five detoxification procedures were also reported to be effective against a broad spectrum of viruses, including human immunodeficiency virus, herpes viruses, etc. Ayurvedic detoxification procedures can add an additive effect in to the managing COVID-19 through multiple modules, like as prophylactic and, curative treatment. Implementation of suggested influence or mode of action probably come up with empirical discernment escalating the Ayurveda other than prophylactic medical management and system considering alike ailments.