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Ginseng, a promising choice for SARS-COV-2: A mini review

The current Covid-19 pandemic has changed the entire world and bought so many unprecedented challenges to the scientific community. More than 5 million people died due to the SARS-COV-2 outbreak. For many thousands of years, ginseng, the traditional herb has been used for various infectious diseases...

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Autores principales: Ratan, Zubair Ahmed, Rabbi Mashrur, Fazla, Runa, Nusrat Jahan, Kwon, Ki Woong, Hosseinzadeh, Hassan, Cho, Jae Youl
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8783644/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35095288
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jgr.2022.01.004
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Sumario:The current Covid-19 pandemic has changed the entire world and bought so many unprecedented challenges to the scientific community. More than 5 million people died due to the SARS-COV-2 outbreak. For many thousands of years, ginseng, the traditional herb has been used for various infectious diseases by traditional healers. Ginseng showed promising antiviral effects by modulating both natural and acquired immunity. Ginseng might be used as a potential therapeutic agent to prevent SARS-CoV-2 infection along with the vaccine. In this current review, we offer an alternative approach for SARS-COV-2 prevention during this unprecedented pandemic.