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Role of Ayurveda and Yoga-Based lifestyle in the COVID-19 pandemic – A narrative review

The COVID-19 pandemic has posed an immense challenge to health care systems around the globe in terms of limited health care facilities and proven medical therapeutics to address the symptoms of the infection. The current health care strategies are primarily focused on either the pathogen or the env...

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Autores principales: Umesh, Chikkanna, Ramakrishna, Kishore Kumar, Jasti, Nishitha, Bhargav, Hemant, Varambally, Shivarama
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of Institute of Transdisciplinary Health Sciences and Technology and World Ayurveda Foundation. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8286865/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34305355
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaim.2021.07.009
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Ramakrishna, Kishore Kumar
Jasti, Nishitha
Bhargav, Hemant
Varambally, Shivarama
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description The COVID-19 pandemic has posed an immense challenge to health care systems around the globe in terms of limited health care facilities and proven medical therapeutics to address the symptoms of the infection. The current health care strategies are primarily focused on either the pathogen or the environmental factors. However, efforts towards strengthening the host immunity are important from public health perspective to prevent the spread of infection and downregulate the potency of the infectious agent. While a vaccine can induce specific immunity in the host, non-specific ways of improving overall host immunity are needed as well. This scenario has paved the way for the use of traditional Indian therapies such as Ayurveda and Yoga. This review aims at collating available evidence on Ayurveda, Yoga, and COVID-19. Further, it draws inferences from recent studies on Yoga and Ayurveda on immunity, respiratory health, and mental health respectively to approximate its probable role in prophylaxis and as an add-on management option for the current pandemic.
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spelling pubmed-82868652021-07-20 Role of Ayurveda and Yoga-Based lifestyle in the COVID-19 pandemic – A narrative review Umesh, Chikkanna Ramakrishna, Kishore Kumar Jasti, Nishitha Bhargav, Hemant Varambally, Shivarama J Ayurveda Integr Med Review Article The COVID-19 pandemic has posed an immense challenge to health care systems around the globe in terms of limited health care facilities and proven medical therapeutics to address the symptoms of the infection. The current health care strategies are primarily focused on either the pathogen or the environmental factors. However, efforts towards strengthening the host immunity are important from public health perspective to prevent the spread of infection and downregulate the potency of the infectious agent. While a vaccine can induce specific immunity in the host, non-specific ways of improving overall host immunity are needed as well. This scenario has paved the way for the use of traditional Indian therapies such as Ayurveda and Yoga. This review aims at collating available evidence on Ayurveda, Yoga, and COVID-19. Further, it draws inferences from recent studies on Yoga and Ayurveda on immunity, respiratory health, and mental health respectively to approximate its probable role in prophylaxis and as an add-on management option for the current pandemic. The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of Institute of Transdisciplinary Health Sciences and Technology and World Ayurveda Foundation. 2022 2021-07-19 /pmc/articles/PMC8286865/ /pubmed/34305355 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaim.2021.07.009 Text en © 2021 The Authors Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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