Role of Plants in a Pandemic: Learning from the COVID-19 Situation

Role of Plants in a Pandemic: Learning from the COVID-19 Situation

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Plants have been curing the humans from a very long time. The secondary metabolites present in the plants play a crucial role in healing of the people. The current review article deals with the roles of plants in tackling a pandemic. Several works on herbal medicine efficacy againstCOVID-19 proves that plants are one of the cheapest prophylactic treatment for an unknown disease. Plants-people relationship have been helping many people to overcome anxiety and depression during the social isolation period. Here we explore how traditional medicines from different parts of world is showing the path of effective prophylactic treatments along with it we also explore the role of plants in developing natural antiviral surface protective agents. We also explored all the herbal medication recommendations given by different countries to tackle the disease. Pandemics can occur anytime and plants will help us in from all the corners of life. We all need to come together to fight it out, and also, we need to chalk out the ways to prevent future pandemics too.

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snehangshu_das. 2021. \u201cRole of Plants in a Pandemic: Learning from the COVID-19 Situation\u201d. Global Journal of Medical Research - K: Interdisciplinary GJMR-K Volume 20 (GJMR Volume 20 Issue K14): .

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